Dec 12, 2021 • 13M

🌿 Creative Wellness Issue 6: Making space for abundance...

Feel like you're forever lapsing into old patterns of self-limiting beliefs and behavior? Let's discuss the secret to breaking free...

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Kristen Kieffer
Creative Wellness is a premium weekly podcast designed to help storytellers cultivate joyful, fulfilling, and wildly abundant writing lives.
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In early November, I decided to adopt a slow work mindset.

As with terms like minimalism and slow living, the concept of slow work can have a variety of definitions. For me, slow work is a commitment to calmly and consistently producing highly aligned (and profitable) projects. In essence, it’s an antidote to toxic hustle culture and the glorification of busy.

You might think it would be easy to let go of unhealthy work habits and projects that don’t provide personal joy and fulfillment, but adopting a slow work mindset can be surprisingly difficult.

Consider this journal entry I wrote on November 10th, 2021:

Yesterday was my first day of trying to adopt a slow work mindset, and it went well. Nevertheless, I'm feeling a lot of resistance today, and I think [that’s] just because of how mentally exhausting it is to try to rewrite your inner stories.

It takes a lot of energy just to maintain an awareness of your thoughts, especially self-limiting ones. It's like a computer that never goes into sleep mode so it's constantly draining battery at a faster pace than it should. But then to actively re-write and re-parent yourself through the self-limiting thoughts that arise?

I'm just drained.

If you’ve been working through the wellness prompts from past issues in recent weeks, there’s a good chance you’re experiencing this type of difficulty and drain for yourself — and that’s all thanks to your conditioning.

What is conditioning, exactly?

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