Life Lessons | Adulting, Social Connection & Resilience
Jun 3, 2026 · 11 min · 8 segments
Host Beth explores the practice of slow living in adulthood, within a culture that glorifies constant productivity. Through personal stories and practical life advice, she explains how stillness can…
We wear busy like a badge of honor, and the second we stop moving, our brains immediately begin whispering, "Shouldn't you be doing something?" It's kind of ironic, right? We crave calm, but the moment we do have it, we start scrolling, planning, reorganizing our pantry, anything to fill the stillness because in this day and age, stillness has become suspicious.
If you're not hustling, what are you doing? The truth is most of us have been trained to believe that productivity equals success.
The faster you move, the more together you must be.
But that's not actually how it works.
What I've learned, and I'm still learning every day, is that slowing down doesn't mean giving up on ambition.
It means remembering why we were chasing it in the first place.
Let me rewind a little bit.
Somewhere along the line, hustle stopped being a temporary push and became a permanent identity.
Suddenly, every hour of the day had to be optimized.
We started tracking our sleep, tracking our steps, tracking our focus, tracking our water intake as if life itself were a project management application.
And while all that data might look impressive, it's not the same as living.
It's not a great feeling to not reach that daily goal, but it happens some days.
I'm tied to my desk during office hours, and certain days legitimately have more meetings than others, and that makes it harder for me to keep up with the little time to stand up prompts, especially if I'm taking notes.
And I'm not even gonna address the fact that I have a standup desk at my beck and call.
I forget about that action of moving the desk up or moving the desk down when I'm in deep focus mode, or at least that's what I tell myself.
But life isn't an app or a journal or a spreadsheet.
It's a sensory experience.
We wear busy like a badge of honor, and the second we stop moving, our brains immediately begin whispering, "Shouldn't you be doing something?" It's kind of ironic, right? We crave calm, but the moment we do have it, we start scrolling, planning, reorganizing our pantry, anything to fill the stillness because in this day and age, stillness has become suspicious.
If you're not hustling, what are you doing? The truth is most of us have been trained to believe that productivity equals success.
The faster you move, the more together you must be.
But that's not actually how it works.
What I've learned, and I'm still learning every day, is that slowing down doesn't mean giving up on ambition.
It means remembering why we were chasing it in the first place.
Let me rewind a little bit.
Somewhere along the line, hustle stopped being a temporary push and became a permanent identity.
Suddenly, every hour of the day had to be optimized.
We started tracking our sleep, tracking our steps, tracking our focus, tracking our water intake as if life itself were a project management application.
And while all that data might look impressive, it's not the same as living.
It's not a great feeling to not reach that daily goal, but it happens some days.
I'm tied to my desk during office hours, and certain days legitimately have more meetings than others, and that makes it harder for me to keep up with the little time to stand up prompts, especially if I'm taking notes.
And I'm not even gonna address the fact that I have a standup desk at my beck and call.
I forget about that action of moving the desk up or moving the desk down when I'm in deep focus mode, or at least that's what I tell myself.
But life isn't an app or a journal or a spreadsheet.
It's a sensory experience.
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