“What time is turn-down service?” It’s the running joke almost every visitor makes when they step into my home for the first time. These days, I live a pretty minimalist lifestyle, and my slow home is a reflection of that. It’s clean, calm, and deeply intentional. Think cream and black tones, gold accents, and natural…
It was a sleepy afternoon as she told me her story again. It’s the kind of story that still echoes, even decades later. Almost twenty-five years ago, her husband had an affair with a family friend. He left her, married the woman, and never looked back. “I will never trust a man with my heart…
I just got done putting a batch of apples in my slow cooker. For the past week, I’ve been thinking about how delicious they’d taste on my Greek yogurt… warm, cinnamon-dusted apples melting into cool creaminess. But I just couldn’t get myself to do the simple, physical work of walking to the store, choosing the…
Nightmares have haunted me for most of my adult life. I’ve been known to smash through glass windows in my sleep with my bare hands. I’ve “saved” family and friends from imaginary disasters… pushing them off the side of the bed to protect them from falling fridges, or running and screaming through the house to…
Language is a funny thing. We slap labels on ways of life that already exist. We give names to ideas, but the spirit of them often lived long before the words ever arrived. My parents would never have called it slow living. In fact, my mum laughed recently when we were talking about my slow…
I was first drawn to the idea of slow living because, quite frankly, I just needed to slow down. At the time, I didn’t even realize it was a thing. I hadn’t read a book about it. I hadn’t followed any influencers preaching its gospel. I’d only heard whispers. A few murmurs online about “the…
Hi, I'm Candis. I'm a Life Coach and Embodiment Teacher. I share stories of love, healing, and the creative power of stillness. Join me in slowing down, coming home to the body, and reimagining life, one day at a time.
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