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Hello and welcome to The Excerpt.

I'm Dana Taylor.

Today is Thursday, November 28th, 2024.

And this is a special episode of The Excerpt.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Americans hustle. We get after it. And while having the ability, desire, and energy to accomplish extraordinary things is commendable. It can also lead to burnout in high levels of stress. Is it time for some of us to slow down?

Slow living is a radical approach to self-care,

which celebrates a less hectic pace of life,

along with making mindful choices to enhance our well-being.

Is it possible to marry our desire to have it all with a slow-living lifestyle?

Here to help us get a better understanding

of the slow living movement is author Rachel Schwartzman, whose new book, Slowing, came out this

fall. Thanks for joining me, Rachel. Thank you for having me. You were part of a wave. Some might

say a title wave of authors writing about and advocating for the

slow living movement in recent years. How did you come to the slow living movement?

Well, I can say just in terms of how it affected my life, I came to slow living really after

a period of, as you mentioned in your introduction, intense or castle. And I think what I

really was drawn to about the movement is that it prioritized so much of what I was interested in

in my first life when I was running a business called the Style Line. And with that, I was

featuring a lot of artists, writers, designers who were championing movements like slow food and slow fashion.

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