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It will start tedious. But if you acknowledge what you’re doing — extracting the beauty and essence and freshness from an expertly cultivated herb that was bred hundreds of years ago, it’s the closest you’ll ever get to feeling like a sage prepping ingredients for a healing potion.
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something about picking leaves from a stem carefully and thoughtfully that is just so … yes
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Jan 26, 2024
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I’ve always grown things and made teas etc. im going to get more serious about herbalism I think. today I bought a bunch of herbs for mixing: motherwort, clary sage, hibiscus, chamomile, and kava kava.
Jun 16, 2024
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It’s been 8 months since my last smoke, the longest I’ve gone in 12 years.
Some unconventional tips:
- being delusional is effective. I tell myself cigarettes are bad luck. If I smoke one, something bad will happen.
- My relationship to cigarettes was spiritual, every single one was a little prayer. To fill the gap, I leaned into woo: candles, tarot, talking to god.
- Cigs were my edge, but they numbed me. To keep that rebellion alive, I leaned into things that scared me: fashion choices, challenging long held values, leaning into my queerness, wasting time.
- Somatic release. Shake your leg, wring your hands, go to the gym. Also, going to the gym gets a lot easier when you make the conscious choice to not hate on the bros or influencers.. everyone’s trying to find their place. Love > Snark
- It only gets easier if you know exactly WHY you want to smoke in the first place, and address the root causes with mindset or lifestyle changes. Quitting cold turkey without change is not enough.
Tag: nicotine quit smoking
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If you’re craving a bit more sauce in your life, I implore you to exit the figurative bubble that is noise cancelling headphones, and allow your environment to soundtrack your inner monologue — you’d be surprised how it affects the themes and tone of your inner world.
Some brief background on this theory... In my experience, my music selection would often colour my thoughts, and unfortunately I have a penchant for sad boy shit. And sad boy music = sad boy. Conversely, if I made the deliberate choice to listen to “happy” music when I was feeling off, my mind would try to manufacture happiness through sheer will, exposure, and a repeated “happy thoughts” mantra. But this process rarely felt authentic, and all the more isolating.
Instead, I found that inviting the randomness of worldly sounds would take me on a crazy-eyed, spontaneous journey — internally and externally.
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I wasn’t so sure about the red but my roommate said I looked straight out of a Drake‘s look book (the menswear brand, not the rapper) which was very validating. Also not pictured is a pair of Ollie Quinn sunglasses I got for $3 which retail for $185.
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