When There's Never Enough Time For You
I’ve felt it. You’ve likely felt it.
“There’s not enough time for me.”
Because there really isn’t - not inside a system that devalues a woman’s time.
We might have the same number of HOURS in the day, but not everyone is deemed the same amount of VALUABLE by society (and not everyone has the same number of OPPORTUNITIES to use time freely).
I’ve felt it. You’ve likely felt it.
“There’s not enough time for me.”
Because there really isn’t - not inside a system that devalues a woman’s time.
We might have the same number of HOURS in the day, but not everyone is deemed the same amount of VALUABLE by society (and not everyone has the same number of OPPORTUNITIES to use time freely).
Mothers especially are asked to “hold down the fort” while the world bumps along around us, without us, overtop us (even if we follow the ways of income-making).
I want to do my part in changing that.
And I have a twofold mission: To consciously UNRAVEL inside day-to-day life (expand our experience of time with short-and-sweet, devoted practice!); and to consciously question the system that asks us to de-value our time currency and squeeze into smaller and smaller spaces.
We practice together. We question together. We unravel together.
My work exists to support you in putting more of yourself inside your days - so that you’re no longer squeezing in time for yourself between or after.
Because you are priority - if not inside the world, inside this space.
This is my offering to you, and to those who feel the “not enough time” mantra of modern-day society.
It’s where I make my art: It’s the place that holds my writing + my teaching. It’s birthed within and from my own experience (and now, mixed with yours!)
This is the practice, the answer-seeking, the resting place, the try-and-try again place, the reminder that you can devote yourself to your Self - even when things are harder than hard.
And my hope is that it becomes a community of support along the way.
Check out my latest project: UNRAVEL YOUR DAYS.
xx, alycia buenger
Mind Wandering Meditation: Quick + Easy Practice (for beginners, too!)
There are lots of ways to meditate, lots of types of meditation, and lots of different meditation teachers.
There’s no ‘one size fits all.’
And it’s less about HOW you practice, and for HOW LONG, than it is about WHERE it takes you.
Even as I say the word meditation, I recognize my own beliefs about this word, my own stories around what that means…
“Meditation is a long practice. It requires hours and hours on a meditation pillow.”
“Meditation can only be ‘mastered’ after years of practice.”
“Meditation is for people who have lots of free time (i.e. not me, not mothers with small kiddos).”
But here’s what I know: There are lots of ways to meditate, lots of types of meditation, and lots of different meditation teachers.
There’s no ‘one size fits all.’
And it’s less about HOW you practice, and for HOW LONG, than it is about WHERE it takes you.
The meditation in the video above is a mind-wandering meditation practice that I love, because it’s accessible: it doesn’t require me to listen to hours of guided audio or sit a certain way, breath a certain way…
But it’s powerful.
Maybe this practice seems vague - but that’s what I like about it!
When I take a mind-wandering approach to my meditation (whether every day or just when I need it), it literally changes the course of my day.
xx, alycia buenger