Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Busy Moms

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I sometimes feel guilty, depending on what’s happening in my life and if I’m here in New York or whatever I’m like, I don’t know if I can… Is there anyone around? I had reached some amazing dreams like living on the Spanish Riviera for 2 months with my family but I wasn’t happy.

January can be particularly noisy with messages about the importance of the hustle, the grind, putting in more hours, more effort, and more and more work. Kate: You just make a date… you know what the other one I’ll just add that’s not in the book is, do an activity rather than just hanging out. One, consider changing your side of the relationship dance, which is exactly what you just described, right?

I'd never felt so out of control before, and, as a result, I was anxious and depressed for a good part of the first year. I skimmed a couple of reviews before I purchased the book and many of them said things like “this book is unrealistic” or “Northrup is entitled, and this wouldn’t work for a normal person.

but as a long time meditator, the ‘too much in our daily life these days’, and the idea of ‘being more purposeful by doing less’ makes great sense to me. Kate Northrup's new book is a fabulous, paradigm-shifting guide for moms who are ready to bring rest and rhythms back into their lives - while thriving creatively and earning a living as well. Similarly, I liked her advice for viewing a day as a circular cycle, not as a linear time line that ends. Before I was pregnant I was tracking my cycle closely and I had noticed that energy patterns were emerging.

You wrote, the whole purpose of doing less, is to have the experience of having more, not more stuff, but more meaning in our lives and I thought that really beautifully articulated what so many of us are craving.