Sara Ehrnrooth

When we stop trying to optimise ourselves within broken systems and start building something entirely new, something that trusts our inner wisdom, conserves our energy, and values our wellbeing, extraordinary things become possible.

You can’t access the limbic brain — the amygdala or hippocampus — through talking.

Life actually gets easier when you let it be difficult.

It suggests that creativity does not need indulgence, nor does it need chaos. What it does need, instead, is presence. And presence, I am realising, is rarely dramatic; it is an often repetitive, even dull practice, a willingness to show up before the idea has shown itself.