Our minutes are our days. Our days are our lives.
Time shapes how we work, rest, parent, heal, create, relate, love, and dream.
It shapes our nervous systems and our sense of safety and how we talk to ourselves.
Unfortunately, how western culture thinks feels about time is fucked.
We stay saying things like: “There’s never enough time, no matter what I do.”
“I’m always behind, even when I’m working nonstop.”
“If I slow down, everything will fall apart.”
“My days are packed but I have no idea what I actually did.”
“I’m stressed before the week even starts.”
“I’m bad at time.”
“I feel guilty when I’m not being productive.”
Time Poverty harms how we relate to ourselves, each other, and our ability to create real change.
We rush through conversations, snap at people we love, and struggle to be present because our minds are already on the next thing.
Work expands to fill every corner of life, rest feels guilty, and our inner voice turns sharp and impatient.
We measure our worth by how busy we are, avoid things that matter because we’re already overwhelmed, and make decisions from pressure instead of clarity.
Over time, life feels like something to keep up with or survive, rather than the magical-ness it is.
And when everyone is scrambling just to get through their own days, it’s harder to show up for each other, build power together, and tend the long, slow work that real social and ecological change actually requires.
On my obsession with time
I first was acquainted to time when my parents never had enough of it. I was a girl, wondering where everyone was.
When I was a highly functioning engineer, I became obsessed with controlling time, overworking and overachieving. I thought if only I planned better, organized more, and managed my time perfectly, then it would help me get my shit together and save me. It did not.
As a student and teacher of yoga, I softened my grip. Then I started getting to know time as a cyclical, regenerative, relational vessel. It became my life’s work. Since 2020, I’ve certified dozens of service providers, coached hundreds of people, and taught thousands more as The Holistic Time Coach.
Ways to engage with this work
Hire me as your Time Liberation Coach
Become a certified Time Liberation Practitioner
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Linear, dominant, extractive time is the tyrant that the majority of us have inherited and live by. Learn more about this concept and other possible ways to be in relationship with time over at the Liberating Time substack.
When we heal our relationship with time,
so much becomes possible.
We feel so much better.
We make better decisions because we’re not constantly reacting.
Our nervous systems settle enough to think and feel again.
Relationships deepen because we’re more present and less rushed.
Work becomes more intentional instead of frantic, and rest actually restores us instead of feels like failure.
On a larger scale, we gain the capacity to organize, to stay engaged in political work without burning out, and to commit to the long timelines climate repair and social change demand.
