The Slow Path began in 2021 as a personal notebook — a place to think out loud about what it means to live well in a world that seems structurally opposed to slowness. I had spent years optimising, hustling, and performing busyness, and I was exhausted in a way that sleep could not fix.
I am not a guru. I am not a productivity expert or a wellness coach. I am a writer and a former literature teacher who became preoccupied with a simple question: what would life look like if we stopped rushing through it?
The Slow Path is my attempt to explore that question in public. It is a journal in the truest sense — a record of observations, experiments, and occasional failures. I write about attention and rest, about relationships and the passing of time, about what we lose when we optimise everything and what we might recover when we stop.
I live in Edinburgh with my partner, a geriatric cat, and more books than we have shelves for. I drink too much coffee and not enough water. I am working on it.
