Lifestyle

A year of tracking what we actually threw away, and the four changes that accounted for nearly all of it.

I went looking for what holistic medicine actually means in practice, spoke to three practitioners and one very patient physician, and came back with a more complicated answer than I wanted.

None of these cost money, none of them took more than a week to stick, and together they did more for me than the two years I spent buying equipment.

What four years of therapy, one injury and a very boring spreadsheet taught me about the point where looking after your body and looking after your head stop being separate projects.

I logged every item I wore for six months. Eleven things accounted for more than half of it, and almost none of them were the ones I would have guessed.

A birthday voucher sent me somewhere I would never have booked, and I came back with a genuinely mixed review and one treatment I would pay for again.

Two years ago we made one rule about one day, and it has quietly rearranged the other six.

Three years of writing down every dinner, and the surprisingly short list of things we actually cook.