I couldn't consume my way into a new life

Using consumerism as our only avenue for reinvention and expression stunts our ability to genuinely change. I learned this the hard way.

Last month I read Anastasia Selby’s piece Overwhelm and Gratitude: Learning to leave materialism behind on their Substack, Entropical Paradise, and it resonated with me deeply.

They write,

“I have been thinking about all the things I have bought.

All the things I have bought throughout my lifetime. The Staub dutch oven I bought with my covid unemployment. …