08/11/2026
My latest Substack post was published! This idea of relaxation becoming as artificial as some of the "foods" and online "friends" out there was SO popular with those I was speaking to, I had to write a piece on it. Check out this excerpt and the whole article below!
“When a client asks me if the soundtrack that I create for them will help them feel more relaxed, I have to remind them that they have no idea what relaxation is. They’re not asking for the experience of relaxation, they’re asking for the word “relaxation”. The word itself is lifeless, stale. It carries no weight because there’s no experience to express it. This is the exact reason why affirmations often do f*ck all. People read them like they’re reading news headlines. The feeling that moves people, moves countries, moves continents into action is absent. And if you can’t use feeling to navigate your world, such as with most people with a chronic stress response that can’t feel true relaxation, you’ll always be working on your body, endlessly trying to figure out how to deal with “isolated” symptoms when the systems of your body could take care of it all at the same time if it weren’t so damn stressed.”
Read the article: https://vibrationalinstinct.substack.com/p/the-commodification-of-relaxation
WARNING: Reckoning Ahead