The author

A few words about Mariana

Mariana on a hammock
The author

Not a rest expert. Not cured either.

I have no certificates, no teacher training and no app to sell you. I am someone who optimized herself into exhaustion, then wrote the book that talked her back down.

For a while I tracked everything. The numbers were excellent and I was tired, and that arithmetic is the whole reason this book exists. I still track. My sleep has a score. I still reach for the phone in queues. I am not cured and I do not claim to be, I am just better at ignoring the voice that says an unmeasured walk does not count.

Find me daily, gently, at @in_the_name_of_youth

Correspondence

The Slow Letter

One slow note a week — a thought from the book, a story from my kitchen. Never a productivity tip. Leave whenever; I'll take it as self-care.