A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim

A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim

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Unpopular opinion: I’m just not that into Christmas

Unpopular opinion: I’m just not that into Christmas

In particular, gifts - why (and how) we opted out. Happy holidays!

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Nov 30, 2023
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Hi! This is Leyla from A Day Well Spent, a newsletter seeking pathways to more purposeful living.

Here’s what landed in subscriber inboxes the past couple of weeks:

  • I share the simple practices and natural remedies that I believe have kept me cold free for a year in how to not catch a cold

  • Discussing the life skill that is cognitive reframing

  • I wrote about why I don’t consume any news and haven’t done for four years - it resonated with a lot of people

  • We talked about how we sleep and shared our tips for doing it well

If you’re reading this by chance — welcome! You can enter your email below to ensure you never miss my twice weekly posts (Thursdays and Sundays).

a picture of a christmas tree made out of circles
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For most of the year, I go by the name of Leyla. But from approximately the middle of November when the tinsel takeover begins, until the sweet release of that strange but welcome liminal downtime between Christmas and New Year, you will also find me responding to Grinch and Scrooge (Ebenezer and/or McDuck). 

The last month of the year starts tomorrow (which also happens to be A Day Well Spent’s 6 month anniversary 🎈) and it is this moment – collectively perched on the precarious precipice of unfettered festive madness – that I think it’s about time I shared with you, dear reader, that I’m just not that into Christmas.

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