'snail girl' era (we are our own home)

move over side-hustles, we're choosing days without plans

Following on from a decade of girl-boss energy, many of us are realising that slowing down and making space is actually more enjoyable. Move over side-hustles, make way for days without plans.

‘Snail girl’ is thanks to this feature in Fashion Journal, the gist being: slow down, dictate your own pace, retreat into your shell when you need to. But perhaps what I find most pertinent about the snail girl concept is the simple fact that we are our own home.

If you are a mother, you are your child’s home, too. The artist Sarah Walker relates the early days of postpartum to discovering the existence of a strange new room in the house where you already live. With subsequent children, it’s like someone came in and rearranged all the furniture.

The body is a house, a vessel, a home. All we ever really want is to feel comfortable in our own skin because there’s nothing quite like the feeling of coming home. And I wonder; how may people really, truly feel like this? Can we foster this feeling by slowing down, tuning in and taking really good care of ourselves? I think we can.