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Justyna Cyrankiewicz's avatar

So deeply resonant and beautiful. Thank you 🙏🏽

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Peck Gee Chua 蔡佩芝's avatar

Thanks so much for your warm note, Justyna. So glad it resonated!

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Baird Brightman's avatar

Thank you for sharing your experience of life and illness and slowing down, Peck. It is a very important topic and one I have written about in relation to work stress and recovery from severe burnout. Very well written! 🌱

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Peck Gee Chua 蔡佩芝's avatar

Thanks so much, Baird! Magic lives in slowing down. I'd love to read your writings from your recovery journey - I'm so glad you spoke out. It takes courage.

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Baird Brightman's avatar

My writing about burnout is more from a professional than personal perspective. For example:

https://bairdbrightman.substack.com/p/mental-exhaustion-is-a-danger-to

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Leanne Ogasawara's avatar

I love thus!!!

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Leanne Ogasawara's avatar

This!

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Peck Gee Chua 蔡佩芝's avatar

Thanks a lot, Leanne! Please know that your encouragements all along mean a lot. Hopefully my other unpublished drafts will see the light of the day.

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Leanne Ogasawara's avatar

They will!!!

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Rachel Ooi's avatar

Love the piece at Musubi. I have yet to try out a tea ceremony but thanks for the reminder on the beauty of consistent mediation.

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Peck Gee Chua 蔡佩芝's avatar

Rachel, Many thanks for reading and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I recommend tea ceremonies of different kinds. In Malaysia, we have our teh tarik which is meditatively mesmerizing and the less-formal version of Gong Fu Cha Chinese tea "ceremony" which is beautiful in itself. ;)

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Rachel Ooi's avatar

It tickles me to compare it to the Teh Tarik; I agree that it's mesmerizing, but the fun factor may distract me from meditation.

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Peck Gee Chua 蔡佩芝's avatar

😂 True and ultimately, meditation is about acceptance. The quiet and the loud. The stillness and the movement. On our cushions and beyond. It blends into whatever gets thrown into our lives.

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