Out With The Old, In With The New
Current Status: LWD - Lazy Women Defrosting.
Dear Lazies, the first month of 2024 is already done and dusted!
We’re slowly easing ourselves into the new year so here is a (slightly late) newsletter for January-February. Expect podcast and event updates, contributions from our Lazy Women community, and more.
— Ins and Outs for 2024 for Lazy Women —
Reminiscent of the wish lists in almost every teen movie, the Ins/Outs list making the rounds on our feeds this past month, is just a light-hearted attempt to keep what serves us and discard the rest in the new year. The trend pokes a bit of fun at the conventional NYE resolution, with its mundane and almost abstract intentions just like this one, they can be customised to fulfill what we want to change in the new year. Let’s dive into the Lazy Women-inspired Ins/Outs for 2024.
Ins
Female friendships
Romanticizing the “rot”
Speaking up!
Doing what you love (even if it’s doing nothing)
Protecting your peace
Listening to your gut
Outs
Hustle culture
People-pleasing
Bringing the “hater” energy
Negative self-talk
Defining what “being normal” is
Judging yourself (or others)
If you haven’t checked out our second ‘Making it’ in Western Europe podcast episode, make sure to do it! ;)
In this episode, Dorina, our Lazy Women co-director originally from Hungary, talks about her experiences in Austria: from language barriers to homesickness.
If you already did, and you feel like you would like to continue the conversation, please join our Pod Talk, a reflection series after each published episode in the Lazy Women Salon on Zoom. Last time, we talked about what home means to us, now we will find an angle more related to the current topics. If you have time on February 6th at 7 pm (CET), sign up on this simple Google form and we are going to send you the invite below.
Let's break the taboos around the difficulties of immigrants!
- On February 14, join the Galentine’s Lazy Women meet-up in Brussels! Feel free to join, if you happen to be around! (Watch out on our socials for more info!)
- From February 23 to 25, Dinara will be representing Lazy Women at the Reset! event in Tartu, Estonia. Here’s what she has to say about it:
‘I will represent Lazy Women contributing to three discussion modules on independence, funding, and advocacy and will support a hosting of a public event to engage with the local community in Tartu. I want to take this opportunity to promote Lazy Women, introduce its recent projects, and share the best practices and lessons learnt from our unique community-run media. I’m thrilled to learn from the diverse organisations, make new friends and collaborators. I will also have a chance to contribute to a policy proposal draft which will be promoted by Reset! In their advocacy to the European Commission. And I’m also excited to maybe see some snow in Estonia and explore Tallin and Tartu!’
- SAVE THE DATE for Paris people - March 8 Lazy Women is coming back with producing and co-hosting “The Clitoris Act”, a feminist comedy show on Women’s Day!
Clit Comedy Club Performers Mari Volar and Anshita Koul talk and make jokes about everything: from weight to societal expectations. This 2-woman special premiered at the Hundertpro festival in 2021 and has since then entertained people across 15 cities in 8 different countries. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with friends, have fun and celebrate. Join Lazy Women and these brilliant comedians on March 8!à
Tickets are available here.
We asked our Lazies to share their best practices on decluttering with us. Here’s what they had to say ❤️
For the past three years, Lazy Lucie has chosen a word of the year to set the vibe and her attitude for the upcoming months. For 2024, the word is NOURISHMENT. Lucie is expecting a lot of change in her life this year with switching careers, turning 30 (woo!), writing a dissertation and already starting a part-time job. With big change comes great responsibility, and Lucie is making sure she enjoys every second of it with nourishing new friendships, experiences and challenges. We love the idea of choosing one word for 2024 and it ties in perfectly with our theme of decluttering (hey, is that Lazy Womens’ word of the year?) because by focusing on herself and keeping what’s important nourished, we know Lucie will thrive.
Funnily enough, Lazy Lauren also chose a word of the year for the first time in 2023 and has continued that tradition into 2024. Whilst last year was all about BALANCE, this year is all about FLOURISHING. Lauren’s main focus is to take care of herself through slow-living which in turn, will let her inner self to flourish. By being her own cheerleader and indulging in quiet evenings for reading and knitting, the other aspects of her life (think: work, relationships, writing and family connections) will also flourish at their own pace. Do you have a word of the year?
Lazy Poppy’s approach to decluttering was to see journaling not as a must-do but a can-do. Instead of getting anxious that she missed a day of writing, she has started focusing on quantity when she has the the time to write. A simple rule of a 2 page minimum has allowed journaling to become more meaningful again and allowed Poppy to clear her mind of hopes, thoughts, and fears.
That would be all for now. Don’t forget to check out the next podcast episode coming out soon.
xx
Lazy Women
