Casa Alternavida Blog

Ours is not exactly a society built for mellowness. We idolize the go-getters and ridicule the “slackers.” We celebrate the ones who seem to pack 25 hours’ worth of tasks into a 24 hour day and we judge, silently or not-so-silently, the ones who never seem to meet a deadline. We are the products of a culture built on the premise that you will succeed only through struggle and hard work. And it’s killing us. As a society, we’re more overwhelmed, more stressed, more anxious tha