Our favorite season is beckoning, and we’re talking about the slow-down of the year. As we get excited about tea, sweaters, golden light, and liminal spaces, we also dig into the ways that social media can create a false sense of urgency, preventing us from integrating our experiences in deeper ways. Of course, no episode of Hearth & Heather is complete without a lot of laughing, so we also talk about our squash preferences, and a book that was so good we got mad.

Bonus Download: Along with this episode, we’re posting a PDF of a Winter Solstice Spell Jar ritual that we mentioned in Episode 5.

Mentioned in episode:

• The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
• How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
• Acorn Squash Lasagna by Martha Stewart
• How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
• Lalah Delia and sacred experiences
• “on being off social media,” Emily McDowell’s newsletter
• “Take a step back: Notes from a social media break,” Lisa Olivera’s newsletter
• We Were Made for These Times by Kaira Jewel Lingo
• Sacred Harp Singing
• Cocaine and Rhinestones podcast
• Mirrors in the Earth by Asia Suler
• Patton Oswalt, The Birthday Clown From Hell
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• How a photo and video-sharing social networking service gave me my best friends, true love, a beautiful career, and made me want to die by Marlee Grace
• Digital Wellbeing app for Android
• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
• Winter Solstice candle ritual (PDF), by Shanalee Hampton