... And shopping and doing No Buy or Low Buy Years.

NOTE: I (Sofie) refer to Aja Barber as Aja Barker - a very rude mistake from my end, I apologise profusely! Also I just learned that I also mispronounced her first name. I'm so so so sorry.

MAIN SOURCE
The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

Cait Flanders' Substack about The Year of Less

REFERENCES
Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Flanders

Buy Now on Netflix

Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living by Fumio Sasaki

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever by Marie Kondo

Cait Flanders' Shopping Ban Advice

Minimalism in the West by Alessandra I Volpi

The Privilege of Minimalism: Who Gets to be a Minimalist?

Bradley on a Budget on TikTok

Deinfluencer DepressionDotGov on TikTok

Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber

Aja Barber on Instagram

New Balance - evil?

A List of All The Books We've Covered Here

Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and our The Artist Way thing!

Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok

Sofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and Facebook
Abby is on Instagram, TikTok and Threads

Sofie and Abby are both gigging in Copenhagen in March!

Sofie is coming to Melbourne and Sydney!

BUY SOFIE'S BOOK WILL I EVER HAVE SEX AGAIN? HERE!

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh
EDITOR Sofie Hagen
SPECIAL PRODUCERS Anjana, Clem and MamaWamba
JINGLE by Nicky Elson
LOGO PHOTO Marie Hald
LOGO DESIGN Haiminh Le

Just a little update on this month's (late!) episode and some Artist Way Introduction Stuff...


A List of All The Books We've Covered Here

Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January!

Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok

Sofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and Facebook
Abby is on Instagram, TikTok and Threads

Abby is coming to London!
Sofie is coming to Melbourne and Sydney!

BUY SOFIE'S BOOK WILL I EVER HAVE SEX AGAIN? HERE!

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh
EDITOR Sofie Hagen
SPECIAL PRODUCERS Anjana and MamaWamba
JINGLE by Nicky Elson
LOGO PHOTO Marie Hald
LOGO DESIGN Haiminh Le

MAIN SOURCE
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

REFERENCES
Flirtology by Jean Smith
Bad People Podcast on BBC Sounds

A List of All The Books We've Covered Here

Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January!

Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok

Sofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and Facebook
Abby is on Instagram, TikTok and Threads

Abby is coming to London!
Sofie is coming to Melbourne and Sydney!

BUY SOFIE'S BOOK WILL I EVER HAVE SEX AGAIN? HERE!

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh
EDITOR Sofie Hagen
SPECIAL PRODUCERS Anjana and MamaWamba
JINGLE by Nicky Elson
LOGO PHOTO Marie Hald
LOGO DESIGN Haiminh Le

Do you spend too much time on your phone? And would you like to spend LESS time on your phone? Well, this is the episode for you. Abby has a problem and Sofie might also have a problem, if she'd be up for admitting to it. Abby has read Cal Newport's book on Digital Minimalism and is up for the challenge.


MAIN SOURCE
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

REFERENCES
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

A List of All The Books We've Covered Here

Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January!

Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok

Sofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and Facebook
Abby is on Instagram, TikTok and Threads

BUY SOFIE'S BOOK WILL I EVER HAVE SEX AGAIN? HERE!

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh
EDITOR Sofie Hagen
SPECIAL PRODUCERS Anjana and MamaWamba
JINGLE by Nicky Elson
LOGO PHOTO Marie Hald
LOGO DESIGN Haiminh Le

We throw ourselves at KC Davies' book How To Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach To Cleaning and Organising. We discuss shame and executive dysfunction and tidying and cleaning, but in a real FUN WAY.

MAIN SOURCE
How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davies

REFERENCES
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price, Ph.D
KC Davies' podcast Struggle Care
The episode we did on Hygge

A List of All The Books We've Covered Here

Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January!

Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok

Sofie is on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Twitter and Facebook
Abby is on Instagram, TikTok and Threads

BUY SOFIE'S BOOK WILL I EVER HAVE SEX AGAIN? HERE!

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh
EDITOR Sofie Hagen
SPECIAL PRODUCERS Anjana and MamaWamba
JINGLE by Nicky Elson
LOGO PHOTO Marie Hald
LOGO DESIGN Haiminh Le

Oh, it's a Big One. It's finally here. The Artist's Way, read and presented by Abby, who has read it five times and who lives it on a daily basis. It's the Bible of creativity and we're here to discuss it. If you want to join our little discussion group in January, sign up to our Patreon here and be ready.

MAIN SOURCE
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

REFERENCES
Abby's friend Katie Coyle
Our Patreon episode on Morning Pages
Kiri Pritchard-McLean's BBC Podcast (feat. Sofie and Cariad Lloyd)
Carly Ann Filbin's The Artist's Way Classes

OUR COPENHAGEN SHOW

A little teaser of our brand new Patreon SPECIAL bonus episode. Sofie has watched Couples Therapy, but first, we get into talking about the apocalypse again. Also, Abby sings. Does she sing well? Time will tell. Listen on Patreon now.

We dive into Kae Tempest's On Connection - a book about connections and the magic that happens when connection happens and other stuff to do with connection. (Sofie writes these blurbs and there is a chance Sofie didn't fully understand what the book was about.) We also discuss weddings and creativity. It's fun.

MAIN SOURCE
On Connection by Kae Tempest

ALSO MENTIONED
Self Compassion by Kristin Neff
Micro Moments of Positivity Resonance by Dr. Barbara Fredrickson