How have you found calm lately?
It’s a simple question, but not always an easy one to answer. In a world that moves quickly and demands so much of our attention, calm can feel like a luxury. Something saved for weekends, holidays, or when everything else is done (which, let’s be honest, rarely happens).
This isn’t a blog about fixing that. But it is about noticing when calm does find you, and how being outside, even briefly, can help you feel more like yourself again.
What Calm Really Looks Like (Hint: It’s Small)
We often imagine calm as something big: a perfect morning routine, a week away in nature, or a moment of total silence. But most of us don’t live in that version of life, and we don’t need to.
Calm can look like:
• Taking a walk just to move, not to track steps
• Sitting on your front step with your coffee before opening your laptop
• Leaving your phone behind, even if just for ten minutes
• Standing still and noticing what’s changed since yesterday
These aren’t fixes. They’re small, grounding moments that bring you back to yourself, and they count. Sometimes they’re enough to shift the tone of an entire day.
Why Getting Outside Helps You Reset (Even Briefly)
There’s a reason we instinctively go outside when we’re overwhelmed. The shift in air, light, and space creates a kind of soft reset, one that research supports.
According to Harvard Health, spending time outdoors, even in small doses, can reduce cortisol levels, help regulate your nervous system, and improve focus. You don’t need wilderness to feel this benefit. A park bench, your street, or a patch of sky from your window is enough.
In a time when we’re constantly stimulated, nature offers something quieter. And that quiet, however brief, can help.
A Soft Reminder: You’re Not Alone in This
If calm feels out of reach right now, you’re not alone. The world is heavy, noisy, and unpredictable. Finding stillness doesn’t mean escaping it, it just means finding a little space within it.
So we’re asking, gently, how have you found calm lately?
And if you haven’t, that’s okay too. Maybe it starts with stepping outside. Maybe it doesn’t. But it’s worth looking for.
Why This Hit Home for Us
This blog didn’t come from a brainstorm or content calendar. It came from real life.
Over the past year, we’ve moved across the world, continued building our business from the ground up, and poured everything we have into designing something that feels true to us, and that we hope our community will love just as much. It’s been exciting. But also intense. The kind of full that lives in your shoulders, your sleep, and the thoughts that won’t quite switch off.
A few weeks ago, we stepped away from it all. Closed the laptop. Left our phones behind. And slowly, something shifted.
We became present again.
That one hike reminded us: calm doesn’t always mean doing less. Sometimes it just means being, without distraction, without noise. And being outdoors, with the people we love most, helped us find that again.
