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Meghan Swidler's avatar

in this hyper digital era filled with AI slop, authenticity and humanness are the new rich.

i'll be launching highly curated in-person detox retreats in 2026.

Raquel Emily's avatar

I’ve been binging your essays lately. It is inspiring me to write again, after many, many years of not. ♥️ love to read your words and expression. Cheers

Peta Kelly's avatar

Thanks Raquel- enjoy! X

Lauren Dittle's avatar

oooof! PETA. the way you hit the nail on the head of what I’m feeling over and over … it’s quite remarkable. thank you for sharing your gifts - which reminds me that when I share mine, they are enough. I’ve had this funny limitation that “art and writing are not helpful enough” (coming out of the coaching world and back into my Artist roots) and I am sooo thankful for people like you who move me, and give me the permission to just DO WHAT I LOVE because that’s enough. God bless 🙏 🤍

Peta Kelly's avatar

I'm so glad Lauren! Go girl xx

Alexandra Roxo's avatar

Love this. I am so there!! I’ve been trying to move offline for the last 6 years (had a baby so things got delayed) but I’m back in the plan of it now. Love hearing your stories.

Kim Knievel's avatar

Thank you for putting words to something that’s been stirring in me over the last few years. The courage and guts you have to write about what’s alive for you is a giant nudge

to keep pursuing what’s true and alive for me (even and especially when it’s not the norm)❤️

Peta Kelly's avatar

Go girl xxx

Patricia Russo's avatar

I could not love this post more than I do! I'm happily on this path with my sacred travel agency in Paris... Thank you for every word!

Peta Kelly's avatar

ohhhhh i LOVE this!! X

Maria Jose Cormack's avatar

I agree with this 100% and have left Instagram 1 year ago (I mean publishing, not consuming). What is a dilemma for me is that in the small town that I live, attendance to in person events is slim, for example. On the other hand, another example: I'm the only HS mother in my city, my viewpoints and beliefs (ex GNM, homeopathy, etc) are not widely shared. So my immediate community has its challenges. Online I have found people like you Peta, who inspire me, who make me feel less alone in my visions and beliefs and that show me what's is possible. So only being offline, at the moment, does not give me what I "desire". And still... I'm not online. AND my priority is motherhood. My therapist would say: people are not entering your world because you are yet to want to receive it being in this tender stage, and you can still create so much without putting it out there.

Anyways...I'm grateful yo be able to read from you and listen to your amazing podcast. So many channels now that IG is not that indispensable. And it has become harder to be in that space as a consumer also.

Peta Kelly's avatar

I so hear this dilemma Maria and so acknowledge how online spaces can be a haven for those in a situation like yours. There are seasons for everything. I have had seasons with a very small circle close by in real life too. XXX