Seeking Slow is a book looking at how you can take a step back in your life and live more mindfully in the present with more gratitude. Barnes looks at why this is important, the psychology behind it and most of all steps to take to be able to practically do this. Filled with gorgeous photos (one of my favourite aspects of reading this) this book is the sort of volume that you would have on a coffee table to dip in and out of. An easy read but some fabulous ideas within the pages.

I started reading this and had to come over to NetGalley to leave a review straight away. The 'Glorification of Busy' part was incredible. Literally life changing.
Everyone needs to read this book.

I was drawn to Seeking Slow by the beautiful cover and great title. It ended up being a wonderful little guide to slowing down in modern life, including tips on time management, self-care habits, and finding quiet in the chaos. I thought it had great advice and the photos that went along with the text added a lot to the message.

Thank you so much Net Galley and Quarto Publishing for this AMAZING book! I work a lot and find it difficult to slow down. This nbook gave me so many tips ans such neat advice to start changing! It deals with such issues as slow living of course, but also well-being, meditation, clearing, decluttering our homes, and so much more!
The pictures are superb to top it all!

"Seeking Slow" provides insightful knowledge on how to navigate through life slowly, purposefully, and meaningfully. Melanie Barnes has written a beautiful book that will resonate with many, especially in a fast-paced, social media crazed, and technology-obsessed world. The graphics are stunning, as is the writing. I appreciate all of the great advice she shares and hope to instill some of it into my own life.

This is a beautifully crafted book about slowing life down and taking time for yourself in a world where we seem to be running on empty these days because we never switch off. There are lots of easy changes we can make just to take a step back and care for ourselves in our daily lift without missing out.

What I liked about this book: I haven’t seen many things about this topic, so it felt innovative to me. The book offered some great advice about seasonal living and sustainability. It seems like a great introductory book for people interested in changing their lifestyle.

What I disliked about this book: This book could have benefited from more charts and graphics (checklists, etc.) in each chapter.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing an advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book is a great coffee table book and a best friend to people who never thought about slow living and now feel the urge to inform themselves. The chapters are organized into parts of a lifestyle, into body, mind and soul and it gives great advice for newbies.

But I am doing recherché on this topic for some time now and found little new in this book. Still it was beautifully crafted and had great information for everyone who still thinks, being busy is a cool thing. It gives just the right amount of advice and personal story to the reader and explains well, WHY we need to live slower. That it helps ourselves, the environment and in the end our future.

We all know by now that modern life isn’t helping any of us lead happy and fulfilled lives. Barnes looks at all the ways we can disconnect from the modern, digital world and reconnect to the natural world to slow down. Taking cues from nature and the seasons, using meditation and appreciation of the little things in our lives, Barnes shows us how to truly enjoy ourselves and to be happy

Yes!! Down with the man! Stop American consumerism! Love yourself! Reduce, reuse, recycle!

This book covers a lot of topics succinctly and efficiently. Accompanied by lovely photographs, this is a great "self-help" guide meets home organization sounding board meets social responsibility manifesto. I appreciated the new and unique insights on ideas that are being hashed out in a lot of books today.

Absolutely loved this book. It is so hard in this day and age to "go slow" especially living in California like I do and working for a law office. Definitely will recommend this to everyone I know. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this wonderful book.

This book? 100% my aesthetic. I have to be honest though, I had no idea slow living was a thing and kind of felt doubtful at first diving into this book but after reading it I learned about a new way of living and although I don't think all aspects of Slow Living is for me, I will try to adapt bits and pieces into my routine for some semblance of calm.
Calm is what we all need in this chaotic energy we call a world.
The visuals in this book are STUNNING and calming which is the point. The author brings up several great points and solutions for managing our time and perhaps even purging from the sometimes (always in my case) anxiety inducing mess that is social media.
I have to admit that I've been feeling a bit down today and bogged down by my own thoughts and this was calming to read. I even cried a bit embarrassingly enough.
All in all, a great self help manual tossed with a lot of self care.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC. All opinions are my own. Live happy and well!