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Should You Be Downshifting?

Photo by Sigmund for UnsplashTa I discovered a new phrase this week: downshifting. The Schumacher Institute defines downshifting as “a phenomenon whereby individuals voluntarily pursue a simpler lifestyle of reduced material consumption, sometimes involving a change in work-life balance, in order to allow more time and energy for the non-materialistic aspects of life”.  Apparently the…