HeyJaredThe Ritual Life
From the author of Your Guide to Ritual Design: Redesign Your Day, Transform your Life. Helping others discover how ancient wisdom and thoughtfully designed rituals can bring meaning, connection, and sacred moments to modern secular life.
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A Life is Made of Wednesdays (opens the original)
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When I was researching Your Guide to Ritual Design, I found plenty of evidence that rituals can be good for us. What I had a harder time finding was research on how those individual rituals might work together. I wasn't just interested in the ingredients, I wanted to understand the recipe.Researchers have studied rituals around grief and loss, rituals before stressful events, family rituals, religious rituals, even the ritualistic eating of chocolate. There is also an enormous body of research o
Take Some Lemons on the Way Out (opens the original)
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There has been a very fun theme floating around social media lately in which people share a certain number of things they consider chic, worth the money, or essential to a good life.It may have started as another way for influencers to sell us things, but the more genuine corners of the internet (often with far fewer followers) have taken it in a much more endearing and useful direction. The best lists aren’t really about things you can buy at all. One young woman <a href="https://www.tiktok.com
What Did We Expect? (opens the original)
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Last week, Adam Grant, a Wharton School professor, published an op-ed about how shocked he was by the amount of cheating happening in college. I had almost the opposite reaction . . . I was surprised that anyone was surprised.Grant is brilliant, but part of his brand is an “aww shucks” naivete, so perhaps this op-ed was in part a branding exercise. I lean Pollyanna myself, but somewhere underneath that optimism there is still a college ec
Things Worth Writing Down (opens the original)
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Earlier this year, in a burst of inspiration spurred on by the calendar change, I joined a “commonplace book club” through Substack with CUNY English professor Jillian Hess. (I didn’t realize this until I started writing the newsletter, but he is hosting another one this September. I highly recommend joining if you have any interest in the concept.)Keeping a commonplace book is a pract
Same Time, Same Place (opens the original)
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On a recent visit to Martha’s Vineyard, I picked up a copy of the local newspaper, the Vineyard Gazette, as I sat down with my coffee at a cafe. It was a surreal experience because there seemed to be a story about ritual on every page and the actual word ritual was printed several times—this wasn’t just me reading into things.Serendipity, indeed.The top story was about the “daily ritual” of the operators of the
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