Conscious Living | Rachel Ooi | Substack

A journey to conscious living, together

Welcome to the Conscious Living newsletter

Nov 19, 2024 • Rachel Ooi

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Writing through grief

Apr 13, 2024 • Rachel Ooi

Should you ask me where I am from?

Mar 28, 2024 • Rachel Ooi

Voices of conscious living

Dec 16, 2024 • Rachel Ooi and Amanda Saint

Why we stop crying

Sep 18, 2024 • Rachel Ooi

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Essays

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Dec 11, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Connection to the now, then, and a point in time. Connection to a here, there, and a place.

Nov 20, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

A meditation on connection

Strangers. Love. Fate. The cosmos.

Oct 16, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

How a little bird taught me to love and let go

A story of unconditional love, loss, grief, and quiet acceptance.

Aug 10, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

The magic of literature

and this is why I write

Jul 21, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Letters

Conscious living letter #9

Living by the seasons, staying connected, and navigating life, work, and AI.

Sep 26, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Conscious living letter #8

Freiburg art biennale, The Happy Place, nostalgia and melancholy.

Jul 4, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Conscious Living letter #7

Time dilation, emotions are data, AI and something heavy

May 9, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Conscious Living letter #6

Making memories, synchronicity, paying attention and a rare feeling.

Jan 13, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Conscious Living Practices

What truly matters

A repost of last year's Conscious Living practices #2

Dec 19, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

The delightful lightness of being

Conscious living practice #6

Jun 4, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

The space between belief and choice

Conscious Living Practice #5

Apr 30, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Conscious Living practice #4

Mar 3, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

Embrace slow. Take a pause.

Conscious Living practice #3

Jan 16, 2025 • Rachel Ooi

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