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Welcome to The Listening Room
A growing library of gentle audio fiction inspired by forests, travellers, animals, seasons and ordinary lives.
New stories every week, narrated by Julie Ann and brought to life with immersive sound.
THE COTTAGE GUIDE
The Lost Art of Slow Living
A beautifully illustrated 56-page guide to slow living — about noticing more, living a little more slowly and rediscovering life beyond the screen.
56 beautifully illustrated A4 pages · Instant PDF ·
Plus 7 Letters from the Cottage
Inside The Pages of The Lost Art of
Slow Living
The Lost Art of Slow Living is a gentle invitation to notice the parts of life that are easily lost when our days become too hurried, noisy and full.
Across seven beautifully illustrated chapters, Julie Ann explores the quiet things that bring us back to ourselves — noticing the world around us, making room for silence, working with our hands, giving our attention fully, allowing the evening to have an ending, spending time together and remembering that we are part of a living world.
This is not a book about escaping modern life or doing everything more slowly. It is about rediscovering simple pleasures, small rhythms, rituals and ordinary moments that can make a life feel more deeply lived.
56 beautifully illustrated A4 pages · Instant PDF ·
Plus 7 Letters from the Cottage
"Ordinary moments become extraordinary when we stop rushing through them."
- Julie Ann
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LOVE REAL BOOKS?
The Lost Art of Slow Living written by Julie Ann, is also available as a professionally
printed book-a-zine from WSL Publishing. Made for those who would rather turn real pages, write in the margins, leave it beside the bed and return to it slowly over the years.
Professionally printed 5.8in × 8.3in · 56 illustrated pages · $16.95
Available through The Reading Room
Why I Wrote The Lost Art of Slow Living
Over the years I've watched many of us drift further away from the things that quietly nourish us.
We scroll instead of wandering, consume instead of creating, answer notifications before birdsong and we rush through ordinary moments that once would have become memories.
Perhaps you've felt it too? Reaching for your phone without even thinking. Finding it strangely difficult to settle into a book. Filling every quiet moment with something. Feeling busy while wondering where the day went. Missing a slower version of yourself.
I don't believe we need to reject modern life. I simply believe we need places that remind us how to return to ourselves. This little book became one of those places. I wrote it for you as a place to begin.
If You Loved The Cottage Guide
You'll find there's much more waiting to be discovered...