How To Slow Down (Even When Life’s Crazy!) - by Marina Dimitrova

COURSE

How To Slow Down (Even When Life’s Crazy!)

With Marina Dimitrova

In this 5-day course, you’ll learn how to slow down even when life feels overwhelming. Through nervous system-based teachings, guided practices, and simple rituals, you’ll explore why urgency feels safe, how to anchor calm into your day, and how to release guilt around rest. Each day offers tools like breathwork, sensory grounding, and intentional living to help you reconnect with your body and find peace in the present moment. This is about reclaiming your softness, one pause at a time.

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Meet your Teacher

Marina Dimitrova
Toronto, ON, Canada

Marina is a holistic wellness guide and the founder of Made to Be Wild, a platform devoted to helping women slow down, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with their true selves. With a background in Social Work and Holistic Nutrition, she blends science-backed tools with intuitive wisdom to support emotional healing and stress relief. After her own journey through burnout, anxiety, and chronic health challenges, Marina now shares practices rooted in nervous system safety, soft living, and radical self-compassion. Her work is grounded, nurturing, and designed to meet people exactly where they are.

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5 Days

75 students

5.0 stars

13 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Why You Can’t Slow Down

In this first session, we’ll explore why slowing down feels so hard, even when you deeply crave it. You’ll learn how hustle culture and survival mode have wired your nervous system to associate stillness with danger, not safety. We’ll gently uncover the patterns beneath your urgency, offer compassion instead of blame, and introduce one simple practice to begin creating space, so slowing down starts to feel not only possible, but safe.

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Lesson 2

Breaking Up With Hustle Culture

In this lesson, we’ll explore how hustle culture has shaped your nervous system, your self-worth, and your relationship with time. You’ll learn why your body may resist rest, even when you’re exhausted, and how constant busyness has been glorified as proof of value. Through gentle, mindful reflection, we’ll begin to untangle productivity from your identity and practice a new way of rising, one rooted in presence, not pressure.

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Lesson 3

Creating Anchors Of Calm

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create simple, soothing rituals that help anchor your nervous system throughout the day. We’ll explore why your body needs consistent signals of safety and how small practices, like sipping tea with presence or noticing a soft moment...can become powerful reminders that you’re safe, supported, and allowed to slow down. These anchors of calm become your personal touchstones, bringing you back to peace even when life feels chaotic.

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Lesson 4

Living Intentionally

This lesson explores what it means to live with intention rather than on autopilot. Instead of being swept up in urgency or external expectations, you’ll learn how to slow down and make choices that align with your values, energy, and needs. Through simple reflection and grounded awareness, this session will guide you to pause, get honest about what truly matters, and begin shaping a life that feels more like you.

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Lesson 5

Surrender & Integration

In this final session, we explore what it means to truly surrender...not by giving up, but by softening into trust. You’ll be guided to gently integrate the insights and practices from the past days, learning how to carry this calm into your daily life. Through reflection and presence, we’ll close the course with a grounded sense of peace, reminding you that slow living isn’t a destination, but a devotion you return to, again and again.

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5.0 (11)

Recent Reviews

Anastasia

Anastasia

November 17, 2025

Loving it !

Nada

Nada

October 7, 2025

Thank you Marina I enjoy this short close and learning to slow down 🙏🏻👏👏🌈😘🕊️

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