The modern world bombards women with messages: Buy this skin care, try that wellness trend, hustle harder, glow up, level up, show up. It’s an exhausting chorus of demands disguised as empowerment. But a quiet fantasy is rising: Instead of yearning for hustle, connection, or glow-ups, the women I know want to do less. And instead of isolating themselves on the homestead, they’re dreaming of the monastery — desiring shared rituals and quiet routines and searching for spiritual structure that offers refuge from the noise of individual optimization.
