The Slow Drift: How We Lose Ourselves Without Noticing with Hari Kalymnios

About this episode

Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios discuss the importance of maintaining routines and self-awareness to prevent emotional low points.

In this video: The Slow Drift: How We Lose Ourselves Without Noticing | Mindful Paths Podcast What if the habits you quietly dropped are the very things keeping you well? What if feeling low has less to do with your circumstances and everything to do with what you stopped doing? What does it really take to find your way back to yourself before the drift becomes a crisis? In this Mindful Paths Podcast episode, Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios get refreshingly honest about hitting low points, losing their routines, and what it actually felt like to come back. From the slow erosion of exercise, sauna, and morning rituals to the deeper question of why we abandon the things that keep us whole, this conversation is a candid and grounding reminder that self-awareness is the first step back. Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios sit down for a wide-ranging, deeply personal conversation on this episode of the Mindful Paths Podcast. Nick opens up about hitting one of his lowest emotional points in recent memory, not from any single event, but from months of overwork, a book launch, and the quiet disappearance of his foundational habits. Hari reflects on his own drift and what rejoining a gym, getting…

People in this episode

Host: Nick Day

Guest: Hari Kalymnios

Topics covered

• self-awareness
• mental health
• habits
• routines
• exercise
• philosophy

Keywords

• self-awareness
• mental health
• habits
• exercise
• morning rituals
• sunlight
• energy

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