Stressed About Your Health? F**k It - Interview with John C. Parkin
Stressed out? Exhausted? Running yourself ragged trying to be a good person, raise tolerant children, impress your boss, eat healthy, pay the bills, grow spiritually and monitor your carbon footprint? John C. Parkin has a suggestion for you: Just say “fuck it.”
Parkin, the son of Anglican preachers, spent twenty years studying eastern religion, meditating, chanting, breathing, doing yoga, detaching and attempting to heal his chronic allergies, without much success. Finally, he came to a conclusion: saying “fuck it” was the western version of what eastern religion preaches. Ironically, he arrived at this realization while setting up a retreat center to teach relaxation workshops, after leaving behind a top-paying job as a copywriter in London. Today, in addition to “yoga weeks”, he and his wife Gaia run “Fuck It Weeks” at The Hill That Breathes in southern Italy. Read More
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