Amruta Chaphekar | Substack

Amruta Chaphekar

Helping you create, curate and CULTIVATE LIFE (& business) that feels like ART….purposeful, raw, real, mindful yet growth-driven….one that your 80-year old self sitting on a cozy rocking chair will be PROUD of!

Ouch.

Distance yourself from people who turn your excitement of “goooood morningggg” into “GM”.

Let’s move on from people-pleasing & instead just focus on cat-pleasing :)

There used to be a huge crossword bookstore in one of the nearby malls here which I absolutely loved. Fond memories of many books that I purchased - for reading as well as gifting. When I went to the mall yesterday I was sad to see that they tore it down to open a gaming zone in its place. Video games replacing books is like AI replacing human-written essays :(

A little messy but cozy art :)

The humanness of writing a long text message and then erasing it.

I don’t crave luxury. I yearn for peace, for simple life and simpler people in it. 🌸

Advocating for myself feels like such a powerful yet tender act of self love! The magic of saying YES when it’s a full body YES. And that of saying NO when it’s a strong intuitive no. The sincerity of choosing my self-respect and self-worth over and over again. Because who else will stand for me if not me?!!♥️

Don’t send me memes or reels. Instead buy me jasmine flowers.

Our body is a temple of love, of devotion, of dreams, of desires, of sensuality, of possibilities, of potentialities….what a privilege it is to live in it and to live this life through it!

So my bestie and I talk almost daily. Both of us currently are going through a pretty epic low phase of our lives. And after almost every 5 minutes we mutter the word “ayyyo” (translated to oh no). Last night in the middle of our conversation I told her “babe! I’m manifesting that we reach a point in our lives soon when the ayyyo is replaced by woww” and we both burst out laughing. I love how as humans we always hold onto hope & humour, even in pretty low situations. That’s what makes us magical.

Oh the joy to have audacious audacity, tenacious tenacity & courageous courage!