An Experiment in Human Connection
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Antisocial Social Club is an experiment in human creativity and connection. For 365 days, I'm committed to sharing real talk that goes deeper than the chatter and noise of social media. I might fake my own death on social media in 2025, and if I do, this is where you'll find me instead. Please come along for the ride! No, I don't know where we're going, and I'm not sure when we'll be back. So get in, but only if you're down for a trip into creative chaos and the wild unknown.
22. jaded
You know how sometimes in life, we experience seasons of new growth, blossoming, enthusiasm, excitement, and bright-eyed wonder?Â
You know those times when it just feels like beautiful surprises keep popping out from behind each corner, and you are enchanted by the mystery of life unfolding befor...
Jan 06, 2025
21. dangerous
Today - tonight, I should say, as it’s now 10:20pm and I am just finally sitting down to write…
Tonight, it feels like a risky idea to write from the heart. My inner workings lately seem more volatile than I would like to express, expand upon, or delve into.Â
I find myself too often at the edge o...
by Amelia Travis —
Jan 05, 2025
20. jenga
Everything crashed down this morning.Â
You know the game Jenga? The one where you take turns gently poking the structural integrity of a tower of wooden blocks, removing them from the supportive base area and stacking them higher and higher into a progressively less stable order?
Ok, imagine that...
Jan 04, 2025
19. counting days
1 day without tobacco.Â
5 days since deleting social media.
19 days of writing to you here.
168 days of moving my body.Â
452 days alcohol free.
3,007 days of motherhood.
5,592 days of being deeply in love.
and 6,574 days since I chose myself.
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What do you mean, chose yourself?Â
Eighteen years ...
Jan 03, 2025
18. silence
It’s been four days since I deleted the social media apps from my phone.
The first two days, I noticed myself constantly picking my phone up anyway and automatically, habitually opening apps - any apps, all apps. Checking my bank account, email, opening Amazon. It was like my hand had a mind of i...
by Amelia Travis —
Jan 02, 2025
17. beauty
It’s the first of a new year, the dawn of 2025, and I haven’t given a single thought to my word(s) of the year.Â
Normally, I have at least 3, sometimes 5, but always a bare minimum of one word that is guiding me, anchoring me, helping me return to center when I feel lost or like I’ve gone astray ...
Jan 01, 2025
16. thank you
I am here with you at the threshold, where one door closes and another door opens.Â
But I am not looking forward yet, not pushing ahead. I am gazing back at the direction I've traveled in the last 13 moons, and marveling at the rainbow threads which led me here.Â
Tonight I am giving thanks for al...
Jan 01, 2025
15. do it now
I was 25 when I attended my first 200 hour yoga teacher training at the Sivananda ashram in Grass Valley, California.
At the time, it was the only yoga I really knew, a lineage of classical hatha I’d stumbled upon at 16, when I signed up for classes through the local community college, thinking i...
Dec 30, 2024
14. inconvenient
Today I am reckoning with Mars retrograde, and laughing at myself as a conscious alternative to wallowing in self-loathing.
ICYMI, Mars only goes retrograde once every two years, the least frequently of all the planets. Mars is the planet of action, passion, and willpower, so when it performs its...
by Amelia Travis —
Dec 29, 2024
13. vice
What is the nature of the human desire to do what is not good for us -
and what defines good?
Over the past 14 months, I’ve given up alcohol, (mostly) released caffeine, cut out gluten, radically decreased my sugar intake, started moving my body every single day, and committed to better sleep hyg...
by Amelia Travis —
Dec 28, 2024
12. boiling
My mind is balanced at the edge of a boiling pot - scalding, steaming, utterly transformative. Rather than pull back to the safety of tepid waters, I'm preparing to dive right in.
Let me explain...
In 2025, my mind, communications, and intellect are going through a cosmic death and rebirth and po...
by Amelia Travis —
Dec 27, 2024
11. bones
What are the bones of this project, at the level of antisocial business? This is a question I’m sitting with as the days slowly tick by in winter’s march towards the calendar new year.Â
My primary objective is to create pathways for people to find my work that aren’t social media. In order to do ...
by Amelia Travis —
Dec 26, 2024
