I love my niece Rachel’s sass and sense of humor. She’s opinionated and unabashedly herself. She approaches life like Pippi Longstocking — "I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that".

Unlike Pippi she can’t lift a horse, but her strength is in asking for help when she needs it. I really admire how curious and willing to learn about herself and others she is. She has a heart of solid gold.

For Christmas Rachel once made me three braclets with a letter explaing what each of them symbolised. I’ve read this letter countless of times! I wanted to do something in return. It became the birth of the chill pills.

TESTED AND DEVELOPED BY
Rachel and me

HYPOTHESIS

A typical chill treatment looks like; jumping on the trampoline, drinking a strawberry and orange drink, eating chocolate, laying on our backs with sun in our face, blowing some soap bubbles, wearing cozy clothes that feels like a hug while listening to the music we’re feeling atm on repeat and talk about everything and nothing

Rachel solves a rubic cube faster than me, and will most likely crush me into tiny little pieces in any board game. But in this strange and exiting game of life she’s both a team player and a game changer.

LEFT GREY: Rachel       

RIGHT BLUE: Me

🌩 IF YOU HAVE LOST YOUR CHILL

• Deep breaths x 10
• Ask for help
• Feel everything you need to feel
• Take your time
• Educate yourself
• Put one foot in front of another

⛅️ REMEMBER

• Life’s a rollercoaster
• Sleep is not for the weak
• Drink more water
• Move your body
• Balance is everything
• Be grateful for what you got

It’s been over a year since we started this experiment. I wasn't sure where it would lead, it just naturally evolved as we kept going.

Butterflies became a theme as well, and my fasinations for this spicies has also grown. I like the fact that butterflies have to break out of their cocoons to become strong, colorful and fly. If someone breaks it for them, they won't be able to fly. A prosess I think we need to go though many times in our life.

As for chill — the pills has worked as plasebo for both of us in order to ease our mind, but also find joy. We take turn in being patient and doctors for each other.

I’ll leave Rachel’s drawing of Pippi — the strongest, most colorful, funniest, kindest, wisest girl there is to wrap this up for now.