As we lose track of the days during this blissful, slow week between Christmas and the New Year, it feels like the right time to share our beautifully written series of essays on the power of rest in the Dec/Jan issue of @elleuk. I love the way @livslittle , @evawiseman , @alicedearingx and @morwennaferrier have reframed the subject through their own experiences taking a purposeful pause. As Eva says, ‘Where once I might have approached the promotion of tenderness – a word to be found today in descriptions of art, films, and fashion – with a sighing sort of irritation, instead I now seek it out. I want that kindness, I want that gentle attention, the comfort of others, I need it. Just a crumb. Occasionally, a loaf. And I’m not the only one: all across the world, people find themselves similarly cracked, whether with grief, or anxiety about the planet, or with the struggle to keep their families fed, or loneliness. Even those of us who aren’t cracked and struggling are yearning for tenderness, exhausted after years of irony, of daily grinding attempts at staying cool.’ Read the series in its entirety in our Dec/Jan issue, out now.