11: Natalie Borton: Evening Routines, Opting Out of Diet Culture and Prioritizing Mental Health
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode of The Balanced life tackles the struggles of finding childcare, establishing a nighttime routine, how to follow your hunger and the anti-diet movement, along with so many more juicy topics.
Natalie Borton is a minimalist, California inspired jewelry designer, along with being a wife, mother, and blogger. Natalie shares how she balances all of the different aspects of life and how she has created a sense of self-awareness to guide her through all of the chaos. Join Robin Long in this abundant episode for more insightful tips and a dose of wisdom.
Show Highlights:
- What Natalie does and how she uses Instagram to build women's confidence
- What a typical day in the life looks like as a mom and jewelry designer
- How launching a business impacted Natalie’s life
- The struggle of finding proper childcare and going through transitional seasons
- Surprising aspects of Natalie’s life
- How to make choices that support your priorities and needs
- Enjoying the process of self-care and establishing a night-time routine
- Secrets to getting better sleep
- How to realistically invest in your marriage and “date” your spouse
- Letting go of things that aren’t priorities and focusing on current seasons
- Aspects of life that Natalie excels in and how she focuses her energy
- Keeping yourself in check with an achievement-based drive
- Following your hunger and practicing intuitive eating
- Overcoming diet culture and the freedom it brings
- Finding ways to connect with others outside of self-deprecation
- Rapid-fire session of Natalie’s favorite go-to’s
- Tips to live your own uniquely, happy, balanced life
Links:
Instagram: @thebalancedlife
5 Day Jumpstart:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/jumpstart/
Contact Natalie:
Instagram: @natalieborton
Resources and Products Mentioned:
Slipsilk™ Pure Silk Pillowcase
Good Genes Lactic Acid Treatment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 11 with Natalie Borton. |
| 0:03.7 | I'd rather be a good mom and have my business fail. |
| 0:06.3 | I do think family is the most important thing. |
| 0:08.1 | So being a good mom, investing in my marriage, those are non-negotiable. |
| 0:12.0 | Those things always have to come first. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:31.2 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all. |
| 0:33.5 | But the truth is, they don't. |
| 0:34.6 | None of us do. |
| 0:40.0 | Here on the balanced life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more |
| 0:45.8 | importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. From food and exercise |
| 0:52.3 | to work and family, we'll cover it all and provide practical |
| 0:56.3 | tips to help you create a beautiful, uniquely balanced life of your own. This is the |
| 1:03.0 | balanced life podcast. Hi friends. Welcome back to the podcast. If you're new to the show, |
| 1:09.8 | I'll take just a quick minute to introduce |
| 1:11.6 | myself. My name is Robin and I'm a Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life, which is a website |
| 1:19.0 | that is dedicated to providing effective and efficient at-home Pilates workouts, particularly for busy |
| 1:26.0 | women. The balanced life is so much more than Pilates, |
| 1:28.7 | though. That's what we focus on. But we also focus on mental health, emotional health, |
| 1:35.0 | well-being, and really finding a balanced approach when it comes to health and fitness. So we talk |
| 1:41.5 | about all kinds of things at the Bal Balance Life and within my membership community, |
| 1:46.1 | the Balanced Life Sisterhood. And it's a really wonderful place to be a really great support group |
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