1KHO 618: A Developmentally Appropriate Childhood Is Self-Care for the Whole Family | Dr. Natasha Beck, Dr. Organic Mommy

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

When we protect the pace of childhood, everyone in the family heals. In this illuminating conversation, Dr. Natasha Beck—also known as Dr. Organic Mommy—shares how slowing down, simplifying, and removing hidden toxins from our homes can transform not just our kids’ health, but our own. Diagnosed as a child with ADHD and dyslexia, Dr. Beck eventually uncovered how diet, environment, and overstimulation were shaping her well-being. Now a pediatric neuropsychologist, she helps families create calmer, more connected lives through practical changes—like her two-week “fragrance-free” challenge that has surprised even the most skeptical parents. (Follow her work on Instagram, Substack, and her podcast When Millennials Become Moms.) From food choices and slow tech habits to the Waldorf philosophy and her “Three S’s” framework—sleep, sugar, and screens—Dr. Beck and Ginny Yurich explore how a developmentally appropriate childhood actually restores balance for parents too. This episode is both practical and freeing, showing that you don’t need to overhaul your life overnight. One slow evening, one home-cooked meal, one outdoor day at a time—those small shifts might be the self-care your whole family has been missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.3	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:11.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.2	Delicious.
0:20.2	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginnyrette and the founder of 100 hours outside and I'm so excited. I've been a fan for so long. Dr. Natasha Beck is here. Welcome. Thank you for having me, Jenny. Okay, so you go by two names, Natasha, that's your name, but also Dr. Organic Mommy. Can you tell us the story of getting to the Dr. Organic Mommy part?
0:40.3	Sure.
0:41.3	So I was diagnosed when I was a kid with dyslexia and which is now known as a reading disorder and ADHD.
0:49.3	I also suffered from depression and an eating disorder as a child as well.
0:58.0	And so it was very tough.
1:00.0	And when I knew that I wanted to go into a field working with children.
1:04.0	And so I started working in the clinics when I was getting my master's and then eventually
1:10.0	my doctorate. And I noticed firsthand how diet was impacting the children I was testing.
1:14.6	And so that's when I really took a deep dive into an organic whole-based approach to nutrition.
1:19.6	And I found that that really worked.
1:22.6	And I started implementing those things that I saw on myself.
1:25.6	And then when I went on to have children, my first, my oldest, I have four, he over a decade ago, he was hospitalized for 29 days as an infant. We couldn't figure out why. And so I started looking into environmental toxins. And that's where I took that approach. And because I had my research background,
1:45.2	it was easier for me to kind of dive into that and tear apart the research and figure out what
1:51.3	was going on. So that's kind of how I got there. And I met my best friend in a parenting class
2:00.1	when I had my second child. And she knew all about Instagram and websites. And she told me, she's like, you have to get this out there. And I said, I don't even know how to do that. To this day, I don't know how to get on my own website. So she had me start the page. And I wanted to have like a free resource out there just because it became
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