251: Help for the overwhelmed family
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Overwhelmed. This describes so many of us, as we juggle the demands on our lives. How can we keep our families on track emotionally, intellectually and physically? Katie Wells, known as the Wellness Mama, shares her family's healthy habits on today's podcast. Katie is a mother of 6, a podcaster, blogger, the CEO of Wellness Mama and Wellnesse (a line of natural personal care products). She understands very well where we're coming from & offers ideas for how to lead the family with intention, clarity, and purpose.
She shares her secrets to finding work/life balance in the home, managing her kids' screen time, and feeding her family real nutrient-dense meals. She gives ideas for where to start when it comes to instilling in our children a positive work ethic and body image. And she discusses how she models all of the above in her own life, as well.
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| 0:20.3 | At home I was trying to manage seven and soon to be eight people's lives in my head including the household and the food and all the appointments for all the various different things and the activities and the emotional health of the children and making sure we had enough family time and my own health and all of these things and I was trying just to do that on the top of my head and off the top of my head and keep all those plates in the air. And so I thought, okay, before I take an extreme step, like delete the blog, what if I applied the same type of logic I use in business to my home life? |
| 0:28.8 | Because in business, I thought of everything as a math equation, and I solved for the variables of like how can I |
| 0:33.5 | help the most people well so I thought what if at home I saw for the variable of |
| 0:37.9 | reduced stress what would my life look like then how could I 80-20 things so that I |
| 0:42.2 | was still accomplishing the things I needed to |
| 0:44.1 | accomplish without the stress and the variable being solving to get rid of that overwhelm? From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions |
| 0:58.4 | podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 1:02.3 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and in Food, Farming, and The Healing Arts. |
| 1:02.8 | We are your source for scientific knowledge |
| 1:04.8 | and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey! Hey, Hilda here. Let's face it, there is so much that we juggle these days between work, engaging and educating our children and playing referee from time to time, not to mention feeding |
| 1:25.6 | them nourishing food, which at times can seem way beyond our reach. |
| 1:29.6 | For most of us, we call the day a success if we had the chance to just shower or even get five minutes |
| 1:35.2 | to ourselves. |
| 1:36.2 | But what if we want to raise the bar just a little bit with our families? |
| 1:40.2 | This is episode 251, and our guest today is Katie Wells. |
| 1:43.7 | Katie is a mother of six who also happens to be the CEO of Wellness Mama and Wellness, |
| 1:49.6 | a line of natural personal care, and a podcaster. |
| 1:53.2 | Today, Katie opens up about her system for finding work-life balance in her home. |
| 1:58.0 | She also discusses how she manages her family's screen time |
| 2:01.6 | and feeding them real nutrient-dense meals. |
| 2:05.0 | She talks about a number of things including how to embrace positive body image and |
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