37: Lessons Learned During a Pandemic
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As the world has slowed down over quarantine, we’ve all learned plenty of lessons. Whether those have to do with appreciation, relationships, time management, or health, it’s likely you’ve discovered things about your day-to-day life that you didn’t know before. In this episode, Robin shares a few of the top lessons she’s learned during quarantine. She shares ways she’s learned to manage her daily consumption of information, the importance of prioritizing your immune health, and how she’s gained a new appreciation for the little things. Join Robin in this episode to learn more about the lessons she’s learned and how they can help you.
Show Highlights:
- How the pandemic has highlighted the gift of digital connection
- How the online sisterhood has allowed for support and connection for women
- What makes the little things the big things
- How Robin prioritizes the little things in day-to-day life
- Why who we listen to and what we consume on a daily basis matters
- How to be mindful about what information you fill yourself with
- The importance of good health and strong immune systems
- How you can take control of strengthening your body and boosting your wellness
- Why now is the time to take your health into your own hands
- The value and importance of rhythm and routines
- Why exercise is now more important than ever
- A brief update on Robin’s gardening experience
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 37, lessons learned during a pandemic. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. Here on the |
| 0:18.0 | Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, |
| 0:23.0 | sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more |
| 0:27.8 | importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. |
| 0:32.3 | From food and exercise to work and family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help you create your |
| 0:39.9 | own sense of balance and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:46.7 | Hey friends, welcome back to the podcast. I hope your week is going well. I am currently sitting in |
| 0:53.4 | my podcast studio, aka my closet. If you've |
| 0:56.7 | been listening for a while, you know that I record most of my episodes on the floor of my closet |
| 1:01.1 | because it has the best sound and it's a place where I can hide away from the noise that is |
| 1:07.1 | always happening around the house. So this episode is one that I'm excited to dive into. |
| 1:12.2 | I pulled together a handful of lessons that I've learned during this past year, during 2020, |
| 1:17.8 | and more specifically in a worldwide pandemic. And I find it fitting that as I'm recording this |
| 1:25.6 | today, we have all four kids home, no child care, |
| 1:29.9 | no one at school. |
| 1:30.9 | It actually feels very much like we've just reversed back a few months to how things were |
| 1:35.6 | back in March and April. |
| 1:37.0 | We have one child who has the tiniest, tiniest, tiniest hint of a runny nose. |
| 1:43.4 | Like it was yesterday and it's like barely there. But in order to be |
| 1:47.4 | smart and kind and conscientious, we take all the precautions as soon as someone's got a little |
| 1:52.7 | tiniest hint of anything. And so we're all home. We're all staying away from people until we |
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