5 Tips on How to Avoid Overwhelm on the Homestead

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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5 tips on how to avoid overwhelm on the homestead, because let's face it, this old-fashioned way of life, it adds another layer of work and tasks. It's worth it, oh is it worth it, but it's important to make sure we're enjoying the process and not allowing ourselves to get too close to burnout. Melissa and Stacy Lynn Harris share their strategies and tips to avoid being overwhelmed or worse, getting closer to homestead burnout. This episode is brought to you by Melissa's free 4 part pressure canning video training series, designed to take away your fear of pressure canning and to take away the overwhelm of wondering if what you're canning is safe. Go here to learn how to pressure can safely! For resources and links go to https://melissaknorris.com/189

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1:25.2	You're listening to episode number about how to avoid overwhelm on the homestead.
1:42.1	I think in any walk of life that we have today there can always be a feeling of overwhelm.
1:49.0	I honestly don't think it matters if you are a homeschool and mama, if you are a mama who is working a day job, if you have
1:57.7	your kids in regular public school, if you are taking care of your grandkids, maybe your kids are out of the house and you're doing other things,
2:06.4	it seems to me that no matter who I talk to,
2:09.9	that there is a feeling of overwhelm and none of us are immune to it.
2:15.2	But I also think it's really important that we pay attention when we start to feel that way
2:20.4	and we enter that state and we do things that are tactical that will help
2:26.1	us overcome the overwhelm because it's not healthy to operate in a constant state
2:30.8	of stress or a constant state of overwhelm, which I know seems like a dost
2:35.2	statement, but it's really true. And I speak to that because for a lot of years, I was working
2:41.7	my day job as a pharmacy technician. I was a mom of two kids, a wife.
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