50: Simple Ways to Declutter and Reduce Stress
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Being in a cluttered space can make us feel overwhelmed and bogged down. As new seasons approach, it’s time to freshen up our wardrobes, our routines, and our homes. In today's conversation, Robin Long shares how decluttering your space could bring you the stress relief you’ve been searching for.
Robin takes a balanced approach to health and fitness that is applicable to every aspect of your life. She provides practical and tangible steps you can do at home to reduce stress and benefit your physical and emotional health.
Show Highlights:
- What is The Balanced Life Sisterhood
- Why The Balanced Life does Off-The-Mat Missions
- What decluttering has to do with your health
- Robin shares studies that explore how clutter negatively impacts mental health
- Small tips to get started cleaning out the clutter
- Ways to decipher whether to make a home for an item or get rid of it
- Using the “Neat Method”
- The difference between decluttering and organizing
- How to keep decluttering moving in your house
- Tips to keep toys uncluttered and organized
- How Robin keeps toys and the home “fresh”
- The nightly “Sanity Sweep”
- How to “maintain” the order as you declutter
- The importance of optimizing spaces that bring you life
Links:
Pilates Strong: a FREE 5-Day Pilates Challenge
The Balanced Life on Instagram
Blogs referenced:
Pantry Organization with Neat Method
3 Simple Strategies To Reduce Stress and Find Peace
Articles referenced:
The Unbearable Heaviness of Clutter
For better or worse? Coregulation of couples' cortisol levels and mood states
What does clutter do to your brain and body?
Interactions of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in human visual cortex
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:13.3 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:22.2 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create |
| 0:28.4 | your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. Spring is here and I don't know about you, |
| 0:42.2 | but it always provides a feeling of a fresh start for me. I wonder if you're feeling that way too. |
| 0:47.7 | Depending on where you live, you may be changing out clothing, putting away winter gear, |
| 0:52.7 | refreshing the house, opening the windows. After a long |
| 0:56.2 | winter of being closed up in our homes, or should I say a long year of being closed up in our homes, |
| 1:02.1 | it just feels so good to freshen up the home and get ready for a new season, doesn't it? |
| 1:06.4 | Because of that natural inclination that comes about this time of the year, for the past few years |
| 1:11.8 | inside the balanced life sisterhood, we have focused on decluttering as one of our off-the-map |
| 1:17.1 | monthly missions. If you don't know what the balance life sisterhood is, welcome to the podcast |
| 1:22.1 | and you'll hear a little bit more about it here as we go through different topics and different |
| 1:26.3 | episodes, but the balance life sisterhood is an online platform in place to find quick and effective Pilates |
| 1:32.3 | workouts that you can do from home. And along with that, you get access to healthy recipes, |
| 1:38.3 | monthly workout calendars. There's more than 150 on-demand workouts and encouragement, but we also have these off-the-mat missions, |
| 1:46.7 | which is where we focus on one area of health and wellness off of the mat to really help us make |
| 1:52.4 | sure we're taking a balanced approach to health and fitness. |
| 1:55.1 | Because true health really isn't just about working out. |
| 1:57.5 | It's not just about what we're eating. |
| 1:59.1 | It's about our entire approach, right? |
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