73: The power of routines + creating a healthy home with Clean Mama
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve been following along on Instagram or Facebook, or are a member of The Balanced Life Sisterhood, you’ve heard Robin talking about what it means to create a healthy home environment. Often when we think of health and well-being, we think about the foods we’re eating or how much we’re exercising, but how often do we think about our environments and how they are supporting us?
Today’s episode is with Becky, aka “Clean Mama”, and she is the perfect person to be talking about this topic. Becky is a long-time member of The Balanced Life Sisterhood and she is an expert on what it takes to have a clean and healthy home. Becky has created systems and processes that take the stress and overwhelm out of housekeeping, and her work has changed the lives of so many people!
We hope you come away from this episode feeling encouraged and empowered to create a healthier home and to keep it with a bit more order, without feeling overwhelmed. Be sure to follow Clean Mama on Instagram, @cleanmama, and if this episode was helpful to you, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. If you think someone else would enjoy it and it could help them improve their environment and health, please share it with them!
Lastly, you can join our free workshop to learn tips to help you build consistency in your fitness routine and boost your ability to create and sustain a healthy lifestyle, even when you’re short on time and energy like so many of us are. You can sign up now at https://www.thebalancedlifeonline.com/creating-healthy-routines-webinar.
Show highlights: what you can look forward to in this episode!
- Safety in the home with the products Becky uses has always been important, especially since a scary incident years ago with her oldest child and a product she came into contact with
- If you feel you’re too busy to clean, you’ll never get a handle on it. Becky shares her 4-part routine, starting with simple daily tasks that will actually give you back your time.
- Studies show that more clutter leads to more stress, but just cleaning off a table or removing items from one small area can make a huge reduction in the amount of stress that you’re feeling.
- Showing versus just telling or teaching your kids what to do will work so much better, and remember to break it into small, manageable tasks when getting them involved!
- There are certain things you can do if you and your roommate(s) have different cleaning habits, but it’s important to set the ground rules before moving in together.
- Becky shares her thought process when developing her own DIY recipes for cleaning solutions that are quick and easy to make.
- There is one area of the house that is worse than the others for toxins, which is why she recommends starting there.
- Becky and Robin share a lot of the same philosophies on life, and she’s a big believer in grace over guilt when balancing life and maintaining a clean and healthy home.
Links in this episode:
Becky’s Website, Instagram & Facebook
Her Shop
All of Becky’s Books
Sign up for the free Creating Healthy Routines Webinar
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:13.2 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. |
| 0:22.4 | We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create |
| 0:28.6 | your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi friends, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:40.5 | I don't know about you, |
| 0:41.7 | but I am really feeling that spring cleaning mood right now. |
| 0:46.2 | With spring here and summer just around the corner, |
| 0:48.8 | I am feeling the need for a refresh. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm opening windows, |
| 0:53.4 | I'm scheduling cleaning times, I'm trading out, |
| 0:57.2 | you know, winter clothes for summer clothes, even though it doesn't change that much here in Santa Barbara, |
| 1:01.5 | it does change. The shorts are coming back. And I'm even looking at where we can kind of clean out |
| 1:07.7 | some clutter or swap out heavier linens for lighter linens, all things that |
| 1:12.3 | will just bring that feeling of a nice spring refresh. If you've been following along over on |
| 1:17.4 | Instagram or Facebook, or if you are a member of our community and you've been following our |
| 1:21.8 | monthly mission, we've been really talking about what it means to create a healthful home environment. |
| 1:29.0 | Often when we think about our health and our well-being, we think about the foods we're eating or how we're exercising, |
| 1:34.0 | but how often do we think about our environments and how those are supporting us or not supporting |
| 1:39.3 | us. It's worth thinking about. The environment that we live in each day has a direct impact on the way we feel, the choices we make, the habits we create, the decisions that we choose. And some of that is in our control. While certainly there are things that are out of our control, there are circumstances that we can't necessarily change. There are things we can do to create healthier environments |
| 2:02.3 | that support us, not only as we work towards our goals, but just our overall well-being day-to-day. |
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