Well, hello there listeners. Welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're

listening to episode 370 of sustainable minimalist, a three-ish times a week show

about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show we are going back to

basics. Life is a balancing act, is it not? Let's just go ahead and use a balance beam for my metaphor here. We're each on one, we're each on a balance beam. And if you think about what it would be like to be on a balance beam right now, you already know you're not up there

relax and chill and all cool with a cocktail. You're not passively balancing. You're working. Muscles big and small, they're constantly contracting and

relaxing to keep you, well, balanced. And life of course is just like living on that balance beam.

Having a balanced life is not effortless. It takes constant work. It takes constant tweaking and retweaking and adjusting and

readjusting to stay balanced. Sometimes when something's off it's

immediately clear why. Something big's going on maybe a loved one in your

family just received a disconcerting health diagnosis. Maybe that definitely made you lose your balance, you fell off the balance beam

perhaps. Or perhaps, you know, you have a toddler at home and they're not sleeping well and you've

been up for a week straight and you're just

exhausted. The problem is quite clear. But many other times in life, the issue isn't singular, it isn't big, it isn't glaring, because oftentimes it's

a bunch of small things that are just slightly out of whack. And so the good news here is that again these many tiny tweaks

are all that's needed. So not just one tweak but many tiny little minute tweaks are

needed to regain that essential balance.

I would say this is what's going on with me at the moment.

Something has felt off for a little while.

My anxiety is up, I'm not fully present with my

loved ones. I'm not sleeping that well. I feel like a hamster on a wheel most of

the time when something feels off, the smartest, the most prudent course of action is to go back to

basics. So that's what we're doing today. Today's content is meant to be reminders because amidst life's

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