Cultivating Routine and Mental Wellbeing with Nina Westbrook

Naked Beauty

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Nina Westbrook, a licensed marriage and family therapist, helps us understand the connection between routine and mental health. We dive into the importance of routines, especially postpartum routines, and I share my experiences with strength training and magnesium supplements for better sleep. Our conversation covers mental health, de-stigmatizing therapy, and the benefits of routine for overall mental well-being. Nina also talks about her app, Nebbi, designed to help users reflect on their emotions and improve their mood with small, actionable tasks.

Tune in as we discuss:

Maintaining friendships while balancing busy schedules
Nina’s tips for organized parenting
Nina’s insights on how self-reflection and structure contribute to a balanced life.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello. This is Brooke DeVard and you're listening to The Naked Beauty Podcast.
0:09.2	And if you're joining us on YouTube, you are watching The Naked Beauty Podcast.
0:12.3	I'm so excited about my guest today, Nina Westbrook, because one of the things we're going to really dive into is routine, the importance of having a routine.
0:23.3	Now, I am someone that is trying to get back into my routine postpartum, but one of the things that's helped me the most is strength training.
0:28.4	I have a trainer, Lucy, who I adore, I've been seeing her since I lived in New York. We do strength
0:32.9	training every Tuesday and Thursday, and it's really helped me feel good in my body, especially
0:37.0	postpartum.
0:37.9	It's so nice to just like lift heavy weights, feel like I'm getting stronger.
0:41.4	I feel like I sleep better when I do strength training.
0:43.5	So that's been a game changer.
0:45.1	Another thing, I've talked about it on this podcast, but taking magnesium supplements at night,
0:49.3	that has helped me sleep so, so well.
0:51.6	I'm someone who in the past when I had to sleep would take sleeping
0:54.5	pills with magnesium. I find that I fall asleep much more deeply and more quickly. Now, I am
0:59.2	postpartum, and my baby has hit the kind of four-month sleep regression, so she's waking up in
1:03.9	the middle of the night. So I'm not able to take the magnesium every night, but I'm doing all
1:08.1	that's in my control to stay on a consistent routine.
1:11.5	Routine is really the big takeaway from today's episode, so I hope you all enjoy it.
1:15.0	I'm going to share a little bit more about my guest, Nina.
1:17.5	As a licensed marriage and family therapist, entrepreneur and advocate, Nina Westbrook,
1:21.2	is deeply passionate about erasing the stigma around mental health.
1:25.0	She has been featured in The New York Times, Goop, Oprah Daily,
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