Ep. 3 Back to School Survival 101 - Tips to Keep You Sane

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The kids are back in school!! Cynthia and Kelly talk about their experiences of getting their kids ready to head back to school and strategies to stay sane with busy work and school schedules. Listen in for tips to include packing lunches, self-care, delegating tasks to kids and spouses, setting realistic expectations, and getting help from others. There is strength in your tribe. Please subscribe and leave us a review or rating. We appreciate it. Email questions to everydaywellnesspodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0	This is episode 3 of Everyday Wellness.
0:05.0	Back to School Survival 101,
0:07.0	Tips to Keep You Sain.
0:08.8	I'm Dr. Kelly Donahue, clinical health psychologist,
0:11.8	here with my co-host Cynthia Thurlow, nurse
0:14.4	practitioner and functional nutritionist. Let's get started. Welcome to everyday wellness. Wellness is the result of the decisions that you make every day.
0:32.0	It's your mindset and the thoughts you want. of the decisions that you make every day.
0:33.0	It's your mindset and the thoughts you believe.
0:36.2	Wellness is the food you put in your body
0:38.7	and the relationship you have with yourself and others. Wellness is your work and meaning.
0:45.0	Join us on everyday wellness as we explore ways that you can choose wellness today.
1:11.0	Hello, today we are going to talk about the all too familiar back to school craziness that is ongoing for both parents and children this time of the year. And Kelly and I were just talking offline about this and certainly I feel like every
1:17.2	parent really struggles with us trying to get their kids back on the schedule trying to pull together meals for their family, you know,
1:24.6	either for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and then, you know, back to school shopping,
1:28.9	which for me with a teenager has been enlightening to say the very least. But Kelly I'd love, we were kind of
1:36.0	segwaying earlier into talking about self-care how important that is, maybe we can
1:40.5	start there and then kind of circle back. I think that it really does start with self-care because back to school is its whole, it's
1:47.1	bigger than a holiday really, I mean when I go into Target after 4th of July they're setting
1:52.1	up back to school stuff and that just
1:53.8	sort of like ramps up the anxiety like oh we have to get everything together and
1:58.3	so I think that one of the biggest things we can keep in mind as moms and parents and any sort of caregiver is that we need to be kind to ourselves because if we aren't being kind to ourselves, it's going to be much harder to be kind to others and if we aren't
2:15.0	taking care of ourselves we really are going to run out of steam really fast and
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