From Eating Disorder to Health & My Current Workouts

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This is my story from an eating disorder as a teen to my health today and what my daily workouts consist of now. As a homesteader, there are always movements that require me to be in good physical shape. From building fences, lifting hay bales, and weeding the garden, if I’m not physically fit, I end up in pain from injury or strain. In today’s podcast, I’m sharing my tips on how I’ve learned to keep fitness a daily practice in order to maintain my homesteading lifestyle. For more information, or to read the podcast transcript, visit melissaknorris.com/287.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.1	Hey pioneers, welcome to episode number 287. So in today's episode I'm going to be sharing with you some tips as well as my
1:38.0	story with fitness. Now being a homesteader and being raised on a farm when you are
1:46.6	raising livestock or maybe you're not even raising livestock maybe you're just
1:49.5	doing gardening but there's a lot of a self-sufficient lifestyle that requires you being able to move or
1:57.5	needing to move, to dig things, to pull up things, to do weeding.
2:01.9	If you have livestock, there's usually fence building if you've got
2:06.2	you know chickens you've got your coopin and whatnot but if you have cattle or pigs or goats or
2:10.5	sheep you've got fence to do, you are probably lifting some type of
2:16.0	bags of feed up, you're carrying feed, like,
2:19.1	gardeners earn homesteaders live a fairly physical lifestyle.
2:24.0	And a lot of the reason that many of us are wanting to become more self-sufficient
2:29.0	is for health reasons.
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