Reclaiming Your Weekends

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

For many, weekends are for chores. They're also for carting kids to sports games and getting caught up on errands. But amidst all that driving and laundering, where are the opportunities to rest, rejuvenate, and fully live our lives? Feeling rested is so much more than a good night's sleep and on today's show we discuss research-backed ways to reclaim your time and wellness by making weekends work for you. Here's a preview: [3:00] Connections between work, busyness, and feeding the capitalist engine [5:00] The 7 types of rest our bodies and minds need [20:00] What research says about the benefits of active recreation as opposed to passive recreation [24:00] Thoughts on playing catch up on the weekends: Can we minimize our weekend chores? [29:00] Whatever happened to blue laws? Making a case for jumping off the work-spend hamster wheel, at least on the weekend [33:00] Parents, we simply must: Together let's take a critical look at our children's weekend activities Resources mentioned: Take Dr. Dalton-Smith's free rest quiz Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity by Sandra Dalton-Smith The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Two Days Off by Katrina Onstad Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey Episode #354: Edit Your Life This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0	Well, hello my friends and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 401 of sustainable minimalist. This is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.
0:14.0	On today's show, we are reclaiming our weekends.
0:18.2	Yes, we are.
0:19.6	Life is for the living or so they say.
0:22.4	And so I welcome you to experiences week on the
0:26.2	podcast both Tuesdays and Thursdays episodes are around the same theme of
0:32.1	getting the most out of life, of living, of experiencing life's joys.
0:37.6	Today, on today's episode, we are looking short term.
0:40.8	We're only looking towards the upcoming weekend. And then on Thursday's episode we are
0:47.2	expanding our lens so to speak. We're looking longer term. We're discussing how to create a life, a life, not just a weekend, an
0:56.5	entire life that's full of experiential wealth.
1:02.0	So back to today's conversation, let's just lay out the average
1:06.7	families weekend, shall we? For many of us the weekend is Crazy Pants,
1:12.4	Phronetic, those of us with children, holy moly.
1:16.0	If you are in the majority, your weekends are busy and draining and filled with errands,
1:21.3	filled with buying stuff, catching up on housework.
1:25.2	If you have children you are likely carding them
1:27.6	to the sports games and the practices.
1:30.4	So many games and practices, are not perhaps come Sunday evening you have a sense of
1:36.8	regret that the weekend wasn't all that freeing all that rejuvenating as you needed it to be?
1:45.0	And so that begs the big fat question
1:48.0	that we're seeking to answer today.
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