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Reclaiming Your Weekends

Reclaiming Your Weekends

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.

 

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[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

 

 

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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? On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: 7 research-backed ways to reclaim your wellness by making weekends work for you.

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Cultural messaging and suggests you should be happy all the time. But your "happy chemicals"—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin—evolved to motivate survival behavior, not make you happy.

In fact, unhappiness is your brain's default state.

On today's show Dr. Loretta Breuning argues that you can manage your happy chemicals when you know how they work in the state of nature, and she's here to show us how.

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[9:00] Serotonin is about social dominance. Enter comparison and competition

[13:00] Want a dose of oxytocin? Be part of a herd

[15:30] Endorphin is the brain's natural opioid. But you can habituate to it!

[18:00] Just got something you want? That flood of happiness is dopamine's doing, but dopamine runs out

[25:00] We are living in an era of immense abundance. So why aren't we happy?

 

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