Living Clean: The Journey Continues

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When I stopped chasing the next best thing and started making more of what we consume in my own home, I started saving tons of money. I had a complete mindset shift away from consumerism and toward creating for myself and my family. Clean living lifestyle change: Chose an activity that you love and commit to doing it at least one more time per week and gradually increase until you reach at least 3 times per week. Clean living lifestyle change 12 Swap to non-toxic products Do you know how toxic your water is even if you’re using a filter? EWG has this awesome resource where you can type in your zip code and get a list of the toxic ingredients in your water. For example, for my zip code, this is what we have in our water: What you can do about your toxic water The Restart Project is a social enterprise that aims to fix our relationship with electricals and electronics. Cofounder Janet Gunter says the first step in keeping household appliances for longer is regular cleaning. “By simply cleaning and maintaining your white goods, laptop or mobile, you will prolong its life.” Restart runs a nationwide network of skill-sharing workshops as well as promoting a directory of commercial repair options in London. (See also repaircafe.org for events in your area.) “If we don’t have access to spare parts,” says Gunter, “these appliances will be thrown away, which has a huge carbon impact.”

It’s so important to buy food that is quality. As the saying goes, “you are what what you eat eats.” I have a pretty incredible testimony about this, actually. By making this small change you’re helping your body to absorb the nutrients you’re providing it, as well as flush out toxins. Today, we have a chance to feel clean by living clean. For us addicts, living clean starts with not using - after all, that's our primary use for the word "clean" in Narcotics Anonymous. But as we stay "clean" and work the Twelve Steps, we discover another kind of clean. It's the clean that comes from admitting the truth about our addiction rather than hiding or denying our disease. It's the freshness that comes from owning up to our wrongs and making amends for them. It's the vitality that comes from the new set of values we develop as we seek a Higher Power's will for us. When we practice the principles of our program in all our affairs, we have no reason to feel dirty about our lives or our lifestyles - we're living clean, and grateful to be doing so at last.Lang M, Krátký J, Shaver JH, Jerotijević D, Xygalatas D. Effects of anxiety on spontaneous ritualized behavior. Curr Biol. 2015 Jul 20;25(14):1892-7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.049. PMID: 26096971.

Clean living lifestyle change: this is a large investment, but if you want to make a smaller change, you could use a pitcher filter like the ProPur (I think it’s called ProOne now). This is a good filter and it’s much more affordable. If you do a side-by-side comparison of the Brita, Berkey, and ProPur filters, ProPur and Berky blow Brita out of the water (pun intended). Berkey Discount Clean living lifestyle change 3 remove “natural flavors” from your diet I have a whole post on why to use non-toxic products and where to begin (linked below), so if you need convincing or want to learn more about the common toxic ingredients, head there. In any case, start making the swap to non-toxic household and beauty products. Unlike harsh chemicals, a probiotic cleaner such as this is non-toxic and uses Bacillus bacteria. What we particularly like about this all-in-one spray is that it can be used across the home cutting through grease and dirt on worktops in the kitchen and enamel on the bathroom sink. We tried the formula to clean the windows too and were impressed at how well it cleaned the dirt and left a gleaming finish. There’s also a rather lovely air freshener in the range and a very ample 500ml refillable pouch that will last you quite a while. Related: Read this post on the 10 sneaky toxic products in your home Clean living lifestyle change 13 clean and organize your life

The evening’s festivities kick off at 7pm:

Make the most of seasonal gluts and preserve vegetables in oils, vinegars, chutneys, ketchup and marinades, or freeze them. “Blitz and freeze tomatoes in containers for passata all year round; make kimchi from cauliflower stalks and leaves; use beetroot in jams, vinegars and oil, then chop stalks and leaves to top pastas, pizzas, curries and dal,” says Hunter. Melemis SM. Relapse prevention and the five rules of recovery. Yale J Biol Med. 2015;88(3):325-332. Related: Realistic cleaning schedule for busy moms benefits of A clean living lifestyle 1. Your body will feel better Clean living lifestyle change: source better quality food one at a time. Start with the most important things such as meat, eggs or dairy then move on to produce then move on to honey, then grains, etc. You may experience fewer aches and pains, your body may actually be able to relax, and your mood will improve! 2. You will look better

Bio D sells a range of cleaning solutions with ethically sourced ingredients. The company has been creating natural household products for over 25 years and values itself on vegan, cruelty free solutions, that are great value and include naturally derived products. While the bottles are made from plastic, they are 100 per cent recycled and you can also bulk buy to refill the smaller bottles. The company’s Bio-D Lavender fabric conditioner, for example, comes in a 20L easy pour container. As well as covering laundry products, you can find solutions for the bathroom, kitchen, dishwashing and handcare. Your skin will be more vibrant and your body will benefit too (maybe you won’t lose weight, but to a certain point, the scale really holds no bearing on ‘health’). 3. You will have more energy Honeybees visit only one type of flower in any one foraging trip, says Sarah Wyndham Lewis, author of Planting For Honeybees: The Grower’s Guide To Creating A Buzz. “This is called ‘flower fidelity’ and is what makes them such effective pollinators. So plant large clumps or ‘drifts’ of single species and optimise each of the bees’ trips.” Think swathes of catmint, field scabious and hyssop. “March to September are the key months for honeybees – they will fly whenever the temperature is above 10C, even in winter, so early- and late-flowering plants are especially valuable,” she says. Zemore SE, Lui C, Mericle A, Hemberg J, Kaskutas LA. A longitudinal study of the comparative efficacy of Women for Sobriety, LifeRing, SMART Recovery, and 12-step groups for those with AUD. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2018;88:18-26. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2018.02.004All purpose cleaner: To make your own solution try combining 1:1 water and white vinegar, 1 squeezed lemon and the rind, plus an essential oil of your choice Clean living lifestyle change: Choose just one thing to start cooking from scratch. Maybe it’s bread – make a sourdough starter! Maybe it’s your yogurt, or bone broth, or something else – just choose one thing. Once you have that down and it feels like second nature, choose another thing to cook from scratch. Last little disclaimer – if you were 100% on every single one of these changes all the time, you’d probably burn yourself out. Give yourself grace and “rotate which balls you drop.” For example, some weeks I’m so diligent about stretching and foam rolling but drop the ball on my sweat sessions – that’s ok! That’s what my body needed that week. Clean living lifestyle change 1 drink more water Reusing furniture is the best thing to do, and so much more fun than buying new,” says Nicola Harding, founder of interior design studio Harding and Read. “Secondhand items come with interesting stories and force you to think creatively, and give you have something far more unique.” To keep mileage down, start at your local auction houses and charity shops (the British Heart Foundation has dedicated home stores and a free collection service), followed by a targeted trawl through Freecycle and Facebook Marketplace. When you rid your home and your body of toxins and start living a clean lifestyle, your body will thrive. 8. You’ll probably save money