Living Clean: The Journey Continues

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Related: Read this post on how to source good quality food Clean living lifestyle change 7 Clean up your cookware Essential oils can be used to create glass cleaners and shower sprays," says Cameron. “They also break down grease. The essential oils that I’ve personally used are tea tree, lemon oil, and lavender.”

Clean living lifestyle change: start swapping out your products one category at a time. Start with something easy for you, like household cleaners, laundry supplies, or beauty products, then gradually keep swapping as you run out of your toxic products. Part of a clean living lifestyle is making clean cooking a part of that lifestyle. The more surefire way to cook clean is to cook from scratch. When you can control what goes into the meals you’re making from start to finish, you’re truly eating clean. The using life is not a clean one-no one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, than any external filth was the way most of us felt inside. The things we did to get our drugs, the way we treated other people, and the way we treated ourselves had us feeling dirty. Many of us recall waking too many mornings just wishing that, for once, we could feel clean about ourselves and our lives. Dearing RL, Stuewig J, Tangney JP. On the importance of distinguishing shame from guilt: Relations to problematic alcohol and drug use. Addict Behav. 2005;30(7):1392-1404. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.02.002 You may experience fewer aches and pains, your body may actually be able to relax, and your mood will improve! 2. You will look betterDrinking water not only helps your body to function better overall, but it can also help to detox and flush out your system. I tend to lean toward the direction of giving my body .5-1 oz of water per lb of weight. This logic makes the most sense to me because it’s specific to my body weight. In general, though, just drink more water! I didn’t realize how important sleep was until I wasn’t getting it. With my son, Jaxon, I had horrible adrenal fatigue (still recovering, actually) and it wasn’t until I started prioritizing clean living that I started to recover. Leave it to having your first baby to throw you off your clean living game, right?! 5. You’ll have a better outlook on life If a year without buying anything new seems too big a challenge, try a month, or buy only secondhand. Livia Firth, founder of sustainability consultancy Eco-Age, follows the “30 wears rule”: ask, “Will I wear it at least 30 times?” before buying. McMains S, Kastner S. Interactions of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in human visual cortex. J Neurosci. 2011 Jan 12;31(2):587-97. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3766-10.2011. PMID: 21228167.

Read this post on how to start a sourdough starter from scratch watch how to cook from scratch while working from home Clean living lifestyle change 5 Cook more meals at home Clean living lifestyle change: Learn how to use a cast-iron skillet. This is very specific, but you probably use your skillets the most for cooking. Learning how to use cast iron well will not only help with cleaning up your lifestyle, but it will also make your food taste so much better! See the link below for my tutorial on how to season, cook with, and clean cast iron skillets. Related: These Winter coffee recipes also use natural sweeteners Clean living lifestyle change 10 Stretch and foam rollCons: Plastic spray heads - although they can be recycled at end of life; once diluted use within 3 weeks for best results As well as testing how well the all-purpose cleaner did on the kitchen worktops, we were interested to see if the Biological Odour and Spot Remover did in fact work on upholstery. We found it effective at removing a fresh orange juice stain off a rug. Using the Biological Drain Maintainer was rather satisfying too and it comes in a neat little recyclable sachet. We poured it down the sink at night and ran the tap in the morning to give it a little spruce.

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. Crops can’t be grown every year in the same soil without replacing nutrients taken by the plants, and switching the flour you use can help. “Spelt or wheat is often grown in rotation with rye and clover to replace lost nitrogen,” says Hunter. “Eating rye supports the farmers’ rotation; I use spelt and emmer flour as an alternative to wheat because they have similar baking properties, while being beneficial to the soil.” Hendershot CS, Witkiewitz K, George WH, Marlatt GA. Relapse prevention for addictive behaviors. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2011;6:17. doi:10.1186/1747-597X-6-17There is no way around it, eating meat sustainably requires a little more effort on our part,” says Fergus Henderson, chef and godfather of nose-to-tail eating. His first rule is to “hug” your butcher: “Support them and ask questions – they are your way in to a positive supply chain. They will also give you access to the insides and extremities, such as kidneys, shanks, feet and glands, which offer so much more possibility and flavour than the fillet.” Whole-animal eating is not about blood and guts, but “respecting the animal enough to realise that, if it has died for you, the least you can do is make use of every part”. Related: Read this post on the 10 sneaky toxic products in your home Clean living lifestyle change 13 clean and organize your life Letting your grass grow longer between cuts not only saves petrol or electricity, and therefore reduces carbon dioxide emissions, but also encourages more wildlife into your garden. Longer grass is more drought-resistant, too. Try cutting every three or four weeks and let dandelions, daisies and violets bloom in spring, followed by buttercups, clovers and selfheal in summer. Brown S, Tracy EM, Jun M, Park H, Min MO. Personal network recovery enablers and relapse risks for women with substance dependence. Qual Health Res. 2015;25(3):371-385. doi:10.1177/1049732314551055