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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 103: 84% of Parents Feel Rushed Every Day | Merissa A. Alink, Living Slower

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This episode is about finding ways to decrease those feelings of being rushed, pressured, and overburdened. Merissa A. Alink offers simple, practical solutions for decluttering, meal planning, and dealing with perfectionism so that we have more time for the people and the things that we love. She walks us through what her family does for screen time and she has a wealth of information on her website, www.littlehouseliving.com . As we head into the New Year, Merissa's guidance will help expand your sense of time and keep it that way! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right here we go. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Erich and I am joined with a new friend today.

0:08.8

Marissa, welcome. Thank you. I kind of like that you go by Marissa A. A. Link.

0:15.0

Because that's fun.

0:16.0

Is that how you say it?

0:17.0

I don't know why I do that, but I've always done it that way.

0:20.0

That's a fun name, Marissa.

0:22.0

And I just read your book Living Slower

0:23.3

that came out earlier this year in April.

0:25.6

Congrats, it's your second book, right?

0:27.8

Yes.

0:28.6

What's your first one?

0:29.9

My first one is a book called Little House Living.

0:33.4

Yeah, from your blog.

0:34.6

Which your blog is so comprehensive.

0:36.8

There is so much stuff on there.

0:38.8

Yeah, that, and that first book is kind of,

0:41.2

it's almost like a summary of my blog. it's got a little bit more of like the recipes and stuff yeah I could see how you could do that because when I went to go look at the website I was like oh wow it just keeps going and going and going.

0:54.0

So all sorts of information to put in a book.

0:56.1

So you are the blogger behind the popular little house living,

0:59.3

a website you started more than a decade ago to teach people how to live a simpler and more frugal lifestyle.

1:04.2

You have so much on there, Marissa.

1:06.0

Like really cool stuff heading into the new year that people can come check out.

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