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Category: Mental Health

Part 3: Burnout–a relaxed return to my day job

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| Animal Husbandry, Environmental Scientist, Homesteading, Mental Health, Winter

Yeah, right…despite resting as much as possible over the last few months, I have not been able to recover from burnout. It feels like I’ve hit a wall. Recovery is definitely a work in progress. 

Phoenix here, talking about homesteading and working while dealing with burnout…

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Part 2: Burnout–Recovery (by Phoenix)

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| Environmental Scientist, Homesteading, Mental Health, Spirituality
Retreat-inspired painting (by Phoenix)

Hi, Phoenix here. While working towards my recovery from serious burnout, I realized I needed some time to reflect deeply and seriously about my life…

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Part 1: The importance of partnership in homesteading (by Phoenix)

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| Homesteading, Mental Health, Self-sufficiency, Sustainability

Hi, Phoenix here. Today I want to talk about the importance of partnership in homesteading…

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Part 1: Burnout (by Phoenix)

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| Environmental Scientist, Homesteading, Mental Health, Sustainability

Hi, Phoenix here; today I want to level with you–I am burnt out from juggling a full-time job, the homestead, home renovations, recovery from a broken wrist, and navigating various interpersonal relationships…

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Part 3: Winter homesteading–social isolation (by Phoenix)

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| Homesteading, Mental Health, Sustainability

Hi, Phoenix here continuing the winter homesteading blog series. In this post, I want to talk about the susceptibility to social isolation while homesteading…

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Part 1: Winter Homesteading–short days and long nights (by Phoenix)

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| Homesteading, Mental Health, Winter

Hi, Phoenix here. As winter weather continues, I’ve been thinking about historical and present-day solutions to the challenges of winter homesteading…

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Part 1: Zooming out to revisit the big picture of sustainability (by Phoenix)

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| Environmental Scientist, Homesteading, Mental Health, Self-sufficiency, Sustainability

Hi, Phoenix here. Many of the previous posts have dealt with the details of achieving sustainability on a homestead. Three years into my journey, I’d like to revisit the important reason, the why, behind sustainability…

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Part 6: Dairy Farming–making keto ice cream (by Phoenix)

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| Dairy Farming, Homesteading, Mental Health, Sustainability
Keto Pistachio-Almond Ice Cream

Hi, Phoenix here continuing our series on dairy farming. In this post, I’ll describe how K and I make keto ice cream. But first, why keto?…

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On hiatus.

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| Mental Health, Sustainability
Erik Stoesser-Casad

Taking a break for my mental health.

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Part 1: Raising animals for food-independence

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| Animal Husbandry, Mental Health, Self-sufficiency
Erik Stoesser-Casad

It became clear to us we needed to raise animals to achieve food independence. This meant not having to…

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