Can You Be a Minimalist While Being a Mum of Two? This 33-YO Has The Answer!

Posted On Mar 7, 2020 By admin With Comments Off

Durgesh Nandhini, 33, resident of Chennai has a very interesting take on minimalism. Mother of two girls, aged six and two, Nandhini had climbed onto this lifestyle wagon close to seven years ago. Along with minimalism, she’s a stem vegan and believes in schooling her children at home. We had a quick chat with her about her expedition, what built her undertake the road to sustainability, and how she continues to benefit from her current lifestyle on a daily basis.

What is minimalism to her

While the definition of minimalism is living intentionally with as few things as possible- for Nandhini it is synonymous with having purity in knowing who you are. She says, “Minimalism to me was originally segregating stuff I adore from those that didn’t provoke pleasure. It begins with really a hope; and before I knew it, I was acting upon it with gusto.”

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How does one adapt to this lifestyle?

It cures if the people you live with have a minimalist bent of brain, Nandhini opines. In her occurrence, her husband has always been a super organised being, while she was a hoarder until she switched to being a minimalist. “Being a hoarder stimulated me lose my focus and creativity. I be applicable to waste a lot of duration merely projecting, and hardly got any actual work done. By clearing out my space, I magically saw this change come about where things just happened with ease, ” she exclaims.

On has become a minimalist mummy

Nandhini says that her daughters have been a major inspiration behind decluttering both the imagination and infinite. Her minors draw her meditate by persistently inviting relevant questions around sort and countries around the world. “Both my children are being homeschooled. We don’t believe in the concept of feeding a child’s brain with textual lore. They need much more to have a solid, fortunate life. They need to know how to be able to connect with humans, quality and the energy around them at a deeper stage. And we all know that a school education is built on redundant syllabus that doesn’t help in any way in this journey announced life, ” says Nadhini.

She says since they school the daughters at home, they’re fine with simply a got a couple of books and toys around. Nandhini takes them out into nature to play a lot, and travels with them often, learn them about important things like sustainability on the go.

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On eating packaging-free meat

It all started when Nandhini wanted to minimise the amount of garbage that is entered into her dustbin. And she noticed that most of the waste came from the kitchen in general; and from packaged meat including. She says that packed foods are the worst, “the amount of pesticides that are used in them so that they can have a longer shelf life is extremely detrimental to health.” Add to that the hazardous deductions the plastic-waste has on environmental matters.

Another important modify that they have adopted is the way they ingest.

“We eat raw vegan banquets twice a daytime. They consist of fruits and vegetables. And for dinner we have a simply cooked sattvic banquet, ” she shares. Nandhini says they’ve never been more industrious and tranquilize at the same time and are able to completely avoid the usage of packaged meat due to this lifestyle. They also end up saving a lot in terms of electricity, gas greenbacks and money spent on diner meals.

All in all, Nandhini says minimalism it’s not rocket-science. All you need to do is ask pertinent questions to yourself. For example, if you feel having too much is obliging you unhappy, know that it’s time to try the opposite and see.

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( Edited by Saiqua Sultan)

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