“If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people; if you want variety, stay with one.” Host Corinne Morahan borrows a quote from folk icon Joni Mitchell to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of keeping romance alive: by putting routines in place, you can keep the fun and spontaneity alive in your long term relationship. On today’s episode of Get Organized for Good, Corinne shares some top tips she uses to keep the spark alive in her own 17-year marriage. Working, raising kids and dealing with all the stressors of modern life can take a toll on any marriage. But if you can start from a foundation of love and respect, these tips will help you to remember you’re on the same team.

As promised in last week’s episode, she shares the bean jar technique that she and her husband began using during their first year of marriage (hint: the goal is actually to keep the jar empty). Should you talk about the kids during date night? What do you do when you’re tired, on different schedules, or just don’t feel like doing anything? Corinne explains how to keep a date journal and the importance of flirting.

Stay tuned to the end of the episode for your sexting assignment, and to discover Corinne’s curated sexy playlist.

Quotes

• “I very much enjoy being around my husband. We have a lot of fun. We still have a great sex life. And that’s what I want for all of you.” (5:44 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Not every year has looked the same. Not every season has been the best season for us. There—I was going to say there are times we are annoyed with each other–obviously he’s not annoyed with me because I’m perfect—but there are plenty of times where I get annoyed with him. So, I don’t want to paint a picture of something that is completely untrue and unrealistic because that is just not reality. We are two human beings, working through our own shit, raising two of the most incredible children.” (6:03 | Corinne Morahan)
• “My husband and I wrote our own vows and in them we said, ‘It’s just you and me, playing catch.’ I don’t even know how to throw a ball, I don’t know how we came up with that, but I love the metaphor. Whatever’s happening around us in the outside world, it’s just the two of us, playing catch. Sometimes it’s the two of us against our kids, if you know what I’m saying. Just the two of us against the world.” (9:58 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Listen, sometimes I’m not in the mood. I’ve already shared, many times, I’m a homebody. I like to be in cozy clothes; I like to stay in my house and do nothing. So, sometimes, putting on clothes and getting myself all done up doesn’t feel like exactly the thing I want to do. But I love sitting across the table from my husband, drinking a dirty martini.” (18:42 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Most of us just fall into a rut and we take each other for granted, we get tired, our spouses see us at our literal worst, they see us at our ugliest, they see us at our most disgusting. I’m not trying to be my best self all the time at my house. So, it makes it even that much more important that we get dressed up for date night, that we send each other flirty and fun texts and that we make it fun.” (21:58| Corinne Morahan)

Links

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“Having a strong and healthy outlook coupled with a strong and healthy body really is a recipe for so much joy in our lives,” says host Corinne Morahan on this episode of Get Organized for Good. And the opposite is true: No matter how accomplished we are in work and life, having a negative view of how we look can cast a shadow over all of our success. Corinne reveals the toll that founding Grid + Glam took on her health in the early days. As a result, she felt self-conscious about her looks and the image she was portraying, and considered turning down several on-camera promotional opportunities. Since then, she’s maintained a healthy lifestyle based on six pillars, which she shares on today’s episode. She’ll also share the systems she puts in place to solidify her healthy habits and what you can do to create your own best self care routine. When you feel confident in your body, you can feel confident to go after anything you want in life!

Corinne reveals how she has overhauled her bedroom for better quality sleep and why she believes that all food is good for us. She’ll share how she keeps herself optimally hydrated and how she prevents boredom in her exercise routine. She explains the best time to make a beauty appointment and how to get yourself in the mood for good sex.

None of this is easy, but like Corinne always reminds us, you have to learn to do it anyway. Drawing on wisdom from leading figures such as Susie Moore and Tim Ferris, Corinne will help you assemble and organize your own beauty framework so you can go more boldly out into the world.

Quotes

• “When you feel confident, you walk in a room, you light it up. It really doesn’t even matter what you look like, it really is so much of that confidence of feeling good. But partially it is, because we are making choices that make our body and our skin look better.” (5:21 | Corinne Morahan)
• “There really is something to this: When we don’t feel good about how we look, and we don’t feel good about our bodies, we don’t feel as good about all of our other accomplishments.” (7:50 | Corinne Morahan)
• “You have to pick your hard. Being in a body that you don’t feel your best in, having to say no to work opportunities, is hard. Waking up early, working out five days a week, is hard. Pick your hard. This is not a choice between what’s the easy thing to do. It’s, ‘Which hard am I willing to choose for the outcome that I really want to get?’” (22:18 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Giving yourself a framework like this where everything is allowed gets you out of the cycle of shame and beating yourself up. My daughter and I always say that all food is good for you: some is good for your body and some is good for your soul.” (29:39 | Corinne Morahan)
• “You can’t hate yourself into the person you want to be; you have to love yourself into her.” (36:03 | Corinne Morahan)

Links

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“If everything is special, then nothing is special,” host Corinne Morahan reminds us on this episode of Get Organized for Good. Today, she is tackling the topic of sentimental clutter– items that you are keeping solely for the memory and meaning attached to them and not for any functional purpose. In an effort to keep memories of loved ones and good times alive, we often hold onto everything. This not only dilutes the memory, but acts as a barrier to connection and can create a new source of stress. It’s the hardest type of clutter to get rid of, Corinne explains, citing research from the Yale School of Medicine about the physical effects of parting with sentimental items. Luckily, she’s here to tell us how we can keep our memories alive without keeping our clutter.

She’ll discuss how to determine what stays and what goes, how to handle pressure from family members to keep things you don’t want, and how to determine whether your items, while invaluable to you, are of any value, monetarily. She’ll share how she determined which sentimental items from her children, from her fabulous grandmother and from one memorable grade school field trip were worthy of keeping. She’ll also reveal what those with difficult childhoods tend to hang onto the most, and why this only creates an undue burden on their children.

As always, we are in control of our own process. Whether our items stay or go, our memories live within us, unchanged.

Quotes

• “When we keep every single thing that might have some meaning to us, like any other item in our home it simply becomes clutter. And instead of being able to enjoy it and appreciate it, it stresses us out.” (3:57 | Corinne Morahan)
• “When I start talking about getting rid of sentimental items people immediately freeze up and get stressed out. And I want you to know that you are in control of what you keep and what you get rid of. No one is going to come to your house and tell you what you need to get rid of, but similarly, people also can’t tell you what you have to keep. You are an adult and you are the boss of these decisions, and I have every confidence in you that your heart knows what to keep and what to toss.” (5:58 | Corinne Morahan)
• “If at some point, I decide to throw out this pearl necklace, I will not ever be throwing away the memory. The memory lives in me forever and always, the feelings of that moment. I don’t need to hold this necklace in my hand to know that. I can if I want to, but I have countless other good memories for which I do not have anything tangible, I don’t need anything tangible. The memory lives in me.” (8:30 | Corinne Morahan)
• “It doesn’t mean you are throwing away that person, it doesn’t mean you’re throwing away that moment, it doesn’t mean you’re throwing away that memory. It just means you’re throwing away the tangible item. Or donating it. If someone in your family is making you feel that way, then they can keep the item in their home.” (9:46 | Corine Morahan)
• “If this feels hard, you’re doing it right. This is the hardest part. Sentimental clutter is the hardest thing to part with, but I know you can do it.” (16:20 | Corinne Morahan)

Links

Connect With Corinne:

https://www.gridandglam.com/

https://www.corinnemorahan.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gridandglam/

https://www.instagram.com/corinnemorahan/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnemorahan/

https://www.facebook.com/gridandglam

https://www.youtube.com/@gridandglam1

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