What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Welcome back to another episode of the maximized minimalist. It's me, Katie. And today I'm going to be

diving into three ways that you can get started

decluttering if you're battling depression and or anxiety. And I want you to hear my heart today.

I wrote this post on Instagram maybe a couple months ago and it really seemed to resonate with a lot

of you. I know I've seen studies and stats out there just showing the

huge amounts of people globally and specifically women and moms who deal with these mental

health issues and really, really struggle when it comes to depression and anxiety. And I think that's

only grown, sadly enough, in the year 2020. So this is why I kind of

wanted to turn that post into a podcast so I could reach more people. I know the challenges that come

along with struggling with those things. And if you haven't heard my story of why I got

started simplifying and kind of my experience and what was happening

in my life at the time. If you're a new listener, feel free to head back and listen to my first,

I think, two, three, four episodes where I share that. But the cliff notes are in 2017,

my family and I had a life-changing traumatic experience. It changed my life forever and my husband's life and probably my

kids too. They were young. I don't know if they'll remember it, but it is what it is. So at this time,

leading up to this event in 2017 and even afterwards, I was just struggling and I was in the

depths of despair in motherhood. And I don't say that lightly.

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