You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast.

A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.

I'm your host, Diana Renee.

And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.

I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system, and I'm here to share all the tips,

tricks, and encouragement.

Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to another episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast.

Today I want to talk a little bit about a favorite mindset shift for me. And this is one of those things that I think can be really good for us as

moms, but it can also be a little toxic if we think everything in our life needs to be positive thinking

and perfect and all of the above, right? So this is something where I think you can take what I'm

saying and you can either apply it in a way in your life that's really healthy or you can also

like completely shun it and that's okay um or it can be you know when we work on our mindset over anything uh it can become like we are just everything everything should be positive and we should never feel bad and I don't think that's true. So I just

wanted to preface this episode with that because I think that anytime, if someone has a bad

experience with working on their mindset, then if they hear anything about working on your mindset,

it's a little bit like, I don't know, triggering or it's just upsetting. And so I wanted to

bring that up. For me, I had never really honestly, like, I've always been this like self-help

person. Like, even as a teenager, my dad and I would go to the bookstore together. That was like

kind of our thing to just go do and hang out

and look at books. And every now and then I got to buy one. But I would always be in like the

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