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.

Hey there, friend. Welcome back to another episode of The Maximized Minimalist. It's me, Katie,

and back again with another episode. Today's is all about how declutter guilt gets

layered in all the ways that guilt can come out through the declutter process. One of my

favorite quotes I ran across years ago is this. Guilt can either hold you back from growing

or it can show you what you need to shift in your life.

I don't know who wrote that, but thank you if you're listening and if you wrote that.

Because it's really, this quote has made a huge impact in my life in so many ways.

As a mom, I think about all the ways that guilt has impacted my life, whether it's mom guilt,

just parenting guilt, just all the different ways that guilt comes into our life, my life.

And it's showed me and it's prevented me, guilt has prevented me from growing in lots of ways.

And so last year in 2020, I really started

making a big effort to crush that guilt, get it out of my life so I can shift and continue on,

you know, reaching my goals and being the human being that I want to be in life. And I know,

you know, back on that decluttering process, the amount of

guilt that comes up is powerful, y'all. It is such, it can be such a paralyzing feeling. And, you know,

truth be told, it's super easy for me to hit record on these podcasts, you know, post my social media

posts, and say, you know, if you don't use it,

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