102: How to Make Life's Problems Easier

The Decluttered Mom Podcast

Diana Rene

Education, Mom Life, Leisure, Self-improvement, Home & Garden, Busy Mom, Parenting, Minimalist, Kids & Family, Routines, Decluttering

4.9 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In this episode, Diana dives into a common myth about decluttering and minimalism that often circulates on social media. If you’ve ever fallen down the Instagram rabbit hole of minimalist accounts, you might think that decluttering will magically erase all your stress and problems. Diana breaks down this misconception and explains the true benefits of decluttering—not as a cure-all, but as a way to create a less stressful baseline in your life. Key Takeaways in this episode: Creat...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast.
0:09.9	A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.
0:14.3	I'm your host, Diana Renee.
0:15.5	And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,
0:23.7	but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,
0:30.2	I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back.
0:39.5	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.
0:49.8	Welcome to another episode of the decluttered mom podcast. I really wanted to talk today about something that I think can be a common myth when it comes to the decluttering slash minimalism world. If you really get into it on Instagram and you start going down a rabbit hole, there are probably at this point thousands of
1:12.0	minimalism accounts that really focus on decluttering to a maximum level, to the minimalist
1:20.3	level. And I think minimalism as a whole is left up to interpretation, you know, in many ways. I think maybe people describe it in different ways,
1:32.5	how they believe it applies to them can be described in different ways. And that's, I think,
1:37.1	a whole other conversation. But what I really want to talk about today is the idea of what happens when you declutter.
1:47.6	And does it take away all of your stress and all of your worries and all of your troubles?
1:54.2	Will you never have a problem again for the rest of your life if you declutter?
1:59.2	Well, it might feel like it on Instagram. When you start
2:03.4	getting all of the reels from all of the minimalism accounts, it sometimes feels like they are saying
2:10.2	that if you declutter, you will have a fantastic life that you never are stressed ever again
2:17.3	in life. And I think that's just
2:18.5	not true. And I think that we can break this down a little bit further. So before someone decluttered,
2:28.3	they have all of the normal daily stressors of life, right? But they also have a home that is overwhelming them by
2:39.7	itself. They have a home where they have too much stuff in it, probably way too much stuff in it.
2:47.5	They have things in there that they really don't want, that they're not sure if they want,
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