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. Welcome back to the show. It's me, Katie, and this is a part two to last week's

episode where we dove into the real truth about clutter shame and how it impacts

our lives. Today, in part two, I'll be diving into different reasons that you might feel

that clutter shame and four ways to overcome it. So this is not an exhaustive list by any means,

but it's important because in order to pivot from our shame, we need to understand

why it's there in the first place. So here are some common reasons we get stuck in this

clutter shame cycle. Number one on here is due to societal norms. And I put norms in quotes

and say that very loosely, right? And these expectations of perfectly

tidy Pinterest-looking homes that it's almost impossible to not fall short to someone's

Instagram squares, right? I was always comparing my behind-the-scenes with everyone else's

highlight reels. That left me feeling ashamed and left me feeling stuck. Number two, I was also

lacking a lot of self-compassion. I was my own worst critic. From part one in last week's episode,

I talked about that really mean soccer coach who was not the most pleasant coach and how he spoke

to us. And a lot of my inner voice was just like that.

It was not kind.

It was not compassionate.

And here's the thing.

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