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

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Hey friend, Katie here. I am so glad to be hanging out with you. We're going to be diving into

four ways to explore emotional attachment to stuff. So if you have

boxes in your garage or your attic or somewhere in your basement that you've been meaning to handle,

but just don't know if you have the courage to open them because they're filled with some

stuff that you consider sentimental, this is going to be a great episode to help.

Or if you just consider yourself a sentimental person, this one will be a doozy for you.

So let's talk briefly about what does it mean to be sentimental?

In a nutshell, it just means that you are prompted by feelings of either tenderness,

sadness, or nostalgia. When you think of an item,

pick up an item, et cetera, et cetera. And I want you to keep in mind that it's completely

okay to be a sentimental person. It doesn't make you a bad person. A lot of people come to me

with this guilt or feeling ashamed. Like, I shouldn't be emotionally attached to this thing. I don't even like it.

I don't even want it. And then they just shame themselves for it. And so I just want you to maybe,

as you listen to this episode, offer yourself some compassion. And speaking of compassion,

there is a time and place to handle this category of things. People come to me and

say, I need help decluttering my home. And before they touch and handle the easier stuff,

they want to tackle the harder stuff, which is the stuff they're emotionally attached to.

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