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.

Decluttering can sometimes come with what feels like this overwhelming amount of guilt.

Maybe you've started digging through those boxes in your attic or in your

bedroom or in your basement, hoping to let things go. But every time you think of putting

something in the donate pile, your stomach turns into this big knot of guilt. This feeling is not

uncommon, but it's high time you gave yourself permission to overcome it.

And I wholeheartedly understand it's very easy for me to stand over here on the sidelines

and say, if you don't use it, let it go, right? Very traditional declutter advice. It sounds so

easy, but yet it's so hard for us, isn't it? It's so much more

complex than that. At least it feels more complex, especially when it's you and your things.

And often, it's all about making these different perspective shifts along the simplifying journey

that help us overcome these different layers of guilt. So over the years,

I've learned it's really helpful and generously necessary to do what I call is just like embracing

the sting. Embrace the sting. Yes, some of these things you were feeling guilty about

letting go of were purchase mistakes. You spent money on it. You thought you would use

it or you didn't use it as much as you thought, right? We'll go through all the layers of guilt in just a

second. But embracing the sting and going, you know what, I'll learn from this and I will do better

next time. That type of attitude has drastically helped my simplifying journey, helped me let go of more.

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