215: A Surprising Link Between Our Nervous System And Clutter with Ann Odom
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode I sit down with Ann Odom, parent coach and family therapist we dive into how our nervous system can either support or hinder our ability to declutter and create a home (and life) we love.
I also share a deeply personal story about the parallels between my healing journey and clutter.
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:30.1 | And good morning and welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you here today. I'm so excited to be here. So for those of you who |
| 0:40.8 | haven't met Anne yet, I'm telling you what, she's going to be the next big thing. I'm predicting |
| 0:46.5 | you're going to blow up in the best of ways possible. And I met a few years back. She lives |
| 0:52.1 | locally here in Asheville, North Carolina. And we recently |
| 0:55.5 | reconnected this year. And every time we get together, it's like you can't stop us from, |
| 1:00.2 | which is like four hours later. It's like, oh my gosh, how did that time go past? We have such |
| 1:04.4 | amazing conversation. I walk away feeling just like amazing. with your expertise with your authenticity with your |
| 1:15.3 | passion, your love. I was like, I have to have and on the podcast today. And through our conversations |
| 1:20.8 | we've had getting to know each other, I was like, let's just basically hit record and repeat |
| 1:27.3 | some of those conversations because they are so |
| 1:29.8 | worthwhile. And really today I wanted to bring you on to, you know, talk about the nervous system. |
| 1:34.9 | This is something you've been talking about and learning about and teaching about for, |
| 1:38.5 | gosh, 20 years plus. And it's interesting to me because looking back, decluttering became a really high priority |
| 1:46.3 | to me in my life during a time when I was really deep in therapy, which I know I've shared |
| 1:51.0 | with you. I was doing a lot of work. As they say, doing the work, right? Processing, healing, |
| 1:56.1 | grieving, understanding, learning and working on my internal environment. And at some point, there is some |
| 2:02.5 | subconscious shift where I realized, hey, I need to work on my external environment too. This is an |
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