Welcome to Aslub Comes Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana Kay White. I blog over at aslubcomesclean.com.

That's where I share my personal deslapification process. As I figure out ways to keep my

own home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that

actually work in real life for real people. People who don't love cleaning and organizing.

Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 230 and I'm calling it dealing with

discouragement. I'm specifically talking about discouragement from other people. Whether they

intend to discourage you, I wish that people never intended that and I honestly don't think

that's usually their intention, but whether or not they are purposely kind of hurting your feelings

or whether it's unintended, maybe they thought they were being helpful or whatever and it just

ends up being discouraging or they just don't seem to notice or whatever. Anyway, so I'm talking

about that because it is November. When this comes out, it's going to be one week before here in

the U.S. we celebrate Thanksgiving holiday, which is generally a time where families get together.

I know I'm hosting at my own house this year. Sometimes when you're together with people and

everybody's just looking for something to talk about, somehow this kind of stuff comes up.

And especially when it hits family and maybe they know your deep dark secret or your,

you know, whatever it is that you've struggled with for your entire life, it can have its own

kind of level of frustration. And so I just want to encourage you before you go into that,

to hopefully help you have a good perspective going in so that it doesn't become a discouragement

that sets you back. Okay. Before I do that though, I want to make sure you know that through the end

of November, you can use the code November, you know, all of a sudden I can't spell November.

And OVEM, B-E-R, use that code to get 14 days to opening your front door to guests for $5.00.

It's normally $7.99. And I have talked in other episodes and there's stuff on the blog. I mean,

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