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.

For he who holds a hammer, the whole world is a nail. So this quote by Abraham Maslow

got me thinking a lot recently about our beliefs. And it made me think,

when do these beliefs that we all have? They often start with a protective good intention,

but when do they start limiting our lives and our progress? Like how do we identify if or when that

happens? So for me, I believe that when the comfort

of these beliefs start either creating clutter or clinging to clutter or the stress or the

dysfunctional living spaces, like these are signs that our beliefs went from good to bad,

or we'll just call them what they are limiting beliefs, right?

Last year, I had a good friend of mine, Ann Odom, she's an amazing family therapist.

She was on the episode, I highly recommend you go and listen to that one.

And we talked about the concept of that our brains become so comfortable thinking in certain ways and clinging to these beliefs,

these limiting beliefs, that it can become more difficult to step into a healthier, more

positive belief.

And the phrase goes that our brains will choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven

when it comes to our thoughts. And we have to work

to rewire those new pathways with more helpful thought patterns. The analogy I always love

using is it's just like you can walk into the woods and you can see two different paths, right?

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