We've grown up surrounded by beauty ideals that promised confidence, but often delivered shame.

In a special episode of a millennial mind, I sat down with Nicola Adams to explore how

appearance-based compliments and body talk shape our self-worth without us realizing it.

In partnership with the Dove Self-Esteen project, we unpack the tools to change the conversation

for ourselves and for future generations. Listen now and download the... with the Dove Self-Esteen project, we unpack the tools to change the conversation for

ourselves and for future generations. Listen now and download the free body confidence journal

at Dove.com forward slash Y2K. It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily. Simplifying

after tragedy strikes by Sandy Kreps with Becoming Minimalist.com, and I'm JustaMollick.

Happy Monday, welcome back to Optimal Living Daily, or the OLD podcast, where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get permission from, mostly covering personal development and minimalism on this show.

Now let's get right to today's post

and start optimizing your life. Simplifying after tragedy strikes by Sandy Kreps with

Becoming Minimalist.com. One cold, drizzling night in January I stood on the street watching in disbelief and shock as my house burned.

We had just moved into our house three months prior, and we still had a garage full of boxes waiting to be unpacked.

My family was safe, but my beloved pets were lost, as were the majority of our worldly possessions.

In the following months, friends shyly joked I was taking my love of

simplicity to the extreme as we struggled to rebuild our lives with the blank slate we had been

presented with. As I shared our struggle on social media, I was inundated with stories from all

over the world of how others had coped with rebuilding after a loss, whether it was a fire,

a flood, a tornado, a hurricane,

or a burglary. We weren't alone. I found comfort in that truth, and even more so in the stories of those who chose voluntary simple living after the tragedy. A single mom in Louisiana told me

that after losing her home in a tornado, she and her daughter moved into a

tiny house on her parents' property in Alabama. She couldn't be happier. A widow in Salt Lake City shared with

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