5 Tips on Surviving, Thriving & Decluttering with Chronic Illness

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summer Declutter Challenge: Refresh & Re-Home begins soon! Find full details HERE! Do you or someone you love struggle with decluttering due to chronic illness? Listen in as Dawn talks with Sarah, a professional organizer and decluttering expert who also deals with chronic illness. She shares five tips to help those with chronic illness overcome hurdles in decluttering and simplify their lives. IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 Top tips for surviving and thriving with chronic illness 01:05 Sarah’s Story 3:10 Planning for sickness 5:50 Ask for help how you need in the way YOU need 11:24 How to help others 14:20 Recognizing the mental load 17:26 Encouragement for those with chronic illness 18:46 Simple doesn’t mean bad 26:48 Weird but it works 28:37 Not all jobs are equal 36:34 Convenience sometimes is survival ABOUT SARAH McDonald Sarah is a declutter expert, professional organizer, minimalist and simple living enthusiast; embracing simplicity, one change at a time. She came from a family of hoarders, but Sarah broke free and is now on a mission to help others do the same! She believes that less is more and she loves sharing my experiences, tips, and tricks to make life easier and more meaningful. LINKS: Find Sarah on IG: https://www.instagram.com/smallchangestv/Find Sarah on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@SmallChangesMy jewelry is from Trades of Hope (Shop to help women out of poverty!): https://tradesofhope.com/minimalmom Mother's Necklace on Etsy: https://cli.re/mom-necklace (I have the gold in 18")Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	Sarah, I first got to meet you through Get Organized HQ and so many women emailed me and
0:06.5	said, Dawn, you have to check out Sarah and her small changes channel because she gets it.
0:12.7	She understands those who have chronic illness and energy limitations.
0:16.9	And whether that is from physical illness or if it's depression or other mental things that we do with anxiety,
0:24.4	they just totally destroy our motivation.
0:27.4	Right?
0:28.1	Yeah.
0:28.3	Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast.
0:31.2	Sarah McDonald is a YouTuber who's all about simple living.
0:34.8	She came from a family of hoarders, but she broke free and is now on a
0:38.5	mission to help others do the same. So if you're ready to simplify, declutter and live your
0:43.5	best life, come join her on this fun and meaningful journey. And I think anytime something is
0:49.5	unpredictable, you know, if you don't know how your mental space is going to be tomorrow or even if you have sick children or a sick partner or a sick parent that you take care of, all of those things mean that you don't know what tomorrow is going to look like.
1:05.0	And so how do you plan for stuff you don't know is going to happen?
1:09.0	Right. So Sarah, tell us how, why are you
1:12.7	passionate about this topic? What did you go through in your own life? So I've had a very, very
1:18.8	long health journey. When I was 21 years old, I had my gallbladder out, which is something
1:24.8	happens every day and it should have just been really, you know, straightforward, but very quickly after that, they realized that there was something
1:31.7	really badly wrong. And so like I had about 20 operations over the course of the next three
1:37.0	few months. And then over that time, I realized that it wasn't going to get any better and that this was something
1:45.0	I was going to need to have to deal with. And by all accounts, I probably shouldn't have had it.
1:51.3	I didn't, you know, young people shouldn't get it. You shouldn't be over 40. They didn't really
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