Hey Clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

Today I'm going to be honest with you.

I'm feeling angry, overwhelmed, resentful about my home, my lack of family help, all the things I have to do and the holidays is

right around the corner, so I'm really excited to have an incredible guest with us today, Jamie from

Jamie's Journey. I follow her on YouTube. She has a really awesome

Instagram and Tik-Toc, so motivating motivating so I'm hoping not only that Jamie motivates me and you

listening but also can offer some insight because she's also a mom and she's busy and there's a lot of the plates. So hello Jamie and

welcome to the Clutterbug Podcast. Hello well thank you for having me here.

It is honestly it's just an honor to be here with you. I have been watching you for years

and I started my channel years ago so it's just an absolute honor to be here so thank you for having me.

Oh, thanks for being here. this is Jamie's first podcast so this is this is very exciting. I watch your channel

when I don't feel like cleaning which lately has been all the time and I just

moved to a new home I know you recently moved as well we did yeah a year ago. And it's coming with challenges that I didn't expect and I don't, like this sounds so horrible to complain but it's a bigger house which means more work, more to do.

And everybody said that to me, but I was like,

it was so easy at the last house,

I'll just find my rhythm.

I am not finding my rhythm, Jamie. You know what? How are you feeling that is totally normal? We moved in

December 30th of last year and I am just getting to the point where I feel like I can

breathe a little bit and I'm getting to the point where I feel like I can breathe a little bit and I'm getting to the point of where I know like what I want to organize and how I want to do things but and I'm still feeling overwhelmed with that and it's been a full year so how you're

feeling is totally normal. Yeah I'm overwhelmed that's a really good way to put it and

also like the Christmas season's coming. I'm going to be honest. It's December 8th. I have not bought anything. I've bought zero things. It just snuck up on me and I feel like I'm just constantly like swimming just keep swimming just to keep my head above water and then some people are now tossing presents at me and I'm like I can't breathe I'm drowning. So yeah I'm definitely feeling overwhelmed but I also know that I'm the type of person when my house like it's easy to say oh just take a break and let things go it's okay. I know that that affects my mental health

when things are out of control then I feel even more out of control and I start to

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