Clutter, Anxiety & What We Can Do About It with Dr. John Delony

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today I visit with Dr. John Delony about the real cost of clutter on our lives and mental health. There is a strong connection between clutter and stress and anxiety and yet it's not wrong that we keep things hoping for security. IN THIS EPISODE: - Why do we keep this stuff? 03:28 - Decluttering induced anxiety - The 6 Daily Choices for Less Anxiety- 90 Days to a Non-Anxious Life 16:45 - How to Instantly feel better 19:56 - The 40% Rule- GEM: Anxiety & Kids (Minute 31:37) Building a Non-Anxious Life Book: https://amzn.to/46EVXhQ The Dr. John Delony Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDrJohnDelonyShow 90 Days to a Non-Anxious Life Video: https://youtu.be/7GLLJLbd9zM?si=s2L_9pn-6OFwcy91

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0:00.0	I don't think anyone is under the illusion that we can take any of this stuff with us,
0:04.5	but yet here we are surrounded by all of this stuff. And it is eating up our time and our energy.
0:10.2	It's causing us to feel stressed and anxious. But why is it so hard to let it go then? And so I'm
0:16.2	hoping you'll help us unravel that a little bit today. Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast. Don reaches a million
0:22.3	women each month with practical tips to simplify your home. Today, Dawn is joined by Dr. John
0:28.3	Deloney, an anxiety and mental health expert, author of the book Own Your Past, Change Your Future,
0:34.2	and host of the Dr. John Deloney Show. So Dr. John, I was listening to an interview with Rain Wilson.
0:40.6	So he's best known as Dwight on the office.
0:42.9	And he was talking about he had a friend that was passing away from cancer.
0:47.1	And so he said every week he would go for a walk with him.
0:50.0	And he said towards the end, his friend was just pleading with him.
0:52.6	He's like, Rain, it's all static.
0:54.4	It's all static.
0:56.4	The Zoom calls, the traffic, the text messages.
0:58.9	He's like, it's all static.
1:00.5	And I was listening to that.
1:01.9	I'm like, oh my goodness, that's the clutter too, right?
1:04.8	The stuff in our house that it's one day can be so important.
1:08.4	And then something happens and you're like, who cares?
1:10.6	It's all static.
1:12.1	What's fascinating to me about this, though, is that we will all sit here and agree and be like,
1:16.4	yeah, right? And I think probably the one thing we could all agree on as human beings is that
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