Declutter Like a Mother Allie Casazza Ep 268

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mountains of laundry, piles of toys and all the other “stuff” of life that comes into our homes can feel overwhelming, even to the neatest of moms with the best of intentions. We all love our families, but living with the messes and the clutter that comes along with them is a challenge.

My guest Allie Casazza knows what it feels like to be overwhelmed by constantly cleaning and picking up her house at the expense of enjoying time with her kids. A few years ago with four kids under the age of five, Allie had a moment of clarity with God as she sat crying in her bathroom.

If all I'm doing is cleaning up and it's just a bunch of stuff we don't really need, then what if we just didn't have stuff anymore?

That moment changed the course of her family. It also changed how she viewed motherhood and all the “stuff” that comes along with it. Now, she shares the practical ideas and the mental shifts that helped keep the clutter away to free up her life for what matters most.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast 2020.
0:12.5	I'm your host Heather McFadden and this continues to be the place where I'm going to connect
0:17.6	you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:23.6	In this episode number 268, I am bringing on Ali Kazaza and she gets honest about her
0:31.0	season of motherhood where she was so overwhelmed and getting no good advice and finally she recognized
0:40.0	that the issue was less about the kids and more about managing her stuff.
0:45.7	It was so dark and all I did was maintain the mundane side note parts of my life because
0:52.2	they had taken over and they were no longer side notes.
0:54.4	They were everything.
0:55.7	They were the main chunk of my day and I was chewing away the kids my purpose to maintain
1:02.2	all the extra side note stuff and I am not a neat freak by any means.
1:07.4	So I'm not looking for like Pinterest perfect, you know, whatever.
1:11.6	I just wanted things to be functioning.
1:13.7	The house has to be somewhat picked up.
1:15.4	The dinner needs to be cooked.
1:16.7	Like things need to be happening and for me to accomplish those basic things took all
1:21.8	day and it was not even done at the end of it.
1:24.5	And so then it was like evenings and weekends or spent what?
1:27.8	Quote catching up and you never catch up and that was the cycle and that's what we're
1:32.6	told is just how it is and that is when I was fighting.
1:37.0	That cycle doesn't have to continue.
1:39.4	Ali is here to hold our hand to help guide us to let us know that she knows what it feels
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