EP 050: How Minimalism Can Steal Your Joy

The Purpose Show

Allie Casazza

Marriage, Self-improvement, Business, Goalsetting, Education, Intentionalliving, Homemaking, Entrepreneur, Purposefulliving, Mindfulliving, Motherhood, Minimalism, Femaleentrepreneur

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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I've spent the last six years uncovering something that changed my whole life. And when I first started, I didn't know what it was called or even that it was an actual thing. I was just a desperate girl trying to find a way out of survival mode because I believed in my heart that I was created for more. And that thing, of course, is minimalism. The philosophy of less that comes with minimalism took me from overwhelmed, depressed and fighting, and barely getting by to loving motherhood, thriving in my role and being the mom that I always wanted to be. For me, minimalism is about simplifying what I have in my home so that have the time and joy to focus on my family, offering my kids and my husband the best of me, not what's left over after I pick up, wash a thousand dishes, fold six hours’ worth of laundry and reorganize all the toys again. Minimalism is all about where my focus is. Not how many items I have, not how many pairs of jeans I have, not how minimalist I appear. I don't want to deprive myself of things for the sake of “being a minimalist.” There are things that bring me joy, make me happy, and fill my life. It's more time in my day, more time for what matters, more time for pursuing what lights me up and makes me feel alive. Everything I talk about in this episode can be found here: http://alliecasazza.com/shownotes/050 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
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0:30.0	Mom Life
0:36.0	We're surrounded with the message that it's the tired life, the no time for myself life, the hard life.
0:42.0	And while it is hard and full of lots of servitude, the idea that motherhood means a joyless life is something I'm passionate about putting a stop to.
0:50.0	I'm on a mission to help you stop counting down the minutes till bedtime, at least most days.
0:55.0	I want you to stop cleaning up after your kids childhood and start being present for it, start enjoying it.
1:01.0	I believe in John 1010 that we are called to abundant life and I know mothers are not excluded from that promise.
1:08.0	Join me in conversations about simplicity, minimalism and lots of other good stuff that leads to a life of less for the sake of enjoying more in your motherhood.
1:17.0	I'm Alec Asaza and this is The Purpose Show.
1:23.0	Hey sweet friend, welcome to The Show. Today we're going to talk about rules based minimalism or the sort of legalistic of minimalism as I like to call it.
1:34.0	And this can be kind of a controversial subject I guess. There's a lot of prominent teachers in the minimalism niche that have popped up over the last few years.
1:44.0	And many of them would strongly disagree with me on this and I know that because I receive emails and I won't name names because to each their own but in this way I think that a lot of people disagree and that's okay.
1:59.0	But you know I'm a mom, I've got four kids. I live a very simple life. I love my home. I love decor.
2:07.0	I don't want to live in a cold, stark place. It's not very welcoming and doesn't make me feel filled with joy when I walk into it.
2:15.0	I don't want to deprive myself of things for the sake of quote being a minimalist. Things that bring me joy and make me happy and fill my life.
2:25.0	I just don't want to live that way. And so I really want to address this idea of making decisions based on the fact of, oh, because I'm a minimalist or I want to be a minimalist.
2:35.0	I want to start out by just saying that I've spent the better part of the last, oh my gosh, almost six years uncovering something that changed my whole life.
2:45.0	And when I first started, I didn't know what it was called or even that it was called anything, even that it was an actual thing.
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