Minimalism as a Tool to Discovering Purpose | Sarah Horgan (EP375)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Joining me for today's episode is host of the Simple Intentional Podcast, Sarah Horgan. After a stage four cancer diagnosis ten years ago, Sarah found herself reevaluating her life, leading her to embrace a minimalist lifestyle and confront perfectionism and people-pleasing habits.During our conversation, Sarah opens up about how this life-altering experience helped her discover a deeper sense of purpose and how significant life events, such as losing a loved one, can bring clarity and inspire change. She shares practical strategies for decluttering your life, staying mindful amidst the challenges of motherhood, and focusing on incremental progress to achieve long-term goals. Minimalism isn't just an aesthetic, rather it can be a tool to discover greater purpose and clarity in life.
About Sarah |
Sarah is a full-time working mom + wife, who lived with clutter and found her way to the other side. She radically changed her own life after a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Forced to examine everything, including her perfectionism and people pleasing, she realized all the stuff (and not just the physical stuff) was standing in her way of living her life, her way.
After embracing minimalism and finding her way to simplicity, Sarah started simple + intentional to support other women to do the same. She encourages + inspires others through her instagram account, podcast and online membership community.
Sarah lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. She loves the outdoors, a strong cup of tea and is following her dreams, one step at a time.
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Order a Copy of Minimalist Moms: Living and Parenting with Simplicity
- Diane's Resource:
- Book: Simple Abundance
- Author: Kris Carr
- Sarah's Resource: Boho Beautiful Yoga | Jon Kabat-Zinn | Mindful Movement
- Sarah Can't Stop Talking About: Book: The Worthy Project by Meadow DeVor | Owala Water Bottle
- Connect with Sarah:
- Website
- Podcast
- Membership
Work with Me |
If you’ve been struggling with motivation to declutter or work through bad habits that keep you stuck, I’d love to help you achieve your goals! We’ll work together (locally or virtually) to discover what areas in your life are high priority to get you feeling less overwhelmed right away. For more info on my processes, fees, and availability please contact!
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Further Questions |
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Transcript
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| 1:09.2 | I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. And |
| 1:12.3 | you can imagine this is before I had my daughter, but it just sort of, you know, life stopped. |
| 1:17.6 | When I got that diagnosis, I just said to myself, I'm going to be in it. I'm not going to avoid |
| 1:25.0 | it. I'm going to be present throughout this. I'm going to deal with this. And I'm not going to avoid it. I'm going to be present throughout this. I'm going to deal with this. |
| 1:29.8 | And I'm just going to believe that it's all going to work out. It's like a push to really do what I want to do and show up how I want to show up in this life. |
| 1:45.6 | Each time you make a decision towards what you want and who you want to become, that you slowly become that person. You know, |
| 1:51.9 | we get these little wake-up calls in life where it's like you can take it as an opportunity to say, |
| 1:56.0 | I want this. I'm going to go for it. When we do something new, it doesn't feel safe to our nervous |
| 2:02.4 | system. So our subconscious just will resist it because it's something that feels scary. I am |
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