All right, true confessions. I'm in a season where clutter is king. I cannot get away from it. My desk here at work is cluttered. I like to keep it clean. I can never get there. My life at home is such that all I can do at the end of the day is take the paperwork in, the mail, the insurance stuff, whatever, put it on my home desk, and close the door.

It's just a sad state right now.

So this show is an intervention for me.

If you can relate, I think it's going to help you because at the end of the day getting rid of stuff isn't easy, but it's necessary

I'm John Fuller joined by the head of our parenting department Dr. Danny how does it go for you? I mean, you keep a pretty neat desk here.

Is Clutter in any part of your life?

Oh, absolutely, John.

Like you have the backseat of your car?

No, I did have seasons of that when I was working in the school district though.

I had all kinds of things that I used in my work with the kids in my trunk and it was just cluttered in there.

I was very relieved when I didn't have that anymore in my trunk.

But we've had, when we were finishing our basement, we so much clutter then we it accumulates

fast when you have children in your home and we've had to be intentional about

this and it hasn't always gone perfectly well. My daughter's the best and she has had moments of

lament where she goes, oh man I shouldn't have gotten rid of that stuffed animal. She had collected

stuffed animals and now she remembers some of them. She goes, oh I wish I wouldn't have gotten rid of. But she had the easiest time just getting rid of things and clearing her room and I admired that in her. I said how do you do that that is so good and we have

an office space in our home that just piles up things that where does it go?

Okay let's put in the office and then eventually you go in there you have to clean it out

order the garage you have to clean that out. I'm so ashamed. Yeah and it's but it feels good. It feels good when you

declutter you get rid of things it feels like man I've just gotten skinny jeans off I'm

feeling really good about this I feel feeling looser now and and it it is

freeing to the psychology to the to the mind itself to to your personal self where you don't feel is trapped

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