Slob Clean Your Summer :: Dana K White [Ep 330]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Managing your home in the midst of motherhood is a challenge, especially when cleaning, organizing and decluttering don’t come naturally.

My guest Dana K. White struggled for years to figure out why her home was so messy. She could get it clean, but it would take days and then in no time it was right back to where she’d started with piles of clutter, laundry and dishes.

“I had always thought before, my home is not who I am, but now it was my identity and it was even harder. And that was when I really thought. There's something wrong with me. Like, literally I am broken in some way. I cannot do this thing that other people seem to be able to do so easily.”

God brought her to a place of breakthrough when she started an anonymous blog to get open and real about being a “slob.” Through that, she started to discover some simple truths about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work for people who don’t love cleaning and organizing.

We talk about tips for how to start cleaning when you feel overwhelmed, how to only make progress when decluttering and more. It’s a great listen for yourself and to learn how to help the less organized members of your family.

Here’s to making progress on our homes this summer! Stay tuned for the Summer of Mentorship starting June 21st. Great episodes to listen to while you clean and declutter.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Delt Mom Alon podcast.
0:10.3	I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you
0:15.1	and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:21.1	And in this episode number 330, I get to connect us with Dana K. White.
0:27.6	Otherwise known as a slob comes clean.
0:31.6	The other key to that is just knowing where to start because it's a very real thing to
0:36.3	look around your whole house and go, oh my goodness, how did this happen again?
0:42.0	What am I going to do?
0:43.0	I've got to change every method I've ever tried has failed.
0:46.5	Bob, Bob, if you will just know that when I'm overwhelmed, do the dishes.
0:51.0	There's nothing to think about.
0:52.8	It's just that, oh my goodness, what's happened?
0:54.7	Do the dishes and you're going to be fine.
0:56.7	Like it is an active thing that you can immediately do that will then lead you to the other
1:02.7	stuff or if it doesn't.
1:04.4	Like if you quit after the dishes, your dishes are done and your house is better.
1:08.5	Managing your home in the midst of motherhood, work life, other family commitments and
1:13.4	friend commitments is a challenge.
1:16.2	Especially if cleaning, organizing, and decluttering doesn't come naturally to you.
1:21.4	I'm raising my hand.
1:23.0	Well thankfully, Dana understands.
1:25.9	She is one of us years ago.
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