The Story Behind the Stuff: Emotional Decluttering with T.K. Coleman

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Are you burdened and overwhelmed by stuff? T.K. Coleman joins Dawn and encourages us to start with the story! When we unpack the story we find that is where the emotional declutter lives. IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 Intro :52 - Why do we sometimes feel bad after decluttering? 6:10 - You have permission to get rid of things as slowly as you need! 8:57 - Decluttering is not one size fits all 9:34 - The story of the cork 13:50 - The correlation between our internal and emotional clutter 21:00 - T.K.’s entrance into minimalism 24:02(GEM) - The t-shirt example 28:30 How telling the story helps ABOUT THE T.K. Coleman T.K. Coleman has been an educator and entrepreneur for the past twenty years. He is a co-founder of the Praxis apprenticeship program, a former head coach for Seth Godin's altMBA, and the former Education Director for the Foundation for Economic Education. Combining his experience in entrepreneurship, finance, philosophy, and theater, he delivers compelling workshops on entrepreneurship, creativity, and economic thinking to HS and College students around the country. In July 2022 T.K. joined The Minimalists Podcast as their new Co-host and is excited to help people declutter the habits and ideas that hold them back from the life they truly want. LINKS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialtkcoleman/T.K.’s book, Emotional Clutter: https://www.theminimalists.com/emotionalclutter/the minimalists: https://www.theminimalists.com/ Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	And we inherit these stories that the way that I am, the way that I feel, the way that I think is fundamentally wrong.
0:09.1	And I have evidence for that because I've interacted with a number of people who told me I'm too much of X, too much of Y, and too much of Z.
0:16.6	And part of emotional decluttering is learning to be present to your feelings with the spirit of non-judgmental compassion and to say, my feelings are not evidence that something is wrong with me.
0:29.6	My feelings simply are.
0:31.6	Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast.
0:34.6	T.K. Coleman is the director of entrepreneurial education for the
0:38.1	foundation for economic education FEEE his primary task is to explore various
0:44.0	ways to popularize and promote entrepreneurial thinking to a new generation he
0:48.9	is also a co-host on the popular podcast the minimalist we did a live Q&A recently, and a gal asked, she said,
0:58.6	I took a bunch of sentimental stuff to a donation center,
1:02.7	and when I got back home, I nearly had a panic attack.
1:05.6	I felt so much anxiety from it.
1:07.2	And another gal chimed in and said, you know, a similar thing happened.
1:10.5	I got rid of a ton of my
1:11.7	craft supplies. And I just felt so sad and depressed afterwards. And so you might be the man to help us
1:19.2	unravel this a little bit. You know, we like to think that if I'm doing these things that I believe
1:24.9	are going to better my home and my future and letting go of this stuff that I should feel good about it. Why might we be feeling some of this
1:33.0	sadness and grief and even anxiety over letting stuff go?
1:37.3	I love to know how they feel now. I love to know how they felt an hour later or a day later, you know.
1:45.0	Oh, that's good.
1:46.0	Yeah.
1:47.0	I can tell you this works both ways.
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