Well, hello there listeners and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 371 of sustainable minimalists, a twice-ish, maybe three times a week show about intentional and eco-minimalist living. On today's show we're

discussing all things rage decluttering. We all have that impulse, all of us

have it, right? That impulse, desire to grab a trash bag, walk around

the house, and throw out everything that's contributing to our mental overwhelm. But my guest

today argues that rage decluttering never works in the long run and she's

here to offer up some solutions on what we can do differently and better next time we have the

urge to again declutter out of rage.

Today I'm speaking with Leslie Alder. She is a life coach for overwhelmed moms who are

sick of spending their lives on housework. Leslie, I'm so excited to talk to you. How are you?

I'm doing so good. Thanks for having me.

Thank you for coming on. Tell us who you are. Tell us how on earth you became a life coach

for overwhelmed moms.

Tell us all the things.

Yeah, so I'm Leslie and I'm a mom of four kids, currently aged 8 to 1.

And I first found life coaching when I was a new mom to 2.

So my youngest at the time was, had just barely turned 1, and I was coming out of this phase of like the crazy

postpartum phase where you come up for air for the first time and I started looking into

minimalism because I was like I moving from one to two kids you realize how much less

control you really have over your life and so I started to look at to the things I

could control and a lot of that had to do with my physical environment so I

really started reducing things my physical environment, but I noticed that even once I had attained quote unquote arrived to physical minimalism, I still had a lot like mental clutter in my head. And so I tried therapy for a little bit and that worked but then I also found

life coaching and the tools I found there really helped me be more intentional about my life and the choices I was making

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