226 // “What if Your Possessions Were the LEAST Interesting Thing About You" an Ode to Intentional Living with Leslie Alder

Are you carrying the weight of the things you own? Are you carrying the weight of your todo list? Do you think thoughts like "I should be able to keep up with the chores." or "There must be something wrong with me, everyone else is doing it!"

Today's interview is with Leslie Alder, she guides caregivers through their clutter and chaos and out the other side to lighten the load that parenting and motherhood so often place on our shoulders.

Felica and Leslie dive into the mindset shifts needed to access the feelings you want to feel in your environment. They question the more is more culture that we live in and offer an anecdote for slow living that could bring us a slow peace that we desperately all need.

Links:

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

The Simple Home: A Month-by-Month Guide to Self-Reliance, Productivity and Contentment

Time Stamps

  • 1:50 - The magic of caring for sick kids

  • 5:45 - How the adventure to New Zealand began

  • 7:40 - How to live more minimally

  • 11:22 - What is my motivation for change?

  • 12:51 - A flawed filter of viewing our life is “I’m probably doing it wrong.”

  • 15:50 - Replicating a more contemplative state

  • 17:09 - Way of life in New Zealand and how it was a reframe

  • 19:44 - Ritual is routine with intention

  • 21:58 - “I don’t have enough time or energy”

  • 24:12 - “All of this clutter is making me overwhelmed”

  • 26:35 - It’s the stories we tell ourselves that bring meaning

  • 31:00 - What does my house mean to me? And what systems can I make?

  • 34:05 - Recap: I get to choose how to use my time and energy, overwhelm doesn’t come from the clutter––it comes from what I am making it mean, I haven’t figured this out YET.

  • 36:00 - Leslie’s morning routine

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