In This Episode:

• Dana is a decluttering expert, talented blogger, author, podcaster with an impressive 17 million downloads, and a speaker, empty nester, and former English Arts and Theater teacher.
• Many people say their pivotal moment is finding out they are not alone. People have to share our stories so others know they are not alone. 
• Dana shares their “Freedom From the Shame of a Messy House” God story.
• She had loved Jesus her whole life and wanted to serve him, but she was just messy. 
• She couldn’t keep things organized, and it always became a disaster, so that is where the shame cycle began. 
• In August of 2009, she called out to God, and he called her to write a blog. 
• Once she accepted how her brain worked, it was freedom for her to let go of the shame and figure out what worked for her in her unique home and with the brain God created.
• Removing that shame and accepting that I was created the way God wanted me to be created was so much freedom.
• Nothing that I do gets me closer to God. It is what only what Jesus has already done and my faith in what Jesus has done. 
• Removing the shame gave her the freedom to make progress.
• You’re not failing spiritually because you struggle in this area.
• Clutter is anything that consistently gets out of control. Your clutter threshold is the amount of stuff you can easily control. 
• When we change the goal to wanting a space to be better instead of perfect, there is no way to fail if we do one small thing. The idea of perfect is so far away that it is overwhelming.