Ep. 99| Featuring: Valerie Huard

Trauma Survivorhood

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This episode features our guest, Valerie Huard, a personal decluttering expert, author, and podcast host. She shares with us about the vicious trauma/clutter cycle and how to find freedom.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey of her childhood trauma, dissociation, and putting her trauma in a box
- How years later her trauma came flooding back during a move
- Becoming a parent had her discovering the truth of her childhood
- Not crying for years, facing the huge challenge of decluttering, and starting her healing journey
- Becoming a professional stager and personal organizer
- In her work, she's found that too much clutter doesn't always mean someone has trauma; but a lot of trauma survivors have clutter
- The link of clutter and trauma: brain changes, stress, cortisol hormones, prefrontal cortex, and why planning/organizing can be difficult
- Trauma survivors often struggle with daily life executive functioning skills as the brain is overtaxed already
- The science of letting go and learning to be a minimalist
- The process of decluttering: stress, mindset, timing, and then the stuff
- What happens if you let go of things before you are ready
- The secrets of decluttering - taking small steps, not touching the things you want to let go of due to the brains connection through physical touch
- How to tame your new space/ post-decluttering phase
- The addiction of having stuff/hoarding
- Rituals, routines for time and space, habits, goals
- Why transitional periods are hard for survivors
- Creating systems to help you accomplish things
- The cost (financially and on your physical health) of clutter
- Her advice to get started: Start with a deep breath, and then know you are worthy of having a decluttered space.
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