The simpler the space, the

the space, the cal yeah, now.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, what you're holding on to.

What you're holding on to,

but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

I'll let it all go.

Welcome back to a little child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy, my dear shit shows, I got my voice back.

So Tony Son.

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. I am a total and complete shit show. I am 15 years sober.

I am an adult child of an alcoholic family. I realize that after dating two alcoholics named Brian back to back, which you can hear all about in my very first episode, which is required listening around here.

And this is where we talk about what to do

when you realize your childhood fucked you up a lot more

than you thought it did.

And yes, we curse here, you've been warned.

So today, we are diving deep into a topic that I'm sure many of

y'all can relate to and that is clutter. We're joined by Andrea Waite. She was a professional organizer for over 15 years. She is the author of the recently published book, Home in Harmony.

So I have shared that one of the ways that my trauma, my adult child

diseaseness manifested was through clutter. So this was between I think it was I was we were trying to figure out when exactly this was. I'm pretty sure that I was in between Brian number one and Brian number two and my apartment in San Francisco had gotten really really out of

control now it wasn't very obvious like it was behind closed doors it was in

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