do you struggle with overstimulation? how does it affect you? how have you taken back your life from the overstimulation of the "attention economy"?

Madi- I discovered your channel a little over a year ago and it literally changed my life. You introduced me to minimalism and slow living. At the time I was an overwhelmed mom of five, anxious and depressed. I was knee deep in toys, clothes, extracurriculars, our lives dictated by the school system. My world and mind was cluttered and I was at my breaking point. I was surviving, not thriving. I started picking away at my life from social media, getting a light phone, minimizing our belongings and wardrobes, cutting out extracurriculars and slowing down. We have since pulled our kids from school to homeschool, I can manage my home and I finally enjoy and rest in our space. Our days are filled with what makes us happy. My mind is free, happy, content and my walk with the Lord is stronger than ever without all of the distractions. Our life is slow and restful and I didn't think it was possible. You guided me to change it all and I owe you a HUGE thank you. Edit: I just noticed you’ve hit 100k. YOU EARNED IT! Keep doing what you’re doing 👏👏

I have ADHD and that was my catalyst for embracing minimalism. I was all over the place. I decluttered about 75% of my stuff and got off social media (I’m older so that was just Facebook for me, I didn’t have anything else) I feel so much better. I can focus again and actually enjoy my life now.

Older mom here. I am thankful I was able to raise my children in a mostly non-social media world. I see what you young mommas are dealing with and it's so disheartening. Go silent for a few days. See what's it's like to be free. We need more time off the Internet. ❤ Thank you so much for your efforts for young women and moms everywhere.

I would love videos by you on what you feed your family. I’ve slowed down, but still feel stressed and rushed over food.

I just did a month digital minimalism challenge where my family completely canceled internet. It was a beautiful detox! (It also didn't solve all my problems.) Coming back on to internet and KZfaq, I've decluttered my susbscriptions down to 12, with about half of those beinf videos I would catch up on regularly. I'm going to try allotting a timeframe weekly to catch up on all the videos instead of grazing throughout the day(s).

Aww Madi... I started to realize that this world wants us to feel as if our" being humans " gets in our way of our productivity. We don't run on unlimited resources, starting with our own time... This alone was a powerful reminder to me to slow down.😊

This morning I was feeling so overwhelmed. Scheduling all the play dates, making the homemade from scratch snacks, cleaning, meal planning, checking my phone every few minutes. I resonate so deeply with the feeling of not even hearing my own voice sometimes! You’ve inspired me to delete all optional media from my phone for 30 days and to start single tasking. I will try and remember to come back and reply once I’ve finished to see how much it’s changed how I’m feeling!

I think for young moms it is important to start this life of slow living and a peaceful, simple life now, if that is what you deem as important. Im a mom to 8 and I think the baby and toddler years can help aid in slow living . I believe this because you have all the power of decisions to stay home and not over commit to activities because they are young and you can guide and teach them to understand that this way of life is valuable to their mental wellbeing. Now that I have children ranging from adulthood down to early school age I find it very difficult in this season with slow living , so many people going in so many different directions as well as young adults dealing with anxiety and depression and feeling like im reparenting adults. So what im saying is having little ones is a beautiful season to train them in slow living.

So I finally read the book Essentialisum and in it he talks about how so many amazing ideas came from people disconnecting and being in total quite for days sometime, and in that finding the next best path to go down and a calm awareness of what's essential in our own individual lives. Disconnecting is the way!

I have been off of social media (Facebook and Instagram) for almost 4yrs. I cannot begin to explain how much it’s changed my life, and relationships… I am probably around the same age as you(33). I have been homeschooling my son and daughter for 3yrs and knew I couldn’t have the constant distraction/and availability to everyone. We are a low screen family.. we don’t have iPads, tablets, video games etc… but I really want to get rid of our tvs!! Just getting my husband on board. I know he works hard all day so it is a way for him to unwind… I just know personally how much better I sleep when I’m not watching tv up until then. We only have so much time.. how we spend our days, hours… is how we spend our lives. It matters!! I keep praying more people would wake up and see how much time is wasted on these things. Love your channel Madi. You keep me inspired when I feel like I am going against the rest of the world/our culture. I wish more people like you lived around me!

Here I am 30 weeks pregnant with my first child and I really needed this. This new season of my life has me evaluating everything and like you I also thrive with a simple life. I took so much from this video and I just want to thank you for all your work and wisdom that you share. God Bless you ❤

I needed this. I actually feel like crying. Sooo, I'm going to go let myself cry (😂) and feel this push for change within myself and take a breath and let God show me my next steps. 🥹 Thank you so very much. Sending you a hug, my sister in Christ. Praying for blessings and protection upon your home and loved ones.

Refreshed, encouraged, and inspired! That’s the way I feel when I finish a video from you. God bless you and your family!

I am trying my best at the moment, to watch less youtube and to intentionally choose what creators and content I view, and this is exactly why you made the cut! Thank you for your encouragement on my path to simplicity and living my best life

I've been off all social media for nearly 5 years and really try and live slowly but having 5 kids at home still (mama of 12) I'm still chasing myself. We don't do crazy schedules or play dates but soccer and choir/band keeps me going. ❤this so much.

I am a decade older then you but you are wise beyond your years - Because you seek it. Love all your content ❤

Thank you 🤗🤗 great reminders! I want to slow down and enjoy this life God has blessed me with, especially as I homeschool also. I plan to tackle room by room in our home to get to the point it can function well for us and be easily tidied up daily. All while single tasking. Thanks

I'm glad I stumbled across your videos. It has really helped me put my life in perspective and stop being what i'm told to be and just be myself.

I just love your videos Madi, they always remember me to do less and im in that point of "how i make more space to actually do the things that i'm called for" in those moments that i see around and all i see is caos i just remember something that i believe the Holy spirit told me... do one thing that you know how to... its not exactly the phrase but in context of tidy up... just pick one thing it's out of place and start with that and keep doing "the easy" things like you know if something is in the kitchen but belongs to the bedroom or stuff like that and it's easier then i get in the flow and get one room done 💖 God bless you Madi

❤ The way you talk about slowing down is so inspiring. Thank you!!

Congratulations on 100K on KZfaq!! Your channel is my all time favorite, and I watched it climbing with excitement for you, knowing it was right around the bend. Hope you’re celebrating today and enjoying the sweet milestone blessing! 🤍✨👏🏻🥰 and with all my heart, thank you for the work you contribute! You are changing minds and lives for the better 🙏🏼🙌🏻

Always such a banger Madi! I have slowly started to quiet the noise around me by watching less, listening to less and really trying to hear my own thoughts and ideas. I think we really do easily look outside ourselves and in others for solutions and ideas on how to live. However, you’re one person whom I really do receive value from and your advice is just the whispering little compass I need. ❤️ Love your content always, keep it coming.

For the last few years I've been working on slowing down prioritising rest, it took a minute, letting go of the guilt and going against societal norms thank you for sharing your thoughts and content it's always a gentle reminder

I love the shot at 1:00 of the birds...such a creative eye you have there.

I could literally listen to your videos all day long! So relaxing and calming! Love them and you're work ❤

I’ve been in a depressed funk all week and this is exactly what I needed…thank you Madi. ❤️

This video came at the perfect time ❤ I've been struggling with phone addiction and need a way out! I've heard you talk about Digital Minimalism many times before but I am going to read it now!

You are amazing. I absolutely love listening to you. As a busy mama myself, there is a lot that I learn from you. Thanks a for sharing! ❤

I just love your brain! ❤ I felt that video so much! Thank you! I had a job interview a few weeks ago and they asked me if I am good at multitasking, I thought this was such a weird question especially after watching you for almost a year at this point. Why would it be good to multitask I asked myself days after this interview and I couldn’t come up with a logic reason! You are truly so lucky to have build your KZfaq to something you could live of. I really hope I can do the same with my KZfaq ❤

Congrats on reaching 100K subscribers!

Thank you for this amazing video!! I’m so overstimulated very often, especially since becoming a mom last year. I’ll definitely try those points you explained so well and I’m hopeful that they’ll work for me too! ❤

Madi❤ THANK YOU. I need this today. I’m struggling and your videos give me hope God bless you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

This is amazing, around the time this video dropped I literally was pouring out to my husband that I’m awful at focusing now on my contracted work. I was trying to work out why and I think the overstimulation era we are living in is affecting me! Thanks Madi for your wisdom and art ❤

Congratulations on 100k subs!

Hearing this, was what I really needed now. ❤️ i’m also at home, with our 4 children, homeschooling, enjoying just being outside in the yard or going to beautiful nearby places. But still our home always feels overwhelming to me, like im drowning in the work to keep up with the constant mess and washing dirty clothes etc. And now with the 5th on the way, this feeling really weighs down on me. How am i going to keep up with all the work and enjoy our time together more? Its such a precious time when you have small children and my oldest is already a teenager! Life goes by so fast

I will be so glad when the rest of the world starts to embrace monotasking

AMEN. Thank You. Needed to hear this. I'm slowly getting there... 😊Also realized that my body and mind needs slow living and space to be one self and it's OK not to be so much in the hustle and bussle of life and work. Mainstream.... We are called to be more than our jobs. Thank you for making KZfaq videos. It makes a difference in my life and I believe it will in many others.

Wow! This was an amazing chat!

Ooh you said “attention economy”!!! Yes, please! “Information anxiety”. Oh my. “Deluge” Holy conviction! ❤🎉Thank you! 🎉❤

Hey, I stumbled on one of your videos completely by accident (it was recommended on my feed) and i just wanted to say your content stands out. I find most content in this area to be derivative, if not cliche. Nice work! I’m subscribing!

Yes, I can feel. You're like a fresh breath of the air, so glad I found your channel (or that your channel showed itself up to me) 😊❤ I want to learn to tap into that energy that you are so much! I can resonate with100% of your content xx

i feel like i got so much from this

Beautiful message, as always. Thanks for the glimpse of Carlsbad and the Flower Fields! I used to live nearby and always loved it there ❤

This was SO SO SO good. I would love a video about what your daily schedule is looks like.

Loved this! ☺️

Hi.Maddy your so right theres more stress and anxiety in ourselves we do need to slow down even when walking...😊 🌿

Single tasking!! Love it such great advice thank you

Thank you wonderful video !!!

So thankful for you!

Saving this to watch during the littles quiet time 😌

I said “girl, yessss” out loud so many times listening to this

Love the video!😊

This video was such a blessing to me today. Thank you!

Love these tips!! ❤I would love to do the 30 day tech declutter! I will see if I can get my husband on board w this (the tv being removed might be a challenge for him)! 🤞

Really nice video, thank you 🌷

Thank you for this message. Much needed. Good luck for 100,000 followers shortly ❤🎉

Hey Madisun! I hope you and your family are doing well today and that you are enjoying your third pregnancy! I like that question of who are we before the world told you who to be? That's good! It is fun to have thought provoking questions in your head to work through. I am glad that you said that we have to say, "no" to someone. My mom is someone who overpacks her schedule and is worn out and I keep telling her to stop making so many plans and to rest. I have a pretty easy going and simple schedule because I know where to say, "no" and when to say, "yes." It hurts to hear that people find minimalism to be extreme, but I suppose they really do. It shocks them to think about getting to that spot. A woman told me the other day I would hate to go to her place because she has so much stuff and I told her, "Why? It's your journey. If you have stuff, that is for you to either enjoy or work through, not mine. If I had lots of stuff in my home, that is what would make me go crazy. However, if you ever need a decluttering life coach. . .you know where to go." She said, "Oh I might take you up on that eventually!" Do you have that happening to you too? It is not the first time I have heard people say that they are afraid for me to go to their home because they have seen how little I have and how clean my home is and they know their home is not in that way. It makes me sad that they feel that I am going to look down on them. -JusticePirate/Victoria

Love your videos and podcasts. I have read almost all of the books you suggest. Thank you.

What optional technology did you ditch? More specifics please!! ❤❤❤

It's raining here today, so I'm writing down every thing in each room, WOW it's still adding up.

Wow that pizza looks soo yummy! I love your videos! Single tasking is so difficult .. I even read the comments while I listen to you, or start searching for the books you recommend :/

Love this concept, will definitely give it a try

Hey Madi! Could you please do a video on all your book recommendations for slow living, minimalism, parenting and home schooling? 😍 I read no bad kids after you mentioning it in a video a long time ago and have parented that way since our boy was a baby ( now a toddler) Thankyou so much! There have been a few others I’ve read becuase of your recommendations!! You read such great books! I’d love to hear about some more!! Thanks madi, Jess

❤ thank you I needed this

Thank you.

nice tips!

I LOVE this 🤍

Yes i cant get focused n feel more on edge

I need tips/help to stop shopping! I’m a decorator and as a result, I’m constantly changing my decor! “Tweaking” everything in my house and my yard/patio. I need to STOP! 😢😢😢

I think I just deleted 10 apps off my phone! I wasn’t even using them. But they’re taking up phone space and we’re visual clutter when I was looking for apps I actually use.

I love God, God loves you, I love you!

I really loved your well rested woman video but I can’t find it. 😭 I wanted to share it with my best friend because it spoke to me and I started practicing being well rested after watching that video. Is it no longer available? 😢 Also, I love the optional technology tip. YT is probably optional for me but I don’t know if I could live without it. I’ve gained so much from this platform but yet at the same time I know it can become distracting. I might have to check out this book you speak of. 💗

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What’s now called “slow living” is what all up to Gen X and maybe some early millennials grew up with as “normal life”. Just saying.

I was wondering if you have any tips to use instagram and KZfaq and other social media, as a business owner - when you don’t really want to use it? I struggle a bit with this, as I have a business, but I don’t enjoy social media and the effect it has on people 🫶🏻. I want to simplify and slow down, and eliminate the information overload that social media brings. But I also want a thriving business, because it will lead me to do what I love 🙄. I see you have a instagram as well, so I was just wondering what your thoughts may be 😊

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