My newly renovated laundry room is almost put back together. I like the stream lined clutter-free space, so I have been SLOW to rehome everything back. I am jenga-ing laundry items back, (Making up verbs is fun!).

It was during this reorganization that for the first time ever, I pulled out the drawer at the base of the dryer. Wait? What??? Look at all this space!!! Why have I never used this so OBVIOUS cubby before? It is so obviously the best place to store dryer sheets?  Hello???

As I contemplate just how I could have so oblivious to this extra storage space for the last decade, it got me thinking about all the junk that takes up space in my mind.  All the valuable real estate that I reserve for made up future catastrophes, fretting about past mistakes, or trying to solve future failures. Just how much wasted space is occupying my mind? I am terrified to calculate!

I used to have mind space dedicated to infertility, in-vitro, and later the insurmountable grief over the loss of my babies.  Grief takes up a lot of space. Just like an unwelcome virus, grief spreads throughout our brain; tainting all that it touches. Once my grief was subdued, I had to transition that mental space trying to jenga together the new life that was thrust on me.

Whether it is grief, failure, catastrophe, or worry, or something else, we all have a brain cloud that takes up way too much space.

Mamas, imagine finding your very own secret ‘dryer drawer’ in your mind. What would you fill it with? What would you dedicate this new coveted space for?

What is taking up the most space in your mind mamas?