Hello!
This is my personal experience growing up in a Hoarder Home.
I've always turned to YouTube to feel less alone, and when circumstances in my life brought this trauma to the surface, I realized there wasn't a video that I connected with about this...SO I decided to make the video I was looking for.

✨You are not alone with this trauma, I am right there with you✨

Helpful resources:
What is Hoarder Disorder: https://www.psychiatry.org/patientsf...

Why People Hoard: https://www.apa.org/research/action/s...

The Hidden Lives of Children Of Hoarders: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view...

Teal Swan on Hoarding:    • Hoarding (Understanding Hoarders and ...  

If you feel safe/open, I'd love it if you could comment down below your experience and let's hold space for one another.
We can bring unity through a trauma that can make us otherwise feel alone!

Thank you for holding/sharing space with me... until next time!
G

(You can follow me on instagram: @gayla_kay to communicate with me!)

Chapters
00:00 A Brief Hello
0:49 Shame/Loneliness
1:44 Compassion for the Hoarder
3:43 Speaking to YOU
4:31 My circumstances
5:42 Things get BAD
7:11 Parents separate
9:58 What breaks, stays broken
11:16 The shower breaks
13:49 "I am the problem"
16:29 Coming back from the wilderness program
17:48 "the refrigerator breaks"
19:36 Hard to function in school
20:51 Leaving
22:36 Ending/sharing
23:37 Future videos!?
24:50 Oracle card reading!