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/patients-f...

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!