Kristen Van Gilse (Organimama)

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · How One Mom Beat a Hidden Mold Infestation—Step by Step! | @the.organimama · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

So we discarded all of our upholstered furniture.

Almost all of our padded clothing, we were able to put clothing that was less than half an inch thick through a very intense cleaning protocol and whatever survived that, because some stuff shrunk or like disintegrated, but whatever survived that we were able to keep.

We discarded all of our baby items because of how sick our daughter was.

All of the little mementos that we had from her first six months of life, her rocking chair, all of her baby clothes, her cloth diapers, every single thing we threw away.

And it was after chatting with our mold consultant and looking at those results and talking with her, she said, I would recommend you get out because we only had about $2,000 in our bank account at that time.

We could not afford the proper kind of inspection or a remediation.

And the other thing, too, is we were asking these inspectors, how much do you think it would cost us to have a proper, holistically-minded remediation done on our home?

And they said $20,000 to $30,000.

And I said...

There's no way we can do that.

I mean, does insurance help at all?

Not if it's not an event.

So if it's a water event like a flood or a pipe bursting and you can...

target exactly when an event happened, oftentimes home insurance will cover some or most of it.

But in this case, we had no idea how long that leak had been going on and we couldn't target it to a certain event or time.

And so home insurance did not cover any of it.

Honestly, to answer your question, we got down on our knees and prayed because we had no idea what we were going to do.

My husband was in med school.

He was busy studying, taking exams all the time.

I was postpartum struggling with a six-month-old and

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