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

God could call you to live in a moldy home

And that's something that I have to think about is my family actually lived overseas in Thailand as missionaries.

And I'm sure that our home over there had moisture issues because it was open air.

And so there was that crazy high humidity in a tropical country.

And I actually had really bad mental health problems when I was a senior in high school living over there.

And looking back, I really have no doubt that that probably had environmental factors like mold in our house.

But did God still call us to go be there and do that for that season?

100%.

And so there is an element of going back to Scripture and asking God, what is your will for me?

Is it to stay in this moldy home right now and do what I can to support my kids, but be financially wise about my money and not...

go into debt over leaving my home because it's moldy, that might be the wisest decision.

And it's such an individual thing, you know, because for some people you can't really love God and love others to your full capacity if you're so burdened by chronic illness.

If you're being mold conscious when you're purchasing a home, I really recommend that you actually write a clause into any offers that you make that allows you to back out after mold testing if the results are positive.

And so that's what we did for both of the homes that we've purchased in the last few years is we had our realtor add a clause into our offer saying we will be testing this home for mold in the way that we want to during the inspection period.

And if it comes back above these levels, we have full rights to rescind our offer.

And we actually had to do that on a house.

So we went in and looked at it.

This was when we were initially house hunting after the first home had mold in it.

We probably saw 20 homes during that time.

And again, very similarly to our house hunt for a new construction home, we only saw two homes out of 20 that didn't have visible water damage.

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