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Traveling? The perfect time to hone decluttering skills

I just spent the better part of a week in the hospital after what should have been an outpatient surgery (yay, me!), and one of the nurses commented at one point that my bedside tray and bag of “supplies” was one of the most organized spaces she’d seen. This was a pretty big moment for me, because since surface clutter does not typically bother me much day to day, it&#8217…

Tidy less, declutter more….

Do you feel like you spend hours working on your house, but the piles of clutter just never get any smaller?! It’s possible you’re confusing “clutter” with what I’ll call “everyday mess.” Now, if this sounds like a semantic argument, sure, it is, but it’s also hugely important for both prioritizing and mindset – both of which are, in turn, critical to your…

What It Feels Like to Battle Chronic Clutter

And how a Decluttering Coach can help! I wrote this story to show two things. First – how incredibly painful it is to live feeling like you’re drowning in chronic clutter, despite every effort to dig out. The pervasive shame itself can be debilitating. (Incidentally, shame is a lousy motivator.) And second – to show how having a Decluttering Coach by your side can break that cycle of helplessness. Sometimes we just need…