I wanted to give you a little bit of background because when I first started out as a "declutter coach" it was a little bit by accident... In 2016, a friend asked if I could be a guinea pig for her as she was training to be a coach, in return I offered to sell some of her things on ebay - I had been using ebay for myself and quite enjoyed the process and she had a pile of things she had been meaning to get rid of so it seemed a good swap. We made a bit more money for her th
This is such a thing - especially if you have a neurodiversity. I always used to feel that when I was at work I had such great ideas for what I was going to do when I got home and when I was at home I found it much easier to feel enthusiastic about work projects 🤣 Never quite the right motivation when I was actually able to do much! The best advice I can give is to firstly split up your planning from your doing - decluttering can start with planning and thinking about what
Why does it take someone else being present to make me do something? Have you experienced this common phenomenon where you seem to only make progress when you have someone else with you? Not necessarily doing the thing with you, but simply there. It is known as body doubling, and it is not about pressure or shame, but somehow allows us to hone in on what we need to do and get it done. I join a weekly call where we state our intentions and then work in silence for 45 min
I have been talking to people this last week about the ADHD & Clutter workshop that happens every quarter, and a big topic was about the common experience of summoning up motivation and making a bit impact and then something happens or time runs out and it just never feels the same again and you never go back to the job 😫 This seems to happen across people's lives - not just clutter related - a lot of bigger jobs or projects that are not possible to conclude within one sitt
There is a lot of noise at this time of year about new year's resolutions and the "new you" attitude that we are all pushed towards trying to attain, and I just want to call out that it is just not helpful! We are not feeling the way we are (whatever that may be) because we are not trying hard enough. We are feeling the way we are for a number of complex reasons and, whatever has happened, the only things that are likely to be true are that we need more compassion for ourselv
It's that crazy time of year where we all spin around like whirling dervishes and tell everyone how busy and stressed we are - it's a bit of a badge of honour - if you're not present buying, planning your food shops and socially saturated, then what are you actually doing?! Everyone asks "are you ready for Christmas" and you get the two camps of people - those who have been ready since November 1st and those who are in complete denial that it is coming. But what is actually c
I have got lost in the "declutter industry", and although I have been helping clients break the cycle of clutter for a while now, it has only just registered with me that actually I don't help people declutter - I help them never declutter again! I talk about the declutter industry and how it sucks people in - a similar way to the diet industry with yo-yo dieting and how it actually wants to keep us unhappy with our weight so we keep spending money. The declutter industry rel
