Purging Unwanted Holiday Décor
We all know what time of year it is. It’s time to decorate for the holidays! The stockings hang, the candles light up the room. The house looks amazing!!! But what do you do with [...]
Using Clutter to Take Your Power Back
It's time to take your power back! Sometimes life feels out of control. There are so many things that we can’t do anything about. From the state of the world to other people, to which [...]
Paring Down For a Fresh Start
It's time for me to Pare Down for a Fresh Start! Have you ever been somewhere that felt so much like home that you forgot about every other place you ever lived? Somewhere that felt [...]
How Does Your Home Feel to You?
How Does Your Home Feel? https://youtu.be/fiLrzGpp0BE When you hear the question of how does your home feel what do you think? Home is where the heart is. How many times have you heard that phrase? [...]
What I REALLY Think When I See Your Clutter
What do you think I see and feel when I see your clutter? As a Professional Organizer, people are always terrified when I go into their homes. Even friends and family members often clean for [...]
What If I Need This Someday?
I’m sitting at the Albuquerque airport waiting for my flight back to Carmel after a weekend of sunsets, laughter, Opera and friends. There are two people standing right next to me, and even though I’m [...]
Is Clutter a Security Blanket?
I grew up in Tucson, AZ on the corner of a small residential street and Wilmot Road. Even though it was a safe neighborhood, Wilmot was a busy street all hours of the day and [...]
Europe Stole My Heart
Europe on my mind... I sat on my friend’s balcony in southern Italy, sipping a cappuccino as I looked out over the rolling green hills filled with olive trees and yellow wildflowers. The warm ocean [...]
3 Spiritual Practices to Help You Get Closer to… Yourself
2018 was a banner year for me. I turned 40 in October and spent time in Southern California at Deer Park Monastery tucked away in the chaparral mountains at a retreat among Buddhist monks. During [...]
How I Learned to Breathe All Over Again
Where to begin? Well, here. I recently turned 40 and ushered in the new decade with a blissful retreat to former Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh’s Deer Park Monastery in Southern California…
