by Star Hansen | Nov 17, 2020 | Beyond Clutter, Organizing Obstacles, Organizing Tips, Spiritual Organizing
I’m sitting in Boston watching leaves fall off the tree outside my window. The leaves are coating the green grass like a beautiful crispy brown blanket. It’s gorgeous. Look, I’m a girl from Tucson who has lived in CA most of my adult life. The whole “living in cities...
by Star Hansen | Dec 20, 2018 | Beyond Clutter, Lifestyle Organizing, Spiritual Organizing
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 my week’s stay, I turned my attention inward. I learned what it meant to...
by Star Hansen | Dec 14, 2018 | Beyond Clutter, Lifestyle Organizing, Spiritual Organizing
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. It is a peaceful place set among...
by Star Hansen | Oct 19, 2018 | Beyond Clutter, Lifestyle Organizing, Spiritual Organizing
My Journey to Deer Park Monastery, My Journey Home. I’m delighted to be back from my week-long retreat to Deer Park Monastery in the great hidden chaparral mountains of Southern California. I flew into San Diego to meet my parents a few days before my trip, to...
by Star Hansen | Sep 28, 2018 | Beyond Clutter, Lifestyle Organizing, Spiritual Organizing
This month I’m turning 40, and I’ve never felt more at ease and peace with myself than I do now. I’ve committed to immersing myself in spiritual practice, unlike any path I’ve ever tread. My intention is to take my sedentary meditation practice from a lotus position...
by Star Hansen | Aug 1, 2018 | Beyond Clutter, Lifestyle Organizing, Organizing Tips, Spiritual Organizing
It seems so simple. Find the clutter, get rid of it. But there’s more to clutter than what we see on the surface. Those stacks of sagging boxes in the garage, rogue receipts, and piles of paper jammed into every crevice in your office, the endless plastic bins of...