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Ease. For such a little word, it lingers and expands if you say it out loud. Repeat it slowly – with awareness – and you might even feel your nervous system relax. Insert the phrase “I [...]

How important is it to have a clean house? How do you juggle a demanding job and a family and still have the time for basic chores like cleaning? My sister Martha, a hospice nurse and mom to a [...]

Enough?  Not enough? There’s are a series of phrases in my book I call “softening attitudes.” One set in particular is designed to ease the mind’s tight grip on the idea [...]

No matter how hard I try, it seems I’m always racing out the door – squeezing into five minutes about 30 things I need to do before I hit the road. My whirling headspace looks something [...]

“How we hold the simplest of our tasks speaks loudly about how we hold life itself. – Gunilla Norris, Being Home “I once saw a staggering statistic in Newsweek: ‘It takes the average [...]

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strong pull of what you really love.” – Rumi One of my biggest ah-has in the clearing journey has been this one: It’s all well and good to [...]

Here’s something I don’t understand: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer of wet ones because nobody bothers to put away the original set. Am I the only [...]

“One day a client oozed into my office, slumped into a chair, and said she was depressed—only she said it so slowly that I thought she said “deep rest.” In a way, this was [...]

Spacious. I love that it begins with the letters “Spa”…as in where you go to feel good. Main Entry: spa·cious Pronunciation: ˈspā-shəs Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, [...]

The list below comes from an article I wrote called “Self-Care and Clutter Clearing Go Together: Ten Ways to Lighten Up by Feeling Good.” What I love about these simple practices is [...]