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“We never ever need to improve ourselves. We just need to return to ourselves.”–Glennon Doyle. 2020. What a wild, turbulent ride it has been! As I write this, the carefree days of a year ago feel [...]

That’s not me in the photo, but it could be, doing one of my favorite things. Yes, I love making the bed in the morning. It’s part of my daily ritual – after a quick meditation and [...]

This flower caught my eye at sunset the other day. The afternoon light was incredible, and there it was, doing its glorious thing of simply be-ing. I ran for my iPhone, zoomed in, and clicked. [...]

Can you see us? That’s me (behind the camera) and my husband peeking through a gorgeous staircase in Melk Abbey, Austria – one of the stops of our river trip last fall. Though it looks like [...]

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”–Lilly Tomlin As many of you know, my newest book just came out. You could say that A Year to Clear is to clearing what the slow food movement is [...]

Last month I did something I’ve never done in my twenty years as a professional space clearer: I created four short videos of my best clearing secrets. It felt a little bit like a TED Talk [...]

Part 1 of 4 Taming the Clothes I have been asked by a number of readers and students if I’ve read Marie Kondo’s hugely popular book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. The [...]

“There is no getting around the past when everything in the home points to it.”–sbv. Dear Friends, Some of you may have noticed that there was no summer newsletter. That’s [...]

Seeing takes time. -Georgia O’Keefe. Dear Friends, On January 1st of this year, my husband Jay and I left our home in Concord, Massachusetts to spend six months in the mystical, magical [...]

Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt. This year I was invited to give some talks in the Netherlands as part of Dutch release of Your Spacious Self. How could I say no? It [...]