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When I successfully cleared my own clutter, I never imagined that it would turn into a business and enable me to fulfil a childhood dream. When I was young, I dreamed of having my own business like my dad, but I had no idea what it would be. I just knew that I loved the…

  I was talking to my husband today about the people we have met in the past who have positively changed the course of our lives, yet who are no longer part of our lives in the present. It made me realise that it’s often people who don’t stay in our lives Forever that have…

  It’s 25 years since I started creating the 7 Step Journey, 23 years since I became completely clutter free Forever. Although clearing my clutter was all about clearing my physical, visible clutter in my Physical Environment / Clutter segment of my Wheel of Life, not only did it also enable me to find fulfilment…

On 7th October 2024 it was the second anniversary of my brother’s untimely death at the age of 51 from an aggressive melanoma cancer. On 8th October it was the second anniversary of the trauma of being told of his death in a round robin e-mail that my father forwarded to me after he had…

When I started clearing my clutter and created my LIFE timeline, I realised how important animals had been in my life and how they were an important part of my comfort zone. My first pet was Heidi, the golden retriever my family had when I was born. Heidi was, by all accounts, the epitome of…

As you may already know, a key ingredient of my Clutter Challenge was my relationship with my parents. Both my parents have insecure attachment issues because of their families and life experiences. My brother and I inherited it from them too, and for both of us it was then accentuated by our own life experiences.…

SMART BOUNDARIES When I decided on Millennium Eve that I was going to break my Clutter Keeping Cycle and finally Clear my Clutter Forever, I realised I was going to have to give up my job to succeed. The what, when, where, why and how of clearing my clutter Forever required me to spend most…

It wasn’t until 2015, just after I turned 43, that I first experienced the grief of losing a human loved one. I had experienced the loss of my best friends in childhood – my dogs – and the loss of my cat Betty in 2009, but not a human loved one. My paternal grandfather died…

When I was clearing my clutter and imagining my Best Life, I envisioned getting married, having a family, and living happily ever after. Just to be clear – I didn’t ‘wish’ or ‘hope’ for these things, like everything in life that you value, they didn’t come easy, and that vision has had to evolve. It…

As I look back on 2023, the phrase that sums it up best for me is that it has been a year of deeper learning and letting go. 2023 has been a year in which I have been reminded of two things: that it is not just physical clutter we have to clear, and that…