My guest Elizabeth is a life and health coach and works with women to remove barriers to them succeeding in their health goals. Elizabeth and I connected over our shared understanding that a cluttered environment can sabotage your health.

• A cluttered bedroom can disrupt your sleep
• A cluttered fridge can make you order take out because it’s too overwhelming to cook
• A cluttered dining table might encourage you to eat in front of the TV and not be conscious of how much you’re eating
• A cluttered garage stops you having easy access to your bike so you drive instead
• A cluttered lounge means you’ve stopped doing Pilates in the morning

Identifying where clutter might be blocking your health goal and dealing with the clutter can have long-term health benefits!

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Reverse Decluttering is making decisions about what you keep rather than what you want to let go of. By process of elimination, whatever you don't keep you declutter.

This can be helpful if you're overwhelmed by a huge collection and know you can only keep a small amount. It can also be really useful if you have limited space and have to curate your possessions to fit, picking your favourite until the space is full rather than facing the daunting task of reducing and reducing.

If you're decluttering with a child it can also be helpful to have them pick their favourites rather than what they don't like as they may like everything!

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https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/reverse-decluttering-method/990561

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My guest Ingrid is part of the dynamic duo from The Declutter Hub podcast and she shares how thinking through the emotions and potential pitfalls can be super helpful to prepare you well for the task of the doing when it comes to decluttering.

For instance, if you have a quantity problem, it requires more than just decluttering a cupboard... you actually need to do some thinking about why you have a clutter problem, what causes the problem, what feeds the problem, how to tackle the clutter itself, what do you need in order to have success... and once you've done the thinking... then you can be strategic in the doing.

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Spoon theory - what a gift to those of us with chronic illness, disability or mental health challenges! Spoon theory is a theory anyone can use - it's simply a theory to articulate personal energy levels and capacity on any given day.

Energy is consumed by daily activity, decision making, socialising, talking, listening, thinking, emotions - all your activities require spoons! For some people having a shower requires just one spoon, for someone else it requires 4 spoons - and getting to know your own energy levels is a great tool for self empathy, self actualisation and self advocacy.

Having a cluttered home and trying to manage an excess of possessions, or constantly feeling like you're tidying up uses a lot of spoons. So the habit and activity of decluttering and organising is a great gift to your future self. Less clutter means your daily tidying requires less spoons.

And if you're someone who finds that doing the activity of decluttering requires SO MANY SPOONS, you'll find some great tips in this episode for how to conserve spoons while also moving forward.

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If you're stuck on what to declutter next - why not go with some easy decisions and just declutter items which have gone out of date!

This week in the podcast I give you some simple (and maybe not obvious) categories of items that go out of date that you can grab and do a quick declutter of.

• Out of date food
• Out of date make up/ beauty products
• Out of date technology
• Out of date prescriptions
• Out of date user manuals

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If you ever get stuck when you're organising wondering where something should be kept, have a think about an items sisters and cousins.

Sisters: same same

Cousins: same same but different

Do you keep all your scissors together in one location (with their sisters), or do you keep a pair with the gift wrap, a pair in the office, a pair with the craft and a pair in the kitchen (with their cousins)

It's a really helpful way to decide where you're going to keep items when you're organising as it helps you create systems that make items easy to find, use and put away when you're finished.

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Do you have items that you've purchased that you really need to return to store? You changed your mind, the item doesn't fit, you purchased too many, or simply the wrong colour!? And be honest, how long have you been procrastinating returning those items?

I see it all the time - clients have clothes, toys, household items that they've bought (usually online) and they need to return them for whatever reason, but instead of doing the admin of the return, they sit in boxes and bags in our loungerooms, spare rooms and studies.

I've recently experienced this with left over supplies from our renovation. We finished the reno and then I gathered all the things that we had over purchased, or not needed ready to return. But it's such a hard task to get excited about. you've got to find the receipt, put everything back in the car, then when you get to the shop you have to get everything out, explain etc and go through the process.

But... please hear me - IT'S WORTH IT!!

Your returns and refunds are a tab open in your brain, the stuff you're waiting to return is clutter in your house.

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Injury happens to all of us, and the frustration is real. Some quick tips today on how to stay organised while you have an injury.

Firstly, remember to rest - the decluttering and organising can wait, and it's not worth making an injury worse to achieve a tidy home.

Next, ask for help - to accommodate your needs right now, or to help tidy so it's not bothering you so much. Maybe write yourself a list on your phone of areas you'd like to declutter when you're able.

And think of ways you can organise to make life easier with your injury. Bring high use items down to easy to reach spaces or repurpose your bedside table or coffee table - get creative so you can rest and recuperate or reduce the frustration at least with your reduced capacity.

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