There are so many articles on how clutter negatively impacts your life, this is one of my favorites.

https://www.mother.ly/life/its-science-clutter-can-actually-give-you-anxiety

It sums up much of the science around what happens in our bodies when faced with clutter and gives clarification to why purging can be so difficult.

Scheduling a session with Brilliant Living can get the organizational ball rolling in several ways.   Sessions keep you accountable to the project.  You will know that on this day Amy is coming for 6 hours to declutter the kitchen, office, or garage.  It can be helpful to have a non-judgmental buddy to sort through your belongings.  At the end of a session most of what has been deemed donations gets taken away so they don’t find a way back into your life.

If carving out some time to organize is not feasible, I can organize independently, creating suggested donations, that you look through before being donated.  Sometimes it works great to put these suggested donations in a taped up box with a future date.  If nothing in the box has been missed by that date the box gets donated, without opening it up.

The beginning of the linked article states, “It seems that as soon as we take a carload of bags to the donation center, whatever space or order we have been able to forge is almost immediately replaced with more stuff.”  I understand that life is busy which is why I offer a regular Home Re-set service.

I love to help people declutter and also helping people maintain the order that our brains crave and our bodies thrive from.