Estonian edition of Clear Your Clutter
Announcing the first ever translation of Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui in Estonian! Title: Meele Keha ja Elu Imeline Puhastus Feng Shui Abil Published by: Ersen, 2012 ISBN: 978-9949-25-193-3...
View ArticleClear your clutter and find yourself
The fascinating thing about clutter is that the reasons people keep it are rarely ever the reasons they think they keep it. Clutter is always a symptom of something deeper, and discovering the true...
View ArticleImproved sound quality of my teleseminar interview
Many apologies to those of you who tuned in to the live interview I did on 23 April and weren’t able to hear it because the sound quality was so poor. The producer has worked some magic on the...
View ArticleFeng shui for cars
A question I’m asked from time to time is whether the feng shui bagua can be applied to cars. Some feng shui books say it can, but I don’t agree. The reason is that the bagua is designed to be used for...
View ArticleWhy people keep stuff
I meet all kinds of people in the consultations I do. This week, for example, I worked with someone who agonized about letting go of six boxes of handicraft materials she had hauled from home to home...
View ArticleNew Spanish edition of Clear Your Clutter
I’m very happy to announce that a new translation of Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui is now available in Spanish. Based on the revised 2008 English edition of the book, it has the title Deshágase del...
View ArticleHelp for people with cluttered storage areas
Aggie Mackenzie Series 1 of Storage Hoarders aired here in the UK during Dec 2012 – Jan 2013, and was one of ITV’s best-performing daytime shows. Production of the second series is now well underway...
View ArticleFloordrobes
‘Floordrobe’ has been in the Australian Macquarie Dictionary since 2008 but hasn’t yet made it into the more sober Oxford English Dictionary. The online Urban Dictionary defines it as ‘a form of...
View ArticleThe art of owning space
There is a world of difference between living in a place you call home and truly energetically owning the space of it. I first discovered the importance of this many years ago when I was space clearing...
View ArticleWhy LED lights are not for me
LED lights are finally coming down in price, but before you rush out to buy some, here’s some information you may like to know. They are widely thought of as being environmentally friendly but what...
View ArticleA useful clutter clearing insight
A very helpful concept to understand when sorting through your things is something psychologists refer to as the “endowment effect”. There you are, clutter clearing an area of your home, and you come...
View ArticleNews about online courses
It often happens when I teach my Clear Your Clutter workshops that at some point during the day (and usually fairly early on), many participants feel that have got what they came for and just want to...
View ArticleMore about online courses
There’s been a huge response to my announcement about online courses, with registrations pouring in from people all over the world. Participants from 19 countries have already registered in just the...
View ArticleSpecial offer for Dutch & Swedish readers
Available while stocks last… Weg met de warboel is the latest Dutch edition of Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, published in 2008. I have 8 author signed copies available at the special price of just...
View ArticlePhotograph it and let it go
This technique works for all types of clutter, large and small, and especially the sentimental kind. Many sentimental items are kept as a reminder of a person or event they are associated with, and are...
View ArticleThe story of Ice, the big white bear
Here’s a story that brought a big smile to my face. It’s from one of the participants of my online courses, who has given me permission to share it. She says: ‘During the Zero Procrastination course we...
View ArticleThe Grief Recovery Method
Some of the most difficult things to sort through and let go of when clutter clearing are items that remind you of someone who has died. It can be just one small object you come across that takes you...
View ArticleWhere not to store your cell phone
I recently heard about a new designer bra with a built-in under-arm pocket for storing cash, credit cards and other things we girls like to take with us when we go out. I would have loved to have had...
View ArticleAfter a bereavement
Sorting through the belongings of someone who has died is so final. It means facing the fact that the person has really gone. Yet sooner or later, it needs to be done, and there are some things you can...
View ArticleModern furniture out-gassing
I recently stayed in a hotel in England with my husband, Richard. We went to bed feeling fine and woke up feeling terrible. At first we thought we’d both come down with flu. We had dry throats, stuffed...
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