Work with Your Brain to Organize

This month I have teamed up with Karen Barela, professional organizer and senior move manager with GingerSugar, LLC.  Organizing and then maintaining that organization is not the neurodiverse brains’ favorite activity. Finding strategies that align with how your brain works, and making it fun, can help. But get rid of the ideas that:  I should […]

Finding a Home

I teamed up with Jennifer Fox of Fox Property Management this month in Louisville, CO, to co-write this blog. See more about Jen here.  Finding and choosing a rental property can be an overwhelming and emotional process for anyone; when you add in that you may have sensitivities or memory issues, it can become another thing. […]

Family Organization: We Are In This Together

Does everyone in your family seem to need help with organization? In families where a parent or even both have ADHD as well as the kids, mornings and evenings can seem chaotic. In families where the parents’ natural organizational process are different from each other or from their kids’ process, life can seem chaotic. I […]

Self-care and Disorganization

It is almost a case of what came first; did the poor self-care habits cause the disorganization or did being disorganized cause the poor self-care habits? Well, probably a little of both. Self-care is being talked about everywhere these days. It is more than what most people think?  See my blog from earlier about types […]

Use Contracts to Stop Having to Nag

Do you need to prepare yourself before you reminding your teen of chores to avoid a fight or complaining or nagging? Teens can be a handful. It really isn’t their fault. Healthy teens are supposed to push for autonomy and freedom but good healthy parenting is supposed to impose restraints in the interest of safety […]

Boundaries for Organization and Time Management

Happy New Year! We all feel like we start off each new year with a clean slate but after a few weeks, we often fall back into old patterns. Why does this happen? The internet will tell you things like too much change at once, believing you will fail before you start, not enough action, being […]

Update to my daughter’s accessible closet!

The parts we ordered online came in so we finished her closet this past weekend. There are now four drawers. Three holding pants and one holding personal care items like her hairbrush and make-up.  The boxes underneath are medical supplies that she will go through in a month. She is very happy with her closet and […]

Accessibility in Organizing

I have a daughter who uses a wheelchair. She is 20 years old. She is funny, compassionate and hardworking. She is a huge sports fan; particularly the Pittsburgh Penguins. Our home, on the other hand, is older and not build for someone in a wheelchair. We don’t have the money to gut the inside of […]

Donation Tips

November is a time when we start to think more about being grateful for all of our blessings but it is also a great time to start thinking about what you aren’t using or have outgrown that could be used by someone else.  I believe in “what goes around comes around” so I am more […]

The Effects of Clutter and Some Cures!

When your mother tells you to clean up your room she may be protecting your mental well-being.  Clutter affects us in ways we don’t ever realize. Clutter can be both physical and mental. Besides the obvious that physical clutter is a fire hazard or a tripping hazard, it also traps dust, dirt, mold and animal […]