Tricia Lerk is the Director and Occupational Therapist from Planted Parenting. Trish shares her wealth of experience in working with kids with ADHD and we chat about tools and strategies to help with decluttering and being organised. I didn't know until after I invited Trish to join me on the podcast, that she too has been diagnosed with ADHD so this episode is a perfect blend of us sharing our common experience, as well as the professional experiences we have as practitioners working with ADHD ...
May 14, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Carly is a high achiever, has a successful federal government career, has two young children, and is learning to create a life that works for her family and to the strengths of her ADHD. Carly shares what it was like doing a double engineering degree at university, working part-time, and taking flying lessons... all while being unaware she had ADHD. Her ambition and success have led her to a fulfilling and stimulating corporate career where over time she's been able to negotiate for workplace fl...
May 07, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Carolyn Verhoef is a certified ADHD coach and shares incredible insights into the management of time, energy and attention, which are notoriously challenging for ADHDers. Carolyn has her origins as a Professional Organiser and has shifted into specialising as an ADHD coach. In this episode, she shares some mic-drop insights into why it seems so hard to manage these finite resources for ADHDers, and what we can do to capitalise on the strengths of our neurotype. Be encouraged to discover more abo...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 30
When you have ADHD and you're also a Professional Organiser there are so many hacks that you have up your sleeves and today Jess shares them with us! She shares what it's like living with ADHD, working as a Professional Organiser and we deep dive into parenting and staying organised with ADHD, through pregnancy and in the newborn phase as well as parenting older children. How can you manage a household when you have ADHD and how in the world do you do it when you have to go off your ADHD medicat...
Apr 23, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Jodie Garth is an OG member of The Art of Decluttering community. Jodie reached out to us when her kids were little for help with decluttering and organising in her home. What she didn't know at the time, was that in the years that followed, she like many many women, would be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. In this episode Jodie shares what it was like having a late diagnosis, processing the stories she'd told herself for 38 years, and labels others had put on her. Jodie shares some INCREDIBLE ...
Apr 16, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 28
By popular request this week we are diving into our ADHD series where we talk to ADHDers, Professionals who work with ADHDers and explore the relationship between decluttering, organising and ADHD. Our first episode in this series is with Joanna Bailey from Bluebird Psychology who helps us define ADHD and how executive functioning can impact our journey to a clutter-free and simplified lifestyle. Today's episode is brilliant as a foundation for the rest of this series, learn with us what ADHD is...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Each of us has an invisible bucket and when others poke holes in our bucket, it's important to have bucket fillers and hole pluggers in our lives. When our bucket is full, our overflow is encouragement, resilience, kind words, wise choices, enthusiasm, drive, purpose and freedom for ourselves and others. When people around us speak harsh words, exclude us, spread rumours, lie, put us down, give labels or even just don't understand us... a hole gets poked in our buckets Freya, one of our team enc...
Apr 02, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Are you avoidant of all the things you need to do to reach a goal? What about if instead you focus on what NOT to do? What are the habits, situations, things, behaviours, characteristics that you don't want in your life anymore? Anti goals is about eliminating these things from your life!! Rebecca talks us through how to work through an anti goal by focusing on what you want to eliminate to improve the quality of your life. How can you nurture your environment and have break through in areas you...
Mar 26, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 25
What are your values? What is your fundamental belief system. What is important to you? What drives you? Knowing your core values is a superpower to helping you life your life with purpose. They will be the filter for decision making about your stuff, your time, your energy, your money... everything! If you're struggling to live an intentional life, overwhelmed with decluttering, or the clutter keeps creeping back in, then identifying your values will be the rock to which you can hold all decisi...
Mar 19, 2023•43 min•Season 2Ep. 24
I have noticed that there are some areas of clutter that are more relevant to women. So I've asked myself why is this the case. Not all women, not no men... but generally speaking it's what I find when I see clients. So WHY is this the case? Often women carry the mental load. For ourselves, our households, and our communities. We account for unseen situations (many women keep Band-Aids in their handbags, not because they’re clumsy but for that moment when someone else needs one). Women are tradi...
Mar 12, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Remembering to do ANYTHING 3 times a day is a huge effort, requiring mental load that frankly, most of us don't have. And when you do have to do something 3 times a day (like tidying up toys, clearing the kitchen bench, washing dishes) it kind of feels like you spend all day doing it because every time you look around, it is messy again or needs your attention. Explore the idea of reducing anything you're doing 3 times a day into incidental habits rather than a big task that you have to remember...
Mar 05, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 22
As a follow on from last weeks episode all about digital photos, today we explore how to best keep, store, enjoy, share and display our physical photos. Whether you're the keeper of family history or completely unsentimental, there are tips here for you. We chat about a listener dilemma on how to manage creating photo books and also chat about why it's harder to declutter physical photos than digital. Chantal shares her tips around scanning physical photos and we issue a challenge - to walk arou...
Feb 26, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 21
What's your number? 9,000... 90,000? How many digital photos to you have on your phone? Do you have them backed up? Are they categorised? Could you find a specific photo within a few minutes? Today I have a conversation with Chantal Imbach from Photos in Order and discuss everything to do with digital photos. We cover the best way to store and back up photos and some options on how to enjoy your photos instead of hoarding them on a hard drive. We also answer a listener dilemma about how to minim...
Feb 19, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Why do we say yes to things we really should say no to? Where does that sense of obligation come from and how can we manage our response when we're offered free stuff? Do you see potential in everything? Do you want to say yes just to avoid potentially hurting someone's feelings? Do you have a scarcity mindset or is there even a sense of greed in your decision making? Today learn from my son Jesse in how he honestly and graciously says no when offered something he doesn't need or want. Have your...
Feb 13, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 19
If you've ever looked around your house and thought, "if only our house was a bit bigger or the storage was better, that would solve our clutter problem", then this episode is for you. And it's also for those of you who love smart design, and are interested in making the most of the space you have. Judy is an author, an award winning custom builder and remodeller who also helps overwhelmed clutter bugs create beautiful and peaceful homes. This last week Judy published her book, Bigger Living, Sm...
Feb 05, 2023•43 min•Season 2Ep. 18
With the school year starting in Australia and extra curricular activities returning you may be starting to feel overwhelmed with all the running around, equipment to keep track of, sports uniforms to wash etc. Do you have multiple activities, multiple children or pre-schoolers to entertain? There are tips today for everyone! Today be encouraged to help your kids take responsibility for their own equipment for extra curricular activities and see what organising tips would work well for your fami...
Jan 29, 2023•15 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Hand up if you've discovered long lost library books or school readers under a child's bed years after they bought them home and been too embarrassed to return them to the school... Hands up if you've paid a lost book fee at the library because you're sure someone broke into your house during the night, purely to steal 2 of your kids library books... Hands up if your teenager has managed in the course of 12 months to take a mint condition $100 text book and turn it into a barely recognisable col...
Jan 26, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Did you like me, put yourself under enormous pressure to find the 'perfect' lunch box for your kids when they first started school? Do you have parts of random lunch boxes in drawers and at the back of cupboards? Join in and question what type of lunchboxes will work best for you and your family depending on the season of life you are in. Be encouraged to think about the routine of washing/ packing lunch boxes as well as habits of unpacking bags after school and work. Maybe you can even encourag...
Jan 24, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 15
If you had to take a guess at home many drink bottles were rattling around your house, how many would you guess? 10? 17? More? Today I share my top tips for managing drink bottles in your house. I share some questions to ask when trying to find the right drink bottles and my favourite solutions for drink bottle storage. You may also like to listen to these episodes: Tupperware Back to School Return to School Join our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me...
Jan 22, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 14
School uniforms - love them or hate them, if your kids go to a school that has a uniform, the start of each year can be overwhelming as you make sure that the right kids have the right size uniforms. Listen in to this episode for some tips on getting uniforms sorted, keeping track of them and learn some top tips for keeping school uniforms organised so that kids can always (or mostly!) get themselves ready for school without stress. You may also like to listen to these episodes: Return to School...
Jan 20, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 13
If you dare... it's that time of the year when you pull the kids school bags from under their beds and discover if there is a liquified banana or shrivelled mandarin in there from the last week of school!! In this episode be encouraged to think about habits and routines to make school mornings less stressful and afternoons more organised. You may also like to listen to these episodes: Return to School Back to School Homeschooling School Start Join our community Become a Patron – your monthly don...
Jan 18, 2023•13 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Todays episode excludes NOBODY... because we ALL have an old device, old cords, chargers, adapters etc hanging around that either we are too scared to throw out because we're not 100% sure what they're for or we're keeping the device, "just in case". I challenge all of us today to gather all unused electronics, be honest about what you do and don't need and use, clear out what can be recycled through e-waste and then donate things which someone else can use. It's time to relieve ourselves of the...
Jan 16, 2023•13 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Do you have a stash of glass jars and bottles and plastic take away containers that you're keeping in the corner cupboard, under the laundry sink or in the cupboard above the fridge? Now, be honest... how many do you ACTUALLY need and use? Maybe it's time (OK... it's definitely time) to fill your recycling bin with the jars, bottles and containers that you can part with. Today be encouraged to declutter these items and also get top tips on how to organise them so you can set limits to how many y...
Jan 14, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Happy Quitters Day! Today I share an update on the diet coke experiment as well as share the world of quitters day. We explore 4 strategies for staying the course on things you don't want to quit, and what to do if you fall off the wagon. And then to celebrate quitters day declutter style, I unpack 7 things to quit in 2023. Episodes to listen to next Micro Declutter Perfectionism Peter Walsh Join our community Become a Patron – your monthly donation makes a huge difference to me being able to pr...
Jan 12, 2023•17 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Today we talk all things hats and glasses... it's time to assess how many you have, what are your favourites, what are you realistically never going to wear again and can get rid of... and how best to organise them so you can find what you need when you need it. I commit to decluttering glasses that I no longer wear or aren't the right prescription and I hope you too can declutter while you listen to this episode and experience the freedom of loving the hats and glasses you are left with. Episod...
Jan 10, 2023•18 min•Season 2Ep. 8
If you had to take a guess... how many gift cards or vouchers do you currently have that are yet to be redeemed? I share in this episode how many I currently have... and I make a plan to redeem them (I've already used 2 since recording the episode). Gift cards and vouchers are great presents as they can show you know someone by what voucher you buy them but also allows freedom for the recipient to decide what they would like to spend it on. Decluttering them isn't about making space in your wall...
Jan 08, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 7
As you come out of a busy season like Christmas or holidays it's so good to have some easy meals to eat, that require little preparation. This is a great chance to eat your way through your freezer, whether it's frozen meals, frozen veggies or half tubs of icecream, by decluttering your freezer (ideally by using what is in there) you'll avoid food wastage (frozen food still expires) and create space for you to organise your freezer to best suit your needs. Today hear about two different types of...
Jan 06, 2023•14 min•Season 2Ep. 6
A few weeks ago I decided to declutter a big purple suitcase that was over 20 years old, we just didn't need it anymore, we travel pretty light and have found that for any holiday we've been on in the last 15 years we've been fine with one large suitcase and everyone just having one carry on piece of luggage (if we're flying). Today be challenged to gather all your luggage in one place and do a true assessment of what you do and don't need. Op shops and charity donation businesses will happily t...
Jan 04, 2023•21 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Today be challenged and inspired to declutter any unused bikes and scooters that you or your kids have lying around. Instead of having excess sitting around - have the ones you do want to use easy to access and remove the barrier to going for a bike ride. Also, think about where you keep helmets, locks, spare tubes, lights and other accessories so that when something needs fixing or you decide to go for a ride, you can quickly repair or grab what you need. Join our community Become a Patron – yo...
Jan 02, 2023•13 min•Season 2Ep. 4
It's the first of January and instead of making a HUGE new years resolution to drastically change your life... how about making one small change that you will be able to keep and stick to? Today learn some quick and easy ways to both declutter and organise your vitamins/ minerals and health supplements. Use what you have already invested in, declutter what is out of date or doesn't really suit your needs. No surprises that just keeping vitamins or health supplements in the bottles isn't going to...
Jan 01, 2023•16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
