Negative emotions complicate and compound the difficulty of managing our clutter. Guilt, shame, fear, grief, anger, and other painful feelings reduce our ability to focus and make decisions, and cluttered spaces and piles of stuff can aggravate our emotional distress. In episode #208 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, offers strategies for working around or through negative emotions to move your projects forward no matter where you’re starting from.

Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw208

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Discussion of the last Weekly Tittle
10:44 Main topic: Vicious Cycle: Clutter as a Symptom and Cause of Negative Emotions
49:09 Next episode’s topic
50:11 Weekly Tittle
51:54 Gayle’s final thought
52:28 Closing announcements

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