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Lee Shuer, Mutual Support Consulting, is a Certified Peer Specialist providing guidance for decades, informed by lived experience, to people with hoarding disorder. He teamed with clinician Dr. Randy Frost to develop Buried in Treasures self-help and group protocols, and with Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland to develop the WRAP for Clutter program. These are only…
The United Kingdom Association of Professional Declutterers & Organisers (APDO) is the equivalent to my National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO), Its members are as diverse, skillful, dedicated, caring and creative as us Yanks, and I’m pleased to have discovered hoarding resources they offer. I’m excited to see how I can use them.…
And I pick up a book at the International OCD Foundation conference, and I go to add it to the list of hoarding disorder resources I publish on this website, and it’s already listed, and reviewed, in 2021. Guess I have a duplicate. Off to a library donation bin it goes.
I love my son, who moved back in with me after graduating college. With a very few, precious few, months’ notice. Who SWORE he wouldn’t need help, until he did. A LOT of help. It’ll work out, my place is simply crowded until everything gets put away. And my son and I get along quite…
So I’ve been deep-cleaning my house because my son is moving home after he graduates college (YAY MY KID!!!!!!!!!!!). Ugliest, most concentrated effort I’ve expended in I don’t know how long – I took on the SPAGHETTI SAUCE ON MY KITCHEN CEILING!!!!!!!!! And ya know what? Even I’m getting the reminder, yup, “Sometimes, it’s the…
I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT SOOOOOOOO MUCH. I belong to the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) and the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD). ICD HAS A MASCOT. Charlie Dependable, a Build-A-Bear teddy bear. Read the whole story. I will always have a fondness for Build-A-Bear. My son’s first gift from…
World Organizing Day. It sounds trite, but it celebrates something powerful. I increasingly have colleagues all over the world, anchored by the existence of the International Federation of Professional Organizing Associations (IFPOA), soon to be 20 years old. Seventeen member societies so far – BRAZIL ANPOP Associaçāo Nacional de Profissionais de Organizaçāo e Produtividade SPAIN…
I first posted about Focusmate waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in December 2020, and I have no idea how well-established it already was. It was awesome then. And OMIMULTIVERSE, it’s only gotten better. Focusmate finesse is FINE! Focusmate nurtures an online global community of people who find body-doubling valuable. What is body-doubling? An anecdotally well-recognized phenomenon within the…
I am SOOOOOOOOOOO PROUD to announce that I’m presenting at the 31st Annual OCD Conference July 9 – 12, 2026 right here in Seattle, Washington, USA https://iocdf.org/ocdcon It’ll be at the Hyatt Regency Seattle 808 Howell Street Seattle, WA 98101-1311 and/or Virtual I’m a panelist with Jennifer Snyder, CPO, Neat as a Pin Organizing…
I was checking Seattle ReCreative’s hours today because I wanted to make a donation run. EXCITING NEWS – quoting its website: “Donations will be paused April 15 – May 4 for Major Warehouse Infrastructure Update: We will be doing a major reorganization of our Georgetown donation intake and processing warehouse, this is another major…
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