Blog
HURRAH, HOARDING SHOWS I LIKE!!!!! I am sooooooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo thrilled to be able to point people to hoarding reality TV which is gentle, thoughtful, empathetic, realistic and even carefully humorous.…
Do you go with the flow? Turn on a dime? Breeze through? I’ve written before about tiny nuances of language that fascinate me. Experiments of what to say to yourself…
I’ve taken classes on hoarding cleaning-out techniques. I work with people in treatment for ADD. I work with people in treatment for OCD. I’ve worked with people suffering from dementia.…
Muyiwa Fasakin brings enthusiasm to another level. A member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day, he started his 2021 Playful Creative Summit interview…
I wrote about complicated grief in two recent posts: Complicated Grief, and Complicated Grief – follow-up. I just learned about a subtle, stealthy variant: disenfranchised grief, grief which can be…
Hoarding Disorder is universal. The August 2021 International OCD Foundation‘s conference on hoarding forcibly reminded me when there were attendees from Kampala Uganda, Canberra Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, and…
“Dear Lauren, I would have liked to send a cute card, but this way the check will be sent! I will not let ‘cute’ get in the way of…
Habits to reinforce habits. I set out to write a blog about the technique of pairing one habit with another to reinforce both. So review your emails while standing and…
I don’t feel great today: spent much of last week at an online conference – HAD AN AMAZING TIME. BUUUUTTT… I was waking up at 5:15AM. I don’t do 5:15AM.…
Welcome to my blog. You're going to find everything here: the book reviews I share on Amazon, the silliness I post to Facebook, whatever might pop into my head that comes out on paper, an education on organizing techniques, pointers to anything from a quiet spot to read a book in Edmonds, WA to worthwhile charitable recipients.
I'm giving myself permission to refuse to write every day - too much pressure!!! I'd never enjoy writing again, and I'd bet my audience would start making comparisons between me and a mosquito. I'm told I have a good sense of humor - I know I enjoy finding ways to laugh and to get other people to laugh. Don't take any of it too seriously, except of course the serious stuff. And, after all, everything is about our stuff.
Take a look. Browse a selection, make a few comments. Please accept my invitation to subscribe. If you have a topic for a post, or would like to be a guest, great! Talk to me.
If you subscribe to this blog, weekly updates will appear in your email box every Monday morning.
Thanks for subscribing! Please check your email for further instructions.