Posts Tagged ‘hoarding’
Spring is Gonna have Sprung
I don’t know what it is about March and April but I get dizzy with blossoming conferences and seminars, every year. This year: March 4 – 5, the Online Hoarding Disorder Conference of the International OCD Foundation March 10, the Connecticut Women’s Consortium’s Buried In Treasures: The Nature and Treatment of Hoarding Disorder with David…
Read MoreStuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost & Gail Steketee
I wish I’d read Stuff by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee a long long time ago. Because it’s the first book I would have always recommended, and it is now the first book I will always recommend, to anyone who thinks s/he/they may have hoarding challenges, or to anyone who has suffered the impact of…
Read MoreBreathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home
Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home is a self-help book written by Lauren Rosenfeld, a life coach who focuses on spirituality, and Dr. Melva Green, a psychiatrist on the TV show Hoarders. I watch Hoarders for white noise while I work, I dislike Hoarders, I have a guilty pleasure/loathe it relationship with…
Read MoreRise Above Your Stuff: A Workbook for those Struggling to find Themselves amidst their Stuff
Rise Above Your Stuff: A Workbook for those Struggling to find Themselves amidst their Stuff by Dr. Barbara Jo Dennison and Ms. Karen Kruzan is both a self-help manual for people with clutter challenges and a workbook which can be used as a supplement to their Fresh Start support group programming with therapists. I have…
Read MoreFresh Start: Overcoming Chronic Disorganization and Hoarding Group Manual
Fresh Start: Overcoming Chronic Disorganization and Hoarding Group Manual by Barbara Jo Dennison, PhD, LISW-S and Ms. Karen Kruzan, LISW-S, CPO-CD, a manual for the development and maintenance of support groups for people with clutter challenges, is one of the few books I’ve ever read which I’ve hesitated to review. I hesitated for two reasons:…
Read MoreNational Center for PTSD
Organizing is almost never just about the stuff, never just about living in a part of the country with, routinely, WORD OF HONOR, the weirdest sized and shaped closets of anywhere I’ve ever been. It’s about our emotions around the stuff, and the foundations of those emotions, whether developed through lived experience, neurodivergence, or some…
Read MoreSalience Network of the Human Brain or Adelaide’s Lament
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. David F. Tolin, a highly-respected expert on hoarding disorder, in which he explained the salience network and its relevance to hoarding tendencies. In layman’s terms, and I’m probably bungling this completely, the salience network helps people decide what is important, especially in their environment, and how to react…
Read MoreCeci Garrett, therapist who specializes in hoarding disorder
Ceci Garrett is a phenomenal resource for people seeking therapeutic support around hoarding challenges. She is the adult daughter of a person with hoarding disorder, who courageously teaches about that experience, including to a Tedx audience. Even more extraordinary, Ceci’s journey as a person affected by hoarding includes a successful intervention, launched by the TV show…
Read MoreOHIO – Oh Heck I Object
OHIO, Only Handle It Once, is a golden rule among Organizers. It’s meant to teach our clients how to forestall “churning” – a word I dislike intensely! Churning – I prefer “shuffling ” – is a behavior where people try to make keep/let go decisions about their possessions, but only end up moving stuff from…
Read MoreThe Hoarder in You – Robin Zasio book
I’ve read a lot of books about organizing and hoarding disorder. I’ve attended a lot of classes. Dr. Robin Zasio‘s book, The Hoarder in You, is the best introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a counseling modality which can be effective for treating people with hoarding disorder, that I’ve found for laypeople. Dr. Zasio, a frequent clinician counseling…
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