This home was incredible! The owners and family members are to be applauded for their courage in bringing this into the public eye and I was honored to be invited into their home and their lives. And of course Peter Walsh rose to the occasion! If you missed Oprah’s two-part special, Inside the Life of Hoarders, you can still review what was done HERE
Take Dr. David Tolin’s Hoarding Assessment HERE if you think you might have a problem with hoarding.
As I sat and listened to some of the emotional causes for this family I could hear myself saying the same words as Peter to my clients and my students. If you are interested in learning about my four emotional causes for clutter and disorganization and how to “re-look & re-think” your stuff please check out my two-set audio CD, Enough is Enough! The ART of Getting Organized, with handout HERE
Tips to overcome Excessive Hoarding
I found this on John Trosko Blog, Organizing LA and LOVED it! Thought you might also:
“You’re home is a garbage processing center where new things are purchased and slowly demoted through various stages of trashification until you’re done.
Starts out: you bring it home. Put it on the kitchen table. You read the instructions, you tell everyone in the house about it. And then some time goes by and you realize you’re not going to be so keen on drying out fruit and storing it in your basement (as you thought you were going to be.) So therefore the object is demoted to the closet where it lands on the floor. You start stepping on it to reach newer things that are just beginning on their journey to junk.”
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