hoarding
Freedom from Hoarding
Happy independence (from hoarding) day! Wherever you are in your hoarding odyssey, I send you hope, love, and wishes for liberation from what can feel like an inescapable burden. You…
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hoarding, miscellaneousLast-Minute Holiday Gifts for Hoarders 2022
Are you wondering what to buy a hoarder for Christmas? Maybe you’re facing the dilemma of what to get for the person who has three of everything. When choosing what…
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hoardingA Visit to the Cathedral of Junk
What a visit to the Cathedral of Junk taught me about my own hoarded past. …
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hoarding, Things Can Be DifferentHoarding and Ancestral Healing
Healing Requires Change on Many Levels Fully confronting your hoarding tendencies can lead to deep ancestral healing. Overcoming hoarding behavior requires a lot of physical changes, such as removing things…
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hoarding, Things Can Be DifferentStorage Units: A Slippery Slope to Hoarding?
Self-storage units can encourage hoarding tendencies even if you aren't a hoarder. The storage industry makes billions off of people's inability to let stuff go.…
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hoarding, personal careDepression and Hoarding
Dealing with Depression and Hoarding Depression sucks. Simple statement, but not a simple experience. When you’re coping with a hoard or wrestling with your own hoarding tendencies, there are likely…
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miscellaneous, personal careHoliday Gifts for Hoarders 2021
If you’re struggling to come up with holiday gift ideas for friends and family members who hoard or compulsively collect, fear not. The following hoarder gift guide will give you…
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hoardingCleaning: When the Spirit Is Willing but the Flesh Is Weak
I’ve been recovering from surgery for the past couple of months and thinking a lot about how hoarding relates to health and hearth. Namely, once your health gets out of…
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hoarding, Things Can Be Different3 years sharing my journey with hoarding: the wisdom, the magic, and the mess
Hot diggity damn. It’s hard to believe that 3 years ago today I published my first post on this blog about hoarding. I had so much fear around being vulnerable…
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miscellaneous, Things Can Be DifferentLost Love: When Objects Are All That’s Left
This week the poignant feature in The New York Times, “What Loss Looks Like: Times Readers Share Artifacts of Remembrance,” made me evaluate whether it’s helpful or harmful for me…