The Art of Decluttering

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ADHD Series: Lisa Woodruff from Organize 365 May 28, 2023

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Lisa Woodruff is the Founder and Owner of Organize 365, in this episode she brings all her enthusiasm and energy for sharing about the intersection of ADHD and organising. Lisa is even doing her PHD on the topic (did I mention she's amazing!).

We chat about executive functioning in relation to organisation, specifically around working memory, planning and monitoring... all of which are essential parts of achieving and maintaining an organised home.... which is MUCH easier said than done for those of us with ADHD.

Lisa to the rescue with creative ideas/ hacks/ systems that will support you “to do what you have to quickly and efficiently so you can focus on the things you love and share your unique gifts with the world”

Find Lisa Online

Lisa's book: How ADHD Affects Home Organization

Organize 365 Podcast

Organize 365 Website

Follow Organize 365 on Facebook

Follow Organize 365 on Instagram

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD Series: Process Improvement, Optimising and Efficiency

ADHD Series: Occupational Therapy, Strategies and Tools

ADHD Series: Corporate Career & Knowing Your Strengths

ADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy and Attention

ADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHD

ADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a Household

ADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

ADHD with Joanna

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ADHD Series: Process Improvement, Optimising and Efficiency May 21, 2023

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Sylvia Campbell is a friend of the show, she's also a chemical engineer working in the water industry as a process improvement lead. She was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and in this episode we hear how her amazing mind works in terms of engineering, problem solving, process improvement, home optimisation and developing efficiency.

Learn some strategies for identifying what the actual problem is when trying to improve an area in your home so you can maximise your results. Ask questions like, "why do we do it this way", "what about this isn't working", "what is best for you" and other questions that enable you to get creative in how you optimise areas in your home.

Another ADHD/ Decluttering/ Organising episode that will have you thinking of ways you too can create the life you want.

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD Series: Occupational Therapy, Strategies and Tools

ADHD Series: Corporate Career & Knowing Your Strengths

ADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy and Attention

ADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHD

ADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a Household

ADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

ADHD with Joanna

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15 Things I'm Doing in Covid Isolation May 17, 2023

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Today is a super quick bonus episode for you... I've got covid and I'm isolating from my family so I don't make them sick. I've got a pretty mild case this time round which is a huge relief... and I've had the energy to do a few things during the day as well as doing lots of resting and sleeping.

So here are 15 things I've been doing in isolation. You may not have covid, but you may have an injury, be recovering from surgery or just find that you need an idea of things to do when you've got some time to kill (just kidding, who ever had random time to kill!)

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ADHD Series: Occupational Therapy, Strategies and Tools May 14, 2023

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Tricia Lerk is the Director and Occupational Therapist from Planted Parenting. Trish shares her wealth of experience in working with kids with ADHD and we chat about tools and strategies to help with decluttering and being organised.

I didn't know until after I invited Trish to join me on the podcast, that she too has been diagnosed with ADHD so this episode is a perfect blend of us sharing our common experience, as well as the professional experiences we have as practitioners working with ADHD clients.

Discover some great tools you can utilise to help with executive function, from the benefit of lists, how to work with our dopamine levels, and breaking up tasks to reduce overwhelm.

Another ADHD/ Decluttering/ Organising episode that will have you thinking of ways you too can create the life you want.

Find Tricia Online

Planted Parenting Website

Planted Parenting Instagram

Planted Parenting Facebook

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD Series: Corporate Career & Knowing Your Strengths

ADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy and Attention

ADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHD

ADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a Household

ADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

ADHD with Joanna

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ADHD Series: Corporate Career & Organising Around Your Strengths May 07, 2023

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Carly is a high achiever, has a successful federal government career, has two young children, and is learning to create a life that works for her family and to the strengths of her ADHD.

Carly shares what it was like doing a double engineering degree at university, working part-time, and taking flying lessons... all while being unaware she had ADHD. Her ambition and success have led her to a fulfilling and stimulating corporate career where over time she's been able to negotiate for workplace flexibility that accounts for and capitalises on her strengths.

We also hear what tools Carly and her husband use to manage their time, schedules, home duties as well as manage motivation and productivity.

Another ADHD/ Decluttering/ Organising episode that will have you thinking of ways you too can create the life you want!

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy and Attention

ADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHD

ADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a Household

ADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

ADHD with Joanna

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ADHD Series: Managing Time, Energy & Attention Apr 30, 2023

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Carolyn Verhoef is a certified ADHD coach and shares incredible insights into the management of time, energy and attention, which are notoriously challenging for ADHDers.

Carolyn has her origins as a Professional Organiser and has shifted into specialising as an ADHD coach. In this episode, she shares some mic-drop insights into why it seems so hard to manage these finite resources for ADHDers, and what we can do to capitalise on the strengths of our neurotype.

Be encouraged to discover more about yourself, to understand yourself and hear as Carolyn coaches Amy through the podcast too.

No matter your relationship with ADHD, this is an episode you won't want to miss! Make sure you share it with your friends too.

Find Carolyn Online:

Outside the Box Coaching Website

Outside the Box Coaching on Facebook

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHD

ADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a Household

ADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

ADHD with Joanna

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ADHD Series: Being a Professional Organiser with ADHD Apr 23, 2023

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When you have ADHD and you're also a Professional Organiser there are so many hacks that you have up your sleeves and today Jess shares them with us!

She shares what it's like living with ADHD, working as a Professional Organiser and we deep dive into parenting and staying organised with ADHD, through pregnancy and in the newborn phase as well as parenting older children. How can you manage a household when you have ADHD and how in the world do you do it when you have to go off your ADHD medication while pregnant and breastfeeding??

No matter your relationship with ADHD, this is an episode you won't want to miss! Make sure you share it with your friends too.

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

Becoming a Professional Organiser (Jess's first episode on the podcast)

ADHD with Joanna (first episode Joanna did)

Mental Health Care

Mental Health

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ADHD Series: Adult Diagnosis and Managing a Household Apr 16, 2023

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Jodie Garth is an OG member of The Art of Decluttering community. Jodie reached out to us when her kids were little for help with decluttering and organising in her home. What she didn't know at the time, was that in the years that followed, she like many many women, would be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

In this episode Jodie shares what it was like having a late diagnosis, processing the stories she'd told herself for 38 years, and labels others had put on her.

Jodie shares some INCREDIBLE hacks that she uses in her home to manage the household tasks that fall on her plate. These hacks will help you whether you have ADHD and 3 kids like Jodie or if you're in a completely different life stage but love finding ways to make complex tasks more simple.

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey

ADHD with Joanna

Mental Health Care

Mental Health

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ADHD Series: Understanding ADHD with Psychologist Joanna Bailey Apr 09, 2023

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By popular request this week we are diving into our ADHD series where we talk to ADHDers, Professionals who work with ADHDers and explore the relationship between decluttering, organising and ADHD.

Our first episode in this series is with Joanna Bailey from Bluebird Psychology who helps us define ADHD and how executive functioning can impact our journey to a clutter-free and simplified lifestyle. Today's episode is brilliant as a foundation for the rest of this series, learn with us what ADHD is and how it presents in different people.

Whether you are living with ADHD or don't know anyone with ADHD I know this episode is going to have ah-ha moments for you with tips and hacks for decluttering, understanding shame, learning about neurodiversity and seeing decluttering and organising through a different lens.

Find out more about ADHD:

Bluebird Psychology Resources

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

ADHD with Joanna (first episode Joanna did)

Mental Health Care

Mental Health

Three Times A Day

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Filling Your Bucket Apr 02, 2023

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Each of us has an invisible bucket and when others poke holes in our bucket, it's important to have bucket fillers and hole pluggers in our lives. When our bucket is full, our overflow is encouragement, resilience, kind words, wise choices, enthusiasm, drive, purpose and freedom for ourselves and others.

When people around us speak harsh words, exclude us, spread rumours, lie, put us down, give labels or even just don't understand us... a hole gets poked in our buckets

Freya, one of our team encouraged me this week when someone tried to poke holes in my bucket, that when we have the right people around us, they will plug our holes or when we have a full bucket we are more able to repel negativity around us. Her words, encouragement, and wisdom filled my bucket!!

All that to say that as Professional Organisers we aim to fill your bucket and help you identify where there might be holes and help you plug those pesky holes up as it relates to your freedom from clutter.

You may also like to listen to these episodes:

Grief & Gratitude

Welcome Back to The Art of Decluttering

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