Mind Your Home

A few months back, I started feeling a strong need to have all of my thoughts, notes, and to-dos in one spot, and it pulled me back to the bullet journal. Until then, I had honestly never used the official method as it...

I've wanted to have this conversation for a long time. Clutter is a trauma symptom. And the reason many people feel stuck, overwhelmed, or like they just can't let go, no matter how hard they try, has nothing to do with...

I didn't ease back into minimalism. I got frustrated enough with the amount of stuff in my home that I just started. After almost a decade of living this way, life still caught up with me. A baby joined the picture, a...

I stepped back from social media and started paying attention to what actually changed. These are my small, honest observations about how I felt before and how I feel now. Some of it I expected. A lot of it I didn't. If...

There are parts of every home that just never seem to work, no matter how many times you reorganize them. In this episode, I'm sharing the specific spaces in my own home that I finally stopped fighting: my closet, my...

Your home is constantly sending signals to everyone inside it, including you. In this episode, I'm breaking down the broken windows theory, what it actually says, what part of it holds up under scrutiny, and why it...

You’ve probably heard that clutter is stressful. But what does it actually look like inside the brain? In this episode, I’m walking through what researchers at Princeton and Yale found when they put people in fMRI...

Most of what you have been told about balance is not backed by research. It is backed by aesthetics. In this episode, we unpack what scientists actually say life balance looks like, why it shifts from season to season...

Did you know that roughly one in four Americans now eats every meal alone, a 53% increase since 2003? Research is starting to show that the design of our home environments plays a bigger role in our social lives than...

Before you start house hunting or bumming yourself out about the house you can’t afford, ask yourself these three questions. In this episode, I’m breaking down the real trade-offs behind the dream home, and why the home...

So many women I hear from feel like they hit their 40s and suddenly everything gets heavier. The invisible load grows. The to-do list never ends. And somewhere in the middle of taking care of everyone else (from kids to...

Most people think their closet is just a place to store clothes… but it’s actually one of the most used systems in your home. If getting dressed feels harder than it should, if you’re always reaching for the same...

For years, I’ve had notes, to-do lists, and plans scattered across notebooks everywhere. Recently, I went back in time (to 2018 when the bullet journal scene was poppin’) and started listening to the book The Bullet...

There are specific areas in your home that directly affect how supported or stressed your day feels. In this episode, I break down nine key spaces that can make or break your day, based on both my own experience and...

If you feel stalled in your clutter and keep telling yourself, “I just don’t know where to start,” this episode is for you. I break down three less-talked-about reasons people get stuck even when they genuinely want to...