It seems counterintuitive to say that all change and growth is a conduit of acceptance; that the desire for all forward progress begins with being rooted in the place you are now. Yet, that's exactly how it works in life. Acceptance is awareness, validated. It is living with eyes open and acknowledging as real whatever you see. This state of being is the only passkey to progress, since it allows you to enter a judgement-free zone that ...

In the process of editing their entire households or even just their home offices, my clients inevitably end up with a sizable "check on it" pile. That is: flash drives, external hard drives, memory cards and CD's, the contents of which are a complete mystery. They could be letting go of a tiny piece of plastic, or they could be unknowingly tossing out the only copy of their wedding photos, that kind of thing. My ...

A little while ago, I wrote a post about how one might utilize the space behind a door for storage. The post featured examples that were all bookshelves, though I added that the concept could certainly be applied to other things. "I brought you to the Whole Foods; you bag the kale!" I said. That statement might have made sense in context, but probably not even there. Point being, some inquisitive soul messaged me and ...

All households that contain at least one semi-handy person would do well to have the essential tools around. And most households do, too. Only from what I've seen, there's very little corralling that goes on with said tools. You might find a stray screwdriver anywhere--the laundry room, mixed in with the kids arts supplies, in a kitchen drawer. Ditto that for scissors. Wrenches are mostly entirely elusive, and as for the tape measures, you better ...

I've been thinking lately about the power of language to shape our world. Two people in my instagram feed within a few posts of each other are talking about their unconscious tendency to say "sorry." In a crowd of people, a girl bumps into a stranger and says, "Sorry." When she mishears her waiter she says, "Sorry?" Another makes a loud cry of distress during childbirth and says, "Sorry!" to her attending nurses. Both have experienced ...