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Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental, And Emotional Space

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Gibson has written an inspiring book on cleaning your clutter and creating more space and time for the life you want. I loved her book and I believe it will motivate most people to get off the couch, get rid of all those things they don't need, and clear some toxic relationships in the meantime. This is the best anti-clutter book I've read in a while (and I am always looking for more of them!)

Reinekke Lengelle

While the author is not a therapist, she has much to teach the mental health community in this ground breaking work.
It's been all too easy to clutter my life with possessions, projects, papers, and people. Until I read Unclutter Your Life, I felt overwhelmed by the amount of space ...physically and emotionally...that I was "renting" to things that I don't need in my life. What's really amazed me is that I've put many of Gibson's "clutter buster" suggestions to the test, and they work! I can see clearly now.

Not to be a grinch, but I would like to underline that this is a book of ESSAYS and rather simple advice often found in organizing articles and books. The essays are gently humorous or insightful, as you will see from glancing around in the book (function above), and the writing is nice enough. But answers to real quandaries are best found in other books, for example the surprisingly good "Conquering Chronic Disorganization" by Judith Kolberg.

While the author is not a therapist, she has much to teach the mental health community in this ground breaking work.
It's been all too easy to clutter my life with possessions, projects, papers, and people. Until I read Unclutter Your Life, I felt overwhelmed by the amount of space ...physically and emotionally...that I was "renting" to things that I don't need in my life. What's really amazed me is that I've put many of Gibson's "clutter buster" suggestions to the test, and they work! I can see clearly now.

THE PREVIOUS REVIEWER SAID IT ALL. THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK FOR
THOSE LIKE MYSELF WHO CAN NEVER BRING THEMSELVES TO THROW ANYTHING AWAY 'JUST IN CASE I MIGHT NEED IT'. I USED TO BLAME
MY PARENTS AND USED THE EXCUSE THEY LIVED THROUGH THE DEPRESSION AND IT HAD RUBBED OFF ON ME. AFTER READING MS GIBSON'S BOOK I
KNOW THAT IS JUST AN EXCUSE. GETTING RID OF MY CLUTTER WAS BOTH FREEING AND EXCITING. TRY IT YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Sitting at my desk, trying not to focus on the piles of scattered papers, post it notes, and sundry items that have no business being in my work environment, I know I need help.
Enter Katherine Gibson's book "Unclutter Your Life".
"Unclutter Your Life" has so many wonderful recommendations on organization, and they are all - one step at a time - suggestions that I really believe I can put into practice.
Katherine offers a chatty, friendly way of advising how you can make transformations not only with the physical clutter, but getting rid of the mental clutter that hogtie our emotional space.
Obviously the practical guidelines are important, but I liked the way Catherine explained the mindset of emotional dilemmas that lead us into the "clutter quagmires" we entrap our lives in, and the guilt sometimes associated with trying to free ourselves.
Just like any problem, understanding the source, goes a long way in learning how to deal with the difficulty.
This was a very enjoyable read, but also a practical resource guide you will want to reference many times over.
Review as written in the "Thursday File"

While reading each chapter, I couldn't wait to get started on "cleaning" the "clutter" that is in my way physically and mentally. It got me thinking and motivated to get rid of that "stuff" I've been hanging onto "just-in-case" I ever needed it again. At the end of each chapter, there are some very helpful tips for cleaning our clutter; they are easy to reference again and again when you need that little extra motivation.

As a professional organizer, I love to learn simple and helpful tricks to teach my clients. This book touches on all areas of your life and you can't be cluttered in one area of life without it spilling over to others. This book is a positive and very useful resource for "cleaning up" your life and being more peaceful when you use the suggestions. Do yourself a favor and get this one!

Jennifer Baron, Professional Organizer
www.ButterflyJourneyOrganizing.com

Make room for happier times, a positive flow of activity and better relationships in your life after reading Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental and Emotional Space. There are tons of books, newspaper articles and entire magazines devoted to living a simpler, cleaner more streamlined life. (Unfortunately, you might have tons of those literary masterpieces already piled on your dining room table and kitchen counters.)

This book will help you address the issues that are keeping you from living the life you were meant to enjoy, not by telling you to clear out the old clothes from your closet (or on your bedroom floor) but to touch on the issues that create these blocks to your bliss. Furthermore, it will also help you identify the toxic relationships that are also cluttering up your psyche.

So much of the clutter problem is a spiritual issue, and Katherine Gibson hits it on target, better than anything else I've read on the subject before.

Highly recommended.

Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental, And Emotional Space is an absolute must-read self-help book for the ever-looming, ever-confusing, and ever-demanding twenty-first century. It directly addresses how to take control of one's space, possions, priorities, relationships, and free time in order secure that which is most precious - the opportunity to focus on achieving one's goals and dreams. From learning to distinguish true friendships from toxic or parasitic relationships and disentangling oneself from the latter, to limiting the physical clutter of needless consumerism and consumption of knickknacks, to setting aside time for oneself despite the ever-present encroach of technology that blurs the distinction between work and home, and much more, Unclutter Your Life offers the best possible advice to reasonably become better organized and accomplish more with less mess.