05: Organizing From The Inside Out

Do you struggle to keep your home tidy and free of clutter? Or do you have a problem with your partner's messy habits and experience conflict in your relationship as a result? If so, listen in to Anne Goshen talking to Mel Robertson, and learn how you can create an orderly and peaceful home, by working from the inside out, on today's episode of The Couples Toolbox.

Mel, an official decluttering expert, describes herself as a disorganized packrat, while growing up.  She attributes this to the many traumas she experienced as a child- her parents getting divorced, sexual abuse and losing her brother to suicide when she was only fifteen. Later, as she worked on healing the pain and trauma from her past, she discovered that she began creating order in her external life, as a natural result of the inner healing. She developed an interest in energy healing and helping others, and so she studied various energy healing modalities to enable her to share the clarity, clear space and joy that she had found. She started a company to help people see that the clutter stems from within. She helps people to address clutter on all levels.

Join Anne today, as she talks to Mel about:

• The effects that clutter and decluttering have on a relationship.
• How you can deal with your partner's clutter in a respectful way, with understanding.
• The challenges that can arise in a relationship when one partner doesn't understand that the clutter of the other cannot permanently be discarded without doing the inner work.
• That you cannot successfully control anyone else, nor make someone else sort out their stuff.
• The stress that can be caused in a relationship when one person creates clutter and the other is neat and tidy.
• How to have compassion, yet honor your own needs, when dealing with a messy partner.
• The presence and conscientiousness that is required to pick up after yourself as you go through the day.
• Our nervous systems, which are naturally designed to create order out of chaos.
• Ways to address clutter in the home when one partner is messy and the other is organized.
• Realizing that a messy external life is a reflection of inner turmoil and so to address what's really going on inside, to create a permanently clear space.
• How your happiness can affect the amount of clutter in your home.
• Mel's own journey from trauma to healing and how it naturally brought order into her life.
• That no matter what happens in life, you can still be happy and access that inner place where peace beyond words exists inside of you.
• Three tips for anyone resolving to clear and declutter their space for the new year.

Links:

Mel's website: www.declutteringspaces.com (You can access her 'any space blueprint' free here.)

Mel's phone number: 6196023725

Special offer: Go to  www.declutteringspaces.com and mention that you listened to Mel's interview on The Couples Toolbox, to qualify for a three-hour session with Mel, for only $99.