Tired of Judging Yourself for ADHD and Clutter? The ADHD Awareness Month Shift to Help You Drop the Self Judgment and Set Up a Home That Works for You #233

Why do you keep walking past the same bag by the front door when you know exactly what needs doing with it?

We tell ourselves that if we cared enough, we'd have done it by now. So when the bag has sat there for six weeks, we decide we're lazy, or messy, or just rubbish at this. What we never count is how many decisions that one small job is asking for before we've even picked it up.

In this episode, I'm marking ADHD Awareness Month by talking about what I wish more people understood about ADHD and clutter, including why task initiation is so much harder than it looks from the outside. The women in my recent paper reset had put off their paperwork for months, some for years, and what got them going had nothing to do with motivation.

You'll learn:

• Why decision fatigue makes putting one thing away feel enormous
• Why you buy another one when you already own three
• Why out of sight out of mind makes clear counters backfire for some brains
• How clutter blindness stops you seeing the letter you left out as a reminder
• Why being overwhelmed by clutter doesn't mean you're lazy or don't care
• How making the job smaller gets you past task paralysis
• Why decluttering is easier with someone alongside you than on your own
• Why a home that looks fine can still mean someone is struggling
• Why ADHD organization works better with fewer steps than with matching containers
• What question to ask yourself to find where to start decluttering

Whether you're trying to work out how to start decluttering when overwhelmed or you want to understand task paralysis in someone you love, this episode is for you.

Here's to asking what's making it hard,

Caroline

Resources Mentioned:

• Episode 228: Why Mental Load Feels So Heavy When You're Relying On Visual Reminders To Remember Everything You're Trying Not To Forget
• Episode 231: Why ADHD Task Initiation Feels So Hard (and How to Get out of ADHD Paralysis Without Planning the Whole Project)

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