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

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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.

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.

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"

THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL. MY HOUSE WAS GROANING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF
CLUTTER OF ALL KINDS..CLOTHING,DISHES, OLD LETTERS AND CARDS,BUSINESS PAPERS, MAGAZINES AND BOOKS. UNTIL I READ THIS
BOOK. KATHERINE GIBSON HAS OPENED A WHOLE NEW WORLD FOR ME NOT
TO MENTION A WHOLE NEW PATH TO MY BEDROOM CLOSET! THIS BOOK HAS
ENABLED ME TO CLEAR AT LEAST HALF OF THE CONTENTS OF MY HOUSE AND WITHOUT A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. MOST INTERESTING OF ALL FOR ME
WAS THE EMOTIONAL REASONS WHY I SUFFERED FROM THE CLUTTER BUG SYNDROME. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE WHO COLLECTS OR THOSE WHO LIVE WITH A COLLECTOR. THIS MAY SAVE YOUR SANITY!!

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

I love love love this book! Just looking at it makes me feel good! It inspired me to change things in my life and it was liberating!

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.

Katherine Gibson's book shows readers how to create an oasis of calm that is desperately needed in today's busy world. Our long work days and family obligations leave us little time to cope effectively. If you feel overwhelmed, Gibson has practical, sensible solutions that help readers de-stress. Unclutter has excellent suggestions that help readers be mentally, physically and emotionally healthy.

Virginia Brucker

Gifts from the Heart

Nanoose Bay, BC