Confronting Your Clutter: Releasing the excess baggage from your home, head, heart and schedule
2010 Edition, by Carolyn Koehnline
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Essays, poems, and exercises designed to decrease shame, increase inspiration, and get you unstuck. This book gently invites you to take a closer look at clutter, prepare for change, gather support, get out of your own way, learn to let go, and find new ways to navigate time.
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The Bear’s Gift
Written and illustrated by Carolyn Koehnline
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From The Bear’s Gift:
Every morning she got up when the wind and the trees called to her. Then she went off to her favorite meadow to turn clouds into castles and to whisper secrets to the wildflowers. Every evening, right about supper time, she burst through the door full of ideas to share with her two sisters.
But they were always much too busy doing IMPORTANT things and told her not to be so childish.
“Why doesn’t anyone ever want to listen?” she sobbed, flinging herself on the bed. It seemed that the three sisters simply could not get along.
A transformational tale for all ages. Gertrude is the oldest sister, and a very hard worker. Alexandria, the middle sister, is not afraid of anything. Rosie, the youngest, is a dreamer full of ideas.
Even with these special qualities, the three sisters don’t appreciate each other and don’t get along at all. Then a mysterious bear visits, and leaves them with a gift, hoping it will help them find a way to work together.
Click here to see the illustrations with instrumental accompaniment by Marc Hoffman.
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Online Articles by Carolyn Koehnline:
- 9 Free Tips to Confront Clutter*
- Clearing Clutter as a Pathway to Mindfulness.*
- Clearing the Clutter To Make a Sacred Space for Your Business* (reprinted from The Word Garden, a newsletter of the Center for Journal Therapy.
- Weeding the Garden, Clearing the Clutter* (InTheGardenOfTheDivine.com)
- Growing Your Resilience by Confronting Your Clutter* (WritingForResilience.com)
- Using Journal Writing to Clear Your Clutter (AllThingsHealing.com)
- Children and Hoarding: Help Kids Get Rid of their Toys (TheMotherCompany.com)
*–PDF file, requires the free Adobe Reader
The Confronting Clutter Newsletter:
Confronting Clutter produces an occasional newsletter with tips for reducing the clutter in your life, as well as announcements of the workshops and classes. Below are links to past newsletters that you’re welcome to read. You can also subscribe to the newsletter.
Consulting Your Hat to Keep from Spinning Your Wheels
Gertrude Time: Gently Introducing Order
The Clutter Notebook: Containing a Messy Process
When Time Feels Like Your Enemy
Under Construction: The Power of a Helpful Title
Sharing Stories to Clear Clutter
Gathering the Treasures from Your Year
Little Gestures that Change Your Life
Finding and Creating Your Soul Spaces