520- How to Organize a Messy Home: Strategies for Clutter and Stress in ADHD Families
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Professional organizer Tracy McCubbin discusses how to decrease disorganization and conflict over clutter when one—or all—family members have ADHD, including how to decide what to keep and what to toss and how to put things back where they belong.
How to Organize a Messy Home with ADHD: More Resources
- Free Guide: Hoarding Disorder vs. ADHD Clutter
- Q&A: “Should I Hire a Professional Organizer?”
- Read: How to Motivate for Cleaning House When You Really Don’t Want To
- eBook: Declutter Your Life (and Home! and Office!)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everyone my name is Annie Rogers and on behalf of the attitude team I am pleased to welcome you to today's 80-H- ADHD experts presentation titled How to Organize a Messy Home, |
| 0:28.0 | Strategies for Clutter and Stress in ADHD Families. |
| 0:33.0 | Leading today's presentation is Tracy McCubbin. |
| 0:36.5 | Tracy is the founder of D. Clutterfly, |
| 0:39.9 | where she is |
| 0:43.2 | offers professional home decluttering and organizing services. |
| 0:46.0 | She is also the author of two best selling books, |
| 0:49.9 | Making Space Clutter Free, |
| 0:52.3 | the last book on decluttering you'll ever need, |
| 0:55.5 | and make space for happiness, |
| 0:58.0 | how to stop attracting clutter |
| 1:00.4 | and magnetizing the life you want. |
| 1:03.0 | She is also a regularly featured expert in national publications, |
| 1:08.0 | including the New York Times, Forbes, the Washington Post, |
| 1:12.0 | and the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:14.0 | When a home is messy, things go missing, |
| 1:18.0 | and that can make everyone feel stressed. |
| 1:21.0 | Families touched by ADHD can thank weak executive function skills for this |
| 1:25.8 | almost daily scenario. Complications also arise when only some family |
| 1:32.1 | members have ADHD and struggle to keep things |
| 1:35.6 | organized and tidy while others in the household are quite neat. ADHD or not you |
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