Selling your home? Downsizing? Decluttering? Minimalism is a great idea, but it’s hard to accomplish with a family, pets, jobs and busy lives. Learn tips and tricks to help you plan your project. Karen’s stories bring the process into your living room and make it real.

ResilienceThe pandemic rolls on and we adjust the best we can.

I wrote a blog entry around the above sentence and tossed it.

Blah blah blah.

What really matters is the war in Ukraine.

One month.

The resilience and hearts of the Ukrainian adults, children, dogs and cats is overwhelming.

Their fragility and strength is poignant. I am awed and intimidated.

I want to look away but don’t.

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Wellness and COVID-19This time of confusion and chaos is a great opportunity for scammers. They take advantage of our fear and vulnerability and strike through our inboxes, phones, mail and social media.

Your Best Tool:

You are your best advocate to figure out how to weather this storm. Don’t wait for what you need, ask.

We will get through this crisis together. We will emerge as better versions of ourselves. We will  build new, New Normals.

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Wellness and COVID-19From my last blog entry, Wellness During a Public Health Crisis, wellness can be defined as a healthful condition through proper diet, exercise and preventative medicine. 

Another definition (mine), learned and earned through years of research, is “A state of overall being where an organism has achieved, for that organism’s particular body, mind, spirit and the environment where it lives, an optimal balance in and of its physical (musculature, blood, bones and all organ function), emotional, mental, spiritual and environmental systems.”

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Clearing Out Homes What is wellness?

Wellness can be defined as a healthful condition through proper diet, exercise and preventative medicine. 

Another definition (mine), learned and earned through years of research, is “A state of overall being where an organism has achieved, for that organism’s particular body, mind, spirit and the environment where it lives, an optimal balance in and of its physical (musculature, blood, bones and all organ function), emotional, mental, spiritual and environmental systems.”

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