BTS Week 12: Finals
We did it!!!! For the last 12 weeks, we’ve worked our way through our homes and spaces with the goal of heading into the holiday season with more calm, noticing what works, subtracting what doesn’t, and adding tiny habits that make our lives feel gentler. No perfect-home goals here. Just small steps toward calmer spaces…
BTS Week 11 Creativity (minus clutter)
As the days get shorter and the dark gets deeper, it’s all the more important to care for our bodies, our minds, and our souls, and one of the most powerful ways we care for our souls is to create. Creating gives us space to process our world and ourselves. “Practice any art, music, singing,…
Week 10: Thresholds and Doorways – Part Two (Addition)
Welcome to week 10, where we’re doing the hokey pokey, turning ourselves around, and heading back out the door. Last week we talked about thresholds and the “doorway effect” – how walking through a doorway sends a signal to our brains to leave behind what’s on the other side. This often means forgetting why we…
Week 9: Thresholds & Doorways (Part 1: Subtraction)
We are stepping into week 9 – literally!! This week we’re crossing thresholds and doorways, entering and exiting our homes. If you’ve ever walked into a room and immediately forgotten why you went there, you’ve experienced what researchers call the doorway effect. Crossing a threshold sends a signal to our brains that we’re entering a…
BTS Week 8: Pantry + Fridge Reset
Welcome to Week 8! We’re staying in the kitchen for one more week and stepping into one of the most deceptively tricky spaces in the house – the kitchen pantry and fridge. At first glance, it’s just food storage. But for many of us, these spaces hold a whole lot more: good intentions, half-finished projects,…
BTS Week 7: Kitchen Counters
We’re staying in the kitchen this week, shifting focus from the sink and dishes to our counters. We talked a couple weeks ago about the “Alice’s Restaurant” principle – how when there’s a mess somewhere, it just seems easier to add to the existing mess, rather than clean up the new mess and the old…
BTS Week 6: Midterms!
Today marks the halfway point of our Back To School Challenge!And halfway through a semester means… it’s time for Midterms! No essays, scantrons, or Quizlet prep here – just a little time to check in and see what’s working and what’s not. Whether you’ve been steadily adding a new routine each week, just peeking at…
BTS Week 5: Kitchen
Welcome to Week 5! A little note as we move past the bedroom and bathroom and take a few steps into the kitchen this week: Each week we’re committing to a small routine to make our days a little smoother, our homes a little more welcoming to us and whoever else enters, and our hearts,…
BTS Week 4: Bathroom Addition and Subtraction
Week 4 marks a third of the way through our Fall Back to School Series! How you doing? What routines are you keeping going? Where do you need a little tweak or support? For me, adding those simple tasks last week has made such.a.difference in my bathroom. Sometimes I just need a little kick to…
BTS Week 3: Bathroom
Hello week three! So many people I’ve talked to have said this past week was at least three years long. How are you doing? Have you been setting out your clothes and/or removing items from your closet? How is it going? Our little steps, like setting my clothes out (almost) every day, and coming home…
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