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Hello Reader, You deserve to find peace when you're stressed. With practice, things can feel calm within you even though they feel chaotic around you. Use these gentle suggestions to find peace and ease stress anytime you begin to feel the chaos around you (or within you). 8 Gentle Ways to Find Peace When You’re Stressed or Overwhelmed xo, Courtney
Weekend Wisdom: If you are worn out because you've been doing your best and giving your all, today is a good day to see what happens when you pull back and save some of that time and energy just for you. For more inspiration to slow down and actually enjoy your life, please join me on Substack for Little Saturday Simplicity. I'm gifting all annual paid subscribers my Tiny Step Simplicity Video Course! This course will help you declutter your home, reclaim your time and simplify your brain....
Hello Reader, It will be easier to figure out what you really want if you declutter your home. I know it's a big claim but I've seen it happen time and time again when people declutter their closets or wardrobe. It happened to me! It makes sense that if you have less to think about, clean, organize and stress over, you have more time and energy for what matters more. Read on to learn how to declutter your home with a low stress approach. Declutter your home to figure out what you really want....
Hello Reader, We all want more ease and yet most of us are giving ease away with little habits we practice on auto-pilot. Once you realize how close a lower stress, more easeful life is, you'll want to dump most of these habits. If getting rid of them all at once feels too overwhelming, consider the gentle step recommendation I included for each. 5 Everyday Habits Secretly Stealing Your Ease xo, Courtney
Weekend Wisdom: Rest brings us back to the gentlest versions of ourselves. I took a two week break from Instagram. I removed the app from my phone and mostly forgot about it. Like most things, thinking about doing it was much harder than actually doing it. Letting Instagram go made my life even lighter. It may not be the best business decision but it was the best heart decision. I had planned on bringing the app back after my break but I'm not ready. I'm going to use Instagram on my laptop...
Hello Reader, If you've ever dismissed an idea because it sounds "weird" or unfamiliar, reconsider. Instead, be curious about what may (or may not) be helpful for you. There is very little risk to experimenting with these weird ideas to calm anxiety. We'd all like a quick fix to calm anxiety but it's usually not that simple. When we feel anxious, it's more challenging to come up with a calm down plan. Having some gentle reminders, and techniques on hand will help relieve the panic of, "what...
Hello Reader, If you’ve tried to declutter before and ended up overwhelmed or unsure where to start, these gentle decluttering rules will help you simplify with less stress. Before you begin, choose the three decluttering rules from the list that resonate most right now. Keep them visible. Put them on a sticky note or save them on your phone as reminders that what you want is bigger than a tidy closet. You want peace, space, and a life that feels lighter. 10 Decluttering Rules (that make...
Weekend Wisdom: In a noisy world, gentle words rise. I spent the early days of my simplicity journey clearing stress. Goodbye debt, clutter, busyness and drama. Lately my simplicity journey is more about accepting the stress I cannot control and navigating my life in such a way that I am as unbothered as possible. This part is more challenging. That said, it would be almost impossible if I hadn't made space for this. I would have been too distracted to make progress. Simplicity continues to...
Hello Reader, I love a good clutter challenge! If you don't use your stuff, it falls right into the clutter category. Even if you purchased it with the right intention or got an incredible deal on your stuff, it doesn't matter if you never use or enjoy it. You may hold on to it because you feel guilty for buying it in the first place or because you really believe you may use it someday. Put your belief to the test with this clutter challenge. 21-Day Use It or Lose it Clutter Challenge xo,...
Hello Reader, I love a good clutter challenge. While slow and steady is a better approach for simplifying your life over a long period of time, it helps to pepper in a good clutter challenge. You'll notice more momentum and interest when you do. You'll find the rules and some suggestions for the Use It or Lose It Clutter Challenge below along with a few other simplicity challenges that have helped me get rid of stuff. More importantly, these challenges created space in my closet, home and...