592- New Year, New Systems: Home Organization Help to Clear ADHD Clutter and Shame
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer Snyder explores why ADHD makes it harder to create and maintain organization, and shares ADHD-friendly tools, science-backed strategies to reduce overwhelm, and simple systems that prioritize function over form.
ADHD and Organization: Resources
- Free Download: Your Free Guide for Controlling Clutter
- Read: How to Motivate for Cleaning House When You Really Don't Want to
- Read: Love It, Use It, or Lose It
- Read: How to Declutter with an ADHD Brain: Organization Solutions for Real Life
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
| 0:13.4 | Everyone, I'm Annie Rogers, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm so delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD experts presentation |
| 0:22.6 | titled New Year New Systems, Home Organization Help to Clear ADHD Clutter and Shame. |
| 0:29.6 | Leading today's presentation is Jennifer Snyder. |
| 0:33.6 | Jennifer is a certified professional organizer and founder of Neat as a PIN, organizing experts. |
| 0:40.5 | Her presentations at the 2024 and 2025 international ADHD conferences on organization and productivity have earned her recognition as a leader in this field. |
| 0:53.4 | Jennifer empowers and inspires others through organizing, |
| 0:58.2 | coaching, and speaking. And to set the tone for today and to underscore that clutter carries |
| 1:05.6 | with it some serious emotional weight, I'd like to share a few comments we receive from you |
| 1:10.6 | when you registered for |
| 1:12.0 | this webinar. Someone wrote, our home is so cluttered, but I don't know what to get rid of. I end up |
| 1:18.9 | dumping clutter in a room so my husband doesn't have to see it, but now I can barely walk into that |
| 1:24.6 | room. How do I even get started? And did I mention I'm a huge procrastinator. |
| 1:30.9 | Another person says, I make endless piles or put things in bags instead of having a good working |
| 1:36.7 | system. Then I spend hours looking for things like my passport. I need help. Another, I still have boxes to unpack from a move three years |
| 1:48.3 | ago. I'm anxious every time I think about unpacking even a single box. And finally, |
| 1:56.0 | I'd like to know how an ADHD person and a non-ad ADHD person can compromise on organizations and styles that accommodate both. |
| 2:03.6 | My coping strategy is to have neat piles all over my house. |
| 2:06.6 | This isn't cluttered in my eyes, but it's hard on my partner. |
| 2:10.6 | If these struggles sound familiar to you, then you are in the right place. |
| 2:15.6 | In today's webinar, Jennifer will explain why this is all so hard |
| 2:21.4 | and highlight the neurological, emotional, and cognitive patterns that respond best to practical |
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