700 - My Depression Story
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I have been feeling the tug to share my personal experience with depression for quite a while.
It may surprise you to hear that I have struggled with depression. I'm a pretty upbeat gal! Well, it surprised me too.
In today's podcast, I share my personal story with depression and how it affects every area of your life.
Here are 5 tips I gave myself and share with clients about how depression affects organization.
1. Give yourself grace.
I cannot even put into words how depression zapped me of every shred of energy to do ANYTHING. And the thought of tackling an organization project was SO overwhelming. My "will power" got up and went - AWAY!
2. Get a friend to help you.
Another friend's perspective, energy and motivation are contagious and can help you push through when you just want to watch TV. Used strategically, friends can help you get organized and stay functioning when your own initiative is low.
Over 50% of the Organize 365 clients call us in to help because they just can't do the organizing themselves in their depressed state.
3. Pick ONE area and COMPLETE it before moving on no matter how long it takes.
Slow and steady wins the race! Your home did not become a "mess" overnight, and it won't get organized overnight either. One step at a time.
Pick an area where you can get a quick win and start there:
- Your night stand
- Your dresser
- The car
- The Master Closet
The key is to MAINTAIN that area when you tackle area #2. The Productive Home Solution™ is ordered in a way so the areas you organize will stay organized as you move on to the next area of your home.
4. Acknowledge your limitations.
I know how frustrated you are! Knowing what I USED to be able to do made me even MORE depressed when I couldn't seem to tackle even the basics when I was depressed.
If it's a bad day... it's OK! You have time to get organized and take care of yourself.
And when your desire is beyond your physical ability - hire help.
5. Surround yourself with positive people.
I know it's easier to say than do, but I always felt better when I made myself go OUT and BE with people, even though I didn't want to.
I can't even tell you how many times we will be laughing with clients and then they say,
- "I can't believe how fun you make organizing!"
- "I haven't been able to laugh like that in a long time."
- "If I knew how quickly you could get this organized I wouldn't have waited so long to call."
- and our favorite. "I can't believe there are people who actually LIKE to organize!"
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| 0:00.0 | This week's mailbag comes to us from Diane. I don't always get to listen live to the Sunday |
| 0:06.4 | Basket Club, but when I do, it's a treat. Yesterday, I listened in and heard so many great |
| 0:11.6 | tips and encouragement. Michelle and Jamie in the community have wonderful ideas, and it's such a positive |
| 0:16.7 | and supportive group. I planned my entire week and have already gotten so many things accomplished. |
| 0:22.4 | For me, the habit of doing the Sunday basket forces me to think of all the things that need to get |
| 0:28.2 | done and not just what's currently in my brain. Looking at idea note cards, gathering my bags and |
| 0:34.5 | purses, looking through my email and sorting and triaging all of these tasks, |
| 0:38.9 | gets them all on the calendar. I get so much more accomplished each week, and I feel like I'm covering |
| 0:44.1 | all of my bases instead of limping along and hoping I'm remembering everything like I used to. |
| 0:49.6 | I am so grateful for my Sunday basket and the great co-working community. Thank you to Lisa and everyone |
| 0:55.6 | at Organized 365. Do you have an Organized 365 success story? If so, we would love to hear about it. |
| 1:04.9 | Please send us an email at Customer Service at Organized 365 and tell us how you have taken back your home, your paper, and your |
| 1:13.9 | life with Organized 365. |
| 1:17.0 | Last week on the podcast, I dropped the first chapter of the book, Escaping Quickshand, |
| 1:22.5 | which is coming out in June. |
| 1:25.0 | And this week on the podcast, I wanted to kind of leave us at the bottom of the pit of |
| 1:30.3 | despair just for one more week. You know, in the Organized 365 podcast, I really try to |
| 1:36.6 | describe the overwhelm that we are in and how we tend to as women take on maybe more than we could or should handle, and how we |
| 1:46.9 | positive proactively can get out of that quicksand. However, I just have this feeling that maybe |
| 1:53.8 | we should sit down at the bottom of the pit of despair for one more week together because |
| 1:58.7 | life is really hard and it is really heavy and we will all |
| 2:03.6 | end up in seasons where we just don't know what to do next and we just we don't have the rose |
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