Welcome to Episode 24 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us again this week.

The year is still young, and it's a great time for clearing our space, both mentally and physically.

This week's guest gives us some great insight into how we can clean up our physical space and stay perpetually organized.

Marla Stone is a psychotherapist turned professional organizer and author of The Clutter Remedy,

a guide to getting organized for those who love their stuff.

She's here to talk about how you can create a strategy built around less stuff and more

life satisfaction.

Well, Marla, welcome to this episode of Live Happy Now.

Thank you, Paula. Thank you for having me. Well, this is such a great time to have you on because this is the

time of year when we're all kind of clutter conscious and thinking about clearing our space. First of all,

I guess why is it important that we take time to do that?

Well, you're correct. This is the time of year where people start to have New Year's realizations,

is what I like to call it. And because they've gone through the holidays, they've been super busy,

and they really didn't take notice. They might have started to put things in closets or in the garage just to get ready for company.

And there didn't really notice the clutter clusters that have formed in all the corners under the bed and the closets.

And they want to remedy this.

Nobody wants to live in a big mess. So why is it beneficial for us not to

have clutter? Well, you know, I always say the outer is a reflection of the inner. So if you have

cluttered emotions or things that you have not worked through traumas from the past

or just any miscommunications you've had with people, it can manifest in your space. And then it

becomes like a human hamster in a wheel situation where you're going around and round and round

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