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Welcome to another episode of the ADHD Families Podcast. Today I have the incredible Narelle, who is the founder of Simply Happy. She's a professional organizer, a yoga teacher, and with an educational background, she helps individuals and families with organizational challenges to implement simple organizational strategies so that they can create a lot of free, safe, functional and happy homes.
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She's a mum of two teenagers and has recently been formally identified as Neurodivergent.
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Hello, I'm Sharon Collins and you are listening to the ADHD Families Podcast. I am a mum of three beautiful boys with ADHD. I love being a mum, but my home life was absolute chaos and the stress of daily life had a terrible effect on my health. My husband had so many horror filled stories of growing up with ADHD that I decided I wanted to change the experience for my little boys.
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So I got to work and I systematically changed and streamlined my family's lives to suit the ADHD brain. And now that I have my family on track, I want to help yours. Do you want a life with your beautiful kids that is more functional, fun and full of joy? Let's explore together the wonderful and sometimes wacky world of raising kids with ADHD.
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Unknown
Welcome, Neuro. Oh, thank you. Thanks for inviting me. Oh, I'm so excited. Now, I was on your podcast. Or was it like a couple of years ago now? Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. It's nearly 100 episodes in a couple of weeks. Oh, it's doing so well. So I'm really excited that we get to have another chat today and I get to hear a little bit about your story.
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Unknown
Yes, it's it's it's weird to be on the other side, the one not asking the questions. So tell me a little bit about what you do and why. So I'm a professional organizer, so going into people's homes and helping them create like clutter free environments that are functional for them and their families. So I do work with a lot of Neurodivergent families, is probably the majority of people that I do work with.
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Unknown
And oh, I love it. I was a teacher, so there is a bit of a crossover and especially love, like working in the holidays and there's kids actually home from school and getting involved. That's one of my love and love things that I love doing in the holidays. And because parents are always like, Oh, the kids are going to be home.
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Is that going to be. I know that's going to be great. It's fantastic. And they love getting involved. And yeah, so I just sort of slowly worked my way out of teaching and got into this. My gosh, I can remember seven years ago, six years ago or something now. So it's been a while. I do do a tiny bit of teaching on the side now and then, only for NDIS purposes, the line items that I use and to keep my qualification.
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Unknown
But generally I'm professional organizing five days a week. So tell me what a family would typically ask for your help with. Oh really? Range. So right now over the holidays it's around toys, so decluttering toys and it's great because then you've got the kids there because mum might be like, Oh, they don't play with that. They don't play with that.
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But when they're there, they'll actually say, Oh no, I love that we love this. And really interesting yesterday because it was like three children, a four year old, a eight year old and an 11 year old. And some of the things the 11 year old wanted to still keep and really enjoyed playing with the mum would have been, Oh, no, no one plays with that.
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Unknown
But she was like, No, no, I love this. When we play kitchens, I use this for this particular part of the game. So she was really creative. Little soul as well. So that's the best thing in the holidays about having the kids there because you actually hear the stories about the toys and what they're going to do. And then when it comes to during that out of school, like back in school too, I'm sorry, it's might be like pantries, so we might be organizing that.
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Unknown
So the kids are able to access the, you know, cereals, make their own breakfast, make their own maybe school lunches. So it's looking at the lunchboxes and where they are stored. And, you know, even in their bedroom, it's looking at clothes, how they can actually dress themselves, looking at those goals around independent living. And it might be making like labels up and making sure that it's easy storage because lots of families will go into and it's maybe drawers and the kids can even open the drawers.
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Unknown
So we're looking at what's the best storage solution that's going to work and looking around the home at the piles, Where are those piles and what do we need to create? So I suppose the other bit is mainly around like sort of the front door area. So you drop zone and landing landing area and what does that look like and what can we do that's going to benefit the whole family?
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Unknown
Oh, I love that so much. And I know that for so many people that I talk to because, you know, organization comes up surprise, surprise a lot. And I had seen coaching often. They really crave organization and a clutter free environment which we talked about in your intro there. But they're just not quite sure either one how to make it happen or to where to get started because the problem can feel really overwhelming.
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Unknown
So someone like you coming in and just being not only a body double, but a guide of what is going to make the biggest impact is really it's really important. Definitely like even just thinking of a client I worked with this morning and I worked with her last week, like for her to go into her, it was her desk area and her daughter had been playing up there and I put paints and textures everywhere in those paper.
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She printed out coloring pages and there was plates, there was stuff everywhere, and the whole mum was like, I'm so overwhelmed, I don't even know where to start. There's just too much. So we actually pulled it out in little and washing baskets and put it out into the lounge area and we sort of run the table there and she goes, I just could not walk in there.
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Unknown
And it was like when she does a work and things, she's like, I just can't working there at the moment because it's so much things. So just creating that removes that overwhelm so that they can get started. Same in like bedrooms, in kids bedrooms. Sometimes it's like it's just so overwhelming. And where do I stop? What do I need to do first?
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Unknown
And just by breaking it down into those small tasks, I kind of, let's collect the washing that's then move all the toys out. What are the things that don't even belong in this bedroom? And then the rubbish. And then we can maybe look at, okay, how are we going to best set this room up for the function we want to use it for?
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Unknown
And do you notice a difference? Like obviously there would be a difference for you when you work with someone like the client that you did this morning and you get it all to a a wonderful state and they've got a system for keeping it at a great state. How does the body language change? Like what? What happens to that person?
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Unknown
They're just so relieved and they just feel more confident as well and confident in their parenting as well as their parenting skills. And again, like that client in particular, we've been working for two years to get to this point. So for us today, just to do that simple, you know, was almost body doubling because I was bringing, you know, she was able to work through that paperwork and because we have a system.
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Unknown
So she was putting the paperwork, putting the kids memories, things in the boxes we had. But whereas, you know, two years ago, we didn't even have that system. So, you know, she walked away at the end of that session going, Oh, I feel so much lighter already. And I know that we've been putting that off for like a couple of weeks because it's not going to look as as nice as maybe other areas of the home.
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Unknown
When we do the paperwork thing, it's usually the last thing that I'll do with clients because it doesn't have that big impact, but mentally it has a huge impact on them. And so when you set up a system in someone's home and you know, you leave it looking great, have you got a sort of checking system or what do you do to help ensure the client is having that follow through?
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Unknown
Yeah, definitely so. So, you know, revisiting it, if I need to have a conversation like a text message and see how they're going, I'll send that in. They'll reply and go, I need your help. And then there are some people that it's great. I'll schedule another session in a couple of months time. Some of the ones I have ongoing really like, Oh, I don't want to go.
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Unknown
And it's like, No, no, no, you can do this on your own. So it's like, okay, let's go down to fortnightly now, let's go down to monthly and then we can check in every three months. So I yeah, I haven't actually had people, there's a couple that have completely gone off on their own. It's generally they'll come back and just want to revisit and it's easy to then come back because you can look at the places that aren't working like a wonder why this isn't working.
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Unknown
So for example, there was is a client I was working with and we had all our paperwork set up and it was like memory issues. So it was at in her lounge. And over Christmas she wanted that put away because the kids were coming and she didn't need to be doing all paperwork over the Christmas holidays. So we put it away and then we came.
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Unknown
Jen FIB and her diary was like, Seriously this big full of bits of paper? I was like, What's going on with the diary? She goes, I don't know. And I prove we put it all out like, Oh, it's all the stuff that needs to go in the filing. It's like, Yeah, I just don't want to bring it all back out here.
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Unknown
It's so overwhelming. So we got a trolley and we put it all on these trolley. So then when the kids come around, the grandkids, she can we look back into the ice and then bring it out when she needs to during the week. So it's always just revisiting those areas and going why is this not working? And it was just because we'd put it all away and those extra steps, it was too far for it to do during the week.
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Unknown
So yeah, just building a new system for it to work that would work for her. So it's just continually looking at it and wondering why. So what is it? Just being curious about why is this not working at the moment? Oh, I love that. I love I love the word curious because it's so much of what we do at the functional family.
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Unknown
It's just experiments, right? So we're just we just give things a try and see what works. And the best thing about the ADHD brain is that it's an idea factory and it can think of new things to try. And so you're, you know, just being curious about what the solutions are and giving them a try and then you can refine them and, you know, make them work uniquely for that.
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Unknown
Client. Yes. And I think that's that's one of the things I'll always be like, which is trying it doesn't have to work because I also some people will be really conscious about the time, the money, and they're like, Oh, but I don't want you to put all this effort in and then it doesn't work. And that's, you know, that's then maybe we shouldn't be doing this.
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Unknown
I'm like, let's just try it. And if it doesn't work, we can revisit. And especially because I love moving furniture around and and I'm like, we can move it back. Like if it doesn't work in two months or a month, we can move that back. It's no big deal to me. So and I think people get quite surprised how quickly you can change a room around in like a there was a lady a few weeks ago and I was like, Oh yeah, we can do this.
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Unknown
She goes, We finally got to ours. I was like, Easy, we can do this to her daughter's room. Bring the bookcase into her son's room, take this other shelf into his room, into her room, sorry. And just redo the whole room. And she was, like, blown away. Like, she was like, there's no I did not expect. I thought it was going to take us at least 4 hours.
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Unknown
So, yeah, I think yeah, I'm I do work quickly, but I'm also been doing it for a while, so I know, yes, we can do this really easily. And already she was like, I'm so glad we did it because it's definitely working better at the moment than the way the room was set up. And I'm I know that on your Instagram and on your social skills, I've been following you for a while, that you give lots of helpful tips and things in reals and you know about, you know, or even like little bits of body doubling, effectively showing people how to do bits and pieces.
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Unknown
I'd love to know for you, as someone who does this professionally, what it feels like to do your job, what it feels like, Oh, I actually love organizing, so that's like fills my cup anyway. So even if I came home from, you know, a client's house and I could see their air and I home, I'd actually then start organizing here.
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Unknown
So that's something I really enjoy. But I just love the satisfaction seeing people's lives change, especially kids in particular, and just seeing the parents being able to function and just getting their messages when they say, Oh my gosh, my son. Like another example that a lady would say, We moved her son's bookcase and she's a bit like, Why does he want it to go?
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Unknown
It was like, go vertically next to the banks. It's not really a good spot to say, Well, let's just try it. We'll see what happens. And he loved it. He was reading them every night because he could open the little door. He could pull the book out. It was a walk out that he wanted there, and he could then put them back at night.
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Unknown
And she was just blown away at that small change. And it was his input as well. That's the other thing I love is that you can get kids input and it makes such a difference and yeah, and then, you know, to revisit it again in six months time and especially as kids grow because their interests change and in particular neurodivergent children's interests will change quite dramatically.
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Unknown
And so we can just go back and change it to what we made and what's required and move that furniture around in the different parts of the house that we might be made. I think that's one of the things I love going in there and just being those fresh eyes and saying, What about this bookcase? Have you thought about moving that to the lounge and in the lounge, moving that to the hallway and you're like, Oh my gosh, No.
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Unknown
To me it feels like simple. And oh, what? You know, why wouldn't people think like that? But obviously that's my Neurodivergent brain is thinking of the solutions and always looking around the house going, Oh, what about we could change this? So yeah, sometimes I think we just get stuck, right? Like we don't even see our surroundings anymore. Yeah.
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Unknown
Yeah. I think it's, you know, like if you're looking at every something, every day as well, you can just not even consider that there's a possibility that it might be done better. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's definitely like Pinterest and, and Instagram for me, like other professional organizations just getting ideas and, you know, there's so many different things out there.
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Unknown
The hacks say, buying a Kmart, what is it magazine hold of that could be used physical airdrop or could be used for binders or drink bottles? Like they're just they don't have to be just just standard juice that you buy it for is one of the things I love doing as well. Oh, I like that too. So tell me a little bit about you've just been diagnosed as Neurodivergent, and I'd love to hear a little bit about your journey personally with that.
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Unknown
Like what made you want to get a diagnosis, what you know, how did it come about? And then how have you found that since then? Sorry, that's a very stuck question. I don't know. I think I probably would have done that anyway, so it was oh, so I was first got a formal diagnosis of autism and that was three years ago.
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Unknown
And then the idea was the start of this year. So my son was diagnosed when he was five and he's 11 now. And so that was my first sort of being a teacher too. That's where I observed it and was like, Oh, my son is definitely autistic. I can see the traits from when he was very young and then just learning a little bit about it and then starting to work with people.
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Unknown
So working with in particular and I feel like I just told this story on another podcast, but there was a woman and I was really hyper focused on the buttons and trying to get them all sorted and, and she was like, I don't care if the silks are with the cottons and with the blues and the greens. And I was just trying to work out how if she wanted to be a micro organized or macro and she's like, you must be autistic, you have so many questions.
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Unknown
And she was herself. And I was like, I maybe I am, yes, you people. So other clients had said that to me. And, and then just going through the diagnosis process with my daughter and my husband was like, you tick all these boxes and I started also doing a lot of research through the Yellow Ladybug Foundation and from listening to other women's stories.
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Unknown
Like three years ago, I did. I've done the conference, the last three or four years. I was like, Oh, that's me. Oh, that was me when I was a little kid and just hearing a lot about the masking and yeah. And so I related to so many of those people, especially in particular last year at the conference, because there was lots of women sharing their stories.
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Unknown
Yes. So for me, I found I could relate to so many of those things. So that's when I was like, I would really like to go down and look. You could I could have just said self identified, but I really felt I needed to actually go through the process. So I feel very fortunate because obviously I've had to pay for it myself to do that.
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Unknown
And yeah, I think for me it's helped my family to relate to me. I also know for myself I'm probably not so critical of myself as what I used to be. That negative self-talk in particular around the ADHD as well, and time blindness that I used to still do, and memory the short term memory things and but then it was just after the autism.
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Unknown
I was like, okay, there's probably also a bit of ADHD there. I'll go down that journey again, just listening to lots of podcasts and going, Oh, I relate to that person in that person as well. So yeah, so it's definitely self-identified and then just went through and yeah, did the actual formal diagnosis and what you describe there. Thank you so much for telling me a little bit about that, that you really felt like it stopped once you had the diagnosis.
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Unknown
You stopped that negative self talk. And I just hear that again and again. And I think it's so great to just highlight that for people because sometimes I feel like we've beat ourselves up to stuff and then once we go, once we understand how our brain works, whatever that is, like whatever we need, we can kind of go, Oh yeah, I take some of that intensity out of it all that I should be able to, and why can't I?
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Unknown
All of that stuff. We can just go, Okay, listen, this is what I'm working with. Like. Like I don't find strategies to help that. And, you know, like, it takes some of that self judgment out. Do you find. Oh, definitely, yeah. The judgment official. Because in the past I would have been like, Oh, I should be able to do that.
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Unknown
Oh, I should have done that. Whereas now it's like, oh, no, you know, that's just the way my brain works. And this is what I'm going to have to do to actually help me work through that. Or just like we call it ADHD text now, it's like so many stories of, you know, spending money on something that didn't need to be done, like, you know, even buying a 50th birthday present for a friend.
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Unknown
And I'm terrible with numbers. My husband said the amount to get and then I said the wrong amount, and then I had to bring the place to get the the actual charge changed. And I was like, that's just like text. But there's like literally weekly to daily. There's something that happens that now we just laugh about it. So yeah, whereas in the past I would have been beating myself up in particular around money, just the wasted money all the time on little things that you do wrong.
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Unknown
And so now you've got that kind of understanding. You can kind of look at it with a bit of kindness, I guess as well. Definitely kindness, just so much more self-compassion than in the past. But when I think of the way I talked to myself when I was younger, especially, you know, a teenager and young adult in my twenties, it was terrible.
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Unknown
It was just so nasty. Like, Yeah, well, why have you spilled that or why have you forgotten that appointment? Yeah, So and I suppose that's why I then found ways to be really organized to help me. But at the same time, I really can't stand a club in every environment, which is why a house is very minimalist and my kids say that they will not be like me when they're older.
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Unknown
But, you know, when we go camping and we're all jammed in the car and there's all the camping stuff in there, they both cannot handle it. So I'm sure when they find out, maybe they'll try for a while, but I'm sure they'll be having me. Mum, can you come and help us? We need some assistance to have a clean house because I can't handle the clutter.
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Unknown
You know, that's really interesting that you brought that up, because. Yeah, I often. Yeah, I think I feel like having a minimalist house. Like our house is pretty meaninglessness as well, but only because I figure if I have to pick it up like more than a couple of times, I'm going to it. But they are all comforted by like all our family members, Like they get stressed in Qatar, they freaks them out.
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Unknown
So when we were building this house and we moved in with my mother in law and there was lots of stuff that was all of us living with one bathroom and it's a little crazy. For a while they were really like everyone was really aggro. All of. But now that we're back in our home and it's nice and clear, it's it's kind of take some of the intensity out of it.
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Unknown
Definitely. I know when my kids go and stay at other people's houses and they come back saying, I just can't leave there. There's too many too much stuff, too many things in. Yeah, they, they really do like minimal, you know, things in their environment. And even when they were little with toys, they'd, they'd want them packed up and they'd try to pick them up but they'd expect us just to pick them up because they couldn't handle the room messy and starting afresh the next morning.
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Unknown
And it's funny because if my kids see some of the photos or some of the things from my clients, like my daughter, she's like, I couldn't work in that environment. I could not do your job. She's quite having to deal with all the TV units for me and the behind the scenes stuff for me. But she's like, I could never do your job.
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Unknown
Yeah, it's funny because, like, some people are really comforted by stuff and some people are. It really stresses them out and you kind of like one or the other. Yeah, Yeah. Now I'm curious to know, so this is something that I've just been thinking of when we're talking about, you know, kind of this clutter through homes, a lot of people struggle with things that are sentimental.
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Unknown
So how do you go like, say, someone's got a lot of things that are sentimental. How can I helping them work through that? So usually we'll start at something, some area that doesn't have so much sentimental, like things like the bathroom generally, sometimes it can, but generally that's a good spot to start. Sometimes the kitchen's a good spot to start because there's not as many sentimental items.
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Unknown
And then you slowly way back towards it's usually around clothes and toys is where the sentimental area is going to be. But it's it's letting people share stories. Once they can share the story, sometimes they'll just surprise you and go, okay, yeah, I don't need that now. You just told me this story about this beautiful out of it, but they just got that part out and they're like, Someone's listened and now they're ready to just let it go.
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Unknown
I think, too, it's just the longer you work with someone, the more likely they are. Once they can trust you, they're happy to sort of let those things go. And I think when they also know where the things are going to so they know some of the people that I work with and I do share like not obviously names and addresses or anything like that, but just sharing some people who are struggling maybe in that area and could potentially use some of these items.
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Unknown
They really like that. So, know, one of the things I really like about my job is trying to make sure that the items that are donated are given to someone who might be in need. So, so many different places around our area are jewels that I have connections with that I'll drop things off to. Like even today, an art center and someone giving me a whole lot of gowns.
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Unknown
And I knew that they needed some more and I dropped them off to them. Today. So yeah, it's great to be on that stage. Yeah. Yeah. Making sure it goes to a good home too. And then for some people, that's all they need to know. As long as it's going to someone else, then they're more likely to let it go.
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Unknown
And so it gives them the option. If you've got somebody you'd like your items to go to, let me know and I can drop them there or otherwise, you know, I'll be dropping it at a local up shop on my way past. Excellent. Now tell me a little bit. We usually try and leave our beautiful listeners with some key tips or some steps that they can do right now.
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Unknown
So if someone's listening and they're looking around their home and they're going, Oh, that area isn't so great, like that's a bit out of control, right? Tell tell us some tips that they can draw. So I suppose, like there's a few different things like clutter. It could be physical clutter, so your items, but it might be mental clutter.
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Unknown
So it could be like your calendar. You've got so many things on your calendar, you're committing to too many things. Maybe it's also your digital, so maybe it's to do with your phone too many photos. You don't know the appointments that you've got. Everything's just cluttered up on our iPads and laptops and you know that person who has to delete everything before you can even take the next photo.
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Unknown
Or maybe it is emotional clutter. So that's looking at guilt and fear. So you're either feeling guilty about the money that you've spent so you can't let it go, or there's fear that you may need to use that some time. So it's working out which one of those clutter is affecting your life and maybe it's several of those items, but usually it'll be one or two of those that's actually creating the overwhelm.
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Unknown
So if we go back in and we go across the physical clutter, it's looking at a hotspot. So what is one area in your home that's going to give you the biggest return? So maybe it's the front door. You're sick of falling over the kids shoes and it's like, is there something? We could go through the shoes and we could make sure that we've got all the pairs and get rid of the ones that we're not using?
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Unknown
And do we have something that we could then store them in? That's really simple. Maybe it's something that you have around the house already that's not really being used and we can try that out for a bit. Like how like big on let's try it out. And if it doesn't work, then we change it. But also use what you've got within your home.
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Unknown
And then if it is working, then go, okay, I'm going to go get one of those shoe storage things or a basket or something that looks nice to do that solution. But just looking for that hotspots in your home, it's usually kitchen bench, your front door. It's always or maybe it's in your bedroom on the floor of bedrooms.
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Unknown
Another one is is bathrooms. And it might be as simple as just adding a rubbish bin into the bathroom like the toilet paper builds up and my kids have this problem with their face washes. They just dump them all over the bathroom. So I put a little basket there and now they put in the face washes. So it's just looking at where is the clutter building up in your home and what's something that we could do.
00;28;08;10 - 00;28;29;22
Unknown
Maybe it's like, you know, one of those rounds, Lazy Susans on the kitchen bench where all the things that maybe don't have a home or you want really quick access to you could live. Yeah, I mean, I could go on forever. I love it. I'm taking it in. I'm thinking, Oh, what can I look at? But I think sometimes we get caught up in the buying of the things to organize.
00;28;29;22 - 00;28;56;13
Unknown
The things we need the home first. Yeah. It's like looking at why is it sitting there? Oh, maybe because I've got to many jackets. I don't have a room. So that's why there's four on the ground in my bedroom, because there's nowhere to hang them. But maybe it's like de-cluttering those items first. The same kitchen bench generally is there's no home for, say, the batteries or the kind of think of something else that's always on paperwork.
00;28;56;13 - 00;29;13;03
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There's always there's never a place to put paperwork. So maybe it's like looking at a magazine folder where when you come in, it's a spot just to put your paperwork. As soon as you come in and when you've got time, you go through it. But at least it's got a home. Rather than building up in all different spots around the house.
00;29;13;05 - 00;29;34;17
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I love that. I love that. Well, thank you so much for coming on to the podcast today to have a little bit of a chat. I've learned a few things and it's so great to chat with you now. Thank you so much for having me and allowing me to share those tips. I'm sure our audience will love it.
00;29;34;20 - 00;29;57;19
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00;29;57;21 - 00;30;13;11
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