How Organizing Helps You Navigate Major Life Changes

Whether due to positive or negative reasons, change is hard. Change can bring stress and a sense of disarray to your life. Whether you're moving to a new home, welcoming a baby, caring for growing children, becoming empty nesters, retiring, or transitioning to senior living, these major life changes can throw you for a loop.
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Our team of professional organizers specializes in helping clients going through these life transitions. We take away the overwhelm so you can focus on what makes you happy.

Why Get Organized When Life Feels So Overwhelming?

When you're preparing to move, you may feel so overwhelmed that you just want to pack everything up quickly and deal with it at the new home. But then at the new home you're still overwhelmed. You want to put items into cabinets and deal with organizing everything later - but later doesn't usually come.

Or maybe you've just received a houseful of items from a passed loved one and your first instinct is to put it all into storage to deal with later. It's human nature to push off difficult decisions until the future, but the weight of those decisions still weighs on you. You know you have to deal with it eventually and it's on your mind much more than you'd like!
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Deciding to deal with it now and get organized is proactive and will make the transition much smoother. With an organizer there to guide you, you can make the tough decisions, release the past, and prepare for life going forward. We will ask the tricky questions about if items serve you and if they're something you want to bring into the next chapter. Emotions will be felt and that's OK. Processing them now will help you feel better and create more mental and physical space for the future.

Change of Any Kind Calls for Reorganization

You're so excited to welcome your baby soon, but there are gift bags, baby paraphernalia, and itty bitty cute clothes everywhere. Nothing is set up for the baby's room and your energy left the chat weeks ago. This is definitely not a workout/guest room anymore - it needs to transform into a nursery stat!
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Hiring a professional organizer can give you peace of mind when the idea of getting organized alone just feels like too much. We're here to put order back in your home and make you feel like someone is on your side and looking out for you. We can organize nurseries with new baskets, hangers, dividers, and systems. We can declutter as baby grows out of clothes (or store them in labeled bins if there will be more future kiddos!). We're here with you along the way to keep things organized and tidy.

Read more about getting organized before baby arrives here.

When You're Feeling Stressed, Start with Systems You Know

Instead of letting the stress take over and focusing on all the things that don't work in your life and home, focus on the systems and habits that do work. We can build on those! For example, if we're unpacking your new home and it worked in your old home to take your shoes off in the mudroom, we can add a shoe rack there instead of in your coat closet.

If you like clear bins because you can see what's inside, we won't bring deep wicker baskets, we'll bring clear!
We like to hear from clients what already works for them, so we can integrate those systems into our new organization (and recommend our own best practices too, of course!).
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During life changes, it can help to mentally grab on to those little pieces of confidence. There are plenty of things you're already doing right!

Release Yourself from Expectations; Be OK with Just Enough

Change will happen. We can't plan and prepare for everything. Sometimes it's best to let go of previous expectations and be OK with "organized enough." The last thing you need when unpacking your home is to feel like everything must be perfect and set up like a magazine. If you know things will be a little chaotic for a while and can lean into that discomfort, you'll be able to get to the other side of the change less frazzled. Relieve the pressure valve just a little bit so that you don't pop!
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When you hire our team to help, we'll bring a sense of order to your home and life that you desperately need. It will allow you to relax even more and trust that things will get done. You have enough other things to worry about! We're not perfect either of course (no one is), but organizing is our passion and you're going to love your (nearly perfect) organized home.

Sorting, Purging, and Decluttering As Self-Care

You've worked hard your entire life. Now it's time to retire and transition into senior living. You're ready to make friends, take morning walks, and read a good book (book club anyone?) There's just one problem: You have thousands of memories in your home and have accumulated more than you'd like to admit over the years. Please be kind to yourself. Decluttering and preparing to downsize can be a long and arduous process. Start small and give yourself plenty of time.

This is the perfect time to work with an organizer (retirement gift to yourself?). We'll do all the hard physical labor and will only pull you in for the decisions. We can work in shorter sessions so it's not too overwhelming. We even take donations away for you and bring you the donations receipt after.

Think of it as some long-deserved self-care by working side by side with an organizer and not doing this alone. The task won't feel insurmountable when you have a smiling face there to motivate you along the way. And when it's time to move, we'll pack your boxes with care and unpack and set up your new home too.

Learn more about why to hire a pro organizer for unpacking after a move here.

At Hello Simplified, we know that major life changes can be stressful and overwhelming. We get it and we've been there too. That's why we've made it our mission to help clients experiencing these life transitions. We want to bring you peace and help your change be as smooth and organized as possible.
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Please reach out if you're feeling like the change you're going through is too much. We're here to help. Download our organizing guide to see what it's like to work with us.

Warmly,
Sandi