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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Shari B. Kaplan

5 mindfulness techniques that can help keep your home tidy and banish mess – I'm a psychotherapist and love the Doorway Pause and Three-Task Tidy

A bright, neutral living room with modern, minimalist furniture and large windows with sheer white curtains.

Sometimes it takes more than sheer will to get household jobs done or build good habits into your daily chores.

I’m a licensed psychotherapist and know full well how the experiences that have shaped us over the course of a lifetime, including trauma, chronic pain, and anxiety can impact our capacity and motivation to do tasks. Household jobs are no exception, especially with their never-ending churn and propensity to creep up on us in the busy day-to-day of our lives.

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