JOY LOVING HOME - SAHM, Productivity, Home Organization, Declutter, ADHD Mom, ADHD SAHM, ADHD Brain

In this episode, Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, shares an unconventional yet effective hack to help those struggling with getting started on home organization. If you find it hard to take the first step, this episode is for you. Joy reveals her method of "rearrange and stage first" and how it can transform your space and mindset. Joy discusses the importance of creating a visually...

Join Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, as she reflects on a summer filled with four unique moves. Whether you're planning to move or just looking for some life lessons, this episode is packed with insights that apply to everyday living. From helping her grown son, a minimalist monkey brain, to downsizing her in-laws' home, Joy shares the challenges and lessons learned. She also dives...

Welcome or welcome back to the Joy Loving Home podcast! In today's episode, we explore the challenges of getting back into a routine after life throws you off course. Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, shares her personal journey of re-establishing a routine that worked for her health and well-being. Joy discusses why it can be so difficult to jump back on the horse and offers practica...

Welcome to episode 210 of the Joy Loving Home podcast! In this special "Break This Rule" series, we explore how certain rules can hinder those of us with ADHD and offer better alternatives. This episode dives into the often-praised rule of consistency. While consistency is beneficial, it can also become a stumbling block that freezes productivity. Join me as I share my recent struggle with this is...

Have you ever experienced an ultra-productive day only to find yourself back at square one shortly after? In this episode, professional organizer Joy, delves into the hyperfocus-crash cycle, explaining why it happens and how to work with your brain's unique wiring. Joy shares insightful analogies and practical tips for managing your home in a way that aligns with your natural tendencies. Discover...

You remember that old saying, "This is harder on me than it is on you"? As a parent, Joy shares her heartfelt experiences of navigating the tough decisions and emotional challenges of raising her children. She vividly recalls the struggle of pushing her son to stick with wrestling despite the difficulties and the life lessons it imparted. Joy draws a powerful parallel between parenting and organiz...

In this episode, Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, shares her personal experience with a messy kitchen and provides a practical tip to overcome priority paralysis. She recounts the chaos she faced before a flight and offers insights into how to tackle overwhelming spaces without getting bogged down by inefficiency or perfectionism. Joy emphasizes the importance of starting anywhere an...

Welcome to the Joy Loving Home podcast, where Joy, a professional organizer and mom of four, guides you through the ups and downs of finding routines that fit your unique brain. In this episode, Joy discusses the common struggle of sticking to routines, especially for those with ADHD. She challenges the notion that we are bad at routines and encourages listeners to recognize the rhythm in their li...

Embrace the Chaos: Your Summer Organizing Hack Welcome or welcome back to the Joy Loving Home podcast. The summer rhythm is coming, and with it, a whole lot of chaos, spontaneity, and coming and going. With your kids out of school and extra activities aplenty, this season can feel overwhelming. However, in this episode, we explore how you can embrace the chaos with an unusual organizing hack. The...

In this episode of the podcast, we're inspired by a YouTube short titled "Three-Year-Old Boy Who Leaves Professional Engineers Shocked". In the video, a three-year-old child uses a unique approach to fix an unbalanced Lego bridge, showing us how a fresh perspective can redefine problem-solving. Join Joy, a professional organizer, mom of four and fellow fish brain, as we delve into this story and i...

Let's discuss the downside of choosing to declutter without organizing. Decluttering alone without a game plan for organizing can lead to discouragement and a sense of failure, as it often doesn't reveal any immediate 'win' or visible change.  For neurodiverse brains it is important to see decluttering and organizing in tandem, not as separate activities. Let's challenge typical home organizing ph...

In this potentially controversial episode, I challenge one of the widely accepted approaches to organizing: decluttering first. Listen for a recent example of organizing a closet for a client who wanted to give her husband the gift of organization without making any decluttering decisions on his behalf. Going through this non-standard approach, I reveal interesting insights on how not decluttering...

Discover practical and tangible steps to help reset your home environment, especially for those with ADHD, in the latest episode of Joy Loving Home podcast. Rather than offering a quick fix or hack, which might work temporarily, this episode delves into the real reasons we often struggle to reset our lives after a period of chaos. Often, people with ADHD experience difficulty with resetting becaus...

In the monumental 200th episode of the Joy Loving Home podcast, join a deeply personal exploration centered on the intricacies and emotional hurdles of assisting loved ones through the process of downsizing. As many of us are bound to experience this phase ourselves, this episode offers tangible insights from seasoned professional organizer, Joy. Joy shares lessons drawn from her experiences assis...

Feel like you are always busy but nothing ever gets accomplished? Listen to today's hack and see if it helps!   Try Magic Mind for some Focus, Energy, & Less Stress! https://magicmind.com/Joyshome Code JOYLOVING for 20% off   Connect With Me Email:  joy@joylovinghome.com Website: https://joylovinghome.com Membership: https://joylovinghome.com/membership Podcast Community: https://bit.ly/joylov...

Are you struggling to get organized? Perhaps perfectionism is to blame! Don't think that is you? Have a listen and see if it sounds familiar...and what to do to overcome it.   Connect with Me: Email: joy@joylovinghome.com Membership: https://joylovinghome.com/community  

This is the companion episode to 195. I first outlined why hiring a professional organizer is a bad idea if you have ADHD and now I am sharing why it is a great idea! Listen to both & decide how to find the help you need to really start seeing a change in your home!   The Room of Requirement Episode - Episode 18 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joy-loving-home-sahm-productivity-home-organ...

I know what it feels like to work and work on your home & feel like you never make any progress. Listen to what is actually happening and how to actually start seeing a change!   Connect with me! Free Community: https://bit.ly/joylovinghomecommunity Membership: https://joylovinghome.com/membership Email: joy@joylovinghome.com IG: https://instagram.com/joylovinghome

Thinking about hiring an organizer to help fix your home? Listen to this first so that you know how to pick the right one & what to really expect about what can change. Magic Mind Link https://magicmind.com/joyshome Code JOYLOVING Connect with Me: Email: joy@joylovinghome.com Newsletter: https://joylovinghome.com Membership: https://joylovinghome.com/membership Community: https://bit.ly/joylov...

Do you find yourself busy doing anything but what you are supposed to be working on? Try these 3 hacks & see if you can knock out the hard stuff! Membership Open Now https://joylovinghome.com/membership Podcast Community https://bit.ly/joylovinghomecommunity  

Little bit of nostalgia today...thinking back to when we couldn't control time. It was a huge advantage to our parenting and our productivity. Listen and see if you agree! Join the Membership Group as a special Valentine's Gift to yourself! Be on the waitlist to get in  Waitlist: https://joylovinghome.com/membership Magic Mind Offer Details: https://magicmind.com/JANjoyshome Code: JOYLOVING It's a...

Let's talk about how our ADHD Brains are wired and the reality of the actual systems & organizing that it can handle. Listen for 3 places you can take action to put room for reality into your organization!   Subscribe to the newsletter: https://joylovinghome.com  

Give the WHY on the Fly technique a try...it keeps you from overplanning without any action....or taking action without any plan of WHY. Magic Mind Links: https://www.magicmind.com/JANjoyshome Code: JOYLOVING Connect with me: Free Community: https://bit.ly/joylovinghomecommunity Email: joy@joylovinghome.com Membership Waitlist: https://joylovinghome.com/membership IG: https://instagram.com/joylovi...

Part of A Series - Every 10th Episode I ask us to break an organizing, planning, or productivity "rule" for our ADHD brains and I suggest a way to do things differently. Today I am tackling what happens when you search online for organizing advice...be careful!! Mentioned in the Podcast: https://www.southernliving.com/small-organization-tasks-for-new-year-8418385 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podc...

This episode is a bit of a continuation from episode 188 - so if you haven't listened to that yet, go there first. In this episode, I explore how if you are in a Catch 22, at least choose the lesser evil. It doesn't sound like an uplifting episode, but it may help you have an epiphany about how your brain works and at least not beat yourself up about it...that is the greatest waste of time! Mentio...