How to Overcome Unrelenting Struggles & Bitterness in your Life
I struggle with bitterness. It’s not something I love to admit, but it’s my reality. Struggling with the same issue over and over is like being drawn into the warm glow of a campfire only to realize you’ve actually stepped into a raging inferno – again. It’s ugly....
Hope for Tupperware Organization and Your Sanity
by Kelsee Keitel Would you join me in a moment of silence for all the Tupperware containers lost due to my neglect? First stranded in my vehicle for weeks, then tossed to their dumpster deaths? I can’t tell you the number of Tupperware containers I’ve thrown away...
3 Ways I Am Learning to Minimize the Overwhelmed Tax
"We all pay an Overwhelmed tax," Kathi tells me. To myself, I think: Well, maybe you do, but I'm sure I don't. Aloud, I say: "How interesting!" Kathi gives an illustration of adding a service to her cell phone during a trip and then forgetting to cancel it. This...
Why can’t my husband be more like me?
Why can't my husband be more like me? I don’t need reminders. I see how dirty the floor is, and I put things back where they belong to make life easier for the next person. If only my husband were more like ... me! Life sure would be easier if my husband saw these...
I Don’t Have Thyme For This: Organizing the Kitchen Without Overwhelm
It’s a new day, ripe with promise and potential … until I walk into the kitchen. Dishes in the sink, counters dotted with dirty dishes and crumbs, and a cluttered table converge to sing a taunting chorus, “You can’t even keep the kitchen clean, how can you accomplish...
Episode #234 – Overwhelmed with Too Much Stuff
Clutter's #1 priority is to keep us feeling overwhelmed.Overwhelmed comes in many forms. Kathi and Overwhelmed co-author, Cheri Gregory, discuss how easy it is to be overwhelmed with clutter. They go through three of the top things clutter tells you!Clutter Keeps...
Got a Messy Relationship? Here’s How to Fix It in Three Simple Steps
by Shaunti Feldhahn You know that colleague or family member who drives you nuts? The one who second-guesses everything you do, is super-sensitive, and doesn’t return urgent emails for help? No, wait, that would be my colleague! You probably have a different...
Withdraw When You’re Overwhelmed
I was sick when I was pregnant and not just a little bit. Doctors diagnosed me with hyperemesis, which I loosely translate into “throwing your guts up day and night.” When I got pregnant the second time, people assured me every pregnancy is different. And they were...
A Way Out of the Homework Quicksand
Homework often feels like swimming in quicksand; it takes a lot of effort to make a small, microscopic bit of progress. I think my son often feels the same. His face, his voice, his delay of the inevitable all lead to a night of overwhelm, and there isn’t one of us...