“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” Winston Churchill said in a 1943 speech. He recognized the impact of our built environment on our mental state, a correlation that has only become ...

Have you ever walked into your home after a long day, only to feel your shoulders tense up at the sight of piles of mail, ...

You walk into your home after a long day, ready to relax and recharge. But instead of feeling relief, you feel a vague sense of unease. Nothing dramatic happened. There’s no obvious emergency. Yet ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Mental clutter doesn’t just reside in the mind—it manifests throughout the body, breath and ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - When most people think of spring cleaning, they picture taking a dust rag to the attic or sorting through the depths of the closet. A licensed professional counselor in ...

In our modern world, where consumption is king and storage units are booming businesses, many of us feel a persistent, low-level anxiety that we can’t quite place. Often, the answer lies closer than ...

As I sit down to write this column, on a warm summer afternoon, I am reflecting on all the busy summers I had, balancing raising three busy kids and running a business! I was always trying to make ...

Has your mind ever been so cluttered and distracted that you lost track of time? The engaging nature of computers, smartphones, TVs, and other visual technology creates a virtual hamster wheel of ...

For so many of us, it’s normal to wake up exhausted. It’s no wonder, either, when you consider all the "stuff" we have going on every day. The phone pings... the emails fly in... the PMs and DMs come ...

If Marie Kondo could peek inside your brain and take inventory of your memory banks, would she find it chockablock with clutter? If you're an older adult, odds are that Kondo would find cluttered ...