Nurture Welcomes MaryJo Monroe

Nurture warmly welcomes MaryJo Monroe as our newest Family Wellness Professional Member. MaryJo is a home organizing consultant with a heart for helping expecting families and new families create peace within their homes (what a great gift). Read all about her work below. Welcome, MaryJo!

Home Organizing Consultant
www.respacedpdx.com
respacedpdx.blogspot.com

What does home organizing have to do with health?

Home organizing is about recognizing that our environment affects our physical and emotional health profoundly. I work almost exclusively with moms, and for the moms I work with, their clutter is affecting their relationships, parenting, finances, physical health, mood and self-esteem. My work involves transforming spaces into functional, healthy, comfortable and simplified environments.

How I can help

I help moms figure out their goals and priorities. Then we work together, going through each room and getting rid of whatever doesn’t fit with those goals and priorities. Moms learn to consciously choose what to allow into their lives. They learn how to make room for what is truly important.

I create new ways of storing things and new systems for home maintenance, like new ways of processing mail or doing the laundry. My goal is to buy as few organizing products as possible, and to create systems that are down-to-earth and simple. I steer clients away from trying to create magazine-perfect homes. And I never force anyone to throw anything away.

Rates

$45 per hour. All sessions are a minimum of 3 hours and a maximum of 4 hours.

Appointments

Call 971-226-6055 or email info@respacedpdx.com to book a complimentary one hour consultation

More resources

Get organizing inspiration and practical how-to knowledge at my blog: www.respacedpdx.blogspot.com. Visit my website at www.respacedpdx.com.

Feeling stressed out at home? Your house may be affecting your mood

How does your house make you feel? Secure, relaxed, content? Or do you get that anxious or overwhelmed feeling when you look around your home?

When our home is disorganized, it affects our mood. We are profoundly affected by our environment, which we may not realize. Our disorganization creates stress – stress because we can’t find our keys, stress because the bills don’t get paid on time, stress because there is not much room for the kids to play, stress because we spend our weekends trying to catch up on housework rather than enjoying the time with our family.

Our clutter suffocates us.

But organization

liberates us. When you have clean counters in the kitchen and you can find all of your cookware, you are free to create healthy, yummy dinners for your family each night. When you have nothing stacked on your chairs, couches and coffee tables, you are free to entertain guests and your children will want to bring their friends over. When you have a dedicated craft space and a clear work table, you are free to feed your soul with your creativity.

If your home causes you frustration, exhaustion and stress, it’s time to reassess what you have filled it with. It’s time to ask yourself, have I made room for what is important to my family or has our stuff crushed our priorities?

MaryJo Monroe is a home organizing consultant and owner of reSPACEd, an organizing business that helps families regain control of their home. She is the newest member of Nurture and mama to a beloved 4-year-old.

MaryJo Monroe

Home Organizing Consultant

www.respacedpdx.com

respacedpdx.blogspot.com