Home Organization Services in Newport News
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Hello and welcome!
My name is Manami Workman. I am the founder and consultant for Stuff Therapy. Let me tell you a little bit about what I offer, what I care about, and how you and I can work together to create an organized, flowing home. My passion centers around home organization service, which to me, is essentially using our power to establish systems and organization to create a peaceful, grounded, non-chaotic home space. Home organization is an incredibly potent way to create stability, soothe your nervous system, and empower you and your family to live the life you want to live. I know well what kind of challenges "running a household" can bring. It can be relentless and the only one with the power to change it—is you. |
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A home should be a place that feeds you, serves you, nourishes you, and protects you--not a place that stresses you out or disorients you.
And that's where home organization proves to be one of the most vital tools in your toolbox, while also making sure you know where your toolbox is in the first place!
And that's where home organization proves to be one of the most vital tools in your toolbox, while also making sure you know where your toolbox is in the first place!
“Home is a force that shapes our daily lives. More than just a physical shelter, the home is both a second skin that protects us from the world outside and an emotional center that nourishes us and supports our inner-most dreams.”
-Maxwell Ryan (the author of Apartment Therapy, interior designer)
My Home Organization OriginsSince 2010, I've created systems for home organization while having children (that I homeschool), a partner, running a business, growing a garden, cooking all our meals from scratch, and more. I can tell you right now that there's no way we would be able to have the life of peace and abundance that we have now if our household didn't have the organized container to hold it. But for me and my family, it hasn't always been this way. In fact, what made me become so passionate about home organization in the first place was how clearly it took our house from chaos to clarity.
I remember my husband calling me about where the car keys were and having to come back to the house from the park with my two boys to look for them together. It was in moments like those that I told myself, "something's gotta change here. We're wasting so much time and causing so much stress just because of our stuff." In a sense that's when Stuff Therapy was born. In those early days, I more or less coached myself and my family through home organization. I was my own first client! So, whether you found your way to this site through a friend or a quick search on Google for "home organization services"—welcome! What I offer is a tangible, clear, practical, and yes therapeutic way to relate to your "things." I can tell you now that everybody who begins and commits to this journey to organize their home and their lives looks back, takes a deep breath, and says "that was so worth it." Let's keep going: what does "organization" even mean?The word Organization means "to arrange into a structured whole; order." Organization can be applied to nearly everything in the universe. When we apply organization to a home, we're bringing the house into one whole unit, one seamless entity, rather than having several scattered or disconnected pieces and parts that don't connect. That feels like chaos. Chaos is an important part of life and it has a lot to teach us, but it can be really difficult to live in chaos 24/7 in your own home. You know that already, but it's worth recognizing.
When we practice home organization--when we arrange our house into a structured whole--we create for ourselves a sense of peace. We free up time that we can spend doing things we love instead of chasing our stuff around; we save ourselves from unnecessary stress and an overly stimulated nervous system. You think it's just labeling, but home organization goes deep. When we practice home organization--when we arrange our house into a structured whole--we create for ourselves a sense of peace. We free up time that we can spend doing things we love instead of chasing our stuff around; we save ourselves from unnecessary stress and an overly stimulated nervous system. You think it's just labeling, but home organization goes deep. |
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The reason it goes deep is that the "home" is an incredibly helpful mirror for understanding our own inner life as an individual or as a family. What do I mean by mirror? I mean that the home we experience on the outside reflects what's happening to us on the inside.
You make the home and the home makes you, for better or worse. Here's what I show you how to do: you organize the home and the home organizes you.
You make the home and the home makes you, for better or worse. Here's what I show you how to do: you organize the home and the home organizes you.
Ultimately, my work in home organization is about empowering you to do the work. If I just did all the work for you, that wouldn't be healing, satisfying, therapeutic, or helpful to you. That would be me just doing something I already know how to do, which is cool, but it doesn't get you anywhere anytime soon.
My process is about giving you the tools and teaching you how to use them. Sound good?
In my process of home organization, you and I work together--in other words, I'm not simply doing all the work for you--to create a space that serves and nourishes you and that you can sustain once I'm gone. We strategically put our hands to the task of creating systems for every aspect of the house and to creating an overall sense of wholeness and unity in the house. All rooms and functions in the house ultimately tie together.
Examples of home organization include:
-supporting you to make decisions NOT by forcing you to throw things away.
-labeling and categorization
-creating designated spaces or "zones" for certain objects, tasks, and activities
-strategically thinking about accessibility and use over time (daily items in the main drawer, monthly items on the top shelf, etc.)
-beauty and aesthetics
-creative use of space in terms of practicality/functionality
-having furniture, cabinets, and shelves (i.e. architecture) that serve organization rather than get in the way of it
My process is about giving you the tools and teaching you how to use them. Sound good?
In my process of home organization, you and I work together--in other words, I'm not simply doing all the work for you--to create a space that serves and nourishes you and that you can sustain once I'm gone. We strategically put our hands to the task of creating systems for every aspect of the house and to creating an overall sense of wholeness and unity in the house. All rooms and functions in the house ultimately tie together.
Examples of home organization include:
-supporting you to make decisions NOT by forcing you to throw things away.
-labeling and categorization
-creating designated spaces or "zones" for certain objects, tasks, and activities
-strategically thinking about accessibility and use over time (daily items in the main drawer, monthly items on the top shelf, etc.)
-beauty and aesthetics
-creative use of space in terms of practicality/functionality
-having furniture, cabinets, and shelves (i.e. architecture) that serve organization rather than get in the way of it
Stuff Therapy?
The whole idea of Stuff Therapy is that doing all of this organization work turns out to be incredibly therapeutic. You may or may not be surprised, but it turns out many of our inner chaos can be addressed by just getting our home life into a sense of harmoniousness. Creating an organized space in a house is satisfying, healing, practical, and fun. I won't mislead you, though, it can be emotional. Confronting our "stuff" in a home organization process can bring up frustration, guilt, anger, sadness, and more. And that's OK. All those emotions are really important and life wouldn't be life without them. I welcome all emotions and that's part of the process. 100%. I work with you to transform those challenging emotions into practical solutions and to resolve them within your own home, with your own stuff, on your own timeline. Now that feels good.