Compassionate Decluttering: How to Soulfully Surrender Your Stuff

by Michelle L. Hoff

A loving, butt-kicking, step-by-step journey to take control of your clutter to create a loved and fun ctional home.

Are you ready to take your power back and finally move from “mess” to “less”?

With Michelle “Home Coach” Hoff’s proven practices, learn how to define (and live!) your unique values, develop a personalized decluttering plan, and create an unstoppable vision for your dream home.

Bringing together insights from cleaning clients, design principles, project management strategies, and therapy (a lot of therapy!), Michelle “Home Coach” Hoff is your personal coach and biggest cheerleader to take control of clutter.

With practical tools, interactive challenges, and some serious skill building, discover how

forgive yourself for the clutter (welcome to the No Shame Zone!),break free from old beliefs and inaction to do the “a$$ and elbows” work of decluttering,eliminate mindless buying and self-imposed roadblocks to gain resilience and grit,take a clipboard-and-hard-hat approach to project manage your mess, anddevelop healthy home habits centered on your unique values.Join the community of fierce decluttering warriors resisting excess, cultivating loving compassion, and boldly choosing what to chuck and what to cherish.

Michelle “Home Coach” Hoff, MA, is a life coach and relentless cheerleader for anyone who wants to reduce excess, become a conscious consumer, and create a healthy home. Hoff has been digging around in people’s living spaces for over three decades as a landscaper, interior designer, and owner of a cleaning business. She believes that centering compassion and client values is foundational in any dream home project. For “Home Coach Hoff” resources and events, visit www.HomeCoachHoff.com.

305 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2022

Reviews

[Laura Lee]

Snore.

[Marta E C R · Rating 4 out of 5]

For anyone who wants to take this book seriously, owning a copy would be a good idea, so that they could use the workbook/journaling aspects of it. It is as much a self-help book as a decluttering manual, with the goal in mind of creating the kind of space for yourself which will support your life and feed your soul. The methods are diverse with many options. At the moment I don’t feel I need the intensive workbooking laid out here to proceed in my own decluttering journey (which has already begun in my own unique style), but I’ll remember this book in case I feel I do in the future. I appreciated the author’s concern for the environment; her focus on trying to give things away or repurpose them, considering the landfill as the last resort.

[Mary Ashleson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased this book because I joined a book study through a home declutterring group.
I give Michelle’s book/workbook 5 stars because she truly helped me understand the emotions we have toward our stuff and how to overcome these feelings. While reading this book, I found myself looking at my environment and stuff in a different light.
I feel more at peace without the anxiety of the clutter of too much stuff.
Michelle gives practical guidance and tools that will continue to help me make decisions while declutterring my home and making life much easier!

[kimberly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative

This book is a great read. It's educational. For someone who has a hard time letting go of clutter that they think they will need someday. This book will help you get through it. You will have a great feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction instead of regret and sadness.

[Kayla Hollatz]

What a joy it is to read a client's book! With workbook exercises and plenty of relatable stories, Michelle fuses life coaching into the practice of decluttering.