Episode #202: The New Year Reset: Decluttering Your Space, Your Mind, and Your Goals

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Dec 28, 2025

Kickstart your year by decluttering both your space and your mind! Discover how physical mess can hijack your brain, leading to irritability and fatigue. Trish shares her journey towards a calmer life and reframes decluttering as a path to identity change. Learn the reasons New Year's goals often fail and how to align them with your true self. Get practical tips like micro zones and anchor rituals to simplify your daily life. Plus, explore the fascinating world of brain mapping to better understand your nervous system needs!

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INSIGHT

Resets Come From Your Nervous System

Your desire for a clean slate comes from your nervous system, not a to-do list.
Order and simplification create regulation in the brain and invite clarity.

INSIGHT

Clutter Hijacks Executive Function

Physical and mental clutter overstimulate the prefrontal cortex and compete for attention.
This overstimulation causes fatigue, decision overwhelm, irritability, procrastination, and loss of motivation.

ANECDOTE

From Chaotic To Full Life

Trish moved with six kids, two dogs, and two cats and realized she was recreating chaos from her upbringing.
She rebranded 'chaotic life' as a 'full life' then chose to simplify to protect her regulated self.

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The New Year Reset: Decluttering Your Space, Your Mind, and Your Goals

If your mind feels cluttered and stuck as the new year begins, this is not a motivation problem. 🎯

It is a nervous system problem.

When your environment stays cluttered, your brain stays overloaded. Visual noise, mental load, and unfinished decisions keep your nervous system stuck in a low-level state of threat.

When you simplify your space, your brain can finally regulate. Order reduces cognitive load. Open space restores focus. This is how real resets happen.

If your brain feels strained, drained, or overwhelmed, know that you are not alone. I am here with you, and a Brain Map can show you what your nervous system needs. Explore brain mapping and neurofeedback with me at drtrishleigh.com.

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