There are many valid approaches to creating neat spaces, but these approaches fail over time because they suggest that we dispose of our stuff and most of us love stuff! Based on her work as a professional organizer and a former psychotherapist, Marla Stone’s fresh and friendly approach goes beyond tidying up to offer the Clutter Remedy strategy to create spaces you love and keep you perpetually organized.Marla walks you through getting to know yourself and your values and then helps you visualize your ideal lifestyle and surroundings. From that perspective, you’ll learn step by step (and room by room) how to create your ideal lifestyle and organize your space to support it.
Marla Stone, MSW, Author, and Mental Health Advocate, owns I-Deal-Lifestyle Inc., which provides space design, corporate training, and lifestyle coaching services. As a former psychotherapist, she helped veterans of Fallujah to Orange County Housewives.
WHAT’S THE STORY: Marla Stone, MSW, Lifestyle Organizer and author of The Clutter Remedy, is a Mental Health Expert and Advocate. She is a former social worker, psychotherapist, Author, Professional Organizer, and CEO of I-Deal-Lifestyle Inc., a behavioral training company that has revolutionized decluttering. In the past 30 years, Stone has helped over 30,000+ people declutter their emotions, communication, and lives. Her discovery of how changing your language will change your life has helped human productivity tenfold. Her training and development programs include clearing and healing strategies to cure trauma, understanding differential diagnoses, and relationship repair. Her themes always result in learning how to live an ideal lifestyle. During Fallujah, while treating military personnel at Camp Pendleton, she developed metaphysical interventions for PTSD.
MAIN TALKING POINTS:
• Understanding the primary goal of decluttering is to have a more ideal lifestyle. Figuring out what you value in life helps you decide what to keep in your life
• healing inner emotional clutter and understanding the language associated with needs vs. wants, becoming decisive about what you want in life, and sharing feelings is critical to responsible decluttering and not having regrets
• Step by step, room by room, on how to declutter using the clutter remedy strategies.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Book Synopsis: There are many valid approaches to removing stuff and creating neat spaces. But like many diets, most of these approaches fail long-term. That’s because lots of us like our stuff. Whether it’s books or photos or tchotchkes, the things we choose to surround ourselves with are often essential to us. Marla Stone, a former therapist turned professional organizer who works with individuals and corporations at all levels, helps readers create spaces that look and feel like readers at their best. She focuses not on throwing stuff out but on understanding what will stay put and why. Stone walks readers through knowing themselves and their values, summoning motivation, and visualizing their ideal lifestyle and optimal surroundings. Armed with this understanding, readers are empowered to approach every room in their house, every aspect of their workspace, and even every aspect of their health and well-being with energy and clarity. Whether it’s the refrigerator or New Year’s resolutions, piles of books, or boxes of heirlooms, Stone helps readers eliminate physical and emotional roadblocks and guides them toward surroundings that reflect who they are and who they want to be.
PRESS RELEASE:
Marla Stone, Chief Executive Officer I-Deal-Lifestyle Inc., Author of THE CLUTTER REMEDY: A GUIDE TO GETTING ORGANIZED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THEIR STUFF and Mental Health Expert and advocate
(949) 709-7000 / info@i-deal-lifestyle.com
Organizing and Cleaning Offers Opportunity to
Tackle Trash and Past Trauma
Psychotherapist-Turned-Professional Organizer Helps Clients Unpack Mental and Emotional Attachments to Clutter This Season and Beyond
IRVINE, Calif. — A recent Clorox survey showed that 60 percent of Americans take on the task of organizing and cleaning before major holidays. However, Marla Stone, chief executive officer of I-Deal-Lifestyle, reveals that for many, simply tossing out the old won’t be enough to feel renewed.
Stone, a former social worker and psychotherapist for 17 years says that the reasons for over-collecting can be complex and deeply emotional, requiring a much more compassionate response to clutter. She’s long observed the power struggle between people and their objects, which is one of the reasons she launched her career as a professional design organizer in 2010.
Her proprietary approach to helping people find a long-term solution to clutter and organizational challenges is designed to leave clients with a clear space and mind.
“When we don’t acknowledge what’s led to the disorganization and chaos in our homes, even when we get things organized, the results are often only temporary,” said Stone. “I work with clients to help them understand the symbolic meaning of stuff and engage in peaceful de-cluttering. In cases of hoarding disorders, I help clients to evaluate when and how to take on large projects.”
Stone’s first client was a woman who had collected enough clothes to fill over 40 large bags due to a failing marriage. Since then, she’s helped over 4,000 people get and stay organized.
Stone is challenging men and women seeking a clearer space and mind to learn to change their language this season. According to Stone, “stuff” is not a need; it’s a “want” or “don’t want.”
“When we are emotionally attached to the objects in our homes, we want to reaffirm that the only things we truly need are air, food, water, sleep, shelter, sunlight, and, well, elimination,” she said.
“It sounds simple, but this is the first step to regaining perspective and beginning the work of moving past perpetual disorganization,” she continued. She proposes, “A know thyself, know thy stuff philosophy.”
Stone offers a wide range of corporate services for residential and corporate clients and transition and support services for individuals who are downsizing or upsizing to a new lifestyle. More information is available at www.i-deal-lifestyle.com.
Bio: Marla Stone, MSW, owns I-Deal-Lifestyle INC, which provides decluttering, design, corporate training, and lifestyle coaching services. She is a former social worker and psychotherapist turned professional lifestyle organizer who helps people live an ideal lifestyle by getting to the root of their mental, emotional, and environmental challenges.
Check out her new book, The Clutter Remedy: A Guide To Getting Organized For Those Who Love Their Stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/Clutter-Remedy-Guide-Getting-Organized/dp/1608686299
SOCIAL MEDIA and LINKS:
About Marla: https://www.i-deal-lifestyle.com/marlas-story.html
Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Clutter-Remedy-Guide-Getting-Organized/dp/1608686299
Book Reviews: https://www.newspiritjournalonline.com/the-clutter-remedy/
https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-clutter-remedy/
Media Appearances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUXW_FmRcVw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.amazon.com/Clutter-Remedy-Guide-Getting-Organized/dp/1608686299
Blog:
https://www.i-deal-lifestyle.com/blog
Print Articles about Marla:
https://www.ocregister.com/2012/09/03/busting-clutter-is-her-business/
https://www.wgvunews.org/post/clutter-remedy
Podcasts:
https://starworldwidenetworks.com/episodes/spreading-the-green-love-with-chelsea-young
Youtube videos:
Marla Stone, MSW Pro Organizer to the stars shows you how to organize your …YouTube › watch
Decluttering with Marla Stone Professional OrganizerI-Deal-Lifestyle methods Part 2 …YouTube › watch
https://images.app.goo.gl/iWYpTMxKr3AetPaN9
Conferences:
Speaking Engagements
Barnes & Noble from 2019-2024
- National Association of Social Workers – Continuing Education Provider 2018
- Philharmonic Society – Organizing with Feng Shui 2017
- Philharmonic Society – Organizing Your Language Organizes You – 2016
- 17th Annual Hoarding and Cluttering Conference – Mental Health Association of San Francisco – Organizing Self and Space – a Guide to an Ideal Lifestyle 2015
- Villa Park Women’s League, Jeannie DeSantis 2013
- Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution 2013
- 15th Annual Hoarding and Cluttering Conference – Mental Health Association of San Francisco-Protecting Our Stuff That Matters 2013
- 14th Annual Hoarding and Cluttering Conference – Mental Health Association of San Francisco – How to Organize Your Space With A Feng Shui Template 2012
- Napo Conference Sonoma – Organizing Your Space With Feng Shui 2012
- Desert Horizons Women’s Club Anne Foster, Program Co-Chair – Feng Shui to Clear Your Clutter 2012
https://www.mentalhealthsf.org/presenters-2015/
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