Declutter your home and aid your wellbeing


Nicola Lewis, who has helped celebrities organise their homes and their lives, shows how clearing out your clutter can tidy your life and your mind.


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he has helped celebrities including Gemma Collins, Ferne McCann and Katie Piper chuck out their


clutter and reorganise their lives. Now ex-investment banker Nicola Lewis, who started her company Tis Girl Can Organise (thisgirlcanorganise. com) two years ago, has written Mind Over Clutter, a guide to cleaning and clearing your home, room by room, and in so doing, improve your mental wellbeing. “Although a clean environment won’t necessarily solve all your problems, it can have an enormous impact on your emotional wellbeing and outlook, and make all the difference to your life,” she writes. “When I started the job, I didn’t see the


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link with mental wellbeing. But when clients became distressed pulling out certain items, I quickly adapted the rule that I was in control of the situation, and I was here to help them. “Tat quickly made them feel calmer if they had someone holding their hand doing the task.” She notes that having unnecessary clutter lying around can act like a visual noise, each item potentially triggering an alarm bell in your head. “Te truth is, most of us have so much stuff either lying around in full view or shoved inside cupboards, that it’s sometimes impossible to find what we are looking for when we want it,” she writes. US research has found that cluttered


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