Logic versus Heart | The Need to Feel Good About Letting Things Go - The Clutter Fairy Weekly #314
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How do we act on the things that logic tells us we need to do when our hearts are telling us no? And how important is it that we make peace with where our cast-off stuff is going? In episode #314 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, answers these and other viewer and listener questions and discusses short topics suggested by our audience in our surveys and social-media channels. Show notes: https://cfhou.com/tcfw...
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