This is: the removal of items from your home and reorganization of your remaining items.

Reclaiming your space is taking an active role in ensuring that everything around you has both a function and reflects your personal style.

 

As we transition through phases of life, our items reflect the myriad demands, passions, and hobbies of each stage. We often acquire items that have monetary worth but are no longer of practical use. And then that sense of fiduciary or emotional obligation creates an artificial requirement to warehouse these items.
 

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Who this works for:

This option works best for those
- with multiple generations living in the home
- undergoing a transition i.e birth, divorce, children entering elementary school/college, sudden disability, changing bedrooms and/or living spaces

This is: mentally and physically surveying your home and distilling your items into essential items only.  

Despite it's emotion stirring name, the act and art of dostadning is a beautiful gift to yourself. Dostadning is the practice of parsing through your items and selecting gifts for those around you. Whether through family or via donation, it's the process of determining that you have completed your journey with many of your loved possessions and you are looking to tailor your environment to it's most essential necessities.

 

Dostadning is not preparation for death. Instead it is reviewing your life through your possessions and deciding that the time to let them go is during the living season.

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Who this works for:

This option works best for individuals looking to make decisions about their items during the living years and not leave their treasures to fate. Items gifted may include but are not limited to: momentos, china, jewelry, letters, furnishings, and family heirlooms. This option also supports partners, children and caregivers of the terminally ill. 

This is: the removal of items from your home in anticipation of a life stage event.

Living in a space surrounded by objects from the past can often keep you from living in the future. Emptying the nest is taking an active role in ensuring that everything around you has been selected by you, for your immediate use and that it serves a function and reflects your personal style.  
 

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Who this works for:

This option works best for those:
-  staying in the home, but looking to remove items that were stored intentionally for others 
- staying in the home but looking to parse out adult children or inherited loved one's possessions

- relocating to a different space, a smaller space or assisted living

- welcoming an adult family member back into the space

This is: compassionate assistance in packaging, donating, removing or gifting a loved ones material goods.

The loss of a loved one, regardless of relationship, is one of the most profound life altering passages for those left behind. Often, the promises of support are limited to meals and coffee, and the intentions, while generous, are insufficient for the task of parsing through a relative belongings. The task is often left to one or two grieving family members and the process can be daunting and emotional.

Working together, we will gently accompany you as you make the difficult decisions regarding the disposal of a loved ones final effects.

 

Who this works for:

This option works for those that have experienced the loss of a loved one or those managing the distribution of an estate. This option also supports partners, children and caregivers of those with dementia moving to permanent care facilities.