Clear Your Mind And Home From Cancer and Clutter

Breast cancer, melanoma survivor and clutter-clearing speaker/author clears her cancer and household clutter.

BY Barbara Tako

PUBLISHED January 02, 2018

Barbara Tako is a breast cancer survivor (2010), melanoma survivor (2014) and author of Cancer Survivorship Coping Tools–We'll Get You Through This. She is a cancer coping advocate, speaker and published writer for television, radio and other venues across the country. She lives, survives, and thrives in Minnesota with her husband, children and dog. See more at www.cancersurvivorshipcopingtools.com,or www.clutterclearingchoices.com.

Did you find that cancer adds to your mental and external clutter? Unfortunately, physical clutter can add to mental and emotional clutter and stress in our heads. During active treatment, I had accumulated pharmaceuticals, wigs and more in my bathroom. After active cancer treatment, I found weeding out clutter was a cleansing process. It literally reduced my mental cancer clutter and helped me move forward in my life.

There are so many thoughts, cancer and other things, that weigh us down. "shoulds" and “oughts” can create guilt. Guilt wears people down. Guilt drains us. Stop thinking and start weeding out! Clearing clutter will help you have more energy. I know I needed to find energy after chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries.

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