Author's posts
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2881
Move comes in wake of Wellesley Street apartment fire
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2879
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2877
Adult Children of Hoarders—Spokane Support/Recovery Group A safe place to share, encourage, and help each other deal with the effects of growing up with a parent who hoards. Starting Tuesday, August 9th! Meeting the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month 7:00pm-8:30pm 5025 N. Market (corner of Market and Queen In Hillyard) Close to STA …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2858
Cory Chalmers will be filming for “Hoarders” this upcoming weekend and has Monday, July 11th available until he flies back to California at 7:30pm. Please email him your story and if you are around Newark and are selected, he will personally come to your house on Monday the 11th and help you with your clutter! …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2846
What if hoarding behavior was actually a response to Trauma? What Would This Mean? By Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2754
Advice from other COH on Guest Anxiety & Entertaining
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2697
You’re teaching a learned behavior, so a child of a hoarder, when she goes to college, she’s never learned how to put anything away, never learned how to clean her house and doesn’t know how to budget. The kids can’t handle financial responsibilities because they never learned the basic skills of putting things away. And …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2688
ABC News 20/20 is working on a story about the children of compulsive hoarders. This program discusses the challenges faced by compulsive hoarders and their families in trying to overcome this mysterious and often misunderstood disorder, as well as the impact of the hoarding on the children who have lived or are living in a …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2657
It takes a village to help a hoarder, and the Lester Family and Orange County Task Force on Hoarding strive to do just that. This video features scenes from Cynthia Lester’s film: http://www.mymothersgardenmovie.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT0T5GimE0
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2639
TV reality shows can help and hurt people who hoard. Find out why and know what really works best for clients and the families who care about them.
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2629
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2482
…he’s interested whether, like hoarders, the relatives also exhibit a malfunction of their so-called “executive functions” — the cognitive and regulatory processes carried out in the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex.
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2427
-Q. As the executor of my mother’s estate, I have found myself in the unenviable spot of cleaning out my mother’s home, as both of my siblings refused to help. This home was no ordinary home, as I’d liken my mother to a hoarder. What expenses, specifically labor expenses, if possible, can be deducted as …
Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2425
COH Lisa Miler-presents a photo/video documentary installation about hoarding-Savannah, GA, 6/3-6/9
Permanent link to this article: https://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?p=2417