Hayfield mum featured on ITV programme about decluttering and mental wellbeing

A local mum of 2, from Hayfield is celebrating featuring on ITV’s Tonight Show sharing her expertise and tips around how to improve our mental health, through improving the tidiness of our homes, and as part of her knowledge sharing mission to help declutter and de-stress the nation this Spring.

Georgina Burdett, 45, Founder of For the Love of Tidying celebrated her client Janet, who has been on a decluttering journey for the last 4 years with her, after downsizing and realising she needed to prioritise and reorganise her belongings, looking at what to keep, store and pass on. They talked about the power of how having decluttered spaces created mental capacity for a better everyday approach to a tidy home, with daily practical strategies that have been put in place since Georgina has been helping her – and the message was very much ‘slow and steady wins the game’.

The show, which aired on 12th March, was created as the nation prepares to dive into the annual obsession with Spring cleaning, revealed Georgina, who was interviewed by producers keen to tap into her expertise.

Making a name for herself, as someone who’s passionate about taking a wellbeing-first approach to decluttering, Georgina, who has also recently been featured on Radio 4’s You and Yours, is known for her practical, real world, non-judgmental approach, and for bringing a sense of ease to a conversation that often carries much shame – how the state of our homes affects mental health. She is passionate about the fact that ‘The Big Spring Clean’ isn’t the answer to a tidier home and calmer mind, but that there is a better way.

Having built an online community of over 4000 busy working mums who turn to her to offer practical and achievable solutions to managing day-to-day organising, Georgina has seen first-hand how small changes can literally change people’s lives, and this is why she is so passionate about sharing her knowledge far and wide.

She said:

We know that clutter in our home affects our mental health – lots of research was done on this in lockdown and surveys show that 56% of UK adults have rooms in their home that are unusable due to clutter (Ref Hippo/Dilly Carter). But often people think this only applies to homes totally out of control, or these stats refer to real hoarders, who live in squalor – that’s just not true. The majority of my clients are working mums, living busy lives, who have lovely homes, but who feel overwhelmed by keeping them tidy and organised. I am here to help them, and they regularly share with me how their small wins of just overcoming one area of clutter in their home dramatically reduces their anxiety, increases their levels of calm, and stops them spiraling into overwhelm.

This year as the nation ramps up for the big Spring clean, I’d love people to take the pressure off themselves and not go into it thinking ‘I must overhaul my entire home’ as this causes stress and actually sets us up for failure. If we strive to get our house to look like a show home, a) it’s pretty impossible to achieve with a family living in it, and b) it’s near on impossible to keep it that way so we’ll quickly start to resent the time we spent tidying as it all falls apart again, and mark ourselves down as failures then too. I’d like to invite people to instead think -what small habits can I put in place which means my home is tidy for the majority of the year, rather than just for a few days after a big overhaul…and use the momentum of the Spring clean to work through a number of small actions that will make an ongoing impact.

At the heart of Georgina’s work is a belief that clutter is rarely about laziness, and far more often about life being full, heavy, or demanding. She is on a mission to remove the shame so many people carry about their homes — replacing guilt with practical support and a renewed sense of possibility.

Georgina has compiled her top 5 tips for going from cluttered chaos to consistent calm, so we can start decluttering our minds as well as our homes, this Spring, using her CLEAR method.

1. Connect – Connect with the potential of the space and how you want to feel in it. Give yourself chance to visualise how amazing this space could be for you – this gives you the motivation to get to the end of the process, especially as it may become tough going at times. Connecting to a space emotionally is a much more powerful motivator to enable change, rather than it just being another overwhelming task on your list.

2. Little steps. Choose a small area to start with, don’t push yourself to take on an over-sized space. Remove the items, a few at a time, so as not to overwhelm yourself. Make a space and lay these out in front of you. It is super important to enable early success as biting off more than you can chew at first can create an impossible task. Success builds confidence and momentum to carry on.

3. Evaluate – the easiest decision is to decide what to keep – make this choice first then remove these items to a safe place, from here you can progress knowing there is less attachment to the other items to work through. Then focus on which items make you smile and you enjoy having around.

4. Arrange – It’s time to reorganise the items you are keeping. Base this organisation on these 3 key elements: function, ease of use and visibility to make for an easier life and more streamlined living spaces. Forget about where items are ‘meant’ to go in a house, but think instead about how YOU live, where you need the things to be based on ease of use in your daily life. Ensure as many items are visible as possible in the space you are placing them – use height and positioning to be able to get your eyes on things in one look, rather than having to root around for buried items, or forgetting things even exist!

5. Reset – Create a quick reset routine to help maintain spaces once they are decluttered and organised for ongoing clarity and calm. This could be just 15 mins per day but is your way to reset rooms quickly – houses will always get messy again but this process enables you to rectify it quickly without stress.

Georgina’s journey began with her own lived experience. Naturally organised by nature, she found that motherhood shifted everything, and the systems that once felt effortless started to slip into overflowing drawers and daily frustration. After reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying she felt a dramatic change, not just in how she approached her home, but in her wellbeing, and for the first time in a long time, she felt free, energised, and able to make choices that reflected how she wanted to feel. That personal transformation became the spark for the work she now brings to others.

Georgina has now helped nearly 300 clients, in person, to declutter their homes, and built a team of four, employing other local mums.

She was named Professional Organiser of the Year 2024, has spoken at major London events including the Ideal Home Show and the Clean & Tidy Show.

Before building For the Love of Tidying full-time, Georgina balanced the early years of her business with a teaching career. After Covid, the stress of teaching intensified and she ultimately left the profession to focus on decluttering and organising — a decision she describes as one of the best she has ever made. Her experience of stress and anxiety deepened her understanding of how deeply our environments affect our mental wellbeing, and it’s why her work is centered not on perfection, but on peace, function, and emotional safety.