The Noise Isn’t in Your Head. It’s in Your Home.

You ever feel tired… but not the kind sleep can fix? Almost like the kind of tired that comes from your brain being on all the time? Whenever I start feeling like that, I get moody, easily irritated with my husband and every little thing frustrates me. From constantly thinking, planning, remembering, juggling, deciding, it's all so overstimulating. Can you relate?

I try to rest, but my brain won’t stop running the gazillion tabs in the background about what needs to get done, what I forgot. What I'm falling behind on. And don’t even get me started on what it’s like when my environment is cluttered. Because then it’s not just mental tabs, it’s visual noise. Emotional noise. A hundred little reminders that I still have things left to do.

Most people think clutter is just “a mess.” But for a lot of us, especially those with ADHD or anxiety, it’s not just about things being out of place. It’s about how the chaos around us feeds the chaos within us. Every doom pile feels like a task. Every unfinished area feels like we're falling behind even when we are doing our best. Clutter doesn’t just take up space. It takes our energy, our patience and eventually our peace.

So what happens next? We freeze. Or bounce from task to task without finishing anything. Or avoid it completely and doom scroll to escape only to feel worse afterward.

Sound familiar?

This kind of tired? It’s not physical, friend. It’s mental. It's actually the kind of exhaustion that builds up overtime from decision fatigue, from constant overstimulation, from your home pulling at you in a hundred silent ways every single day.

That kind of noise? It’s not in your head, friend. If you look around, you'll see it in your home. It'll reflect in the clutter you’ve been trying to ignore but can still feel, even with your eyes closed. It's the clutter you normalize because you tell yourself that this is just the way it has to be because...xyz. And when you live with ADHD, anxiety, or both, I know that noise gets even louder.

But here’s the thing: You don’t have to clear everything or because a minimalist overnight.

Today, start with what’s yelling at you the loudest. Give your brain a little peace by tackling a little and then let that be enough for today.

Peace isn’t a destination, friend. It's something I've learned that we have to create bit by bit....with every choice to let go of what’s too loud.