Reclaim7 min
What to Do First After a Separation
Before the house, before the furniture, before any of it — the three decisions worth making first, and the ones that can safely wait.
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Grief Lives in Objects
Why the sweater in the drawer is harder than the house, and how to let go of things that still hold someone.
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How to Decide What Stays
A gentler method for sorting a home you are leaving — one that does not rely on willpower, and does not end in a storage unit.
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A Home for the Life You Have Now
Not the life you planned, not the one you are mourning — the one you are actually living on an ordinary Tuesday.
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A Second Home That Feels Like Home
Setting up a house your children only live in half the time — and the small things that decide whether they relax in it.
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The First Ninety Days
What actually happens after the move — including the week in month two that nobody warns you about.
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The Room Is Thinking Too
There is good evidence that the height of a ceiling changes the kind of thinking you do beneath it — and that one house needs more than one kind of room.
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The View Is Not Decoration
Patients recovering from surgery needed less pain medication when their window faced trees instead of a wall. What that finding means for a house you are living through something in.
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Four Things You've Been Told About Your Home That Aren't True
Blue walls for creativity. A messy desk for breakthroughs. Several of the most repeated claims about home design failed when somebody checked.
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Why You Forget What You Came For
Walking through a doorway makes you lose your train of thought — but only when the two sides are genuinely different. There is a lesson in that for a house you are rebuilding.
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