Today we’d like to introduce you to Meryl Starr.
Meryl Starr is widely recognized as one of the most original, inspiring and motivational professional personal organizers of all time.
A natural born organizer, she attributes her success to her keen intuition and ability to understand her clients’ individual needs.
She matches her expert organization and her intuition to evaluate, redesign recreate and reorganize ones home and life. Using a series of respected and time-honored traditions, Meryl works one-on-one with clients to identify and uncover emotional attachments to their possessions and embark on a gentle, yet effective path toward releasing and removing them from the home. Starr leaves spaces clear and her clients feeling relaxed, energized and inspired to begin a new way of living. Her simple and practical teachings have helped thousands of people find inner peace, joy and greater fulfillment in their lives.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Life is a challenge, it’s the human learning experience. With the help of professionals and lots of guidance I started working on healing my life during my first year of college. I did not realize at the time that I was beginning the process of Clearing the Clutter out of my life. I never considered myself to be a victim of the difficult events and times in my life instead, I looked at them as hindrances that I overcame released and conquered. With lots of hard work, and understanding these events brought a clarity beyond anything I could ever of imagined. Each and every experience I had which was at times were difficult, hard to imagine, hurtful and harmful experiences that were there for me to learn and grow. Like many people, I was brought up in a dysfunctional home environment. My mother was abusive, neglectful, manipulative and suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder. My father was around physically but completely absent emotionally.At age 18 the feelings for my mother became clear, she was unkind and unavailable. She hardly spoke to me, as if I didn’t exist. My father had a softer kinder energy. With the help of professionals and lots of guidance I started working on healing my life during my first year of college. I was stripped of my self worth and needed to build on that. The journey helped me to see and experience my true being as a beautiful intelligent positive resilient loving caring individual. After many years of hard work, clarity and understanding the clutter has been released and cleared, I am finally free from the ties that bound me from moving forward on my path and purpose in life.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am the owner and creator of Let’s Get Organized! I have been working with clients since 1993. I have done more than my fair share of tidying up, from humble apartments to the homes of Hollywood celebrities. My tips ideas and solutions for home organizing have appeared in over 50 national magazines including In Style, House and Garden, Ladies Home Journal, Health, Woman’s Day, Organic Style, Self, Kiplinger’s, House Beautiful, Smart Money, and Real Simple. I have contributed to numerous newspapers, and national news and radio programs. I made a guest appearance on the original Queer Eye for the straight guy and House Smarts a home improvement show. I also hosted created and produced my own radio show. I’ve worked and partnered with many companies including The Container Store, Ikea, Home Depot, TIDE, Lysol, Le Creuset, Rubbermaid, Closet-maid, and Keurig. I worked with non-profit organizations such as Housingworks, Souls for Souls and Dress for Success. I am known as one of the country’s top Organizers and as a pioneer in the industry. I specialize in transforming people’s lives, my clients not only get more organized but learn to use the power and freedom that comes with being more organized in every aspect of their lives. I attribute my success to my keen intuition and my ability to understand my client’s needs. Along with my experience and dedication to my work I am proud to say I have accomplished more than I ever could have imagined. I have taught classes on organization in addition to lecturing and leading workshops and seminars. These programs speak of the benefits of getting organized and the importance of decluttering ones home environment and life. My first book, which I wrote in 2003, The Home Organizing Workbook, is still on the bookshelves worldwide and the sales of my second book, The Personal Organizing Workbook has exceeded all expectations. I have a unique philosophy, which ensures one to be inspired and motivated to make the positive changes in their lives that they are seeking. The ideas and solutions I have set forth have proven to be successful, useful, easy to maintain and manage. I believe in simplicity, and that trusting your internal guidance is the key to a happy fulfilled life. I live in the here and now and have great faith in what is meant will be guided.
What’s next?
To continue my work of nearly 30 years as an intuitive healer of people places and things. My greatest joy is assisting others and watching as they clear the clutter in their lives and experience the freedom that comes with it. I am very grateful and beyond blessed to have and have had wonderful clients and friends that I will be connected to eternally.
Clearing Clutter is the art of cleansing and harmonizing the energy within an environment. This practice has the power to not only make your home feel good but also help those within to feel more positive and energetic, it can bring balance to relationships, and will remove blocks for increased abundance, creativity, and well-being. Your home is a place where you should feel the most comfortable, where you keep your precious objects and have your most private conversations and encounters. It is also where you anchor your energy and rest your consciousness.… It’s your sanctuary. By clearing and organizing your sanctuary you are also clearing and creating your life path.
Final Note: Learn to love and appreciate yourself, live with integrity, kindness and be grateful for all the knowledge that life offers. Keep only the objects, thoughts and feelings that inspire and motivate you to be your best self.
If you are interested in getting organized or if you just need some inspiration to start making positive changes in your life please get in touch.
Contact Info:
- Email: meryl@merylstarr.com
- Website: www.merylstarr.com
