Hi! I’m JoJo.
I’ve been organizing spaces since Barbie’s Dream House in 1977. Even as a child, I could look at a room and imagine how it could work better. Over time, I began organizing for friends and family, and eventually turned something I naturally loved doing into a career.
For more than 25 years, I’ve helped people organize their homes and lives. But my understanding of clutter isn’t only professional. It’s personal.
I’ve experienced chronic disorganization, overshopping, debt, and the emotional patterns that can cause us to accumulate and hold onto things. My own journey taught me that clutter isn’t always just the stuff we can see. It can also be mental and emotional.
As I worked through my own challenges, I began letting go of things, habits, and beliefs that were no longer serving me. I discovered how freeing it can be to create space for what actually matters.
That experience changed the way I approach organizing.
Today, I bring together more than 25 years of professional organizing experience with my training as a Certified Life Coach. I understand that getting organized isn’t simply about creating a prettier closet or finding the right storage containers. Sometimes we need to understand why the clutter is there in the first place.
That’s also the idea behind Accurate Reflections. I believe our surroundings can become a more accurate reflection of who we are, what matters to us, and how we want to live.
My goal is to help people clear away physical, mental, and emotional clutter with compassion, patience, and without judgment.
And yes, after all these years, I still love making sense of a messy space.
Here is part of my story.
I have experienced firsthand the challenges of chronic disorganization, hoarding, over shopping, overspending, chronic debt, compulsive behaviors, and people-pleasing. Most of my life was an emotional rollercoaster fueled by thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that I was worthless. I developed an eating disorder at age 12 that lasted over 22 years, followed by two more decades of binge-eating disorder. I was at war with my body, my mind, and my intellect. I struggled with destructive behaviors that bordered on addiction. I was paralyzed by anxiety, depression, ADD, and executive functioning disorder, each of which were incredibly painful parts of my journey. During those difficult times, there was great misfortune that society had not yet widely recognized these disorders.
It took me decades to finally realize that the endless pain I was in stemmed from complex PTSD, trauma, and distressing life moments that, for many reasons, were never acknowledged, addressed, processed or healed. The maladaptive coping strategies I developed were a means of self-preservation deeply rooted in beliefs I had to adapt to at a young age. I later adopted these beliefs as a way of life.
I know firsthand what it feels like to live with clutter.
For much of my life, I struggled with chronic disorganization, overshopping, overspending, debt, compulsive behaviors, and people-pleasing. I also battled eating disorders, anxiety, depression, ADD, and executive functioning challenges. For years, I felt as though I was at war with my body, my mind, and myself.
It took me decades to understand that many of these behaviors were ways I had learned to cope with trauma, pain, and deeply rooted beliefs about myself. What once helped me feel safe eventually became the very thing that kept me stuck.
I came to see all of it as clutter.
My clutter wasn’t just physical. It was emotional and intellectual, too. It distanced me from pain, but it also created barriers between me and the life I wanted to live.
As I began peeling away those layers, I learned to let go of thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and possessions that no longer served me. Slowly, I began defining for myself who I am and what I stand for. I was becoming free to be an Accurate Reflection of my true self.
That journey changed my relationship with clutter and, ultimately, my life.
Today, my experiences allow me to understand that getting organized can be about much more than creating order. Sometimes it’s about letting go of what no longer serves us and creating space for who we are now and how we want to live.
Sharing my story is deeply personal, but I share it for a reason. If you recognize even a small part of yourself in my journey, I hope knowing mine makes yours a little gentler and swifter.
Thank you for taking the time to get to know me. It is a gift to be able to share my journey.
Hugs,
JoJo
“Experience has shown me, time and time again, that our environment deeply impacts our well-being.” – JoJo
