Emerge from the Chaos with Skills, Habits, and Mindsets that Make Your Life Work
Neurodiversity is not an excuse, it’s a call to adventure.
Organizing & Productivity Coaching for ADD, ADHD, & AuHD
How do I know this? Because it’s the story of my life.
The question is, how can we reframe our “challenges” to bring out the best version of ourselves, not only for our benefit, but for the benefit of everyone who interacts with us.
The first step is understanding what we need.
The second step is creating the systems and gathering the support to bring our flow online.
This requires acceptance, clear-eyed honesty, and a truckload of bravery.
WHAT’S THIS CALL TO ADVENTURE YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT?
If you have felt discomfort, resistance, frustration, denial, sadness, or embarrassment around the management of your life, it’s time to change your mindset.
You’re here on earth to innovate, to question, to create. Your uniqueness hands you a roadmap to an extraordinary life.
Will you answer the call?
Let’s Talk!
Sarah is a Certified Professional Organizer (NAPO) with training in Chronic Disorganization and Productivity Development from The Institute of Chronic Disorganization; an Associate Essential Life Coach (ICF Certified Program: Coach Training EDU), and a Certified Brainspotting Practitioner (Brainspotting Training LLC with David Grand).
Beyond “Digging Out”:
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In-Person Organizing Services
Focus, Energy, Body-Doubling, and Fun.
Hands-on support to help you clear clutter, create systems, and regain control of your space. With real-time guidance and a supportive presence, Sarah makes organizing efficient, manageable, and even enjoyable.
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Online Productivity Coaching
Accountability Partnering, Inspiration, and Guidance.
Ongoing support to help you stay on track. Learn to tell the difference between being busy and being productive, and what to do when you catch yourself spiraling. Coaching helps you build sustainable habits for a fulfilling life.
The Organizing & Coaching Package for Neurodiversity:
Organizing and coaching go together for habit formation and maintenance to create results that stick.
Incorporate the Three Core Habits that Will Change Your Life:
Learn the Habit of Working Your Systems
Learn the Habit of Pausing So Your Executive Functions Have a Chance to Come Online
Learn the Habit of Deep Self-Care (Know thyself and take care of thyself for the best results.)
To keep this package affordable, I offer sessions in “threes”. (WE OPTIMALLY WILL HAVE SIX SESSIONS, but I like to start here.)
Three Organizing Sessions & Three Coaching Sessions: $1275
Three Organizing Sessions of 4 hours each = $85hr/340 day = $1020
Three Coaching Sessions for Accountability and Tune-Up = $85 hr x 3 Sessions = $255
Coaching-Only Available for those outside the Washington/Oregon area @ $100 per hour.
Who We Are (Me & You)
We’re often labeled as rebellious—stubborn, resistant, and unwilling to comply with the demands of adulthood. But let’s flip that script.
Refusing something that makes no sense to us just might be the natural, rational response when our brains can’t process a system in a way that feels intuitive or sustainable.
The standard ways of doing life don’t work for us. And yes, that can be frustrating—until we stop forcing what doesn’t fit and start designing systems that do. When I talk about productivity, I’m not talking about keeping up with some external standard. I’m talking about creating a life that feels meaningful and fulfilling on our terms.
To do that, we must continually return to our values as our compass. Without them, life becomes an exhausting, endless loop of effort without purpose.
What We’re Up Against
You’ve been trying for years, am I right?
Maybe you’ve bought planners, downloaded apps, watched videos, or attempted every method that promised to “fix” your struggles. And yet, the same problems keep showing up:
Overwhelmed by clutter. You try to hold onto everything—just in case—until the sheer volume becomes its own kind of chaos.
Drowning in information. Out of fear of forgetting, you save all the paper, all the emails, all the junk. But instead of keeping you safe, it just keeps you stuck.
Paralyzed by decisions. Every choice feels high-stakes, and the weight of them makes action feel impossible.
And underneath all of this, there’s a bigger question: What are you actually trying to accomplish?
The goal is getting the right things done in a way that supports the life we actually want to live.
That means:
Systems that serve us—flexible, sustainable, and rooted in how our brains actually work.
Visual and tactile strategies that lighten the mental load, helping us see and do what matters without drowning in clutter.
Permission to drop the mask. To stop pretending we can do it the way everyone else does and embrace a method that works for us.
What if the goal wasn’t to be perfectly organized? What if the goal was to feel at home in our lives—to have space for what matters, clarity to move forward, and trust in ourselves to handle what comes next?
Sarah’s Journey
I was put in kindergarten as a four-year-old because of my vocabulary and an IQ test. Three months into the first grade, I had completely lost the learning plot and never got it back.
This confused my mother, as she’d been having full-fledged conversations with me since I was two years old.
What resulted was a diagnosis of dyslexia and years of tutoring just to learn to read. And, don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful that I know how to read, but beyond reading, I entirely missed my education.
Masking and avoiding every single day… clearly left out of something I did not understand, I grew into an adult who couldn’t quite get it together no matter how hard she tried. Working for people to make money never worked, even though I very much wanted to be a successful person.
At the same time I had weird strengths that sent me on all kinds of adventures. I got a Bachelor’s and then a Master’s Degree. I was a working professional actor for a time. (Long story. I can tell you about it at a later date.) But even that came crashing down as the pressure of striving fried my nervous system and sent my social anxiety through the roof.
Chronically ill, anxious, confused… I would hit burn out so hard I would have to flee jobs and cities and relationships and sort of scuttle away, wondering how I would stitch the rent together… over, and over and over…
Thankfully my incomprehensible strengths would kick in when things got absolutely dire: somehow I would bounce back with energy and creativity, out of a sheer will to survive another day. Over and over, I would ask myself “What is happening?! What is this roller coaster?” Exhausting, is what it was. Terrifying. Clearly not normal.
And then at some, albeit late in the game point in this mess, my therapist sister mentioned she thought I might be on the spectrum. The Autism Spectrum. Pardon my french, but holy shit, WHAT?!
If you are reading this, you likely know what a late diagnosis feels like. I was shocked and filled with regret for all of the lost opportunity over a lifetime of not understanding what was happening with me. So I went into a hyper-focused research rabbit hole to discover the co-presence of ADHD with autism (AuDHD) gave me traits all over the board, and that my ADHD masks my autism and my autism masks my ADHD! (And my dyslexia is sprinkled in there for fun.) OMG.
But the good news is that this diagnosis has changed how I see myself and how I approach my life in the most profoundly positive ways.
Now I know what I need and can design my life for the best possible outcomes.
Because my ASD makes me hyper-focus on creating order, I decided to leverage that quirk into a business helping those folks who have trouble organizing their lives. (Namely those without those strengths on their spectrum.) My dedication for this work comes out of a passion to help people find and leverage their strengths so they can live their best lives. In the process, I’ve worked hard to understand the systems I have created for myself and how and why they work, and I want to guide you in doing the same. Because of my experience with all sorts of ADHD traits good and bad, I am uniquely positioned to understand the challenges you face. Setting up systems that suit your needs and then building the habit of using those systems is the key to making this work stick.
In the end, I’m so proud to be on this adventure with you! WE can do this! Let’s get together and get your life flowing again. I look forward to meeting you.
Disclaimer: Life-Style-ist offers brain-body-based life coaching. It is not a psychological therapy, nor will we work to resolve medically framed pathologies. Clients affected by severe trauma or clinically diagnosed pathologies require a referral to a licensed therapist.