Befriend Your Inner Critic By Decluttering Your Mind, Heart And Home - by Rebecca Jo-Rushdy

COURSE

Befriend Your Inner Critic By Decluttering Your Mind, Heart And Home

With Rebecca Jo-Rushdy

Is your overactive inner critic taking a toll on your emotional well-being and self-esteem? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the clutter inside and around you? In this course, you'll learn a simple, effective decluttering approach centered around energy management, self-compassion, and gratitude to create space and opportunities for growth by clearing physical, mental, and emotional clutter. Learn how to create safe soothing spaces that regulate your nervous system, and allow more ease and flow into your life with sustainable changes that nourish rather than deplete you.

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Meet your Teacher

Rebecca Jo-Rushdy
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rebecca Jo-Rushdy is the founder of Spark Joy & Flow, a holistic practice dedicated to helping individuals declutter and organize their lives—both physically and emotionally. As the first Master-level KonMari Consultant based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebecca combines the transformative principles of the KonMari Method with the compassionate, legacy-focused approach of Swedish Death Cleaning to support people through times of transition and renewal. With a background in coaching and years of hands-on experience guiding clients of all ages and life stages, Rebecca brings warmth, clarity, and deep respect to every journey she facilitates. Her work centers on helping people let go with confidence, reconnect with what truly matters, and create spaces—and lives—that reflect their values and spark genuine joy. Rebecca lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two daughters, and is passionate about turning life’s inevitable changes into meaningful opportunities for growth, connection, and self-discovery.

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8 Days

4.3k students

4.8 stars

9 min / day

Healing

English

Lesson 1

The Impact Of Clutter On Our Mental Wellbeing

In our first lesson, we will review the latest research on clutter and mental health, and learn how creating a tidy environment soothes your nervous system, helps with focus and decision-making and is a powerful way to befriend our inner critic and practice self-care.

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Lesson 2

Setting Intentions And Visualizing Your Ideal Life

In this lesson, I set you up for success by sharing the basic philosophy, guidelines, and categories for decluttering with gratitude. You’ll draw on the attitude of a Beginner's Mind to meet the hesitancy or skepticism of your inner critic with kindness and compassion. Before the real work begins you’ll use visualization and intention-setting to gain clarity on your ideal life. Have a pen and paper handy!

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Lesson 3

Clothing: Befriending The Skeletons In Your Closet!

With strong foundations already laid, in this lesson, you’ll embark on the first category in your tidying festival - clothing! Learn how gratitude and purpose help us build and maintain momentum, and how different approaches to decluttering support energy management and letting go, whatever our circumstances.

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Lesson 4

Books: Starting A New Chapter In Your Life

In this lesson, we explore the second category of your mindful decluttering journey - books! You’ll learn an easy and effective method for reviving and reimagining your bookshelves, as well as practical tips to declutter, display, and even donate your pre-loved books. This lesson is also sprinkled with personal anecdotes to inspire and support you on your journey.

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Lesson 5

Papers: Turning The Page And Creating A Supportive System

In this lesson, we tackle the daunting paper category using a practical and systematic approach. Learn skillful strategies to motivate yourself and create a supportive framework to enhance self-awareness and accountability. We will also explore helpful storage solutions to streamline and maintain important documents moving forward.

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Lesson 6

Komono: A Mixed Bag

In this lesson, we cover the fourth category of decluttering with gratitude. In Japan, these objects are called “komono”, or miscellaneous items, and they are notoriously difficult to keep tidy and organized! In addition to tackling komono, you’ll also hear how this process can positively impact family dynamics, and learn tips for involving family members in this transformative journey towards a decluttered and more joyful life.

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Lesson 7

Sentimental: Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

In this lesson, you’ll navigate the final and most emotionally charged category of your decluttering with gratitude journey. Sentimental items can be a minefield as they are often closely intertwined with our milestones of life, love, and loss. We’ll address inherited items, and unwanted gifts and learn to let go of belongings that don’t spark joy with patience, forgiveness, and a heavy dose of self-compassion.

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Lesson 8

Wrapping Up: Coming Home To Yourself

In this final lesson, we’ll focus on strengthening your “joy-checking muscle” so that decluttering with gratitude becomes second nature. Looking beyond the home, we’ll explore how these powerful principles can be applied in daily life to unlock a greater sense of self-compassion, cultivate the mind-body connection, and make gratitude the cornerstone of your mental and emotional well-being.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 55 community questions and 11 audio replies from Rebecca Jo-Rushdy. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

ARKlady

December 30, 2025

Helpful series to tidying and elements around it. Look forward to doing a sprint during your live events. It has been helpful as I am in a smaller space and working through the different categories. Slow but steadily making my way through my space. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and tips. 🙏

Evgeniia

October 22, 2025

Dear Rebecca! This course is life changing for me! I am on my decluttering journey for about 1,5-2 years now. I am so thankful I found you!

Wendy

September 29, 2025

Great short course! She gets right to the point with out the extra fluff and shares some wonderful incite about what might be our underlying cause.

Tracy

September 3, 2025

Thank you so much for creating this course. I will need to return to this but have taken so much from the content to enable my decluttering process and more importantly stay on top of it. 🙏😊💚

Trudy

August 26, 2025

Many things to contemplate and try to implement.

Michael

August 14, 2025

The language used in this course and the basic premise was off putting and not for me. Referring to this as “lessons” is condescending, as is saying “letting go and decluttering… most of us have not been taught.” How so? How do you know that? Most people I know have been taught that. I’ve lived around the world and I’ve seen no place where resource scarcity can be ignored. Every single living human is a product of their ancestors fearing resource scarcity. Telling people to dismiss that is incredibly naive. Easy to tell people to throw their stuff away when you’re not the one that toiled to save and purchase them.

Hayley

July 14, 2025

Thank you for putting me on the road to decluttering. ❤️🙏🏼

dee

July 11, 2025

I enjoyed the course very much and am practicing many of the techniques. Thank you 🙏

K

July 11, 2025

This course was excellent, describing a clear method of de-cluttering and why it will help your life. Definitely worth my time.

Carmen

May 29, 2025

Excellent

Susan

May 19, 2025

Lots of great information. I like how she broke it down into sub-categories. The last time I had tried to do this type of cleaning, I only got as far as books as the rest was too overwhelming. Thank you! I look forward to step by step reclaiming my home and space. 😃😊🙏🏻

✨Sharon✨

May 7, 2025

Thank you

Susan

April 22, 2025

This course has given me hope. Thank you!

Tania

April 14, 2025

I highly recommend this course. It’s fantastic. I’ve learnt so much and loved learning that decluttering my mind and declutterring my home are intertwined. The steps and processes are explained clearly. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge Rebecca 🩷🌸💖

Denise

March 26, 2025

Excellent class on decluttering! Thank you 🙏

Richard

March 21, 2025

Thank you Rebecca for this valuable stream of information. Clutter has been a problem for too many years and with this course I am ready to start now. 🙏🏻

Alix

March 7, 2025

Thank you, thank you <3 This was such a perfect blend of practical and spiritual— a path forward for our family’s housekeeping that embodies living in abundant Presence. Several of the lessons I listened to twice so that my wife could listen in; we discussed the applications for our home.

Charlie

February 23, 2025

A wonderful course in how to integrate tidying into your life with ease and joy.

Shelley

February 4, 2025

Excellent course

Tam

January 30, 2025

Several good points in this class that go way beyond decluttering.

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