The Practical Sort Story

KATU’s Afternoon Live TV Appearance

As featured on KATU's Afternoon Live, PDX Small Business Network Podcast, The Portland Home & Garden Show, and in Better Homes and Gardens Secrets of Getting Organized Early Spring 2022 and Spring 2024 (reprint); NBCNews.com: 11 ways to teach young kids the value of cleaning up — and get them to do it willingly; Good Housekeeping: The Right Way to Organize Your Home Based on Your Personality, According to a Pro; AARP.com: 25 Great Ways to Make Your Life Easier; Apartment Guide: 18 Essential Spring Moving Tips For a Stress-Free Transition; meQuilibrium:  5 Productivity Hacks that Actually Backfire; Cheapism.com; Redfin.com: Small Apartment Storage Solutions: How to Make Your Space Efficient, and 26 Small Kitchen Organization Ideas to Simplify Your Home; Realtor.Com: “Decluttering for Dummies: Insider Secrets for Organizing Your Overflowing Book Collection” and “6 Tips To Get Your Collection of Cleaning Supplies Under Control”; ZeroWasteLifestyleSystem.com; Better Smarter Richer Blog; “Home Cleaning And Organisation Tips to Prepare Your Property for Sale” (United Kingdom publication); 50 Plus Magazine; Annie&Oak.com: How to Design a Kitchen; and Oregon Jewish Life Magazine: “Shalom Bayit-Achieving Peace in the Home” and “Conquer Misconceptions to Organize Home”. And the list keeps growing. Click on each edition to view.

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What’s Your Story?

Frustration, overwhelm, and tension caused by excess stuff or inefficiency no longer needs to be part of your story.

We’re all frenetically busy. Keeping our sh*t together feels harder day to day. There are scores of books and other resources to teach you how to get organized. They’re useful. But you can read about getting organized until your eyes cross and your brain is ready to explode. Unless you take action, the piles won’t disappear, the boxes that haven’t been opened since you moved in 23 years ago will never get unpacked, and old, worn-out clothes will continue to occupy much needed closet space. Your to-dos will remain untackled.

Let’s get you unstuck and moving forward. Make room for what matters to you most. And do it in a way that feels natural.

Contact me, Sherri Curley, Certified Neurodiversity Coach (CNC) at ThePracticalSort.com or sherri@thepracticalsort.com. Together we’ll sort through your unique challenges to find solutions that work for you.

My Organizing Story

After graduating with a Master’s in Public Administration, I began my professional career as a program specialist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), learning to embrace our communal role in environmental stewardship.

Upon leaving the EPA after the birth of my first child, I dedicated spare time, while raising my kids, volunteering for local and national non-profit organizations including Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Oregon Public Television, Portland’s KMHD Jazz Radio, The Parent Resource Center in the Philadelphia suburbs, PTA, and my kids’ school libraries.

For well over 20 years, I assisted non-profits, family members, and friends to create systems and routines to simplify life, provided guidance on what to keep vs. release in an eco-friendly way, and helped arrange spaces and items to maximize efficiency, productivity, and storage.  

As I transitioned to a "Freebird” identity, sending my last nestling off to college in 2016, I launched The Practical Sort to focus on providing practical organizing solutions for busy women often challenged by brain-based processing complications.

Navigating through my own Attention Deficit (ADD) traits, and having raised a daughter diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD), I'm intimately familiar with how these attributes can add complexities to getting and staying organized and carrying out daily tasks. Above all, to honor our own uniqueness to find ways forward that fit.

I was confirmed as a Certified Neurodiversity Coach from the Institute for Applied Coaching in 2024. I’ve received Certificates of Study in ADHD, Chronic Disorganization, and Understanding Hoarding Behavior by the Institute for Challenging Disorganization.

If you are not lovin' your home as much as you’d like, if you are struggling to “get it together”, if you’re thinking “if I only had an extra set of eyes, ears, hands, and perspective to get me started”, then reach out. Request a free phone consultation by clicking here. Love your home. Simplify your life. Let’s take supportive action…together.

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