In this solo episode of Unpacking with Jennifer Satel, Jennifer shares a very real week of parenting, personality, and the emotional side of organizing. She opens with a hilarious and painfully relatable story about Charlotte’s dramatic reaction to an infected toe, medicine, and basically any kind of boo-boo care. From Oscar-worthy performances in the bathroom to the chaos of parenting without a roadmap, Jennifer gives an honest look at the everyday moments that can leave moms laughing, exhausted, and ready to scream into a pillow.

Jennifer also dives into one of the deeper reasons she connects so strongly to her work as a professional organizer: the emotional attachment people have to stuff. She reflects on helping a 73-year-old retired teacher who grew up with hoarding tendencies in her family and was physically dreading the process of le ...