As the days get shorter and the weather gets colder, many of us are preparing for more time indoors. I don’t know about you, but personally, this time of year stirs up emotional and mental clutter. The more time we spend cooped up indoors, the more time we have to sit and stew (and not the hearty kind).

Thankfully, in many cases, all it takes is some simple mental decluttering to improve your mood and bring that sense of peace you’re craving.

“Mental decluttering refers to the intentional practice of externalizing the thoughts, worries, and mental tasks that crowd our working memory, essentially getting them out of our heads and onto paper or another external medium,” explains Brooks Lape, mental health expert and founder of Start Your Recovery. “In cognitive science, this is called ‘cog

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