Emma Gleeson used to be obsessed with decluttering but when she started accepting life's messiness, she began to feel a whole lot calmer I closed the drawer.
Its contents were now as neat as a shop display case. I made a cup of tea and surveyed my newly decluttered living space, feeling the familiar mixture of buzz and calm.
But as the tea cooled, older feelings reared their heads. Feelings I’d been running from since my teens: sadness and anxiety.
I realised no amount of neatly ordered stationery was going to control the whirling worries in my head, or keep my loved ones safe.