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Elaine Birchall, host of the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel Program “Take Back Your Life: When Your Things Are Taking Over” will be joined by special guest Fire Chief Jim Sawkins on Wednesday December 21st, 2016, to discuss fire risks in a hoarded environment.

Join Elaine and talk about how you can increase your safety level while you de-hoard/ de-clutter your environment. NO FAULT - NO BLAME - NO SHAME - NO CRISIS

Join Elaine Birchall for part 2 of MOVING FORWARD: TOOLS THAT WORK as you try to overcome hoarding yourself or help someone you care about. Elaine has developed these tools and has uses them successfully every day to help situations just like yours'. So can you!

Join Elaine Birchall a leading Hoarding Behavior and Intervention Specialist and learn about: 1. your saving patterns and how they impact hoarding! 2. the do's and don'ts about hoarding! 3. Questions to help you decide about bringing things home and letting things go! 4. What works to help you Get There!

Moving forward from Overwhelmed you must identify and assess the barriers you are dealing with. Join Elaine Birchall MSW RSW a Hoarding Behaviour and Intervention Specialist with over 14 years experience working directly with people who struggle with all types of Hoarding and those who care about them including the professionals who are often overwhelmed as well and learn how to make a plan based on the realities of your Hoarding experience. The internal and external factors of your unique situation matter when it comes to formulating a plan that works. Arm yourself with great information before you try again.

Renowned veterinarian and epidemiologist, Dr. Gary J Patronek will provide expert information on Animal Hoarding, addressing such topics as the negative impacts that the number of animals in an environment can have on a person’s health and well-being, options if someone knows they have too many animals, and recommendations for those who know of an animal hoarding situation.

Do you or someone you care about Hoard? Can't decide? Join Elaine Birchall a recognized Hoarding Disorder and Intervention Specialist will help you decide. She will then help you discover the underlying reasons this is happening so you can effectively use the information she will present in upcoming shows about what to do about it. Keep the things you love the most, the things you need and what to do about the rest!

Dr. Jane Burka, author of the acclaimed book Procrastination, will provide expert information on procrastination, including how some of our basic fears -fear of failure, fear of success, fear of separation, and fear of intimacy- can influence procrastination. The program this week will also offer tips on how to say “no”, and how to successfully set and achieve your goals. “I am very excited to have Dr. Burka as my guest on November 2nd, as she is an extraordinarily knowledgeable professional with specialized expertise in procrastination,” stated Elaine Birchall. “Because procrastination is such a common behavior in hoarding disorder, understanding what procrastination is, and how to manage it, is pivotal to achieving any level of success.”

Elaine Birchall, host of the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel Program “Take Back Your Life: When Your Things Are Taking Over” will be joined by special guest David D. Burns, M.D. on Wednesday October 26, 2016 at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss living with depression and anxiety.

Renowned veterinarian and epidemiologist, Dr. Gary J Patronek will provide expert information on Animal Hoarding, addressing such topics as the negative impacts that the number of animals in an environment can have on a person’s health and well being, options if someone knows they have too many animals, and recommendations for those who know of an animal hoarding situation.

When piles build up, visitors move in. Those visitors often hide in secret. Mice LOVE to burrow. They also LOVE to chew. Dessert can be electrical wires covered among the things. Unfortunately they are never toilet trained. One mouse we found died on his back, feet in the air with what appeared to be a smile on his face in a partially nibbled, case of Lindt chocolate bars. Another visitor is mold. Mold is a living thing and has many family members. All members of the mold family are a problem and will secretly climb your walls behind the piles until they take over your rooms and your health. There are many other crises that Hoarded environments are vulnerable to. October 12th join Elaine Birchall , therapist and Hoarding Behaviour and Intervention Specialist and her guest Mike Frampton of Ontario Remediation Services and learn how to spot crises brewing early and what to DO AND NOT DO!

Learn about the 3 PATHS TO HOARDING including the times in our lives and health conditions that increase our vulnerability to Hoard. Hear from two Forgotten Children, now adult children who grew up in Hoarding situations. Experience the legacy of incompleteness and ambivalence as you listen to their stories of feeling displaced by the STUFF! A legacy that lives on even today in their lives. Two guests will join us to help us understand what it was like THEN and what it took to create a very different NOW!

LEARNING What HOARDING IS AND ISN'T WHAT ARE THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF HELPING! 84 percent of Hoarders have a first degree relative -mother, father, sister, brother-who Hoards. Meet Jane, a wonderful woman, loving wife and mom dedicated community volunteer who fought back against an avalanche of life's challenges only to face losing the dearest one's in her life because of her Hoarding Disorder.. Learn how she battled back, persevered and is on track to beating Hoarding!

Do you love a deal? Do you find alternative uses for practically everything? Do you hold onto things because they remind you of people or memories and it feels awful to let them go? Do you want to de-clutter but JUST CAN’T do it! Would most people say a build -up has happened? Tune into Take Back Your Life when your things have taken over Let Elaine become your own personal Clutter Coach. She has specialized in working with people who Hoard-Collect and those who care about them for the past 14 plus years and SHE CAN HELP YOU TOO! Tune IN! Call IN! MOVE FORWARD and TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE!