THE IFHD HOLISTIC DECLUTTERING SUMMIT · MARCH 2027
You help people change. We want your voice at the summit.
A first-of-its-kind summit bringing together doctors, clinicians, and leaders in holistic health and professional organizing to explore why decluttering is really about the body, energy, and safety — not the stuff. We're looking for speakers whose work touches the body, the nervous system, energy, the mind, grief, or identity.
Inspired by Heather Aardema's forthcoming book on holistic decluttering — coming soon.
Apply to Speak at the SummitTHE SUMMIT'S THREE DIMENSIONS
It starts with the body. We create safety in the body before we can create safety in the home.
We can't let go when we're depleted, fatigued, or bracing for the next thing. Energy and safety come first — in the body — before the mind, before the home.
Body Clutter — where it begins
Without energy — and without a nervous system that feels safe — letting go is physically impossible. We build safety in the body first; it's the foundation everything else rests on. This track features doctors and clinicians.
Mind Clutter
The thoughts, identity, and stories we attach to our things — and the mental patterns that keep us holding on.
Home Clutter
The physical environment — air, space, and the home as a place of safety and restoration rather than overwhelm.
WHY DECLUTTERING DOESN'T STICK
The stuff is not the problem. The stuff is a symptom.
For most people, clutter isn't a logistics problem — it's a body that's too fatigued, inflamed, or dysregulated to let go, an identity wrapped up in our things, and grief we haven't had room to process. That's why willpower and better bins don't make it stick. The summit goes underneath the stuff to what's actually keeping people stuck — starting with energy, safety, and the nervous system.
54% of Americans feel overwhelmed by their clutter. 78% have no idea what to do about it.
“You haven't failed at decluttering. You've been solving the wrong problem.”
— from Heather Aardema's forthcoming book on holistic decluttering
WHAT MAKES THIS SUMMIT DIFFERENT
The first summit to bridge two worlds.
For years, holistic health and professional organizing have lived in separate worlds. The IFHD Holistic Decluttering Summit is the first to bring them together — uniting doctors, functional-medicine and nervous-system experts, and voices in energy, fatigue, psychology, and grief with the practical world of decluttering and organizing.
You don't have to be a decluttering expert to speak. You just have to understand what stands in the way of it.
PRAISE
Speaker praise is on the way.
Endorsements from our summit speakers and partners will appear here as they're confirmed in Fall 2026.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Hi, I'm Heather Aardema.
I'm the founder of the Institute for Holistic Decluttering and School of Living Lighter. I'm a Board Certified and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and a Certified Decluttering Coach. After 20 years in advertising — building the very FOMO that fills our homes — I left corporate, survived a toxic-mold illness, and rebuilt my life and business from a camper in my driveway. I've lived on both sides of clutter, and I built IFHD because lasting change starts with the body — bringing the holistic-health and decluttering worlds together.
JOIN THE SUMMIT
Add your voice to the conversation.
The IFHD Holistic Decluttering Summit airs online the week of March 15, 2027 — free to attend, with an optional All-Access upgrade. Speaker interviews are recorded in Fall 2026. If your work helps people change, we'd love to hear what you'd bring to the stage.
A holistic decluttering certification for coaches is on the way, too — and so is Heather's book.
