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With a background in engineering, I’ve learned to see patterns, bring order to complexity, and create systems that flow. With faith in Christ at the center of our home, I focus on creating intentional spaces and nurturing rhythms. My newsletter shares tips for simplifying your home and creating space to reset and quiet your heart.
🌿 Store Things Where You Use Them
Nº 33 – Janary 13, 2025 Hi Reader, Welcome to this week’s edition of The Neat Reset — a gentle pause in your week to tidy your space, quiet your mind, and start fresh. One of the most overlooked causes of clutter isn’t how much we own—it’s where we keep it. When items live far from where they’re actually used, friction builds. Small tasks feel heavier. Things pile up. And suddenly, the home feels harder to manage than it needs to be. This week’s reset is about restoring flow by rethinking...
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🩵 When Storage Becomes a Decision
Read on the web ↗ When Storage Becomes a Decision By Flavia Andrews In our home, Christmas decor stays up until after Epiphany on January 6th—so forgive me if I’m still talking about Christmas while it may already feel like a thing of the past for you. When I began putting away the Christmas decorations this past week, I noticed something quietly unsettling. Not the mess.Not the boxes.But the feeling that I was once again shuffling things—making room for one season by displacing another. It...
🌿 This Year, I’m Not Doing These Things
Nº 32 – January 6, 2026 Hi Reader, Happy New Year! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Neat Reset — a gentle pause in your week to tidy your space, quiet your mind, and start fresh. January often arrives loud—with goals, plans, trackers, and a long list of things we’re told we should be doing. But sometimes the most meaningful reset begins by choosing what we’re not going to carry forward. This week’s reset is about subtraction. About clearing pressure before adding intention. About making...
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⚓️ What I’m NOT Doing This Year
Read on the web ↗ 5 Things I Won't Be Doing This Year By Flavia Andrews The beginning of a new year usually arrives carrying a long list of expectations. New goals. New habits. New systems. A better version of ourselves—ideally by February. And while I love reflection and intention, I’ve learned something about myself over the years: piling on more doesn’t bring clarity. It brings pressure. Noise. A quiet sense of falling behind before the year has even begun. So this year, I’m flipping the...
🌿 A Gentle Goodbye to 2025
Nº 31 – December 30, 2025 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hi Reader, Welcome to this week’s edition of The Neat Reset — a gentle pause in your week to tidy your space, quiet your mind, and start fresh. As this year comes to a close, I’ve found myself reflecting on just how often we live in survival mode — rushing from one task to the next, one role to another, always thinking about what’s coming after this moment. Even good things can start to feel heavy when we’re constantly moving through them instead of...
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🩵 Slow Wins The Race
Read on the web ↗ Slow Wins The Race By Flavia Andrews As this year draws to a close, I’ve found myself returning to one simple truth— slow wins the race. Not as a cliché, but as a lived lesson. A Year of Slowing Down For a long time, I didn’t realize how deeply I was operating in survival mode. Moving quickly. Reacting. Carrying the quiet pressure of needing to keep up—with tasks, ideas, expectations, even versions of myself that no longer fit. Somewhere along the way, I began to notice the...
🩷 Making Room for Love
Nº 30 – December 23, 2025 Love Edition Hi Reader, Welcome to this week’s edition of The Neat Reset — a gentle pause in your week to tidy your space, quiet your mind, and start fresh. As Advent comes to a close, we arrive at Love; not the loud, "show off" kind, but the steady, faithful love that shows up in ordinary ways. The kind that looks like care, attention, and presence. This week invites us to notice how love is practiced quietly at home: in how we tend our spaces, how we prepare for...
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💜 Advent Week 4: Love
Read on the web ↗ Love: Devotion, Not Display By Flavia Andrews As we light the fourth candle of Advent, we arrive at Love — not the loud or sentimental kind, but the steady, faithful love that has been building quietly all along. This week carries a tenderness of its own. The waiting has deepened. The home feels fuller. The days feel closer to Christmas, and yet this candle asks us to pause once more — not to rush ahead, but to remain present to the love already surrounding us. Love, in...
🩷 An Advent Reset for Joyful Giving
Nº 29 – December 16, 2025 Joy Edition Hi Reader, Welcome to this week’s edition of The Neat Reset — a gentle pause in your week to tidy your space, quiet your mind, and start fresh. There’s a point in the Advent season when the joy of giving can quietly turn into another task—one more list to manage, one more decision to make. This week’s reset is a gentle pause in the middle of that. A reminder that choosing gifts doesn’t have to be overwhelming or extravagant. When we slow down and choose...
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🩷 Advent Week 3: Joy
Read on the web ↗ Joy: Presence, Not Tasks By Flavia Andrews Good evening. This email arrives later than expected—I was leaning into joy instead of hurrying. The third week of Advent arrives with a soft shift. The candle turns rose. The Church pauses the purple. Gaudete Sunday—rejoice—meets us not at the finish line, but right in the middle of the waiting. This week, that message met me right where I was. I spent many hours sorting through decorations and decorating the interior of our home....
With a background in engineering, I’ve learned to see patterns, bring order to complexity, and create systems that flow. With faith in Christ at the center of our home, I focus on creating intentional spaces and nurturing rhythms. My newsletter shares tips for simplifying your home and creating space to reset and quiet your heart.