I would LOVE to watch you help others. That would be the ideal show I have ever seen

Wow, what a huge shift for you! “I was safe the whole time.” WOW!!! What a blessing you would be to others to help them. I think just having the insights you do from your own journey would be a major blessing to others. I would definitely watch that! May the Lord continue to bless you and your family!

Being sick or having surgery is a real time for reflection. You understand what is truly important. I'm so glad you doing better!

So good to see you up and around! Once you’ve got your basement done, and your house the way you want it, absolutely take what you’ve learned and help others! 🦄📦💜

Such a great video and so honest Thanks for sharing

I'm so glad you're starting to feel better. Please don't do too much, too soon.

It’s wonderful to see your beautiful sunny smiling face.❤🤗we missed you and are so happy to see you! God bless you and your family and Ms Pepper. You are constantly in my prayers.🌺🌸🌺

I would love love love to see you helping Mira from peeling away the clutter... She's doing an amazing job on her own but that would be so good, and I know she could benefit from the experience you've gained and even more importantly, the insight from having actually gone through similar struggles. No matter where you go from here, so proud of all the growth and grateful you have taken us along for the journey, I have personally been helped by the "baby step to keep it a positive experience" method in taking on my own battles.

One of the things that made me start decluttering 5 years ago was depression. Knowing that I have little energy, it was easier to mantain the house with less stuff. Also, I get sick a lot so keeping the house fairly clean when I am down, it gives me peace of mind that I can rest and heal. That the mess isn't looking at me across the room and saying silently "So... when are you going to deal with me?". So glad you are feeling better. You are growing and healing every day, not just physically ♡

I've heard it said, "there isn't a hurt that God can't use for good". So thankful for your healing & that God has moved you to reach out to others.❤

Good to see you. We're in our 70's. I buy very little. Take care of yourself, leave the merchandise at the store. Tina, Al's wife

Recently one of my daughters (23) told me she'll be getting married next year and she'll be moving 3 hours away (to be able to afford housing). I was absolutely distraught (I thought, rightly or wrongly, she'd live nearer and I could help with grandchildren (if they arrive). Ill probably only see her every other month. I couldnt stop crying for a week ... I had a real sense of it being the end of an era with my children. and I experienced depression (I couldnt do anything). It really gave me a sense of what its like to feel so low. My heart goes out to people with long lasting depression. Im so glad youre on the mend and yes it does put things into perspective ❤

Lovely update, thank you! No one wants surgery but how wonderful that it happened now and not 1-2 yrs ago. And that you listened to those inner prompts back in the masked days 🙂. I’ll add my voice to those asking you to take it easy and not rush your recovery, abdominal surgery is a bear (I was still discovering adhesions two yrs post-surg (lap. hysterectomy, no issues)). I strongly recommend Pilates with a licensed instructor specializing in rehab if at all possible, absolutely worth the investment! Skritches to Miss Pepper!

I'm so glad your recovery is going well! Please know that post-procedure depression is a very real thing. Please take the time you need to rest and heal! ❤

💕That was a beautiful heart felt message my friend💕

I would like to see videos helping friends or neighbors with hoarding in the future ❤❤❤

Glad you are feeling better

I'm so glad you are recovering! That's so true, that people are what matter❤Money and things are tools that help us, and support our lives but really people are what matter. Thank you for that message, please take it easy!❤

Such a lovely reflection and commentary on things that matter. You always lift my mood Ms Heart, so glad to see you coming back to your full health and energy ❤ you are such a wonderful example for me, and I am not even a hoarder!

Great to see you are on the path to healing both physical , mental and emotional way.

Glad to see you healing n recovering. Thame it easy.❤

I am so excited to see you get to the next level and helping others.

What a beautiful message. Thank you for sharing. Glad to see recovery is going well.

So happy you're recovering well! You have so much patience with your sons & so much understanding I think you'd do an amazing job working with other people to declutter. Hope you can continue to rest & heal!

Mrs. Heart Thank you! Just thanks for starting this channel. Thanks for gently sharing your journey and how you work through things.

We have always believed in you!❤️So good to see you perked up!

Oh Melanie! I wish I could give you a big hug (but not a squeeze type of hug, because that would likely cause you pain!). I’ve watched your channel from early on and I’m always rooting for you from the sidelines. It’s so good to see you back in your groove and so amazing to hear you say you’ve been safe the whole time. It’s times like these that make for huge personal growth. I vote that you get back into the basement and really get that space how you want it. I wish you continued speedy healing. You got this! ❤😊

Hi Ms Heart- So glad to see you recovering and taking the time to heal. I am wondering if you and (I forgot her name) the woman who's channel is called "A Beautiful Mess" could be of mutual benefit to get in touch with. She helps people with health issues - and often hoarding disorder- and cleans and declutters their homes for free. She seems super friendly and I bet could give you advice on how to help others and start that process. She has collaborated with other channels as well. Also, I think you would also help her to understand hoarding disorder more deeply. Have a beautiful day you beautiful soul! :)

Your make up and glow to your skin looks great.. Wishing you a fast and safe recovery 😊😊

I'm so glad you are healing well! Thoughtful reflections on stuff - lots to think about

What a wonderful message of gratitude for all of us to ponder. Melanie, you are such an amazing person.

You are so very kind thinking of others!! Heal and take care!

Im in the process of moving from a 3 bedroom townhouse to a 1 bedroom suite in a Retirement Residence. I love your videos because you give such useful advise. But more than that you give of yourself. You are so genuine and sincere. I too have a whole new perspective on "stuff". How much money did I spend on all this stuff I'm now having to get rid of? How many people in need could that money have helped?

You put a lot of love out there - with your charitable works and your encouragement of your kids - it beams through you. I’m so glad that you were able to receive some of that love back when you needed it, during your recuperation from your surgeries. It sounds like you have some wonderful people in your life. ❤️

You look amazing and really well. You come over as a lovely warm person. So nice of you to want and help others x

So glad you are doing better. What a wonderful video from a wonderful lady. God bless.

You are truly loved❣️ So happy to see you feeling better and up and about! 💕

Omg that was powerful. In the time you’ve being healing to learn so much more and share that insight with all of us. Changing the ‘I have to’ to ‘I get to’ is amazing. That your ‘stuff’ wasn’t there to help/comfort/console you but your family, friends, relations, church, community and this KZfaq family were, that is a powerful insight. You are helping me and so many others by just even saying this out loud. Thank you so much for always being so kind, thoughtful, caring, gentle, loving, encouraging and generous. Continued good wishes for you recovery and don’t be forget to accept help when it’s being offered and ask for help when it’s needed. Miss Pepper is great company too. Have a great week. Mary, Joes wife 🙇‍♀️👏💪👍🙏💐🐈

Thank you for sharing yourself so generously and lovingly. This has been and continues to be a gift to me. ❤

Love how you unpacked all that. Especially the mind shift from "I have to" to "I get to". That's powerful! I'll be mulling that one over for sure!

You are all of you Doing so amazing We are all super proud of you and Hubbie for keeping up and the kids are doing amazing too Lots of love from the uk 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 x

God bless, glad you're doing better.

So happy your back happy and healthy xx

Wow your such an inspiration, your video really hit home of what is so much more important than what possessions we have. I'm going to have a real good go at decluttering my home thinking of what's important as I work through everything ❤️❤️ I'm also so glad to see your on the mend, your looking so well ❤️❤️x

What a joy to see you and your wonderful smile. So glad you’re improving, praise God!!

I am so glad to hear you are feeling better❤❤

Such wise words Melanie & so true, in every sense of the word. Take good care of you & so happy to know, you are on the mend. Do love & appreciate your channel & would love to see you, out there helping others too! xo 😘🌺❤️

So glad to see you feeling better and feeling enlightened. I have inattentive ADHD and depression and have been putting off 2 surgeries because I feel like I need to have a bigger handle on my hoarded rooms first incase things don’t go as smoothly as I would like. I really need to stop ruminating and pray and let go and let God. Thank you for your inspiration

You have such a big heart! So happy your healing and getting better! ❤❤❤

So glad you are recovering well from your op. Still take care and be gentle on yourself to make sure you are fully fit.

Thank you Melanie! You are an inspiration! I am thrilled that you are back on your feet with a new lease on life! Looking forward to more decluttering! You go!

Yes we get to do things! ❤

I am so happy that you are feeling much better. I can’t wait until you are back to 100%. I remember watching you right after the tornadoes hit our area a few years ago. Sending prayers and love for your full recovery!🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️

That was so inspirational. Thank you for sharing how you’ve grown through this experience. So glad that your surgeries and your recovery were so successful. I am sure that you are not 100% yet but you are on your way. ❤

I am so glad you are feeling happier in your recovery process, feeling less depressed and getting much healthier. I am relieved your operations were a success. I wish for you to get stronger and stronger with each passing day. 💛✨. 🙏 Mrs Heart, I think what you were saying about your experience is such a good reflection on things and I am so glad you had such wonderful friends and family around to support you. I am also glad that you see far more clearly now that stuff isn’t the answer and isn’t necessarily their to protect you as much as you previously thought. What I wish for you moving forward into the future, is for the rest of the excess of your things to be removed from your home, enabling you to fully set up your craft area and hang out den in the basement. Then perhaps you can move on from concentrating solely on your own home and start passing on your skills to others, like you already do in your videos, but this time in person. Perhaps by becoming a life coach for hoarders, or by helping to declutter homes for people in your area who need a helpful guiding light. We all know what a force of nature you are Mrs Heart and how kind, empowering and empathetic you are too. Therefore, I personally think you would be wonderful at doing this.

Depression is usual after surgery, go slow & don't over do it. Take care

Wow. What a beautiful honest talk! ❤️ I got tears in my eyes just watching this one! So happy that the operation went well, and that you gained some insights from it. I was unable to take care of myself a couple of years back, and that really makes you appreciate your health! ❤ You shouldn’t take it for granted. And the people that love you really are the things that matter in life! 🤗

So happy to see you with lots more enerfy and that lovely smile again! And what very thoughtful video! You are truly blessed! I am sure you will be an incredible helper for those with hoarding disorder, but also for even ordinary people that might need a boost of motivation and kindness. About the fact od being vulnerable and depending on others....I was always the "I'll do it myself and unable to ask for help and/or assistance and being truly awful when someone wanted to lend a helping hand. I recently realised though, that it is truly a circle of life. We are being taken care of when born, we then take care of others, others take care of us, and it always goes around and around, and it is the most natural thing in the world for almost every living being. It is even studied that plants help each other-so why we should not lrt ourselfs be helped and do the same to others? This helped me to let go of the "I cannot bother anyone" mindset. Loved also Your insight abouth the fact, that stuff was not there for you, but your commjnity was. Did not ever though about this-but it's true! Thank you, as always for your inspiration! Take care, rest when needed and reboot that energy that describes you best! Lots of love!❤🦄💕

Everytime I watch you you say something that speaks directly to me. I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago, caught early, surgery no chemo thankfully, full recovery so far, but my body has not been the same since. I am tired so much, it is so hard some days just to do the bare minimum of going to work and feeding myself (husband's on his own for meals lol!). My house has always been extremely cluttered, but it's even harder to manage now, and the more I struggle, the worse the house gets, the harder it is to clean... it never ends. You're idea of physically coming in to help people who simply physically cannot do the work is so beautiful. Especially because you know what we go through, you know the emotional attachments we have to items. I could hire someone to come in and clean my house, but they would just toss everything and not understand if I'm not there yet. You are amazing. Thank you for being a voice for us and I pray your healing continues.💖💖💖

I love the idea of you being able to physically go in and help others. Always remember, though, that you're already on the homes of many, many people, and you're helping us through our journeys. I follow multiple channels of people unhoarding who give credit to you for inspiring them and helping them believe they can really do this. Even from your couch, you're helping others to heal.

Надеемся, что у вас все благополучно и вы выздоравливайте. Ждем в этом году ваше новые приключения вместе с вашей пушистой "дочкой" в создании вашей мастерской для творчества в подвале. Будьте здоровы и счастливы.❤

You are just fantastic. May God bless you and help you live your purpose. You lead by example! Thank you for encouraging us to be a better self with every video you post!❤

I live with multiple chronic illnesses due to childhood trauma and my safe family are about 5,000 miles away. My life has lots of times where I’m on the sofa like you were. I have to look for cues of safety like you did. I joined a group with others living with chronic illness and clutter/hoarding is a big issue. You would be great at helping people like us. I’m 8yrs into my hoarding recovery journey and it changed my life. Still ill but life is easier now!

Glad you're feeling better and can do a little more and I can't wait to see the next decluttering video dosn't madder if it's you or your son they are both good and your younger son is doing a good job on his bedroom let him know I said keep up the good work

I'm so glad it all turned out fine Mel🤗🤗🤗 And yes we do care! I Was praying your surgery would go well and so were others

You are so blessed to have so many people around you. I so wish you the speediest recovery. You are such a good person, trying to help everyone with your experience. I lost my husband before Christmas and I was abused by his family for carrying out my husbands last wishes. They have even turned the rest of the relatives against us, with their lies. I so wish I had your support. Thank you for your words, they inspire me to keep going and try to keep my health, as they truly have taken a toll on me, with all of this extra stress, on top of my grief.

Best video ever saying you don’t want to hoard anymore. I watch a lot of hoarding videos and always think why do they want all that stuff sitting in boxes they dont ever see or use. So happy you see the perspective of you do not need all that. Keep up the good work!

I've been struggling with my physical and mental health for the last month. I'm glad your doing better and being able to do this. I struggle with the piles of random little things then they end up in a tub I shove into my kids corner of their room . watching you self care helps me body double. Thank you for sharing your journey

Oh, you would be so wonderful helping others! Your heart is so big, you would have the non-judgment and compassion and loving energy to be a huge help. You help me every time you post! Take care and I’m so glad you’re getting better!!

This was so inspirational ❤thank you

Wish you luck in your next journey. You can do it 😊

❤im so glad you are healing

Healing in more ways than one! ❤️

Amen.

My (lack of) health is a big motivator for me to declutter and get my house under control. Glad your surgery went so well!

I’m glad you’re doing better I enjoy watching you n you’ve helped me a lot. I’ve been decluttering a little at a time n doing what you said while going through. I was sad when I heard you was gonna have surgery because my dad died of a kidney disease n that was after thanksgiving this past year n then my brother had a heart attack n died 7 weeks later. Because of you I found a way to let go of stuff i thought I needed. Thank you n more prayers for you

You are the sweetest, kindest soul ever. You are beautiful beyond words on the outside, and on the inside. The world needs more people like you in it. Much love ❤.

I think you have hit a wonderful new milestone in your thought process.....Truly enjoyed this video. Don't overdo, tho!

I was just talking about being healthy yesterday and how I want to take advantage of it rather than take it for granted. Glad you are recovering without rushing it 💟

You are a lovely person❤ I am blessed to have found your channel

Thank you for saying this. This disorder is hard on its own, but having other health and mental health issues along with it makes it that much harder to live with and work on, and it's easy to compare yourself to others and think you're not getting anything done so you try harder and just go backwards. Recognition of the other things you're dealing with and the effort involved in maintaining what you can and doing what you can to make some progress is helpful, but not easy to keep perspective on. Getting help from supportive and understanding people is good, but getting help from someone you know understands what it's like would make such a difference to people. That's something I hope to be able to do when I get out from under my situation and more functional. It would be great to see you do that when you're up to it.

So glad that you are healing from the surgeries. Thank you for sharing your vulnerabilities and reflections. I think you would be amazing in helping others. You have a really deep heart. Blessings to you as you continue to get stronger and healthier! ❣

I'm glad to hear you're on the mend

So Glad you are recovering. I just got out of Virtua for heart issues. Please send prayers. Thank you!

🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄So glad you are here in lieu of where you were five (5) years ago, so that you have an organized home to help you in your recovery. You were always meant to help others. This is what you have been doing for the past five (5) years on you tube. As well al=s the fact you were helping others way before you tube. Best wishes to you, tour family and all your friends and church family, during this time of recovery!!T

You would be great at helping others …you are so loving and kind….glad you’re feeling better…😘❤️

You are more than wonderful. Please don't push yourself, please keep listening to your body and get back to 💯percent in GOD'S good time. Love ❤️ you ❤️

so good to see you back 🌺

I suffer with depression and anxiety. I have gotten rid of so much from my small home. And i still have a long way to go. Its exhausting. Today i just stayed on the couch. I felt so stuck like i couldn't move and i couldn't focus. Stuff can be so overwhelming.

So glad you’re feeling better. What a great video and perspective of reality. What good is stuff! It’s Jesus . Our faith ,family and friends that matter. Thank you for sharing

I'm glad you're doing better.. I had kidney cancer and I had my right kidney removed.. I was never bedridden I got up and took showers and I was not allowed to lift anything more than a gallon of milk.. yes I had painkillers I was in pain I was not allowed to drive for about ten days....my dr wanted me to walk..my hubby cooked for me the first week..and that was 18 years ago.. and all is good.. hopefully you will heal and quickly get back to your normal life

Oh I just loved this so much I could cry! ❤

Thanks for the update ❤ it’s good to see you recovering and taking care of yourself.

So happy to see you recovering and back on your feet. Take it slow!!

A very beautiful message. You have a heart of gold.

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I'm glad you're on the mend! 😊🐦

Be well!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

You look good🙂continue to listen to your body and I pray you will be well soon💕

You look great. I see and hear something different about you! ❤ give yourself time to heal do not rush.