Lisa Hodgson - Mental Load & Declutter Coach

Lisa Hodgson - Mental Load & Declutter Coach Hi, I’m Lisa! But time and time again, I saw the same pattern—six months later, the clutter was back, and the systems hadn't been maintained. The real problem?

Declutter Coach | Creator of The Intentional Home Program | A step-by-step framework to clear physical and mental clutter, create systems that last, and get your family to step up and share the load, without conflict. Mum of two and ex-Finance Director, after decluttering my own life and creating the space to take my life in a different direction, I founded one of Sydney’s top decluttering busine

sses, helping hundreds of families bring order to their homes. Decluttering alone is like crash dieting. You can lose the weight (or the clutter), but if you don’t change your habits, mindset, and systems, everything creeps back in. Families didn’t just need a one-time fix—they needed to do the work themselves, in a way that was achievable (when life was already feeling overwhelming). They needed to align with their life, values, and daily routines. That’s why I created The Intentional Home Program—a step-by-step system that helps you:

- Create a vision for the home and life you want
- Shift your habits and mindset so clutter stops coming back
- Build maintainable systems that fit into everyday life
- Share the load—because running a home shouldn’t fall on one person

This isn’t about achieving a “perfect” home—it’s about designing a home that works for you and gives you more time, energy, and ease for what truly matters. If you want to make 2025 a bit less overwhelming download my FREE guide - 6 Steps to a Clutter-Free Home here 👉🏻 https://www.lisahodgson.co/clutterfree

And if you wish your partner would share the load a bit more at home (believe me you are not alone) then you simply must grab my FREE sharing the load guide here 👉🏻 https://www.lisahodgson.co/share-the-load

Lisa x
www.lisahodgson.co

15/10/2025

Has juggling career & motherhood made you lose your sense of humour?
If you’re wondering where the fun stuff has gone, you are not alone.

Lack of sleep, juggling the invisible load and trying to keep on top of work while also juggling stinky nappies and never-ending feeds kind of does that to you.

In the latest episode of the Motherhood Sh!tshow Hannah Rodger and I ask ourselves, where did our sense of humour disappear to.

If you are in the thick of it and need help finding some laughs.
Come listen on Spotify, Apple or YouTube and share with a mum mate who needs a laugh.

Links in profile

Have you found the funny side of motherhood? Or are you still looking?

Write your own list mate ✍️If you’ve ever asked your wife or partner to write you a list of what needs to be done around...
13/10/2025

Write your own list mate ✍️

If you’ve ever asked your wife or partner to write you a list of what needs to be done around the house and been met with an annoyed look?

Here’s why ⬇️

Your off-loading the most tiring part of the job to her.

This is the ‘mental-load’ and it’s exhausting. When women are expected to be the ‘font of all knowledge’ about what needs to be done to keep things running at home.

What most women want is shared ownership, not ‘help’ - and ownership includes knowing, remembering, planning and organising, not just the doing.

Thing is though this ‘harry-half-jobbing’ isn’t usually a question of lazyness or not thinking, it’s learned behaviour.

And it’s learned by both men and women.

Being trapped in gendered scripts that you didn’t even realise you were following is what stops true shared load and partnership.

Left to fester it can leave one partner feeling unappreciated and the other attacked with every conversation about chores turning into another argument.

Once you both turn the spotlight on what’s really going on, then you can shift.

I think sharing the load is cool 😎 - because the more we model equity at home, the more likely it is that we can create more equity in the workplace.

Do you hate being asked to write a list?

Comment LIST below if you want your partner to stop being the helper and start taking ownership.

👉 Why should women have to coach men on the mental load?A few months ago, I ran a free 5-Day Share The Load Challenge, a...
30/09/2025

👉 Why should women have to coach men on the mental load?

A few months ago, I ran a free 5-Day Share The Load Challenge, and the response blew me away. Hundreds of mums signed up, desperate for change. Women reported back that they had never felt so seen and understood.

But what I realised through the process of running this challenge was this ⬇️

💫 The fix cannot be another job for her to carry alone.

That’s why I’m building something new.

⚖️ The Share The Load Program is a 30-day reset for families.

It’s not about women managing better.
It’s a simple framework that helps both partners:

1. Make visible the often invisible mental, emotional, and physical load of running a family.
2. Reset the old scripts (in both partners) that keep one person carrying more.
3. Let go of built-up resentment and learn to communicate better
4. Build the systems that support shared ownership (not just one person managing and the other 'doing').

And here’s why this really matters ⬇️

👉🏻 Couples where one partner carries most of the load report less intimacy and lower relationship satisfaction.
👉🏻 Women who feel the split is unfair are twice as likely to consider divorce.
👉🏻 The division of household and mental tasks is a top reason couples seek counselling.

💡 Worried your partner won’t join in? You’ll still walk away with practical tools
and scripts you can use straight away, to lighten your own load and bring them on the journey with you.

It’s about reducing resentment, protecting intimacy, and showing our kids a healthier model of partnership.

🚀 The waitlist for my first cohort is now open : https://www.lisahodgson.co/share-the-load-waitlist

Come join me to stop passing the imbalance down and show our kids what real partnership looks like.

Let’s face it. Modern motherhood can be a bit of a Sh!tshow. And that’s why I’m co-hosting this new podcast series with ...
30/09/2025

Let’s face it. Modern motherhood can be a bit of a Sh!tshow.

And that’s why I’m co-hosting this new podcast series with the hilariously funny Hannah Rodger, founder of The Mum Hive so that we can talk unfiltered about the beautiful chaos of motherhood, career, and home life.

Because let’s be honest there is far too much filtering going on right now - and that just makes mums who are doing it tough feel - well s**t!

We were drawn together by our shared sense of Northern English humour and sarcasm, mutual love of brightly coloured jumpers, and the belief that telling it like it is beats sugar-coating every time.

We talk candidly about the juggle: the mental load, the career curveballs, the mess (literal and metaphorical), and the moments that make you wonder if you’re smashing it or just barely hanging on.

Expect laughter, honesty, practical takeaways, and the occasional gold-star moment for doing the bare minimum.

It’s going to be a little bit sweary, because motherhood isn’t always pretty, but it’s never boring.

You can listen to our intro episode on

Spotify 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/08CmU9JTKo3ygtdxpDlxSa?si=cCpB2sWrTmyrcSR1-Exjhg

Apple Podcasts 👉 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-motherhood-sh-tshow/id1843017368?i=1000729219326

Make sure you hit subscribe/follow and if you love the sound of it drop us a quick review.

✨ Tired of the constant “tidy your room” battles? ✨What if your child’s room wasn’t about *tidying*… but about building ...
24/08/2025

✨ Tired of the constant “tidy your room” battles? ✨

What if your child’s room wasn’t about *tidying*… but about building the skills they’ll carry for life? 💡

When we shift the focus away from the nagging and toward **teaching life skills**, kids learn responsibility, independence, decision-making, gratitude and you get to stop micromanaging. 🙌

And you can do this in an age appropriate way, that builds over time and based around their own needs and preferences.

Kid’s don’t learn these skills on their own, and some days you’re just too tired to figure out *how* to start.

That’s why I’ve created a **step-by-step playbook** — so you don’t have to do all the thinking yourself.

💬 Comment **“Kids”** below and I’ll send you the link

✨ Sharing the load & body-level resentment ✨I recently ran a 5-Day Challenge digging into why it feels so damn hard to c...
21/08/2025

✨ Sharing the load & body-level resentment ✨

I recently ran a 5-Day Challenge digging into why it feels so damn hard to create true equity at home 🏡.

And here’s the kicker 👉 a lot of women realised they were actually (unintentionally) contributing to the stuck dynamic.

Not because they’re “naggy” or controlling (ugh, hate those labels)…
…but because we’ve ALL been programmed into this:
👩 She’s the household CEO
👨 He’s the helper

That’s the script. And it’s reinforced everywhere.

The thing is… this only changes when we drop the blame game and start really seeing how it got set up in the first place (and then build a way forward together).

💥 But here’s what really hit me: letting go of resentment is HARD.
Not just “have a bubble bath” hard.
I’m talking body-level resentment — the kind that makes standing down from arguments almost impossible and makes compassion feel out of reach.

And it reminded me: if we don’t set up our homes, systems, and conversations for equity from the very start (yep, ideally before kids)… resentment will move in and take the spare room.

👉 are you feeling resentment building up in your home? Let me know in the comments.

If you’re done with the resentment make sure you hit FOLLOW for more tips on how to get your partner on board with creating a more intentional equitable home life.

Sharing the load & body-level resentmentA few weeks ago I ran a 5-Day Challenge uncovering the truths about what the blo...
21/08/2025

Sharing the load & body-level resentment

A few weeks ago I ran a 5-Day Challenge uncovering the truths about what the blocks are when it comes to truly creating equity at home 🏡.

A lot of the women in the challenge were surprised to hear that they themselves were contributing to this dynamic at home. It’s not a narrative that gets played in the mainstream media, which unhelpfully paints men as the lazy villains.

Because both men and women have been subjected to programming (that gets reinforced through behaviours) that positions women in the role of household CEO and men as the helpers.

This dynamic is only fixable when the blame stops and there is full transparency and a deeper understanding of how the situation arises PLUS a path forward to course correct.

What did surprise me though was how difficult it is for women to release the level of resentment they feel after carrying so much for so long.

It’s a body-level resentment, the kind that makes standing down from combative situations feel impossible, and makes building compassion and understanding for each other really hard.

It reinforced for me how important it is to set up your home, your systems and your conversations, from the early days of your relationship (ideally before kids even come along). Because if you don’t build equity in from the start, resentment will move in and take its place.

This is what we do inside The Intentional Home Program (https://www.lisahodgson.co/the-intentional-home)

I’m ready to start a different narrative on this topic, are you?

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