05/17/2026
I wake each day challenged to support my clients’ ever-changing goals and wishes; support my employees with safe work environments and a living wage; support myself with the money left over; support the real estate agents who trust us to prepare homes for sale; support families trying to turn a new house into a home; support the compulsive collector facing eviction without our help; and support the parents who are desperately trying to clean up their home to get their child back from foster care.
Many times, I shake with fear, shed tears, take a deep breath, reach for my favorite Theodore Roosevelt quote, and then force my feet to the floor. If you have any positive energy to spare one morning, send it my way.
At the end of each day, I sigh, smile, and give thanks for the roof over my head, the clients we have helped, my children’s enduring health, and the support of loving family and good friends.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
I created Escape Your Chaos in 2012 to give compassionate support to all who ask for our help. Thank you to everyone who has helped us survive. Thank you, Theodore Roosevelt, for inspiring me to continue putting one foot in front of the other.
www.escapeyourchaos.com
Call Catherine 503-805-5880
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