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The capture habit
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the capture habit
Record as we go — the tiny version
The channel is built from ordinary days, recorded lightly. Nothing here is a performance, and nothing needs doing twice. Three small moments per visit; the phone does the rest.
three moments
On the way there · a voice note
One or two minutes, phone on the passenger seat or in a pocket: what we know, what we expect, how we’re feeling about it. Any quality. Traffic noise is fine.
During · the pictures we already take
Same as our private working records, with two tiny upgrades: a wide picture from the doorway when we start and the same spot when we finish, and a few 10–30 second clips of hands at work if the moment allows. Landscape for video. Never faces, never letters or parcels, never anything with a name or address on it.
On the way back · the debrief
Two or three minutes while it’s fresh: what happened, what surprised us, what skill came up. This is the gold — the feeling on the drive home can’t be recreated later. One take, send it, done.
the gate
Nothing from a client’s home goes anywhere public yet. Everything captured on visits stays a private working record (as our terms already say) until the new consent approach — the one waiting for Kari’s read — is agreed and a client has signed it. Always safe meanwhile: voice notes, our own homes, making the kits and workbooks, hands-and-boxes shots with nothing identifiable in frame.
phone bits, once
- Voice notes: whatever’s easiest — the voice-note button in our WhatsApp thread is perfect. No naming, no filing; the date does that.
- Photos and clips: let them sync to the shared album as they already do. David harvests weekly; nothing to send, nothing to sort.
- Video: phone sideways (landscape), wipe the lens on your sleeve first, and hold still for a slow count of three before and after the interesting bit. That’s the whole of film school.
words that quietly help
Words spoken in a recording end up searchable on YouTube, so the everyday names for what we do are quietly valuable: decluttering, overwhelming room, professional organiser, DBT skills, distress tolerance, grounding, emotional regulation, self-soothe box. If they come up naturally, lovely — never force one in. Kari just talks; it’s David’s job to ask questions that already contain them (“how do you use grounding when…”), and the editing does the rest.
The other half: in anything that might be published we keep to the gentle wording we’d use on the site — no client names ever, and the heavier clinical words stay for the full word-list guide (the one waiting for Kari’s read). When in doubt, say it however it comes out — the edit is where wording gets checked, not the sofa.
the rules that keep it easy
- One take. Send it. Never re-record.
- Stumbles, laughs, half-thoughts: all keepers. Perfect is not the brand; kind and real is.
- Everything is used or kindly set aside. Nothing comes back with notes.
- Missed a day? Nothing happened. There is no streak to break.