{"id":1309,"date":"2011-03-02T18:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2011-10-14T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T17:52:04","slug":"new-the-secret-lives-of-hoarders-by-matt-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Hoarders, by Matt Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i77.photobucket.com\/albums\/j58\/COHDonna\/New%20Sub%20Album\/MattsBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/childrenofhoa-20\/detail\/0399536655\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy Matt Paxton, Phaedra Hise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/childrenofhoa-20\/detail\/0399536655\" target=\"_blank\">PRE-ORDER HERE!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amazon Description:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the front lines with extreme hoarders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Secret Lives of Hoarders<\/em> is much more than harrowing  tales of attacking the ugliest, dirtiest,  and most shocking hoarding  cases in the country. It is a  behind-the-scenes look at this hidden  epidemic- what it means, how to  recognize it before it gets out of  hand, and how to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through his work with hundreds of clients in the worst circumstances-   from the giant \u201crat\u2019s nest\u201d that hid more than $13,000 in cash to a vast   cache of cartoon pornography to twenty-five years\u2019 worth of unopened   mail-Matt Paxton has learned to understand this disorder and his   clients\u2019 impulses to collect, to speak the hoarders\u2019 language, and to   reach out to them with compassion and concern while avoiding criticism   and judgment. Most important, he guides compulsive hoarders successfully   through every step of the clean-up and healing process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/childrenofhoa-20\/detail\/0399536655\"><em>The Secret Lives of Hoarders<\/em><\/a> is an engrossing and sometimes  unsettling look at extreme clutter but  one that helps hoarders, their  families, and their friends to find  meaning in the chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter By Matt Paxton, Phaedra Hise PRE-ORDER HERE! Amazon Description: On the front lines with extreme hoarders The Secret Lives of Hoarders is much more than harrowing tales of attacking the ugliest, dirtiest, and most shocking hoarding cases in the country. It is a behind-the-scenes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?p=1309\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}