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The Cleaning Spirit

Toronto’s Domestic Medic
Shame Free Cleaning & Organization
Trauma & Illness Informed
Custom & Careful Home Rescue Consider me your breath of fresh air.

My services are based on traditional housekeeping and my specialty is the management of your space - taking care of the things your life keeps you from, or the things that keep you from your life. Whether it’s life changes, physical dirt, or simply junk run amuck - i am here to help. Cleanliness, sanitation, & room to breathe are vital to a healthy life balance. The places you sleep, work, and create are sacred.

04/17/2026

Time to dig into the soil 🪏 and clean your life from the roots up. Don’t carry the weight of the winter into the spring and summer sun. Release, purge, reach out 🌱 you never know what a home could grow to be if you don’t tend to its foundations

This year, let the sun in 🌞

Books are open for June and beyond

03/03/2026

Happy 6th Birthday, Cleaning Spirit 🎂

From a Google document and a desire to care for those who don’t normally benefit from domestic help to a hand written website and a promise to go where other cleaners would not, you have become a calling and a mission

I am very proud of what this work has become. To be Toronto’s most careful 😷 and gentle domestic medic

Most of all, I am proud of you, my clients

I want you to know, in these six years, what I have seen in every home

No matter the trauma, the mess, the chaos:

I see how you tried. I see the perfect garbage bin liner at the bottom of the pile, I see the half formed stacks of filed paperwork from 30 years of teaching kindergarten. I see how you bought the boxes, bought the bleach, tried to sweep one section. You are not bad or broken. Your home is sick and it needed medicine

So thank you for this work. It is humbling and inspiring to continue to understand how to better help

With every puzzle piece I put back together, may I lift a little more for all of you

12/24/2025

All of our most human traditions center around one thing: gathering in the homes of the people we love

This affinity in us crosses every culture, class and era

Most of us carry both the many joys and sorrows that this season and its gatherings bring

When we want to see and thank the people we love, it can be especially hard when you don’t feel like you have a home you can share with others

You deserve a house that can not only sustain you in the fast paced whirlwinds of summer but also one that can hold you and others in comfort when winter comes with her chill at your doorstep

When we clean and decorate our gathering places, when we thank them for keeping us and fill them with warmth in this season we do ourselves and our nervous systems a deep favor. We are doing something deeply human.

Care for your home. Allow domestic medicine to care for you

There is a version of you at your snow covered stoop, smiling at a friend and saying

“Welcome to my home, won’t you come in from the cold?” ☃️

11/04/2025

Halloween is over, time to excise some ghosts

When you allow the corners of our own home to be the scariest things in your life, you do yourself a disservice

The one place that should feel the safest to your body, now has hidden triggers in every corner

Like cheap carnival fair pop ups, the monsters one allows to live under the bed lay waiting for the exact moment you need to find a certain item

Life becomes a terrifying endeavour of putting new objects away in graveyards where the rest lay buried

Sometimes, in order to stop the horror, you need the professionals

I may bust more dust than ghosts but I know how to take a house out of hell 🪦

Fall and winter are the seasons of death and rebirth. It’s important to clear the way for a new chapter in spring, free of skeletons in the closet

Just say Cleaning Spirit three times in your bathroom mirror ☎️

10/10/2025

When my clients and I face the tangle of their household mess, they often wonder one thing

Where do we start?

The answer to that is that we find one end

For every tabletop covered in clutter, every drawer overflowing with the bits and ends of life: we must tug out one end of your ball of yarn

That frayed end piece is your first object— and together we will decide if it stays and where it goes

Then we will follow that thread, through every knot of decision, till something smooth and re-spun appears before their eyes

It can be painstaking work but it is the intentional, complete work of fixing something from the root. Every item, every bump along the way has a story to tell you, about how you and life are interacting inside your home

If you can find a beginning 🧶 I can help make your way to the end

So don’t fear the mess

Every frazzled, jumbled pile of spun wool

Can always become string once more

09/18/2025

Happy Fall 🍁 It’s time to think about what kind of home you want to head back inside of as winter approaches

If we haven’t met, I’m William

Toronto’s clutter custodian, virally conscious housekeeper and holistic home organizer

My work is trauma informed, care centred cleaning. My clients are often managing life with mental or physical illness, ADHD, vulnerable health status or marginalized identity. I serve both solo and family homes who find that the traditional cleaning services are unable to meet their needs

At the core of my work is custom caretaking of the most private spaces. My wellness cleans are designed specifically for those who feel lost in the chaos of their home. Those who need someone who can handle both the cleaning and the detangling of all the delicate pieces of life that become household mess

I have also expanded and specified another section of my work: holistic organizing. I now have a section of my site devoted to those who need clutter help without the cleaning

I’ve been lucky enough to help people from all walks and chapters of life and have experience with both solo and family homes

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about me!

I am always looking to expand my circle of monthly clientele, bringing stability and a sense of warmth to the homes around me on a regular basis

Books are open for December and January, get the help you need during these busy holiday months and before the new year is upon us

All info, services, prices & reviews can be found on my website
https://thecleaningspirit.com

Reach out via my direct booking link for service:
https://thecleaningspirit.com/book-a-service

More information on my holistic services at theee two links:
https://thecleaningspirit.com/wellnesscleans
https://thecleaningspirit.com/holisticorganization

More information on my health & safety practices here:
https://thecleaningspirit.com/health-safet

09/03/2025

I once had a contract junk hauler enter a home I was tending to

“Wow.” he said, looking around in disbelief and disgust

“Is this a hoarder house?”

“No.” I replied “This is my client’s house.”

Something I’ve internalized deeply in my decade of service is that to simply judge your mess is the quickest way to missing the entire point of wanting to be cleaner

What that hauler missed that day is what years of solitude, health issues and depression had done to this home

He judged this cumulative state outright and could never fathom the courage it took for my client to feel safe enough to let someone help them after years of suffering

Think of it as similar to other forms of healthcare

We know a bad doctor judges a patient instead of treating them. You would be proud of yourself if you took steps to be healthier. I don’t believe cleaning is any different

Compassionate care, be it towards yourself or from someone tending to your home, is what healing looks like

I’m not there to judge your home nor the many days and events that created its mess

Be they major or mild cleaning or organizational projects, remember that you deserve kind-hearted care in all your wellness services

When you need help, I hope you can give yourself that same compassion 🩹

08/21/2025

Before we all head inside for the season 🍁

Gift yourself the serenity of a clean space

If walking in your own front door feels like a trap rather than a welcome escape, your don’t need to fight the unseen corners and cobwebs alone

Investing into professional caretaking can be the first step into making your home a place that eases your mind instead of adding to your stress

Plant the seeds now and let the work grow 🌱 autumn 🍂 is a time of change. If you’re ready to make change in your sanctuary, allow me to tend to the tallest weeds

Books are now open for November, December and beyond

08/06/2025

Many of my days start with apologies

“I’m sorry” says a small voice at one door as I change my shoes, “forgive the mess” whispers another as I greet a dog

Many of my clients seek my services because they feel ashamed. The mess or the grime has taken a toll and they need someone to hold that heavy burden with care instead of judgement

I will always assure them that there is nothing to be ashamed of, that my purpose here is to help. I believe that when you care for someone in any capacity, you are not there to judge the symptoms

I know shame can feel painful —

but I have found that often in cases of keeping ourselves clean, shame is what is calling you to be the best version of yourself. The proper caretaker of your needs and your home. Instead of shunning it completely, invite shame in. Let it stay for tea and tell you what would really make you feel like a better, healthier you. Let it be ok if that means you need outside help to get to that place

Once you soften to your shame, it won’t be as hard to let me in either 🩵

07/25/2025

Call it an unexpected job perk 🍃🍁❄️☀️

Since I eat lunch outside, no matter the weather, I’ve ended up with an unusual gift: the chance to see the ever shifting seasons of Toronto from countless porches, balconies, fire escapes and front stoops

How lucky I’ve been to see the deep greens of so many wild backyards, to watch the first snows from 14th stories concrete enclaves covered in pigeon wire

I have seen the same tender gardens rise and fall for years, my old lunch companions

To everyone who has been brave enough to let me in to do my work: thank you for the steps to your home, for your deck chairs

For your backyards, big and small

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The Beaches, ON
M4E 1H2

Website

https://thecleaningspirit.com/

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