Kathy Edson × Murdock’s

Kathy Edson is the founder of A Tranquil Nest, a senior move management and professional organizing practice based in Chico, California, and one of the few Certified KonMari® Consultants serving Butte County. As a member of the National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) since 2022, Kathy has built her practice around a simple idea: moving later in life should feel like a fresh start, not a loss. Her clients are typically older adults and their adult children navigating the emotional weight of downsizing — sorting a lifetime of belongings, choosing what to keep, and preparing a smaller home, assisted living apartment, or family member's house to feel immediately livable.

Kathy's service area covers Chico and the surrounding Butte, Glenn, Tehama, and Shasta county communities, and her work goes well beyond boxes and tape. She sits with families to sort and purge belongings with sensitivity, designs space plans so furniture and keepsakes fit the new floor plan before move day, and coordinates directly with the professional moving crew — including outfits like Murdock’s Moving & Storage — so nothing falls through the cracks between the packing table and the truck. She then unpacks and sets up the new home so it feels familiar from the first night, right down to arranging photos and keepsakes in a comforting, recognizable layout.

Reviewers consistently describe Kathy as calm, patient, and genuinely caring under circumstances that are often stressful for families — a 5.0-star HomeAdvisor rating reflects that reputation. One client called the experience "transformative," while another thanked her for making a new house "so much more joyful and organized." For a Senior Move Manager, that kind of trust is earned one difficult conversation at a time, and it's why families across the North State keep referring Kathy to friends and relatives facing their own downsizing transition.