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Have you ever felt claustrophobic in your own home? Walked into someone elses home and felt overwhelmed by things? De-cluttering is a great way to reduce anxiety, and feel calmer in your own home.
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De-Clutter Your Life And Reduce Anxiety WWW.INSIDETHEFUZZYHEAD.COM
De-Clutter Your Life And Reduce Anxiety WWW.INSIDETHEFUZZYHEAD.COM
De-Clutter Your Life And Reduce Anxiety Have you ever felt claustrophobic in your own home? Walked into someone elses home and felt overwhelmed by things? De-cluttering is a great way to reduce anxiety, and feel calmer in your own home. I was once a girl who had a big wardrobe full of clothes that I never wore, sitting there waiting for the ‘oneday’ that I ‘might’ need them. Those days almost never came. So they were just taking up space in my small bedroom. I loved shopping at op-shops and finding cool little trinkets that would sit on my shelf never being used, taking up space. It was an endless cycle of accumulation, and I see it in other people’s houses all the time. Trinkets, clothing and stuff! After moving and travelling a lot, I realised you don’t need much stuff to live a happy and fulfilling life. Once I started simplifying and reducing I found that my anxious feelings became smaller when I was at home. I wasn’t spending as much time cleaning and I didn’t feel guilty when people came over and saw the state of our house, because less stuff means less mess. I now regularly donate things we haven’t used in a while, and whenever I reorganise and do a cull I feel a sense of achievement and clarity. Like a weight lifting off my shoulders. WWW.INSIDETHEFUZZYHEAD.COM
De-Clutter Your Life And Reduce Anxiety I am still fine tuning the art of saying no to things and I still love op shopping, but now I am much more selective of what comes into my house and my life. If I need something then I will buy it, if not then it stays in the shop. If you’re struggling with where to start, here are some tips: • Start with one room of your house (the smallest room or one with the least stuff), then work up room by room until you have finished the whole house/ workspace or place where you spend time • look around and identify things you haven’t used in a year, or things which you no longer have a use for • if you are holding onto something because of the memories it holds or some kind of attachment, remind yourself that with or without the object you will still have the memories- they are within YOU not the object • make three piles: keep, donate/sell, rubbish • once it is in the rubbish or donate/sell pile, it is gone. Don’t go retrieving! Once you have decluttered, adopt the one thing in one thing out rule. For everything you buy/accumulate something else must go. Stick to this and pretty soon you’ll have more spare time, less cleaning guilt, and MOJO! WWW.INSIDETHEFUZZYHEAD.COM
