Heather AardemaCoach, Author, Speaker, National Board & Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Certified Decluttering & Life Coach

Transformative letter exercise to understand your clutter

Name: Transformative letter exercise to understand your clutter
Uploaded: 2024-12-09T15:00:31+00:00
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Channel: Heather Aardema
Description: Heather Aardema guides a decluttering exercise where you write a letter from your clutter to yourself. The practice uncovers emotional roots, often tied…

9 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Heather Aardema guides a decluttering exercise where you write a letter from your clutter to yourself. The practice uncovers emotional roots, often tied to childhood trauma, and helps you understand why you hold onto things. Some clients write multiple pages and find it transformative.

Write yourself a letter from clutter. And it goes like this.
Dear Self, or Dear Heather, and actually insert your name. So, dear Heather, I am Clutter, and.
This is what I want you to know.
And then you let your heart pour out onto that paper, and when you're done, you sign it Love, Clutter, or Sincerely, Clutter.
Now, this exercise might sound a little.
Silly or goofy, but I promise you, though it is transformative, it is so powerful.
Often I hear from my clients that.
They write three, four, five pages, and.
They get to the root of their clutter.
They finally understand, after having clutter for decades and decades, why they've struggled so.
Much in letting it go.
And they understand why they have clutter.
In the first place.
Clutter is a symptom, and it often.
Relates back to some kind of childhood trauma that we've experienced.
And so when we get curious, that.
Is when we start to make progress.
That is when we start to create that motivation, and that is when we.
Start to create the lighter. The lighter lives that we all want.
So ask yourself.
Not feeling motivated?
That's okay.
No problem there. Have you gotten curious? That's what you want to do. Get curious and see what happens.
Before you know it, your house will be lighter.
And maybe your pickleball game won't be as good as it is. Or maybe it actually will be.
Frankly, with a lighter home, a decluttered home, you'll have more energy and probably more time and more space to go out and play more pickleball if you want to.