10th Anniversary Guide
There are two versions of Your Spacious Self: Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are: the new 10th Anniversary essential guide and the original foundational guide.
The 10th Anniversary edition is a shorter, quicker read; it gives you a taste of the clearing methods and tools. The original edition gives you more of a foundation: it takes you on deeper dive into the heart of your home and life. The description below applies to both.
“Clutter.” It is not just what you see spilling out of your closet. It’s also the nagging thoughts, endless to-do lists, and calendar full of obligations. It’s the fears and worries that cycle through your mind on repeat, and the sticky emotional energy that you pick up from the people around you. It’s the sense of panicky suffocation you feel when you contemplate all that you “have” to accomplish in a day, a week, or a lifetime.
For almost thirty years, Stephanie Bennett Vogt has been teaching the art of clearing clutter at every level: physical, energetic, mental, and emotional. Her unique “slow-drip” approach to clearing is a welcome antidote to popular binge-cleaning methods that leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. With her practical tips and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to identify the root causes of clutter, create a personalized clutter-clearing plan, and break the endless cycle of clutter accumulation.
Original Foundational Edition
What sets Your Spacious Self apart
Your Spacious Self distills 30 years of practice and teaching into nourishing lessons and daily practices that will transform your home and life from the inside out.
Here’s what you’ll experience that is different (…and discover why most clearing efforts, though well-intentioned, do not last):
- Clutter is defined broadly as the result of imbalance, (mis)perception, stuck energy. This book identifies the myriad ways we humans hold on and create imbalance in our lives.
- Clutter is not the problem, it is the holding on to it that creates a force-field of stuckness that clouds our perceptions and paralyzes our life. It is not the clutter but how we relate to it that needs our attention and compassion.
- Clearing is not linear: Clearing in this book in not a finite task that we do when we have the time, energy, or willpower, but an ongoing – daily – practice that promotes well-being and letting go. It is a journey that balances “doing” with a mindful “non-doing” – a receptive approach that invites us to slow down, observe, allow, listen, trust, surrender… remember.
- Clearing side-effects are normal: Feeling overwhelmed (stuck, confused, congested…), when clearing out a closet, for example, is a normal and welcome by-product of the journey. It is what happens naturally when we release stuck energy. Allowing these “weather patterns” to arise without fixing, changing, or personalizing them, is the key to lasting change.
- Talking about clearing IS clearing: Your Spacious Self is unique because it gives you the option and the tools to set up and maintain a guided six-week (or six month) support group. It shows you how to organize a “Clearing Circle” with your friends or book group, and includes discussion topics that are easy to modify to suit any group or size.
- Clearing never ends: Written by a gifted teacher with over 40 years of experience who knows how to engage and inspire her audience, Your Spacious Self is designed to promote a clearing “way of life” that is easy, fun, and lasting.
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