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Your Spacious Self: Clear the Clutter and Discover Who You Are
by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
I didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. There are NO practical tips for decluttering at all. Not in the entire book. It's all about your mental and emotional state as you declutter. There are journal prompts and meditations and emotional exercises. The main theme is internal awareness, accepting your own emotions and corralling your thoughts. This is more about clearing the mental and emotional clutter, and it's relationship with your physical clutter. But there are NO actual tips about how to declutter your home or possessions.
I wanted more of a mixture of internal decluttering and physical decluttering, and this book was so heavily focused on the internal stuff that I lost interest. Some of the ideas about decluttering your mental space and your heart space are really wonderful! Some of them are common-sense things, and some are a little strange, all about energy transferring to our possessions and rooms.
The writing was also repetitive, saying the same basic concepts with a slightly different perspective or with a different example. So I got bored with it by the middle and end, because I felt like I had already grasped and understood that concept the first time and I didn't need to hear it two or three more times.
I didn't do any of the journal prompts or meditations, because I already have my own journaling and meditating practice that I do regularly.
Overall, a good book, but with a narrow focus.
I wanted more of a mixture of internal decluttering and physical decluttering, and this book was so heavily focused on the internal stuff that I lost interest. Some of the ideas about decluttering your mental space and your heart space are really wonderful! Some of them are common-sense things, and some are a little strange, all about energy transferring to our possessions and rooms.
The writing was also repetitive, saying the same basic concepts with a slightly different perspective or with a different example. So I got bored with it by the middle and end, because I felt like I had already grasped and understood that concept the first time and I didn't need to hear it two or three more times.
I didn't do any of the journal prompts or meditations, because I already have my own journaling and meditating practice that I do regularly.
Overall, a good book, but with a narrow focus.