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You Can't Rewrite Your Past...
...but You Can Influence Your Future.
Over the past 12 years, I have helped a lot of clients declutter their homes. No one ever plans to have a home overflowing with stuff. But life happens, and I don't just mean the day to day busyness we all experience. Things change: people die, jobs end, we sustain an injury. There is always at least one extenuating circumstance that started the evolution into clutter. Since looking at our current circumstance can be overwhelming, this can be hard to remember. It's easy to be hard on ourselves. We think we should be able to handle it ourselves. We think we should know how to deal with all this stuff. There are all kinds of ways we punish ourselves.
Whatever the reason for why you are where you are in your clutter/declutter journey (or any journey, for that matter), you can only start from where you are. You can't make things better in your past to prevent your current situation. You can only start to make things better today. Be kind to yourself. Believe that things can get better from this point forward and they will.
Here is the question:
What was the extenuating circumstance that started your journey into clutter? Are you willing to forgive yourself for being human?