EMOTIONAL DETOX
Free yourself from clothes, shoes, handbags, useless accessories, and heavy memories.
We hang to clothes, even if they are too small, hoping to fit into them, too large, an excuse not to take care because it was too expensive, rather than accepting the person you are, and the body you have today and dress for that. If that changes, change your clothes.
Clinging on to items that do not fit your current lifestyle, or to the lifestyle and size you aspire to be, are misleading and impede you from dressing with confidence, ease and grace in the present.
Items that drag you down because they remind you of a sad occasion, bad time, or make you feel you aren’t good enough, can be given up and thus ridding yourself of the negative emotions and associations.
CLOSET DETOX
Preparation: 4 hours, healthy snacks, enjoyable music.
1. Take a picture of your closet. The Before picture.
2. Empty your closet.
3. Find other related items, and accessories.
4. Take a picture. The Shock picture.
Time, money, energy, competition, impulse, jealousy.
Do we shop because we need new items? Or to feel better, relieve boredom, reduce stress?
5. Sort out things according to piles. 1. Love these items, fit me well, wear them frequently. 2. Maybe I want to keep this, I don’t know why. 3. Donate because it doesn’t fit me and my life. 4. Trash these items, I will not use them and no one else will either.
6. Return number 1 items and accessories into your closet. Store number 2 items and accessories and revisit them after three months, either you will have cut emotional ties with these items and will donate them, or you will realize if and why you want to keep them.
7. Take a picture of the detoxed closet. Light, space, relief, emotional freedom.
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t.
Marie Kondo
