About My Blog

yss-lotusWelcome to my blog home – the place to cultivate a clear home and spacious life!

My hope with this site is to invite reflection, discussion, and wonder; to discover what’s really cooking beneath our individual and collective stress and stuff; to honor our unique process of letting go; to bring our selves, our homes, and our lives back into balance––one small step, drawer, thought, or good laugh at a time.

Clearing, as I see it, is not just something you “do” like taking out the trash or sorting a closet. In the bigger sense, clearing is a way of being. It is a quality of spaciousness that is as natural as breathing; an experience that is available to us when we open up to, allow and cultivate it.

To hold the space for us to explore this messy, meandery, inner landscape, my posts are organized in these categories (which you can access by clicking the drop-down tabs in the header bar above):

  • Clearing: These posts feature anything having to do with the journey of clearing.
  • Cultivating: These posts explore some ways to experience and cultivate a clear home and spacious life.
  • Illuminating: These posts are a collection of fabulous resources and ruminations that I’ve come across in my own explorations and self-inquiry.
  • Your Spacious Self: These posts will give you a yummy taste of “clearing” as I teach and write about. This is the new home for my quarterly newsletters, too.

To learn more, click Resources, above the header, and/or read what I wrote on the subject of clearing below:

If I had to summarize in three words the essence of the clearing path as I’ve experienced it…it would be these: Raise, release, reveal. I call them “my three R’s.” Clearing raises awareness. Clearing releases attachments. Clearing reveals a spacious part that’s been there all along. The three fit together as an organic whole: The more aware we become about the places we hold on, the more likely we are to let them go. The more we let go, the more spacious we feel. The more spacious we feel, the easier it is to clear the next thing or issue. Sound good?

If it were that simple there would be no need for this book [blog]. You could stop right now and go “do” clearing. The thing is, clutter has no concept of simple. The clearing path is messy and meandering and full of unexpected surprises. Clearing clutter is not just something we do, like taking a class or going on a diet. It is a journey that is nearly impossible to measure, quantify, or even describe.” (Your Spacious Self, p.xv)