Hoarder House or Monastery Chic

Did you know that I used to be a professional organizer for celebrities and Hollywood moguls? So weird, right? Also, really fun, and a perfect analogy for the home your soul lives in.

For the most part, these celebrity jobs were easy, except for when the client wanted to hit the Container Store on day one to buy pretty bins and trays to organize their stuff. I had to teach them that it gets pretty when you've done the work first.

These clients already had staff to keep things clean and tidy, so my role wasn't about that. They called me in when they wanted to create space for newness that would reflect the next-level version of themselves in their spaces.

The first step was always the same: we had to delete.

Even if they were moving into a bigger home (I did lots of those moves) and not just trying to make everything fit beautifully where they were, we always started by looking at what they had.

We bring things in far more often than we take things out. Think about a trip to Target for shaving cream and leaving with bags of stuff you never planned to buy.

I'd help my clients go through their belongings with intention and specificity:

Was it worthy of taking up space? Did it enhance my client's life? Did it align with the vision my client hired me to create?

Some clients lived like boujee hoarders. They couldn't see how much holding on to all this stuff cost them the future they were trying to manifest. There wasn't room for all of it.

Other clients were so grounded in their worth and wealth and lived in homes that felt like sanctuaries, Monastery Chic, elevated, peaceful, and spacious. They wanted to be at home because of how it made them feel.

Here's where the analogy enters the chat.

What you hold onto within yourself (in your subconscious, nervous system, and energy) creates the environment your soul calls home.

Whether you realize it or not, you've been collecting things your whole life, beliefs, patterns, experiences, and storing them in spaces you've never thought to look at. And they're crowding your soul's home.

Your soul is trying to move freely within you and the life you're living, but it's squeezed between boxes of what's unhealed and unresolved, old experiences, outdated beliefs, and emotions you haven't known how to release.

You're creating skinny little paths for your soul to navigate, like the walkways in a hoarder's house.

And maybe you've been trying to manage it instead of making space through healing it.

Just like my organizing clients who wanted to skip the necessary work and head straight to the Container Store, you might be spending your time, money, and energy managing what you could simply heal and let go of.

Healing is the "deletion" that creates space for the next-level life you crave.

And by deletion, I don't mean cord-cutting. I mean shifting the perception and frequency of what's still hanging out within you so that it's fully aligned with your soul and what it came here to do.

The bigger vision, that beautiful, elevated life you know you're meant for, can't land fully in a crowded space. You don't have the capacity for it.

And if you tap your magic wand and expand what's already there, you'll expand all of it, the things you do want and the things you don't.

When you clear what's been weighing you down, expansion becomes much easier. Sometimes effortless.

It's not hard. It's actually easy.

All you have to be is willing.

Maybe your soul's home is somewhere in between hoarder and monastery. That's usually the case. My clients lean toward the latter but know they're meant for the whole shebang, and that's why they work with me.

An organized, spacious soul home, one that only holds what's aligned with your next level, is the most magnetic, elevated place to live from.

That's where your next-level life thrives because you have the capacity for it to.

It'll take a little work to make the space, but you're working far harder to hold everything you're already holding that you no longer need to carry. And that's keeping things from dropping like magic into your life. You've got to make space for it.

Let your soul do what it came here to do in the beautiful space that is you.