Out With The Old -- In With The New

Here's a little Summer Short-Storytime moment for y'all! I just deleted about 4000 videos and photos from my phone. Some recent, most from my past that I am consciously choosing to forever let go, some that are preserved on social media and don't need to be taking storage in my phone. In doing this, I have decided that this summer is about purging. Purging what is no longer alive -- to make space for what is.

In addition to a purge on my phone in the form of deleting photos videos, apps, follows and followers, I am also starting the process of purging my home of what is no longer giving life. Donating clothes and shoes, throwing away old and broken things that for some reason I’ve held onto, getting rid of books I have no interest in reading, throwing out expired skin care and cosmetic products. I mean business!

I have been feeling really energetically funky for quite some time (as I have mentioned in previous Instagram posts) and I’m really coming to the realization that part of the reason for this is that I’m holding onto all these old things that no longer serve me and my household. I’m feeling energetically claustrophobic if that makes sense. All these old things are taking up so much space that when I try to make room for what’s new and alive to me, there’s no space for it. I’ve been trying to add lots of new elements to a space that is too cluttered for those elements to really take root and begin to grow.

I remember when I was about 12 years old I started a little vegetable garden with my mom. Neither of us knew all that much about gardening but the idea of planting something, nurturing it, watching it grow, and then tangibly utilizing it was exciting and lively. We ended up coming home from the garden store with more seeds to plant than we had space for (a fact we didn’t realize at the time) and we planted them all in the same planter that had lots of old flowers that hadn’t bloomed in months. Onions, carrots, potatoes, watermelon and more all in the same little space with the unbloomed flowers. As you can imagine the produce was only able to grow so much because they didn’t have the space they needed to really grow and flourish. They were jam packed together and honestly never had a chance.

My energetic situation reminds me of this story. I only have so much space and if it’s already jam packed with so many things (many of which no longer bloom) then nothing new can really grow to it’s fullest potential. None of it can ever truly blossom and flourish. Not unless I consciously make the decision to remove what was, with love and honor, and make space for what is, with excitement and possibility.

So here’s to a summer of energetic decluttering and prioritizing what is most alive and most free 🥂