A Year to Clear: A Daily Guide to Creating Spaciousness In Your Home and Heart - Softcover

Vogt, Stephanie Bennett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193828948X ISBN 13: 9781938289484

Publisher: Hierophant Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

A Daily Guide to Simplifying, Decluttering, and Letting Go

With all our best intentions and rich resources, why is it so hard to slow down, simplify, and care for ourselves? Why are we so afraid to let go?

In A Year to Clear, leading space-clearing expert Stephanie Bennett Vogt takes you on a journey of self-discovery, letting go, and transformation. Each of the 365 lessons—organized into 52 weeklong themes—offers daily inspiration designed to release stress and stuff in ways that lighten, enlighten, and last.

This is YOUR YEAR to . . .

Free yourself of unwanted things in your home and mind by bringing awareness to messy habits and the outdated beliefs behind them.
Transform those mindless housekeeping tasks you do every day (on auto-pilot) into nurturing, soul-filled experiences.
Realize at the deepest level the essence of who you are and what you came here to be.

Stephanie’s methods of gentle encouragement and humor will guide you to look at the items and clutter in your home not simply as a “mess” to be dealt with, but as an outward reflection of your inner presence. By using her clearing exercises to clean up on the outside and the inside, both your physical and emotional realms will return to a sparkling state of balance and serenity.

About this title

From the Author

A Year to Clear was an audacious idea that began as a series of questions: Is a yearlong approach to clearing (our stress and stuff) too long? Will readers be open to the concept of clearing as a journey, like a hero's journey or a pilgrimage that guides them through the peaks and valleys of their homes and hearts? Is it possible to make a difference in the interior space of a human being in just sixty seconds?

In a culture of short attention spans and quick fixes, I had no idea if a book like that would, or could, succeed. Would my slow drip method be too light to create significant and discernible traction? Would readers lose focus, peter out, and wonder, in the words of Gertrude Stein, is there a there there?

So I tried it online as an experiment: I created a 365-day course called "A Year to Clear What's Holding You Back!" that launched on DailyOM on December 31, 2013. Participants would receive an inspirational message in their inbox every day for 365 days. Now nearly 150,000 people signed on to take this journey with me.

It is testimonials like these that have put to rest any doubts that taking at least one minute to support and nourish ourselves is powerful stuff:

• "I have stuck with this for 40 days and, for once, have not burned myself out with gogogo. Just drip-drip-drip. Nice!"
• "I feel the walls of my OLD self crumbling down in a new way."
• "I'm looking around my apartment and seeing the physical changes I've made during this year and it's so satisfying. Inside I am less fearful, less depressed, less overwhelmed at everything and even a bit kinder."
• "This one year course has been a revelation. Honestly I didn't think it was working under the motto of 'nothing does.' Not true!!! I am on lesson 335. Wow, what a journey [it] has been."

Yes, the "slow clear" movement has staying power, and is working its magic in ways beyond all of our wildest imaginings.

In case you were wondering, the book is not a carbon copy of the course. Thanks to the experience and thousands of postings in the comment thread, the program has morphed and expanded. A Year to Clear has many more features than the daily emails, including personal stories, practical tools, and inspirational wisdom - double the content.

There is no question that clearing in any form lightens. Clearing with awareness, as this book teaches, however, en-lightens. A Year to Clear gives us a way to play a much bigger game.

I love this book, and I hope you'll love it too. Together we'll learn what it means to clear at a deep level, where spacious detachment rules and awareness changes everything.

Happy clearing! I'll see you on the trail.

-Stephanie Bennett Vogt

About the Author

Stephanie Bennett Vogt, MA, is a leading space clearing expert, teacher, and the author of Your Spacious Self. She brings 40 years of experience to SpaceClear, the practice she founded in 1996 to help homes and their occupants come into balance. Stephanie has taught her inspirational clearing programs worldwide, including at Kripalu and the New England School of Feng Shui, and shares her unique perspectives on simplifying, personal reinvention, and letting go in the Huffington Post, DailyOM, and other venues. To learn more, visit spaceclear.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hierophant Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 193828948X
• ISBN 13: 9781938289484
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384