Making Room To Bloom!
The spring energy has started to flow …
Have you noticed this yet? Even if the weather where you live hasn’t warmed up yet, there’s something shifting and fresh in the air.
I’ve loved the springtime since I was a little girl. I have a love affair with the flowers and the new colors of spring are always so exciting. Whether I’m walking through the park or the grocery store, it’s easy to feel a little extra happy.
Spring brings a kind of hopefulness. A sense of a fresh start. An opportunity to grow, change, blossom … into more beauty, truth, and meaning. -Click to Tweet
But springtime’s fresh start isn’t just about bringing new things in. It’s also about learning to let go, too. To release things that block us from truly blooming — both in our homes and in our lives.
Have you ever noticed that when something new is ready to bloom, it pushes everything in its way to the surface?
Like a bright-green seedling, fighting its way to the surface new things can be surprisingly strong and stir everything up a bit. Whether this “seedling” is a new career, a better relationship, a new baby, or a fresh sense of yourself — the shift can be uncomfortable.
This is the dark side of spring.
All that “stuff” we have to work through and release can be pretty unpleasant. It often feels irritating, overwhelming, and depressing. And it certainly doesn’t have the light, happy bounce we usually associate with spring!
In the past, I was an expert at not facing my “stuff.” I’d get whiney, stubborn, resistant, and defiant. There have been so many times in my life I’ve been in this place. Can you relate? I can still hear that little voice that would plead,
“Why do I have to deal with all this now?! I don’t wanna do all the work and cleaning up. I don’t have the time or energy. Can’t I just magically transform into a beautiful flower — and skip the growing part? Pleeeease?!”
Magic might not exist. But choice does – and it’s even better.
Over time, I’ve learned that I always have a choice. A choice between clearing my space and making room for what’s ready to emerge — or continuing to tolerate being weighed down and surrounded by stuff that’s already dead, but I can’t quite let go of.
Imagine a delicate spring flower, struggling to burst through to the surface — being blocked by a tangle of weeds.
Now, imagine the life gardens we could create if we tended to the weeds growing in our homes. Our spaces. Our hearts.
Doing the deep work to clear your space is so worth it.
Sure, it can be tough. It took me a long time to work through all of my resistance and learn how to deal the emotions that come up in the process. But the amount of beauty, love, and joy this process allows to flow into my life makes the hard work well-worth the effort.
So this year, in honor or springtime… and to help inspire + motivate and support ALL of us in doing the powerful work together, I am delighted to announce…
The Making Room to Bloom Series: Spring Cleaning for Your Heart + Home…
I’ll be sharing a series of posts all about “Spring Cleaning” here on my blog. But please know: this isn’t just about shaking those rugs and cleaning out your closets.
The Making Room to Bloom Series is about a Spring Cleaning, from the inside, out. It’s a chance to give some loving attention to your home and your heart. It’s not just about getting rid of things or cleaning (though that’s often a very important part). It’s about spending a few weeks reconnecting to your space, your self, and your life.
Got some dreams you’d like to dust off? Ready to perk up your energy by clearing out what’s draining you? Wanting more peace, beauty, and productivity in your life?
Then I hope you will join me!
It’s all happening here, on my blog and I am going to be cleaning my spaces right along with you! (I have a guest room closet that particularly needs some attention.)
For now, in the comments below, be sure to let me know if you are on board and name 1 thing you are ready to release.
Ready for more?
The next post in the Make Room to Bloom Series can be found HERE.
Also be sure to share this page with your family and friends to get them in on all the fun, and if you are not already, subscribe to my newsletter (at the top or bottom of this page) so you don’t miss a post!
I promise the experience will be gentle and fun as well as deep and actionable. I can’t wait to connect with you all!
With Love,
Rebecca
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I am on board. I need to release fear. And some tchotkes.
Hi Tonia!
So happy you are in! And nice work in identifying that you are ready to release fear in your life. Powerful. I would love to know how fear shows up physically in your space? Do you have a sense of this?
Warmly,
Rebecca
Hi Tonia & Rebecca,
Count me in.
Tonia’s need to release fear resonated with me as I thought about how the mess my home is in really reflects the mess my life is in at present because I’m too afraid of choosing the wrong path.
Since it has taken me a week to respond, and a first to any blog, I’ll cheerfully say it’s procrastination I need to release. As it is autumn here in Australia, I look forward to a thorough autumn clean of my home in order for clarity to enter my life.
PS what are tchotkes?
Dear Rae,
This is beautiful insight and thank you for sharing it. I am so glad you are here and look forward to hearing how your autumn clean goes. (Autumn is also a wonderful time to do this work.) Thanks again for showing up to share and connect!
Warmly,
Rebecca
sounds like fun! I need to release the stuff in my kids closets!!
Yay Lauren!
So glad to have you! Is the stuff in your kids closets theirs, yours or a combination of both? Looking forward to having you along for the ride.
Warmly,
Rebecca
So funny I wrote a blog (I’m an emotional eating coach) about cleaning out your emotional closet and then your beautiful site popped up a week later! I love synchronicity! Love the concept too, I am totally in
How fun Mallory!
I love it when the universe brings us like minded people together. It’s so wonderful and I love your term “emotional closet.” Excited to have you on board! So what is living in your emotional/physical closets these days?
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m in. I need to release the clutter in my mind that is preventing me from looking for a new job and being open to experiencing a potential relationship.
Hi Erica!
Fabulous. I am so glad to have you here and yes mind clutter can be a huge block to our moving forward in so many ways. I love your clear and exciting intentions! Be sure to check back in and let me know how things progress throughout the series!
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m in. I’m in a place of transition that I didn’t expect to be in. Now I have the time for really do some inner and outer space clearing.
Hi Maria,
Welcome! Transitions are a perfect time to do this work. They provide a clear opportunity to update what now longer is serving us (internally and externally) and create room for what we are transitioning into next. Although transitions can be exciting they can also be a very tender time. So go gently with yourself and be sure to reach out if you need any support. Glad to have you here.
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m totally on board! Spring cleaning has already been on my mind–got rid of a lot of things in a yard sale last week. I know there is more to still let go, though. I want to get to a point where everything in my home is something that I love, use, and supports the lifestyle I want for myself.
Hi Natalie!
So awesome and nice work with all the releasing you have done so far! Keep it up! I love your vision of living in an home that uniquely supports your lifestyle. Very exciting! Keep in touch and be sure to let me know how it goes.
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m cleaning closets this spring. I’m narrowing my focus & simplifying life. I have hobbies that don’t fulfill me in there & pieces of my divorce. I’m letting go of who I was & embracing who I am.
Hi Mandy!
I love that you are focusing on your closets and that it is so clear to you whats things (physical and metaphorical) have be hiding inside and in turn preventing you from stepping fully into who you are now. Keep up the great work and be sure to let me know how it goes. Excited you are here!
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m ready to release the “get it done at any cost” mentality for good.
And specifically, I think this comes up in two places:
— taking the time to transition my home from day / working to evening / not working
— making my kitchen more inviting during the day hours, so that I will be excited to nourish myself deeply, from the start. This is largely about cleaning it after dinner the evening prior.
Looking forward to the series Rebecca!
-Rebecca
Hi Rebecca!
So great to connect with you here and YES YES YES to releasing the “get it done at any cost” mentality. I love how clear you are about the ways this thought process shows up in your home. Great work! Can’t wait to hear what evolves for you and looking forward to hearing more. Thanks so much for your comment!
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m all in. Ready to begin anew. Ready to start a new direction and get past this stuck in limbo rut.
Fabulous Latasha!
Limbo is a very challenging place to be and I love that you are feeling ready to forge ahead. I am holding the vision for a fresh start with you. Be sure to let me know how it goes and if anything starts getting in the way of your clear intention.
Warmly,
Rebecca
… glad to join all the way from Germany/Holland! I am ready to really sort out my clothes, want to keep only the ones that are really perfect, size down and make the (already not so big) closet even more organized
Spring greetings from Duesseldorf and Amsterdam, as I live in both places (half a week each),
Beata
P.S. How do you get a photo next to your comment?!?!?
Hi Beata,
I am so excited to have you on board all the way from Germany and Holland! So fun! Be sure to keep us updated on how the sorting of the clothes goes. Maybe you can even send us a picture of your beautifully organized closet when you get there!? Looking forward to hearing about your process.
Warmly,
Rebecca
Oh and also here is a link about how to get your picture to show. http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Gravatar
I’m in! I work from home and I need to organize my home office, especially the piles of paperwork that I always put off filing. I want a beautiful space where I can enjoy my work.
Hi Katie!
Welcome! Your home office is fabulous focus and something that greatly impacts both our “work life” and our “personal life.” Be sure to let us know how it goes and reach out for support if you get stuck at any point along the way.
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m in! I just discovered your blog and it’s a perfect time for me. I am starting a new career, the one I have always dreamed of. I have done a lot of growing, changing, and clearing out of old beliefs to make this new life possible for myself. Now it’s time to get my space more in harmony with the person I am becoming. While I am happy with my living space, there are two areas I want to work on. My work space/studio needs some organizing and lightening up to make room for maximum creativity. My bedroom closet needs some major purging– can’t wait to get rid of all those clothes and junk that remind me of a time when I didn’t feel so great about myself. I would like very much to walk into my closet each morning and enjoy getting dressed for the life I love! Thanks so much for shining a light on this process!
Hi Laura,
Oh I just loved reading your comment! Congrats on all the internal work you have done that has allowed you to fulfill your dream career. So beautiful! And YES to getting those last few spaces of you home in perfect alignment to support your new work and your new self. I look forward to hearing about your journey and seeing what impact creating a space even more supportive and alive then it already is has on your beautiful life. Can you stand how good it could get?
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m in. I need to clear a space to return to meditation and journaling. A space that I won’t have to clean out every morning as it becomes a black hole during the day for my family’s stuff.
Hi Amy,
That sounds like a wonderful and powerful intention. Meditation and journaling are such amazing practice. Holding the vision with you of creating a sacred (physical) space to help hold this precious personal morning ritual.
Warmly,
Rebecca
Looking forward to it! I’m trying to prepare to welcome my first baby sometime in the next 2 months so this is the perfect challenge to help me get there! Looking forward to welcoming this new stage (and life!) and trying to let go of some of my previous non-mom life!
Hi Kimberly,
Yay! Congrats on you expecting your first baby! Pregnancy is such and exciting time but also one of huge transitions in so many ways. It is really a wonderful time to focus on creating a space that will support all that is (literally) blooming in your life.
Go gently with yourself and be sure to reach out if you need any support.
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m in! I need to clear out the self-doubts that should have been tossed years ago.
Hi Dana,
So great! I love the clarity of you intention and what a gift to yourself, your home and your life to work on releasing the thought patterns of self doubt. Very powerful and I think one all of us can relate to. Be sure to let us know how this goes.
Warmly,
Rebecca
This sounds great. I need to clear out a miserable 8 year marriage that I have just left, pregnant and with two little girls. I am looking to the future and want lots of positive things happening for us!
Hi Melanie,
I am so glad you are here. I imagine this is a very intense time for you. It is wonderful that you are looking towards the future and wanting to create a positive space for yourself and the two little ones you are expecting. Please be gentle with yourself during this time of big change and transition. And reach out if you need any support.
Warmly,
Rebecca
Rebecca, I am so IN! I have been thinking about you a lot over the past few weeks – this weekend (before I saw this post, actually – maybe I was moving a bit too fast
I moved around all the furniture in my apartment, and wow, it really changed the feeling of the space. It was a big move that had been percolating for many weeks, so it felt right to do it all at once, but I think there are lots of small changes that still need to happen, and small cleanings and clensings, for it to really feel like home…
Excited to follow along
Awesome Katie!
Glad to have you on board. And fabulous work with moving all your furniture around. The right furniture flow can make a huge impact. I look forward to hearing what else develops for you!
Warmly,
Rebecca
I’m in! I need to quit my job in the next few weeks and make time – physically and psychologically – to find a new one. Thanks Rebeeca, and hello from Paris!
Hello Camille in Paris! (One of my favorite places!)
Sounds great and glad to have you hear! Be sure to let us know how it goes!
Warmly,
Rebecca