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You have been in a state of frustration, despair, discombobulation, depression, and confusion for a while.

and it’s mixed in with The good. The bad. The ugly.

Everywhere you turn, there is clutter: bags, boxes , papers, bills, clothes, receipts, food, etc.

It has gotten so bad that you’d rather go anywhere except home.

You can’t enjoy cooking, cleaning, organizing, getting dressed, etc., because there’s no space for you to do it.

So instead of going home after work, you go to the mall for retail therapy, accumulating more clutter.

You find yourself watching one home renovation show after the next, building up more and more envy regarding people with organized closets, kitchens, bathrooms, etc.

You’ve concluded that these people have their spaces organized because they have more money and bigger houses than you do. There’s no way you can declutter, style, and enjoy your space.

It started off as a minor hobby. But then it got to the point that you couldn’t stop yourself.

What you haven’t realized is that having more money does not equal having an organized space.  Having more money means more responsibility and a greater level of stewardship, and gives you more access to purchase more things to fill up bigger spaces.

But this belief system helps to support your narrative for why your situation is the way it is.  You started off with one pile, then a few piles, then a room, and now, clutter has taken over your entire home.

Running away from the clutter is only going to make the clutter run after you.  Clutter creates a never-ending cycle of trauma bonds, inner chaos, confusion, and self-sabotage, because of trauma.

trauma creates emotional and spiritual soul ties to our possessions, working as a portal for allowing your identity to be stolen by placing it in a state of numbness and clutter, which is why you end up keeping things: glorifying the “one day I’m gonna wear this” syndrome or not having a system for maintenance, and re-cluttering the entire space again.

You’ve lived in an alternate reality of a false sense of control, comfort, safety, and security for so long that you don’t know who you are.

As soon as you get rid of a few items, you suffer from the “lost in the woods” trauma effect, where you have an existential crisis.

You feel lost. You don’t know who you are and what you’ll do if you don’t have these items. You’re afraid that the memories will disappear because the items are gone.

you know that enjoying life’s simple pleasures has to be better than this. and it is. but your clutter is blocking the clarity and functionality that you need to get to the other side.

in order to come out of the LACK(love, approval, comfort, and knowledge) cycle of addiction, you must first deal with the unresolved trauma, grief, and memories keeping you attached to your possessions .

Second, you take the necessary steps to maintain a clutter-free lifestyle.

third, understand that getting rid of things doesn’t equal loss of memories regarding those items. You can get rid of things and still honor and remember the people who gave them to you.

Now you can begin enjoying your space again.

the moment that your mind is clear, your feelings & emotions will reappear.

you have the freedom you need to be what god originally created you to be, and enjoy what he has created you to enjoy!

you can enjoy life’s simple pleasures one unique design, space, style, & organization at a time.

begin your declutterology healing journey today!!!

declutter your home.

declutter your food.

declutter your clothes.

declutter your writing.

book a call for online or in-person declutterology coaching services here.

call 224-855-1017 to begin decluttering, organizing, & styling your home, or for your personal closet/wardrobe stylist

katina horton, storyteller, stylist, organizer, bible teacher, the love & freedom toxic relationship recovery coach

I understand how hard it is to rebuild your life after a high-conflict divorce, compounded trauma, narcissistic abuse, loss, grief, and accumulated clutter.

Since 2014, I’ve been on my own resilience, flourishing, and declutterology journey. I also understand how difficult it is to go through the process of moving repeatedly as one of the many by-products of divorce and financial devastation. i’ve had to do the work of decluttering my soul, space, and identity after six moves within a ten year period.

However, going through the decluttering process has helped me to understand what is and isn’t important ; how an excess of people, places, things, and ideas affect the mind, soul, space, and identity; and what i truly need in order to be content and embrace and enjoy the manner in which god has wired me and the possessions that he has blessed me with.

i finished raising my two kids on my own (I am so proud of the young people they have become). I am the author of eleven books on the subjects of healing, identity, self-worth, self-love, self-esteem, trauma, divorce, rebuilding, narcissistic abuse recovery, and navigating toxic relationships.

I have a BS in Business Administration, focused in Management, and a Masters in Information Technology. i’ve also taken several courses on narcissistic abuse and its recovery, emotional intelligence, and trauma and grief recovery.

although relationships and computer technology may appear unrelated to healing and rebuilding, they’re not. The same approach to troubleshooting, building, and rebuilding old and new PCs are the same approaches that we use when it comes to troubleshooting and rebuilding our minds, bodies, souls, and spirits, and our relationships to our homes, food, clothes, & writing.

We must analyze the problem, troubleshoot the different culprits for the source of the problem, implement a plan of solution from the data that troubleshooting has revealed to us, empower ourselves and others, and then in turn impact the other people, places, things, and ideas who are in relationship with us, and affected by the problem. And those areas often affected by the problem include our homes, food, clothes, and writing.

we need clarity to function and enjoy the space in our homes, eat and prepare our foods, get dressed, and setup a functioning closet, and to journal our feelings, and write.

my story