Being on your Journey involves a lot of change, a willingness to feel uncomfortable, and a commitment to ‘doing the doing’ at least 3 times a week for as long as it takes.

When you fully engage with your Journey, you will inevitably experience mental, emotional, physical and practical challenges along the way. In fact, if you don’t experience challenges and setbacks at some point, indeed multiple times, then that’s a sign you’re not truly in the learning and change zone.

Part of the learning and change that you do on your Journey is developing and building resilience to deal with the inevitable setbacks and challenges quicker and more easily as you progress.

While time, energy, effort, determination and hard work are essential to your success, having a therapist can offer unique benefits to compliment the learning and change that you do on your Journey, and help you to develop resilience to ensure you succeed. Here are five significant benefits to having a therapist alongside you while you are on your Journey.

1. Emotions Guide

To succeed on your Journey, you must step into – and stay in – the learning and change zone. The discomfort of the learning and change zone means our Journey can be like an emotional rollercoaster with unpredictable ups and downs, highs and lows.

One day the learning and change zone might be exciting, exhilarating or comforting as we learn theory that helps us understand why we’ve struggled with clutter for so long. We start to realise that we’re not lazy, crazy or stupid. Another day we might experience the lows of overwhelm, shock, frustration, resistance, self-doubt, painful memories or feelings of vulnerability.

A therapist can act as an Emotions Guide while you are on this roller-coaster by providing a safe space and time for you to explore and express unfamiliar feelings, share and process challenging memories, give you insights and different perspectives to help you build understanding and resilience, and help you to stay in the learning and change zone and away from the panic zone so that you  continue to make steady progress towards your Clutter Free Best Life.

2. Deep Dive

Successfully clearing your clutter Forever requires you to understand your WHY by exploring your childhood, revisiting past experiences, discovering habits, understanding your motivations and beliefs and more.

To successfully do this you need to take a deep dive into the learning and change zone. You need to learn theory and concepts and do exercises that help you better understand what triggers your clutter. For everyone who commits to their Journey, reflecting on these can be as uncomfortable as living with clutter.

A good therapist can help support and safely guide you as you dive deeper into these areas of your past and present and help you explore and understand the things that you discover about yourself, your clutter, your home and your past.

When you have appropriate support to dive deeper into your WHY, you gain even greater self-awareness about things that might be causing resistance, self-sabotage and holding you back on your Journey.

3. A Member of your Dig Team

Imagine me, your Journey and your therapist are all members of your personal archaeological dig team. I’ve done the research, surveyed and evaluated the site. Through the Journey videos I tell you what to expect, show you where to dig, teach you how to dig.

When you get to the site, the exercises are your essential digging tools that you use to start to dig and uncover the layers of earth. I help you identify and understand the treasure that is common to all.

When you also have a therapist on your Journey, they’re another member of your archaeological team. They can give you the tools you need for the more detailed work such as rock hammers and chisel. Once you’ve uncovered your unique treasure, they are able to point out and explain more detail, and help you understand how it’s relevant to your clutter.

It’s not that you wouldn’t have seen some amazing artifacts on your dig without your therapist.  They simply enhance and enrich your learning, understanding, awareness and experience. Your therapist can also ensure you don’t get stuck looking at one artifact before moving on to find the next one.

4. Targeting Challenges FAST

When you regularly see a therapist while you are on your Journey, you get the opportunity to target any specific challenges that either they or you identify FAST, ensuring that those challenges don’t slow you down for long or completely sabotage your progress. 

When you share your LIFE Timeline with your therapist or counsellor, or share the thoughts feelings and memories that your LIFE Timeline exercises brings up for you, it can help provide a focus for your sessions and help them get to know you faster. They may also see things that they think may be signfiicant and worth prioritising and exploring in more detail.

By exploring and processing thoughts, memories and experiences with the help of a therapist before you get to the physical things in your clutter that relate to those memories and experiences, it helps minimise the risk that they send you into the panic zone when you see them. You are giving your subsconcious brain time to process them safely, with help, at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for you. Then, when you get to Step 4: Mount Everest, this preparation work with your therapist will reduce the power of the physical things, and you will be able to make decisions about your physical clutter quicker and easier.

5. Self Care

Being on your Journey, which we know is a long-term commitment, can be stressful, especially when you are balancing it with other responsibilities like work, family, or social commitments.

Talking to a therapist regularly is not only a form of self-care that enables you to better manage your stress and reduce anxiety, they can also teach you (and provide some accountability to use) specific techniques to use on a daily basis such as breathing exercises, cognitive behavioural strategies, and relaxation techniques.

With the regular, ongoing support of a therapist while you are on your Journey, you’ll have the skills, support and experience to tackle both the Journey specific challenges you’ll inevitably experience, and the regular  day-to-day challenges of life.

You can clear your clutter FAST, or you can clear your clutter FOREVER, but you can’t clear your clutter FOREVER FAST.

To find out how Clare can help you clear your clutter Forever, without the need for an expensive home visit, click here now: https://www.clutterclearing.net/clares-help-centre/