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Alea, this was very enlightening. I love this idea of decluttering as shadow work and applying the different Jungian archetypes in an effort to uncover why we may hold onto things, and what it is we need to unearth and let go. I am a certainly prone to holding on for nostalgia sake, never parting with something because a person I’ve cared for may have held it, or gifted it to me. When my grandmother passed away I “inherited” her couch and it took me about a decade to let that cumbersome, 60’s floral print, mammoth of a couch go — simply because she had sat there and I could see where the arms were worn down from her leaning against it. I could still remember crawling into her lap, cigarette in her hand, listening to her sing to me. I have since gotten better at letting things go, but, there’s still plenty of work to do. 💚

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