Guest Blogger
Stephanie Bennett Vogt
Stephanie Bennett Vogt, MA., is the author of Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are and a leading expert in the field of space clearing. She writes and teaches internationally on topics of tending the home, restoring balance, and cultivating what she calls "spacious detachment." To learn more about Stephanie's award-winning book, bi-weekly blog, and subscribe to her free email message series go to: http://www.spaceclear.com.
The Grace in Gathering
“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott I love the simplicity of venturing out every week to the local CSA farm where we get our produce.
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Minding the Chatter Clears Clutter
“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but watch the nonstop activity of the mind without doing anything to fix or change what’s going on in there?
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Cultivating Simplicity
“My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.” –Gunilla Norris, Being Home Here’s something that mystifies me: Seeing a drainer full of dry dishes getting piled onto by a layer of wet ones because nobody bothers to put away the original set.
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Self-Care and Clutter Clearing Go Together: Ten Ways to Lighten Up by Feeling Good
“I live by the truth that ‘No’ is a complete sentence. I rest as a spiritual act.”–Anne Lamott, O Magazine Most of us think of caring for ourselves as an extra-curricular activity. Something we squeeze into our lives at the end of the day. Or when everyone else in the family is taken care of. [...]
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Coming Clear: Confessions of a Packrat
“When you take care of the clutter on the inside, The clutter on the outside takes care of itself.” –Stephanie Bennett Vogt I am a packrat.
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