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Clearing Hoarding- How I got rid of all my stuff & moved into a Van!

Hi, Im Daniela (my birth name is Danielle but this is a new me now).

Van Life

I am an emotional hoarder who is excellent at keeping my hoarding under wraps. Sure, we all have saved memorabilia, like cards or pictures, but some of the things I have saved over the years include (but not limited to) membership cards, vending machine items (we are talking 25 cent items like the homies), hair (not mine), and lots and lots of old used notebooks as the absurd list goes on and on.

Making the decision to really get rid of stuff once and for all took a lot of guts on my part. However I can not take all the credit.


Here is what happened.

I sold my house on Long Island in 2022. It was just a few short, but also very long years, after my son Luke passed away. I knew I had to get rid of 90% of my stuff, my son's stuff, and my ex-fiance's stuff, who also passed away in 2020, unrelated. I had to finally get out of NY, I didn't know where but I knew I wanted to be on the move. I had bedrooms, kitchens, attics, & basements, filled with stuff. It was a very traumatic time for me but I knew I had to get it done.

Sad Inner Child wants to cry

I waited & procrastinated. I could not bring myself to package things, throw things away, or even figure out what to do with it all. Most of the times when I got some determination and tried to clear it, I just sat and cried instead.

It was completely overwhelming. My sister & friends even came over at different times to help me but I still couldn't do it.

(these are signs of PTSD)


The clock was ticking, my closing date was coming quickly & I had to do something.

I got a 10' x 5' storage unit & said to myself whatever I can fit in here I will keep.

That is exactly what I did, but honestly what choice did I have?

Pictures are 60% of the stuff i kept with clothes being another 25%.

Which is probably what most of us save.

I let go of yearbooks & records I had been lugging around with me since my parents died in the 90's. Antiques, all my Christmas stuff, and yes, even ALL my halloween costumes & decor, not gonna lie, that hurt a lot! Things that brought back memories of my family, of my childhood, my son's childhood, gone! Things you would think I was crazy to let go of.


photo box

All of that stuff, all those memories, all that I need, I already have.

It's in my memory, in my heart, a deep part of my soul.

Some of those things made me sad or want to cry.

I don't want to cry.

I was also guided to get rid of a lot of my material items because as I raise my vibration, heal my attachments & dependency, these things are no longer needed.

So its time to say toodles. Not goodbye, but see ya later.

Because yes, all I need I already have.


How Hypnosis Helps Heal Hoarding

I have found through my work, helping clients recover from trauma with the use of my inner child healing hypnosis programs, we were inadvertently cleaning up side effects like hoarding.

The belief that we are in lack is something we clear out from your core belief system. That subconscious thought telling you, 'you wont have enough', is no longer your truth. You see, if any of your 5 basic needs- shelter, clothing, love, safety, or food- is unavailable during childhood, you could very likely suffer from some type of hoarding.

For me I had love sometimes, I had safety sometimes. Other times not so much. Therefore I held onto things to feel safe or valuable. Do you know how hard its been lugging around crates of records for 20+ year? I carried them with me until I felt it was safe to let it go, then poof just like that. It's gone.


Clearing Hoarding- Do i miss the things I had?

I think this is one of the biggest stored beliefs to clear, what if I need that item?

Which is most times paired with, 'what if I can't afford to buy it again or what if I can't find it again.' (they don't make that anymore ya know!)

This is the Law of Attraction mixed with Murphy's law, which states "If you throw it away and think you will need it again, then you absolutely will, you fool!" or something like that.

Trust me, even without the use of hypnosis, the first few times you look for something you discarded & get past it, it won't continue to happen.

A way I helped myself heal from this is was with this mantra;

If I need it again, there will be a better version of it easily available to me that will help me even better than the old item ever could have.

And so it is.


If this inspired you to get rid of some stuff or heal that inner child and clear hoarding, good :)

Happy Purging.


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