The Junk Draw
April 2020
This time in lockdown is the perfect opportunity to de-clutter and spend time sorting things in and around the house.
It’s time to clean up the garden, tidy the house and sort out those drawers you never want to clear out.
Drawers that for years you have been putting all the little bits of junk in that are lying around the house but don’t want to throw away.
Now is the time when it can be sorted, there are no excuses that we don’t have time to do it at the moment.
However, I have not sorted any of my junk drawers or cleaned out any of my cupboards at this time.
During this time though, I have been very aware that my mental state could quite easily slip back into the place where I have spent the last 5 years journeying myself away from.
I have come to realise that being totally honest with my feelings is one of the keys to my mental freedom. So, now, more than ever, I am trying to process everything I feel in order to keep my mental health in check.
I find that isolation is not necessarily a good place to be in for your mind. And yet, isolation is exactly the place we are all in right now.
One thing I have found to be helpful has been social media; things like listening to inspirational podcasts and watching thought-provoking speakers online.
There is one lady who I have been listening to. She does a 10 minute talk on Instagram everyday. Her name is Charlotte Gambill.
One of her talks was about clearing out your junk drawers; your junk drawers of emotion and sorting out those things you have probably been holding on to for years but you don’t want to throw away. And how now is the perfect time to do this.
So even though I haven’t physically been sorting out the junk drawers of my house, I have been using this time to sort out the junk drawers of my mind, and throwing away things that have been in there for a while.
I have found it’s been quite a good use of my time.
Very good Debbie, we all need to do this, our minds can get full of stuff we don’t need. You are amazing love reading your thoughts. Very encouraging. Xx