BREATHING ROOM

Cleaning out your cupboards isn’t just about a tidier kitchen. Find peace, repair your past, and live a more fulfilled life with this uplifting guide to the spiritual practice of decluttering.

Everyone’s home could use some decluttering. But you’d be surprised by how enlightening a neat, organized space really is. Find your keys, and you’ll find peace. Organize your closet, and you’ll organize your thoughts. Get rid of junk, and you’ll rid your life of excess emotional baggage. That’s because of one simple, intuitive rule: the clutter in your home is a reflection of the clutter in your heart. In Breathing Room, Dr. Melva Green, expert on A&E’s Emmy-nominated series Hoarders, along with Lauren Rosenfeld, creator of the popular blog Your To Be List, help you find emotional healing and spiritual renewal through the unique practice of decluttering. Whether it’s clothing that no longer fits or relationships we’ve outgrown, we all have burdens and attachments that manifest themselves in our physical living space. In each chapter, Green and Rosenfeld focus on a different room, showing how each one represents a corresponding place in your heart. The bedroom is for peace and intimacy. The kitchen is for comfort and creativity. By reflecting on what we value most in our lives, we can clear out our homes and let go of the spiritual “junk” we all hold on to—our resentment, anger, insecurity, doubts, and fears. By following the simple exercises outlined in this book, anyone who chooses to can enjoy a purified home and heart. Today is the day to let go, make space, and identify what is truly valuable in your life. It’s time to find your breathing room.

Dr. Melva Green is a board-certified psychiatrist, TV personality, and spiritual healer. She is an expert doctor on the popular and critically acclaimed A&E show Hoarders. Dr. Green lives with her son in Costa Rica, where she will soon be opening a retreat center for medical professionals in need of emotional healing and spiritual renewal. Lauren Rosenfeld, M.A., M.Ed., believes that the mundane details of our life are the stepping stones on our intimate path of the spirit. She is a professional Soul Declutterer who helps her clients let go of physical and emotional clutter that are preventing them their Breathing Room. She coauthored Your To Be List and blogs at LGRosenfeld.com, where she shares lessons on how our daily lives shine with spiritual lessons. She is an unapologetic hippie-peacenick-pluralist-dreamer who resides in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband and four children.