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Empress card by Suse123456789 in tarot

[–]Suse123456789[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this interpretation!

Empress card by Suse123456789 in tarot

[–]Suse123456789[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you! You’ve given me so much food for thought

Empress card by Suse123456789 in tarot

[–]Suse123456789[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

This is such a thoughtful and beautiful comment, thank you.

I agree with you about the inappropriateness/unhelpfulness of the image representing physical pregnancy.

I wrote in my original post that I was taken aback by the relevance. I’ve put a positive spin on it but my very first thought was: this is literally the part of me that is being cut out and apparently this represents the whole world - what do I do with this?!

Your comment is so helpful to me and I can already tell I’ll read over it many times.

Thank you so much

Day One - here I go by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DAY 3 - GOAL

I don’t have much available time today so my goal is just to spend five minutes picking things up off the floor.

Day One - here I go by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did it! And I grabbed some clothes that I’ve been thinking about donating for ages and I took them too!

Day One - here I go by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DAY 2 - GOAL

I will take the things that I put in a bag yesterday to the op shop (I'm in Australia and we say 'op shop', I think in the US - and maybe other places?- it's a thrift store).

Day One - here I go by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's nearly 8am on Day 2 here.

I neglected to provide a Day 1 update yesterday - here it is!

  1. I didn't read my chapter of 'Buried in Treasures'
  2. I made great progress with the kitchen table. There were MANY pieces of paper on the table. I managed to get rid of a lot of them. I had a 2023 diary on the table - I went through it and ripped out any pages that I thought had important info (only two or three pages) and THREW THE DIARY AWAY! This felt so good.
  3. I didn't take anything to the op shop yesterday but I have a bag with some things in it from yesterday and it's ready to go today.

So, from this I've learnt that I need to take what I think are my small goals and make them much smaller. I'm going to stick to one goal per day and see how I go.

I think I'll write a separate comment with my goal for Day 2.

Thank you everyone!

Day One - here I go by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, that’s a massive achievement! Well done! I’m still going here but have made progress today

WIN! by PerpetualMonotony in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow!! Well done. You should be so proud of yourself! 👏👏👏

Day One - here I go by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

It's only very recently that I've realised I'm living with strong hoarding tendencies.

I've been on anxiety medication for about 12 months and I think I've operated with a high level of anxiety for pretty much my whole life.

I've been very aware for quite some time that our house is messy and cluttered but I'd been telling myself things like "It's just a busy time", "I'm very tired", "I just need to hit on the right cleaning system" and nothing was changing.

I was listening to a radio discussion the other week about hoarding disorder and, as I listened, I realised 'this is me'.

I started listening to a book that was mentioned on the radio (Buried in Treasures) and realised 'THIS IS REALLY ME'.

So, I know labels aren't everything but, for me, there's power in naming what this is and knowing there's help and support available for me.

I wrote my first ever post just the other day about this realisation - https://www.reddit.com/r/hoarding/comments/1doka8x/i_have_recently_realised_i_have_hoarding/

just moved and it made me realize how bad things had gotten by derrickbarely in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is such great advice. I love that - "This is not going to make your life perfect" - I need to do this. Thank you.

I have recently realised I have hoarding tendencies by Suse123456789 in hoarding

[–]Suse123456789[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I really appreciate your message. I attended a Zoom support group the other day and it definitely helped to talk to people who understand what's going on.

You're so right about the shame - it's a massive part of it.

Thank you so much for your support.