The Clutter You Can’t See: a Conversation on Spiritual Decluttering with Monique
In the final installment of their decluttering series, Mariah and Monique turn their attention to the kind of clutter you cannot see, photograph, or drop off at Goodwill. Spiritual decluttering, as Monique explains it, is not about becoming someone new. It is about removing what is outdated, borrowed, or simply no longer yours so that your truest self can come through more clearly. If physical clutter fills your car and emotional clutter fills your chest, spiritual clutter fills the space between who you actually are and the stories you have been carrying about who you are supposed to be.
Episode Highlights
What Spiritual Decluttering Actually Means (It Is Not What You Think)
How Stored Emotions Create Spiritual Stagnation
Practical Ways to Spiritually Declutter Every Day
A Simple Practice for Identifying What You Are Ready to Release
Why You Do Not Have to Do This Alone
The Bigger Picture: Letting Go as a Lifelong Practice
How Stored Emotions Create Spiritual Stagnation
One of the more grounding threads in this episode is the connection between unprocessed emotion and spiritual stuckness. When something hard happens and we do not have the tools or the space to move through it, that emotional weight does not disappear. It gets stored, and over time it can create a kind of heaviness that colors how we see ourselves and what we believe is possible. Monique describes working with clients who feel stuck or directionless, and often what they are carrying is not even theirs to begin with. The stuckness itself is a signal, the same way a cluttered car is a signal, that something needs tending to.
Practical Ways to Spiritually Declutter Every Day
The good news is that spiritual decluttering does not require a retreat or a dramatic life overhaul. Monique shares that the practices she returns to most consistently are meditation and journaling, both of which create space to observe the mental chatter rather than get swept up in it. Other approaches that came up in conversation include prayer, time in nature, rest, worship within community, podcasts and books that ask meaningful questions, and even energy work like chakra balancing. The common thread across all of them is the act of pausing long enough to hear yourself, which is harder than it sounds and more essential than most of us realize.
A Simple Practice for Identifying What You Are Ready to Release
Monique walks Mariah through a brief but powerful exercise that anyone can use: take a breath, arrive in your body, and ask yourself where you feel heavy. It might be a physical sensation, a nagging thought, or a low hum of dread you have been ignoring. From there, the key question is simply this: is this mine to carry? If the answer is no, or even maybe not, you can make the conscious choice to set it down. As Monique puts it, you do not always have to work hard to release something. Sometimes you can just decide it is released and mean it.
Why You Do Not Have to Do This Alone
A recurring theme in this episode is the value of having at least one person in your life who is willing to go deeper than surface-level conversation. Monique describes the friendship between her and Mariah as a form of mutual spiritual accountability, the kind of relationship where "how are you" actually means something. For those who do not have that naturally, she encourages seeking out an energy worker, a spiritual coach, a therapist, a faith community, or even a curated book group where these conversations can happen in a held, intentional space. Decluttering of any kind, she notes, is almost always easier when you are not doing it alone.
The Bigger Picture: Letting Go as a Lifelong Practice
The episode closes with a perspective that gives the whole series its deepest roots: letting go is not a one-time event. It is the rhythm of being alive. Monique reflects on how we are wired to accumulate, whether it is stuff, beliefs, grief, or old stories about ourselves, and that the real work is learning to release with as much intentionality as we hold on. Mariah connects this to her own experience of empty nesting, unexpected loss, and the way every ending eventually makes room for something new. The prompt they leave listeners with is simple: every day, ask yourself what one thing you can let go of. Then choose again. And again.
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