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July 16, 2025 23 mins

You want to stop carrying everyone else's shit...physical, emotional and energetic?? Calm AF Year is coming. 

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Ever feel like you're carrying invisible weight? Like you're soul-tired even when your schedule isn't that crazy? That heaviness you can't explain has a name: energetic clutter.

Welcome to Part 4 of our Internal Clutter series, where we tackle the sneakiest drawer of all - the one filled with everyone else's emotional stuff.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

  • Why you feel heavy even when life is good
  • How to recognize what's yours vs. what you've absorbed from others
  • The sneaky ways energetic clutter builds up in your system
  • Why being an "energetic sponge" leaves you feeling depleted
  • Simple practices to clear your energetic space
  • How environmental energy imprints affect your daily life
  • The real impact of digital emotional overload
  • Practical ways to protect your energy without becoming cold or disconnected

Key Takeaways:

"You're not just tired because life is hard. You're tired because you're carrying years of accumulated emotional debris that was never yours to begin with."

Most of the energetic clutter weighing you down isn't even yours. Every anxious person you encounter deposits a little anxiety in your system. Every tense conversation leaves residue. Every chaotic environment you walk through leaves some of its chaos behind.

This stuff compounds over time, which is why the heaviness feels more obvious as life goes on. You're not just feeling what you absorbed today - you're carrying the buildup of years of taking on everyone else's emotional stuff.

This Episode is Perfect for You If:

  • You feel drained after certain conversations or being around specific people
  • You walk into rooms and immediately pick up on the "energy" or tension
  • You feel overwhelmed after scrolling social media for just a few minutes
  • You're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix
  • You can't figure out why you feel heavy when nothing particularly bad happened
  • You suspect you're carrying emotional weight that isn't yours

Previous Episodes in the Internal Clutter Series:

  • (325) Part 1: Naming the Problem - Your Internal Junk Drawers Are Overflowing
  • (326)Part 2: Mental Clutter - The 47 Open Tabs in Your Brain
  • (327) Part 3: Emotional Clutter - The Feelings You've Shoved Down for Years

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