Emotional Spring Cleaning
Marie Kondo-ing my brain before summer 🧺 🫧
I enjoy cleaning my apartment because it’s a task that has a beginning and an end, and I get to enjoy the end result immediately while listening to a podcast about the dangers of microplastics. My home is in decent shape these days, but my brain has been a mess.
I can’t head into the summer with my petty grievances from the winter and spring banging around in my head because I’m giving birth to my first child this summer, and, from everything I’ve been reading, it’s really not the vibe to carry that baggage into the birthing process. (Shout out to my girl Ina May Gaskin. Your book has been sitting on my shelf unopened for the past 7+ months, but I get the vision…)
So, I invented something I’m calling Emotional Spring Cleaning, wherein I offload my petty grievances onto the page, and onto you, the reader. Basically, I’m Marie Kondo-ing my brain. These things don’t spark joy. They foment despair.
Please feel free to sound off in the comments with stuff that annoys you that you’d like to clean out of your brain before the summer comes. As you’ll see in the following list, there is nothing too small or too petty to be ignored. Everything must go.