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The Emotional Imprint of Clutter
Discover how childhood and family can lead to a life of clutter, and how “things” can stand in the way of success.
Explore the love/hate relationship we have with clutter and why understanding the emotional connection can allow us to let it go.
Explore the love/hate relationship we have with clutter and why understanding the emotional connection can allow us to let it go.
- GenresNonfiction
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 13, 2010
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Thea Maii
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January 15, 2019
I was excited to receive a copy of The Emotional Imprint of Clutter. Based on the title, I assumed it would detail the ways in which my clutter was negatively impacting me.
Despite the title, The Emotional Imprint of Clutter isn’t as much about the impact your clutter has on you, so much as it is another book that tries to offer ways to reduce clutter in your life and theorize on reasons we fall into a cluttered existence.
The methods of reducing clutter were really none that I hadn’t read before in numerous other books and articles. There weren’t any in this book that were new to me, unfortunately.
The remainder of the book was an examination of reasons people accumulate clutter. There were a number of emotional/psychological theories that ponder the origins of the impulse to accumulate things or let them collect to the point of being cluttered. I have to say, I was troubled at the causative statements made by the author that tie clutter accumulation to maturational events and familial relationships. Her assertions have the potential to be damaging to people with fragile emotional/psychological states. I looked for more information on the author to see if she had some background in psychology—or even counseling—which she doesn’t.
I was optimistic when I started this book, but I’m afraid—especially as a health care professional—I was troubled by the psychological/emotional generalizations I read and would not recommend it to others.
*I was given a copy of The Emotional Imprint of Clutter in exchange for an honest review
Despite the title, The Emotional Imprint of Clutter isn’t as much about the impact your clutter has on you, so much as it is another book that tries to offer ways to reduce clutter in your life and theorize on reasons we fall into a cluttered existence.
The methods of reducing clutter were really none that I hadn’t read before in numerous other books and articles. There weren’t any in this book that were new to me, unfortunately.
The remainder of the book was an examination of reasons people accumulate clutter. There were a number of emotional/psychological theories that ponder the origins of the impulse to accumulate things or let them collect to the point of being cluttered. I have to say, I was troubled at the causative statements made by the author that tie clutter accumulation to maturational events and familial relationships. Her assertions have the potential to be damaging to people with fragile emotional/psychological states. I looked for more information on the author to see if she had some background in psychology—or even counseling—which she doesn’t.
I was optimistic when I started this book, but I’m afraid—especially as a health care professional—I was troubled by the psychological/emotional generalizations I read and would not recommend it to others.
*I was given a copy of The Emotional Imprint of Clutter in exchange for an honest review
February 19, 2019
I won this book through a Goodreads giveaway. I really can't recommend it. Maii spends many chapters describing the various reasons that people become clutterers/hoarders. Her writing does not seem to be based on data but rather just her, sometimes judgemental, observations. I did not finish this book. If you want to clear out the clutter, try Marie Kondo's books/Netflix series. Kondo is more about taking action to get it done.
December 16, 2018
I believe the author sincerely intends to help her readers, but this is not the way. The book is so disorganized - the opposite of what its theme suggests - that there is no connection between one thought and the next. Soaked in amateur psychoanalysis, each of 30+ alleged clutterer issues is addressed first by a series of random, and often insulting, assertions about what bad people these clutterers are, followed by a bunch of ridiculous questions (to the shopaholic: "Do you like being poor?"), then a 'Remedy' that basically says go figure out what's wrong with you, and a 'Suggestion' that might be constructive, or might be more questions to show you what a bad person you are.
I finished the book only because I received it through a giveaway and felt obliged to. It could have been shortened considerably by removing the substantial repetition, and getting to the conclusion in almost every chapter that all of us clutterers weren't loved as children and just need to get over it. Between the disjointed writing, the repetition, and the criminal misuse of analogies, idioms and punctuation, I expected to find this was an ESL book that lacked an attentive editor. According to the author profile, this does not appear to be the case, so I am at a loss how this was published.
If you read this, use it as a starting point to consider whether you would benefit from consulting with a professional about an organization system, or life coaching, or both. Do not take this as professional advice.
I finished the book only because I received it through a giveaway and felt obliged to. It could have been shortened considerably by removing the substantial repetition, and getting to the conclusion in almost every chapter that all of us clutterers weren't loved as children and just need to get over it. Between the disjointed writing, the repetition, and the criminal misuse of analogies, idioms and punctuation, I expected to find this was an ESL book that lacked an attentive editor. According to the author profile, this does not appear to be the case, so I am at a loss how this was published.
If you read this, use it as a starting point to consider whether you would benefit from consulting with a professional about an organization system, or life coaching, or both. Do not take this as professional advice.
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