A Year to Clear: 365 Lessons to Create Spaciousness in Your Home and Heart

Brief Description: A complete yearlong course in clearing yourself of excess stress and stuff, this book features short contemplations, personal stories, tools, tips, one-minute practices, guided meditations, and wonderful questions to help readers create spaciousness in their lives. Stephanie Bennett Vogt will teach you how to unplug, detach, and clear to create more space and serenity in your life, what she describes as the sacred process of removing clutter from both your house and your mind. Included are 365 daily lessons organized into 52 weekly segments, with each lesson building on the others to develop ones clearing muscle and grow new habits that will last a lifetime. The week usually begins with a personal story to introduce the theme and ends on the 7th day with a Check In to review and integrate the experience. Sprinkled throughout are meditations, Q&As, and testimonials. At the end of each lesson the author gives the reader an opportunity to explore a topic with several open-ended statements designed to bypass the thinking mind and open the channels to ones highest wisdom. Weekly themes covered include: Moving Stuck EnergyConnecting with HomeBeing EnoughShining Light on Invisible ClutterLiving ImperfectlyWaiting It OutCultivating StillnessForgivingFlourishingReview Quotes: "Stephanie Bennett Vogt is my new clutter-clearing coach and cheerleader. In her new book, "A Year To Clear," she guides us with such tenderness, humor and insight into those dark and sometimes overwhelming places in our homes, hearts and minds that feel stuck. In easy to manage steps and exercises she allows us to experience the transformational nature that comes with clutter-clearing and having a life of simplicity, joy and space!" --Karen Drucker, musician/author of "Let Go Of The Shore"Review Quotes: "Stephanie is the goddess queen of clean. Follow her loving, guidance and watch your life go from chaos to spaciousness, clutter to beauty, busyness to blessed calm, one baby step at a time. I'm grateful to have her as a friend and ally on my journey to reclaiming and keeping ease and flow in my life." -HeatherAsh Amara, founder of Toci, and author of "Warrior Goddess Training"Review Quotes: "Stephanie Bennett Vogt is a master. Simple and yet profound, her daily action steps make you feel as though you've accomplished something truly important and vital. It's time to reclaim your space - one simple task at a time - in a way that will leave you feeling safe, capable, nourished, and supported." -Sunny Dawn Johnston, psychic medium, teacher and author of "The Love Never Ends" and "Invoking the Archangels"Review Quotes: "What a revelation!! Stephanie Bennett Vogt's wonderful book, "A Year to Clear," lays out an astonishingly painless, satisfying way to clear out all the stuff we accumulate over the years. If you're feeling weighed down by your belongings and yearn for more simplicity and space, read this right now!!" -April Eberhardt, April Eberhardt LiteraryReview Quotes: "While most clearing methods today focus on speed and outcome, "A Year to Clear" follows a different path - one that takes you on a journey of gentle, daily tending that feels good and lasts. Stephanie's writing is beautiful, and her many years of experience show on every page." --Susan Page, author of "Why Talking is Not Enough" and "How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together"Review Quotes: "In the beginning of her wonderful book, Stephanie Bennett Vogt promises one thing: if you're willing to be open to the experience on the pages that follow, and willing to stick with it, you will not be the same person you are now when you come out on the other side. She's not exaggerating. Gentle, inspiring, and nourishing, this book holds the key to the balance and clarity you've been searching for." - Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes PressPublisher Marketing: A Daily Guide to Simplifying, Decluttering, and Letting GoWith all our best intentions and rich resources, why is it so hard to slow down, simplify, and care for ourselves? Why are we so afraid to let go?In "A Year to Clear," leading space-clearing expert Stephanie Bennett Vogt takes you on a journey of self-discovery, letting go, and transformation. Each of the 365 lessons--organized into 52 weeklong themes--offers daily inspiration designed to release stress and stuff in ways that lighten, enlighten, and last. This is YOUR YEAR to . . . Free yourself of unwanted things in your home and mind by bringing awareness to messy habits and the outdated beliefs behind them. Transform those mindless housekeeping tasks you do every day (on auto-pilot) into nurturing, soul-filled experiences. Realize at the deepest level the essence of who you are and what you came here to be. Stephanie's methods of gentle encouragement and humor will guide you to look at the items and clutter in your home not simply as a "mess" to be dealt with, but as an outward reflection of your inner presence. By using her clearing exercises to clean up on the outside and the inside, both your physical and emotional realms will return to a sparkling state of balance and serenity.

Contributor Bio:  Vogt, Stephanie Bennett Stephanie Bennett Vogt is a leading space clearing expert, international speaker, and the author of "Your Spacious Self". She brings over 35 years of experience to SpaceClear, the teaching practice she founded in 1996 to help homes and their occupants come into balance. Stephanie teaches her inspirational clearing programs worldwide, including at Kripalu and the New England School of Feng Shui, and shares her unique perspectives on simplifying, personal reinvention, and letting go in the "Huffington Post", DailyOM, and others venues. To learn more, visit www.spaceclear.com.