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Emotional Spring Cleaning

Clear Away Old Patterns and Open the Door to New

Beginnings with a Systemic Approach to Transformation

Spring is an exciting time of year. Trees do we always act on them? Do we pursue
and gardens sprout new growth. Students these inner urgings to change? More
catch spring fever and play hooky. The rest often than not, we don’t. And more often

of us go into a frenzy of spring cleaning. than not we don’t even know why.
Like our parents, grandparents, and

great-grandparents before us, we clear out I remember Louise, a client who came
closets, pack winter clothes away, clean to me soon after she had gotten her real
windows and contemplate the garage. We estate sales license. Despite the beautiful

get the “itch” to do home improvement. spring day, she was dressed somberly in
At the very least we buy some flowers to grey slacks and a black jacket. For years

bring a bit of color back into our lives. she’d worked quietly as a clerk in her
county’s administrative offices until she
But spring cleaning is more than an discovered she had a love for houses, a

annual household event. It’s an internal flare for sales and an easy ability to work
happening as well. As nature awakens, with people. She was excited about her

something stirs in us. We feel a twinge of new career. But she felt intimidated by her
creativity, a flutter of potential signaling female associates, all of whom dressed in
new growth and a calling to new an upscale manner and drove late model

adventures. We feel deep stirrings. But cars. “I bought a few new clothes,” she
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