Bonus podcast everyone!
So I have to tell you that I’m doing what we call “resolutions” differently and this is something that…well….I kinda stumbled onto it and I want to share it with you. Now I don’t know if this will resonate with any of you but I hope that something about this will cause you to consider how you want to approach the new year.
So I’m in a Whatsapp chat group with several of my coaching cohorts. One of them was sharing how she was interviewed by the BBC for not buying clothes for a whole year. What??
Really? People do that? And of course I’m sure that some of you listening to this does that. But that was not me. And yet, I was so intrigued. Why would she do this? Why would anyone do this intentionally? So the curious side of me won and I just had to experience what this was like. And so I decided in December of 2021 that I was going to do it. I was going to intentionally not buy clothes - including underwear and socks for a full year!
I remember at the beginning of 2022, I walked into Marshalls for the sole purpose of looking at clearance items. And I started to…..you guessed it…put clothes in my cart. It wasn’t until like the 3rd or 4th item that I remembered my intention of not buying clothes. Oh my goodness….remembering that was SO HARD! And I was trying to talk myself out of not committing to it. In all honesty, I have to tell you…..I decided that I would take them into the dressing room and if one of them fit then I’d buy just the one and restart my intention. But seriously, as I was walking in circles…literally in circles, I couldn’t talk myself into going into the dressing room. So I put all the clothes back and walked out.
I don’t think I have ever done that.
It felt so…..uncomfortable. Not my norm.
And after that, I began to notice something that I had not noticed before.
The moments I wanted to go shopping for clothes - whether it was Marshalls, Costco, wherever…I was trying to bandage my uncomfortable emotions of shame, blame, resentment, anger. I know, weird right? I seriously was seeking that dopamine hit of finding that cute top or sweater or whatever to not be present with what was really going on inside my head and heart.
As I’m sharing this with you, I am so amazed at this truth that I discovered about myself. And seriously, who really wants to sit with these emotions? But there is wisdom in doing so. I learned so much about myself from doing this. It didn’t become some “New Year’s Resolution” but something I decided to do out of curiosity and that something inside me, deep in me wanted to do this. Let me share with you what I learned from doing this for a full year:
I had no idea that this is what I'd come to know for myself. I am so grateful to have a clearer and more honest awareness of my humaness so that I can begin to make the changes that will more closely align myself with my Heavenly Father and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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