This is the hardest and easiest blog post for me to write. I've been writing this blog regularly for three and a half years. I've really enjoyed sharing insights with you. I've tried to keep my posts short, simple, encouraging and kind so that you can take bits of wisdom that are right for you and use them in your life.
As much as I've enjoyed sharing these insights from my work as a clutter buster, I just today realized that until further notice, I need to stop writing this blog. In fact, I realized this morning that I need to clutter bust every activity that I do that is focused on healing others.
I need to do this because I need to do some deep healing for myself. My health is in critical condition. My lungs are having a very difficult time, and I am working with several top pulmonologists to fix them.
I realized this morning that my life is focused around healing others, and even now, when it is difficult for me to take each breath, I am still worried that people won't love me if I don't try to heal them.
I really like the idea of taking care of myself. It's funny, because I'm always encouraging you to do that and to remove anything from your life that's not supporting you. I repeat it every day! But right now, efforts to heal others are not supporting me in my recovery.
I still want to do the healing for others, even though I know it doesn't help me. But I see the toll it takes because it exhausts me when I'm not feeling well.
So it feels better to let go of this.
I'll keep my blog and website up. Everything's in there -- you can go back for years and get lots of good information. Or you can read my books. I wish you well.
My girlfriend has organized a group of family and friends who visualize healthy lungs and a healthy body for me. At 9pm central time (Chicago time), from all over the world, they all join together for a minute or two and visualize that I can hike and walk around freely; that I am healthy and thriving. Some of them have their phone alarms set so they don't forget.
To me, it feels like a gift to have people sending me healing intentions. If you feel like you would like to join this circle, you don't need to do anything but start doing the prayer/visualization whenever you remember. I know many of you will join this group, and I thank you in advance for your love and support.
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I have enjoyed reading your blog and even hear your voice inside my head when I confront my messy spaces. Please take care of yourself and know that you will be in your readers' thoughts.
Brooks, I just want you to know how much I've enjoyed your posts here. I'm so sorry to hear that you're going through this challenge, and wholeheartedly affirm your decision to care for your health. Your writing has helped me let go of that which doesn't serve my real life, and for that I am grateful.
I am -- and will be -- sending love & light your way. ~Caroline McGraw
Good luck to you Brooks. Do what you will, and know that you've been a great help to many on your way.
Best of luck and health to you, Brooks. You've shared so much healing with us, it is time for us to share some healing with you.
Hi Brooks,
I've loved reading your blogs posts. Your the only person I've come across who deals with the difficult emotional elements of decluttering.
I wish you success in your healing process.
Thank you Brooks for all the wonderful insights that you have provided. Take good care of yourself! I wish you all the best! Thanks again for all what you have done.
Wishing you healing and good health, Brooks. Your deep caring for others has always shone through in your posts. You have made a difference in my life and many others. I will be thinking of you and sending healing thoughts your way. All the best to you.
Sending you healing thoughts of cool, fresh breaths. You draw them easily and smoothly into your body. They calm and strengthen you, filling you with peace and health.
Dear Brooks, I am so sorry to hear about your lung condition. I will gladly join in sending healing energy. You have done so much for so many people. You are loved either way, though. I'm glad you are listening to your heart. Thank you so much for everything. My former boss once told me (as he laid me off), "Stop trying to be so charming to have people like you. You're already charming enough without trying." Much love and peace. -Jennifer
Brooks, you and your blog and books have helped me so much. I'm grateful for all the thought and heart that you've put into your work. The greatest way you can help others is to focus entirely on healing yourself, because even if you don't write another post you are still there in the world shining your light. That's what the whole point was all along. I will be sending lots of love to your healed lungs.
My prayers and healing thoughts will be coming your way daily Brooks.
You've given me so much help through your blog and through your books.
Focus on getting as well as is possible.
Thank you and God Bless.
Thank you for all your help and wise insights. I recently started rereading your book, and it is just as helpful and effective as it was in the first stages of my decluttering process. Take good care of yourself, sending you lots of thoughts of love and support and healing.
I fully support your decision to scale back what you are doing for others and focus on your own well-being. I hope that one day you will feel well and strong enough to continue your entertaining and very helpful blog but if not what you have already offered the world is more than enough. I will already be in bed when the group visualization happens but I am sending healing thoughts to you and your lungs right now. Be well.
So sorry to hear your health is struggling so, Brooks. While your your blog posts are going to be missed so much because they're a wonderful, sincere mix of practical, grounded and spiritual encouragement, I wish you all the very best in getting well and will join the healing group. As soon as I find out when that is in British Summertime! Love your books too, man.Take care. X
I am so saddened to hear you are struggling to breathe. My sincere wish for you is to find a treatment that works. i will miss your posts but I will re-read your books and also go to your website and re-read your posts. Take good care of yourself. A lot of people are thinking of you.
Please do for yourself as you have done for so many, and be gentle with yourself and give yourself the room to relax, and just.... breathe.
We'll be here when the blog feels like the right thing for you again.
Brooks, sending you love and light! I will be thinking of you and sending healing vibes your way!
You have been such an integral part of my clutter busting and my online life!
Blessings, My Friend!
Mary
dear brooks, your kind, gentle and wise blog posts will be greatly missed....but that is of no consequence when it comes to your health. please take tender and good care of yourself....now and in the future. you are in my thoughts. patti.
dear Brooks, thanks for your books and blog posts. They have helped me a lot. Thank u. Please take care and I hope u get well soon.
Sending you lots of love and hope that you get well soon. Your message continues to spread and inspire others. I appreciate everything that you've shared with me and taught me. You are in my thoughts. Thank You!
Thank you, everyone for your kind well wishes! My heart is overwhelmed with love.
Brooks
I hope you declutter your illness and take in what you love - a healthy body! Thank-you thank-you thank-you for all your great advice and words and now...take care of YOU!
Brooks, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us for so long. It's appropriate now for you to take care of yourself, and be as kind and patient with your own healing process as you have been with others' decluttering. I'll be praying for you.
Brooks, thank you for the blog and your books. Of course it is time to take care of yourself now, and we will all support you in doing so. I will send positive thoughts your way for a speedy recovery.
Oh, Brooks ... I am in tears over the news about your health. I am so grateful for what you have done to help me and my family -- I hear your mantras in my head almost daily. I admire your decision to focus on healing yourself now. Please know that countless others will be sending love and good wishes you way, hopeful for a full recovery for you. Just a few weeks ago, Robert and I participated in the "Fight for Air Climb" in which we climbed the 47 flights of stairs at the US Bank Building in Milwaukee to help raise funds for the American Lung Association. As I was climbing and struggling the breathe, I kept thinking "someone out there who I know struggles each day and I can do this for THEM." I had no idea you were that person. I wish you only the best, and hope to hear good news about your recovery soon. Always, Kate Colbert
Sending you healing,happiness and peace. You have given me so much help in every aspect of my life. Thank you so much!
Prayers of healing and return of good health are being sent your way.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Brooks, your blog has touched many more people than leave comments, I'm sure. I know this because i've read it many times and never commented.
Your gentle nature shines like a steady light through your work. Thank you.
wishing you improved help and much love.
Bettina
I mean improved HEALTH, not help :-)
Oh, Brooks, I am sorry to hear of your bad health. You must do what you need to do to heal. I will be thinking of each day. You have touched my life with your words x
Brooks, I'm so sorry to hear about your health challenge but so glad you are being as kind to yourself as you have encouraged your readers to be.
Thank you for your insights. I will revisit old posts often.
I will also be sending healing thoughts your way. Please update us periodically if you can.
Sending healing and love!
Thank you for all you have done to help me and so many others.
Now go breathe! :)
Oh, Brooks! I'm just now hearing about how critical this has become; so glad to hear you are being gentle and loving with yourself, and that you have such good support with your medical and personal teams. Good luck to you you, and love, and light, and all the rest of it. And see you on the other side of this slight blip!
Hi Brooks,
I agree wholeheartedly with all the other comments wishing you health and well-being, and expressing gratitude for the help and guidance you've given me with your books and blog.
Take care!
You have always offered great advice, and now is the time to head some advice: Follow the advice of the medical professionals. Trust that they know what they are doing, that they are guided by Wisdom, and that they know what is best for you. I sincerely hope that a full recovery is in your future, and that you will continue to be a great blessing for others for many years to come.
Healing on its way to you x
Much as I will miss reading your posts, you are doing the right thing in looking after yourself first. I shall be thinking of you often and sending healing energy your way. Take good care and know that you have done so much to help inspire people like myself and help us believe we can do it! Now, go be good to yourself and get healthy xx
Thank you for all of your insightful posts. Take good care of yourself. When you do that, and publicly as you have, you continue to serve as a teacher. I've been withdrawing from activities the last week too as I heal from a concussion. All this time inside brings my clutter back front & center, and me to your blog. Feel better, dear Brooks!
I have gotten a lot out of your posts. I will be sending you good thoughts and hope your lungs begin to heal steadily. Thank you for all of your posts.
Brooks, sending you lots of love and healing. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge through your books, blog, and Clutter Busting business. As well as your other talents most of us are less aware of. You have truly been a healing force. May your recovery be speedy and gentle. Love, Marie
Hi Brooks, I am really so sorry to hear about your health problems, you are such a caring person, it seems unfair that life has thrown this at you, I just hope they can find a way to bring you back to good health.
I have loved your blog so much, thanks from the bottom of my heart, for all it has done for me, and for others. I will be thinking of you. x
I actually just found you in the last month and just finished reading your two books. They have helped me immensely! Find your joy again and your lungs will be happy. You will always continue to help people heal because of the wonderful information you have available for everyone. Grace will lead you to what is next. Many prayers and blessings being sent your way.
Brooks, I wish you would let us know how you are doing! I think of you often and wonder. Just a tiny update! Sending love! Mary
Get well and feel better Brooks. Thanks for all of your amazing work so far! Looking forward to what comes next after you are better!
Hope you are doing well! Miss hearing from you!Please let us know how things are going. Take care and God bless!
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