🌼 the dirt on…ctrl + alt + deleting the clutter this spring
On unstuffing your life
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Hello there, Friend.
A couple weeks ago, I talked about how the first step to making any sort of easeful change is to nurture the nothingness, aka hang out with spaciousness.
But what if your schedule is packed tighter than a hipster's jeans on a First Friday art walk?
Then you, my friend, are in need of some 🌱 spring cleaning - and I’m not just talking about the proverbial 👕 closet clear-out (but like, you might need that too…)
I’m talking a full-on spring revamp✨—which includes:
Your inbox ✉️
Your supplement graveyard (where half-used vitamin C goes to die) 🪦
Your “close friends” list… 👀
We want to Marie Kondo life, my dude. You owe it to yourself to scrutinize everything through the lens of “Does this ✨ spark joy?”
For everything that does–good on ya’. Celebrate it with reckless abandon.
And if it doesn’t, consider taking a second look. Now’s your chance to usher in a new season with a fresh slate (and some proper boundaries…ahem.)
Or rejoice in leaving your sh*t all over the place. 🤷🏻♀️
Whatever you choose, do it your way–unapologetically.
🕸️ 5 Ways to Ctrl + Alt + Delete the Clutter this Spring
📧 Email Exorcism: 40,000 emails and not sure where to start? Unfollow and delete all those “every. single. damn. day.” corporate emails. Trust me—the Gap will find you.
🥦 Fridge Forensics: Pitch the mystery jars in the back left side of the fridge. I promise—you’ll never use that last inch of “food material.”
💔 Bye Felicia: Bid adieu to the relationships that are more 'meh' than 'yay.’
🧹 Dust-Bunny Death-zone: Get Virgo with it and finally decimate the dust-bunnies that have been multiplying like, well, rabbits under your bed.
🍵 Supplement Send-Off: I get it—my cheeks burn too when I have not one, not two, but three expired probiotics in the pantry (I mean, they do make shelf-stable ones, so it’s an honest mistake). But, they’ve overstayed their welcome and it’s time to graduate them to the dustbin…and start the probiotic stash over from scratch…
Wishing you a week of clean slates.
Ciao bella, Andie
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If you want to gnome this spring, might I introduce you to a Dandelion Chicory Latte? It tastes like dirt and will grow moss on your insides (this is a good thing).
🥡 EAT Dandelion Chicory Latte
My hot take? Qigong is the penultimate cozy cardio. It’s also my new personality.
📺 PLAY Spring QiGong Full Body Stretch
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💿 ON REPEAT im in a field of dandelions
If you’re anything like me, after a long-a$$, stodgy winter, my body emerges less like a butterfly - more like a slug. Lucky-ducky for you, I’m cohosting a spring reboot for all us folks that want to signal to our bods, "hey, it's time to shake the cobwebs 🕸️ off and freshen up our insides (and our routines).”
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"Eat your greens" they said..."Fresh and wild" they said...so. I. did. Nab the free 🌼 Just Dandy Dashboard, a Notion doc with dandelion-based recipes (and cute little walkthrough videos), songs 📻, book recs 📚, and other resources to get you prepping and cooking your way into springtime renewal...because eating with the seasons actually is kind of a bfd. (and fun)
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“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
- Emily Dickinson
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It's so true, getting rid of the bunnies and the mystery meats and sauces and those last few french fries you swore you would eat the next day, is very fulfilling. I know when I declutter the house, so does my mind.