People create emotional clutter by letting go of physical items without resolving the sentimentality or emotional attachments associated with them.

“one of the worst things you can do and I've seen this over and over as we've helped people let go of their things they let go of the thing without letting go of the emotion or the sentimentality they've Tethered to the thing and that creates all kinds of additional emotional clutter or emotional bag”

Individuals often outsource their identity into physical objects, creating emotional baggage that must be unpacked before successfully decluttering.

“we turn our lives into horror movies by Outsourcing our Consciousness into objects into the things that we own and the way we overcome that is not by throwing away the things but making sure we take our power back from those things before we get rid of them”