1KHO 844: Freedom From the Emotional Clutter | Laurie Davies, Emotional Hoarding

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What if the emotions you've been carrying for years are keeping you from living fully? In this episode, host Ginny Yurich sits down with author Laurie Davies to explore the powerful concept of emotional hoarding - the tendency to stuff away worry, regret, guilt, anger, bitterness, shame, and other difficult emotions until they begin to shape how we live. Laurie shares deeply personal stories from her own life, including childhood trauma, career mistakes, and painful family relationships, to illustrate how emotional clutter accumulates and, more importantly, how we can begin clearing it away. Together, they discuss why most of our worries never come true, how to distinguish real guilt from false guilt, why forgiveness is one of the hardest, and most freeing, choices we can make - and how grace has the power to transform regret. Throughout the conversation, they weave together practical wisdom, neuroscience, personal experience, and biblical truth to offer hope for anyone feeling weighed down by life's emotional burdens. Whether you're wrestling with anxiety, carrying old wounds, struggling with anger, or simply longing for more emotional freedom, this conversation offers encouragement and practical steps toward living lighter. Get a copy of Laurie's book here.A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them out below: BetterHelp: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit www.quince.com/outside and get free shipping and 365 day returns IXL Learning - Head to www.ixl.com/1000hours to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Whisker - Take care of your cats while taking an additional $50 off bundles with code 1000HOURS when you shop www.whisker.com/1000HOURS woom Bikes - Go to woom.com and use code 1000HOURS at checkout for 10% off your new bike purchase, excluding the woom WOW. Muzzle Sleep Tape - Go to MuzzleSleep.com and use code 1000HOURS for 10% off. Ethos Life Insurance - Get your free quote at ethos.com/1000hours Active Skin Repair - Don’t forget to put this in your first aid kit! Visit ActiveSkinRepair.com and use the code 1000HOURS to save 20% on all Active Skin Repair products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.3	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Erich and the founder of 1,000
0:27.2	Hours Outside and I've just read a phenomenally good book about all of our emotions and how sometimes
0:32.9	we hoard them. And then this book goes into like every emotion, well, not everyone, because there's
0:38.4	also a newsletter where you can learn about more emotions, but a lot of the main ones, like worry and
0:42.8	fear and regret and guilt and pride and anger and bitterness and keeping secrets and shame and
0:50.2	hustling. And the author of this wonderful book, Emotional Hording, Lori Davies, is here.
0:55.9	Welcome, Lori. Thank you so much for having me. We are, I can already tell right out of the
1:01.1	shoot. We're going to have a great conversation today. We're going to have a great conversation
1:04.4	because these emotions, they really can derail you a bit. And so you have a lot of advice on how to
1:09.8	deal with them. And also just a lot of
1:12.7	reminders that you, there are this, there is this large swath of emotions that you can have.
1:18.8	So I would love if you would kick it off with your, with your little girl self, little girl,
1:22.9	Lori. Oh gosh. You say I've had big emotions since I was a young girl. My emotions have felt bigger than my body. I never seemed to find a place to put them. So I stuffed them. So you talk about when your dad left, your dad moves out, panic moves in. And then, you know, that obviously is a massively upsetting, huge change for a child.
1:45.3	But you talk about everything from that to reading where the red fern grows and wishing
1:49.1	there was a different ending.
1:51.2	Yeah.
1:52.1	That was a, so my dad left, just so your listeners know, my dad left without a lot of,
1:59.0	maybe any, I don't know, conversation with my mom and with us about,
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