There’s a room in your house you don’t like being in.
You couldn’t tell anyone why. It’s not cold exactly, it’s not dark, nothing has ever happened in there, you just walk through it a little faster than you walk through the rest of the house, and you’ve stopped putting anything you need in there.
Or it’s the whole house. You moved in and things just started going sideways. Everyone’s sleeping badly. The kids are fighting more, or you and your partner are. The dog stands at the bottom of the stairs and stares up at nothing and won’t go up. Three appliances broke in one month and you laughed about it, sort of.
You’re not going to call anyone about this. What would you even say? But it keeps nagging at you, and here you are, typing it into a search bar at night.
So let’s start with the boring stuff.
Before anything else, check your carbon monoxide detector. A slow carbon monoxide leak can cause headaches, confusion, exhaustion, nausea, a heavy dread you can’t explain, and yes, some people report seeing and hearing things that aren’t there. If everyone in the house feels worse at home and better when they leave, that is a carbon monoxide symptom before it’s anything else. If you smell gas, leave and call the gas company.
Then the rest of the ordinary list. Mold will make a house feel heavy and make the people in it feel sick. Old houses creak, pipes knock, wood shrinks and expands when the temperature drops at night. Rats and squirrels in the attic sound exactly like footsteps if you’re lying in bed listening for footsteps. Animals hear and smell things we can’t, so a dog staring at a wall may well be listening to a mouse in it. And moving is one of the most stressful things a person does, so a hard first year in a new house might just be a hard first year.
Rule those things out first.
Ok. Now the other part.
My friend Janice (names are always changed) is married with two children who are now grown and out of the house. She is a devout Catholic and would never have let her kids bring something like a Ouija board into their home. But one night several years ago, that’s exactly what happened. Her son was a teenager at the time, and he snuck a Ouija board into the house. He was in his room with his friends ‘playing around’ with it. When Janice found out she made him immediately remove it from the home. But not before an unexpected visitor showed up. Playing with a Ouija board, especially the way unknowing teens might do, is like sending an invitation to anyone or anything in the spirit world to come into your space.
Later that night, Janice’s husband got up because he heard a noise. He found his daughter’s bedroom door shut, and this was highly unusual. She was afraid of the dark and she insisted on having the door open every night at bedtime. He went to open the door, and couldn’t, like it was locked. He knocked on the door and called her name, but there was no answer. He knocked louder and started yelling. The daughter woke up and said the door wasn’t locked, but someone had moved the dresser next to it just enough to stop the door from opening.
She was too little to move the big, heavy dresser.
Dad managed to get the barricaded door open, much to the relief of his terrified daughter. After a lot of confusion and speculation about how that could’ve happened, and coming up with no logical answers, Janice concluded that it had to have been someone or something brought in from the Ouija board. And it’s a good thing she did, because her house absolutely had been infiltrated that night.
It doesn’t always take someone dabbling in the dark arts to bring dark beings into your home. You wouldn’t leave your doors open or unlocked at night because you wouldn’t want to provide easy entry for an intruder. Yet most people fail to energetically protect their homes from entity intruders.
Sometimes it’s an earthbound spirit, someone who died and didn’t move on. Your house may look inviting, and they’re looking for a safe place to stay. Or maybe they’re angry at their circumstances and are looking to cause some disruption. Sometimes it’s an opening, a portal, that lets things pass through a space more easily. That portal could be your television. It could be in that thrift store item you brought into your house without clearing. Or if you’re like me, you could have one open in your oven door. That was wild to witness. And then sometimes it’s what was left behind, an imprint of something hard that happened there, a lot of grief or anger soaked into the walls, or old occult practices by someone who didn’t know what they were playing with (I’m raising my hand here). And sometimes it’s a mix of all of the above.
None of that means your house is bad or cursed, and none of it means you did anything wrong by moving in. It means the space needs some help.
Here’s one question worth sitting with: does it stay when you leave?
Go away for a weekend. Notice how you feel on the second day. Then notice how you feel when you walk back in the door.
If you feel lighter when you’re away and it all comes back when you get home, that points at the house. If you feel exactly the same wherever you go, the heaviness might be coming along with you instead, and that’s a different thing. I wrote about that in Why Do I Feel Heavy and Anxious for No Reason?
It’s not a perfect test, and sometimes it’s both. But it’s a good place to start.
There are things you can do yourself, too. Open the windows. Clear out the clutter in the room you don’t like, because energy gets stuck in stuck places. Set your intention for your home out loud, that it’s yours, that it’s safe, and that anything that doesn’t belong there needs to leave. I’ve put the practices I use myself on the Daily Practices page, free, take what’s useful.
And if you’ve done all that and the room still feels the way it feels, that’s what a Home, Land & Property Clearing is for.
It’s done remotely, the same way my Spirit Release sessions are, so nobody needs to come to your house and you don’t need to be home. You can be at work. You can be at the grocery store. You can be on that weekend away. Afterward you get a written report of what was found and what was cleared, and what to do to keep your space protected from here on.
And if you’re not sure any of this applies to you, that’s fine, most people aren’t. That’s what the free consultation is for. Twenty minutes, you tell me what’s going on in your house, and I’ll tell you honestly what I think.
Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary. If yours doesn’t feel like that, send me a message. I’m here to help.
