Your Gym Bag Has a Past. So Does Your Washing Machine And That Vintage Find You Love

I want you to actually sit for a second before your brain jumps to "that sounds a bit much."

Everything carries energy.

Not just people. Not just spaces. Your stuff. The bag you carry to work. The washing machine in your kitchen. The gorgeous vintage coat you love but always feel slightly weird wearing. The furniture you inherited. The second hand bargain you were very pleased with until you got it home and it made the room feel strange.

All of it. Everything.

Still with me? Good. Because I have three stories for you and at least one of them is going to make you side-eye your kitchen appliances.

One of my clients had been struggling with severe body aches and pain every single day and she couldn’t figure out why. She woke up one morning and all of sudden she was in excruciating pain. She was young, her social life was buzzing, she loved her job and the highlight of her day was going to the gym whether it was for a yoga class or weights or simply using the sauna.

After a few weeks she went to see her Doctor and after several tests, everything showed up as normal. She couldn’t even go to the gym because her body ached even more. She was absolutely miserable because the pain just wouldn’t ease.

In her session we went looking for what caused it and found it somewhere she absolutely did not expect.

Her gym bag.

It had been given to her second-hand by a colleague. An absolutely lovely gesture, except that colleague had been deeply, profoundly, going-home-and-sitting-in-the-car-before-going-inside so unhappy because she had dreaded and loathed going to the gym for years. She had carried that bag to work and then the gym. The gym bag had soaked in dread, pain during this time.

And when she gave it to my client, all of that came with it because objects hold energy. They do not wipe clean when they change hands, they carry what they absorbed right into your life.
 

We cleared the bag and when asked, we were told after asking lots of questions that the washing machine was an issue as well. Why?

The machine was used to wash the clothes from the gym bag and closet. We removed everything from the washing machine and subsequently removed anything that was present in her home and car, which included her running shoes, yoga mat. Literally, anything that would have touched the clothes, or the bag.

The pain lifted. Within days, she felt like herself again and back into her regular routine.
 

Now talking of washing machines, let me tell you another story.

This one, this one makes people laugh and then go very quiet.

A client moved into a new home. Lovely place, fresh start, and she was really excited.

Within a few weeks she had this persistent uncomfortable feeling in her kitchen that she could not explain or shift. She repainted. Rearranged. Bought new things. Moved the furniture around.

The feeling stayed, just quietly there, every time she walked in.

When we looked at the energy of the space it was coming from the washing machine which had been left by the previous owners. It was in that kitchen through years and years of a really unhappy marriage. Every argument, every slammed door, every difficult morning, every night someone cried while they waited for the spin cycle to finish.

Now here is the bit that makes the science people sit up. Dr Masaru Emoto spent years demonstrating that water holds the energetic imprint of whatever it is exposed to.

The beautiful music, positive words, created absolutely stunning, symmetrical crystals. Anger and negative energy created distorted, broken formations when it was frozen.

That washing machine worked with water every single day and it had been absorbing and cycling through the emotional residue of that marriage with every single load. Remember, your washing machine always has residual water left inside after each wash.

We cleared it and the kitchen felt different that same day. She said it was like someone had opened a window that had been shut for years.

She texts me every time she does a wash now just to check in. I find this absolutely endearing and also completely understandable.

You know that vintage find you love but always feel slightly odd wearing? Or the inherited piece that looks perfect but makes the room feel heavier than it should? Or the antique chair that is objectively gorgeous and yet nobody wants to sit in it?

That is not your imagination.

Objects absorb the emotional energy of everyone who ever owned them, touched them, everything that happened around them, everywhere they have been. The coat someone wore through the worst year of their life. The dining table that sat in a home where nobody was happy for decades. The ring your grandmother wore every day while carrying a grief she never told anyone about.

All of that travels with the object and right into your home and into your energy field.

And I know what you are thinking. Does this mean I have to get rid of everything? Do I have to throw out the vintage finds and the inherited pieces and start fresh with everything from IKEA?

Absolutely not, you just need to clear them. And once they are cleared from any emotional blocks, they are genuinely yours. The beauty without the baggage. The history without the heaviness. The ring with the love and none of the unresolved grief.

I clear objects regularly. My own and clients' and the shift is almost immediate every time. Something that felt slightly off suddenly just feels right. And the person who had been unconsciously bracing every time they walked past it finally gets to relax.

Before anything second-hand comes into your home, clear it first. Think of it like washing a second-hand coat before you wear it. Same principle but different kind of clean.

Have a quiet look around wherever you are right now.

Some of those things have histories you don’t know about. Some of them have been quietly affecting how you feel in your own home without you ever connecting the two and some of them have been doing it for years.

The good news is it does not have to stay that way.

You have two ways to work with me. One to one, directly, whenever something feels off and you want to clear it. Or the full twelve weeks in the Freedom Life Blueprint 90 Day Reset starting 3rd June 2026, where we go through absolutely everything.

Your gym bag is probably fine.

Probably.