mental-health
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The Healing Power of Small Steps
How one woman reclaimed her home–and her life–five minutes at a time There is a woman (Bonnie) out in Utah whose YouTube channel is called “A Beautiful Mess.” She specializes in the same kind of service that I do—healing homes, essentially, and the families within them. She recently featured another woman’s home, a woman that Continue reading
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Gratitude in the Details
A practice of restoration, one overlooked detail at a time. What if the secret to a vibrant home isn’t new furniture or fresh paint, but simply noticing—and loving—the overlooked details? Dr. Joe Dispenza speaks of “loving another into life” as a healing technique. I’ve found that the same is true of our spaces: we love Continue reading
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Kids Bedrooms: Cleanliness = Self-Respect
In every home, there are rooms that breathe differently. Some exhale peace. Others hold tension. And then there are bedrooms—those private sanctuaries where our kids retreat, dream, resist, and become. For many parents, the untidy bedroom becomes a battleground. But what if it could be a threshold, a space where self-respect is not demanded, but Continue reading
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A Multi-Sensory Home
Before we speak, before we settle, before we even think, we sense. The spaces we inhabit speak to us in subtle languages: a flicker of light, a hint of lemon, the hush between footsteps. These sensory cues shape our nervous systems, our memories, and our moods. In crafting a healing home, we begin not with Continue reading
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The Emotional Ecology Manifesto
A philosophy for tending the unseen landscapes within and around us Emotional ecology is the art and practice of honoring the subtle interplay between feeling and environment—how emotions shape space, and how space, in turn, mirrors and molds the emotional body. It is the language of soft shifts and sacred rhythms. It is a home Continue reading
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Loving a Child into Life: The Transformative Power of Their Space
A woman commented recently, “My stepson is a psychopath. It’s hard to be around him.” Sometimes children act out because they feel unloved, uncared for, like they are invisible or don’t matter. Sometimes a parent’s ego or negative programming makes it difficult to “soften up” when we are accustomed to feeling the same contempt that Continue reading
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A Hygge House
“That house was a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or storytelling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness.” This was written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The last sentence is of particular Continue reading
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From Control to Comfort: Creating a Home That Breathes
We can have our home, our micro-world completely clean, orderly and organized into perfect cubes, complete with labels. We can manage our days by the hour, assign chores, prepare meals in advance, and snag every dust bunny out of the air before it lands. If this sounds like you, then I am here to encourage Continue reading
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Simplify Your Surroundings for Peace and Healing
We’ve cycled back around to the time of year – warming sunny days as we draw nearer to spring – when we seize opportunities to move stagnant indoor air out the windows. We deep-clean, we dust. We empty from our living space all that isn’t appreciated for either form or function. Delores Canon once mentioned Continue reading
