An Uncluttered Home Supports Wellness and Reduces Chaos When your home is in chaos, your mind is in chaos. When your mind is in chaos, your home will follow. We spend our lives trying to find balance and reduce stress. We look at food, exercise, meditation, yoga, walks, vacations, and everything in between. Each [...]
How A Decluttering Coach Helps You Make Essential Shifts in Your Space If all you needed to create the home you’ve always wanted were a handful of inspirational ideas and organizational tips, you could get those from blogs, books, articles, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, etc. However, if you haven’t been able to begin your decluttering process, [...]
How Decluttering Your Home Relates to Yoga Do you want to learn how yoga relates to decluttering? The yamas and niyamas of yoga philosophy can guide your decluttering journey. Yoga is a philosophy and a lifestyle that is a way of being in the world that creates harmony inside and out. Our homes need the harmony [...]
What is Vastu Shastra? You’re probably familiar with Feng Shui. It's become popular over the years as a way to bring luck and prosperity into the home. But you might not know that Feng Shui has its roots in Vastu Shastra, the architecture science from ancient India. Vastu Shastra, the science of building in harmony [...]
Benefits of Houseplants at Home and with Yoga Practice Many people, myself included, are drawn to plants. Research shows that nature has restorative properties for the human psyche. The good news is you don’t need to look any further than the plant on your windowsill. But beyond this all-around general goodness of nature, more specifically, [...]
A Cluttered Home Equals A Cluttered Life You make to-do lists that don’t get done. You try everything you can think of from time blocking to meditation, but your life still feels chaotic. You start new workout routines and commit to clean eating, yet after two weeks you find your self sliding back into old [...]
Clearing clutter is the best antidepressant there is. This is because stale, stagnant air that usually sticks to untouched, unmoved junk in the home often makes the surrounding chi heavy, creating vibrations that make you feel depressed. Each time I meet someone assailed by the blues who seems set on a downward spiral of depression, [...]
Everyday Chic Author Molly Sims. Photo by Amy Neusinger. In her book, Everyday Chic, Molly Sims offers pages of helpful suggestions for stress-free parties and having more ease and organization at home. She says this about drinks, “Always have a signature bevvie. It’s fun and festive and adds a little personality to [...]
On Earth Day and beyond, implement some the following landscape tips for water saving garden design. 1. Be conscientious with your sprinklers: Staying on top of your irrigation is always important, but it’s crucial in a drought. Overwatering is unnecessary, and easy to avoid. 30% of the average American family’s water [...]
Maple Syrup Photo by Susan Currie “Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.” --Hope Jahren, Lab Girl When I need to recover my sanity or steady [...]