Home Interior Design and Internal Wellness

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How our homes can help our wellbeing.

As well as being a qualified Interior Designer, I am also qualified in many other forms of health and wellbeing support including being a qualified Reiki Practitioner and Midwife and I have witnessed first hand how we are affected by our environment. As human beings, since we first walked the earth, we have a need to feel safe and so create shelter, a hiding place, a sanctuary. Although we no longer have to build with our own bare hands, that innate desire is in our make up and it has been brought to the forefront by the challenges we all faced over recent years.

Although I am an advocate for adventures, travel and experiencing the amazing gifts that nature and the natural world has to offer us, we always look forward to coming home, wherever that may be, to relax after our efforts and reminisce over our experiences and to share them with our family and our friends around the dining table or a cosy fire. When we've had a bad day we go "home" to that place where we feel safe and curl up and lick our wounds, maybe have a little cry, then rest and feel better. We invite the people we love to our homes to share good food, music, games, movies and laughter. When I have spoken to people who haven't been able to make their home feel personal to them yet for whatever reason, they describe feeling unsettled, out of balance or that their home doesn't reflect their style and who they are. Others who have struggled with their mental health or wellbeing and have felt an improvement just by getting their home decluttered and refreshed. We've all seen the shows where people think they need to move as they "are no longer in love" with their homes, but then with a few changes they end up staying and loving their home again when the space is more in tune with their needs and desires, the ambience changes and harmony and balance is restored to their environment and to themselves. More recently we have even seen an increase in women choosing to give birth at home rather than the clinical, hospital environment which can sometimes for some, inhibit relaxation and oxytocin production and so having an effect on the natural physiology of birth. So you can see, "home" is such a big part of us as humans and that's why I am passionate about providing the services I do.