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I think we need to redefine wellbeing in our hectic high-tech world. We can design
spaces to thrive, where we feel safe and calm amid the complexity of our times.
How did I get here?
Let me tell you what lies behind my manifesto (which I will share with you soon). I want to share a personal story from where I created the framework of my approach to design and wellbeing.
Four years ago, while reading Rebekah Solnit's "A field guide on getting lost", I fell in love with this particular quote.
"There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis."
I read Solnit's interpretation of what re-invention means, and I immediately understood that I was somewhat lost and in search of a house. At the time, I was anchored by narratives of my own creation. Although I was pursuing endeavours, I felt stalled; something was missing in my flow.
I knew creativity was my passion, but how to use it? It took me years to channel my drive through the right path. I struggled and pressed myself incessantly; I read a lot, learned about everything, and fed my curiosity. I felt I needed to prove myself with all sorts of challenges, so I met my resilience. As I got no answers, I encountered all my weaknesses. This while I gave birth to my two kids and reconciled with my mother's death. It was an intense journey.
By 2020 I was exhausted being me, and I dropped the hard thinking and let the universe "live" me. As Eckhart Tolle so nicely expressed, " I can't live with myself anymore", and I kind of shut down the self and held to the live part.
Then, after two years of lowering my guard on designing a good life, things started to shift. Eventually, I began to feel a nice flow again. It was like my belief system did an abrupt turn. I felt a natural alignment as if suddenly I had solid ground to design the house Solnit talks about. It was not an epiphany but rather a sense of arrival to a kinder self.
Recently, I landed on this other quote from David Whyte's Consolations (2020), and it felt deliciously good.
"Maturity beckons also, asking us to be larger, more fluid, more elemental, less cornered, less unilateral, a living conversational intuition between the inherited story, the one we are privileged to inhabit and the one, if we are large enough and broad enough, moveable enough and even, here enough, just, astonishingly, about to occur.
As it happens, this quote embodies the grounds of the house I choose to inhabit. I can flow into doing better work as an interior designer from this place.
Now more than ever, we need a holistic approach to all our experiences. HOME is a mindset that can help us find our natural coherence. I want to help people thrive and experience wellbeing while designing for energy flow in the physical environments they inhabit.
This is my story, from where I hope I can help you find coherence in your daily life.
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