I Can See Clearly Now
“Make your work be in keeping with your purpose”
I’ve always found the first lines of a new blog difficult to write. Perhaps because they are transitions into a bigger topic and need to set tone and provide a starting point. After that initial hurdle, the things that need to be said come with clarity and fluidity.
I have taken quite a long pause from many of the things I did on a regular basis, including writing, in order to review whether or not they would be carried forward as I make my own transitions. It was decision making that needed me to slow down and pull over, like pulling into a rest stop for a bit, to refill one’s tank and re-route. Now, with more clarity about what stays and what no longer serves me, I’m able to see my road map again.
I’ve always known that I had a different take on interior design than that which was represented in the glossy shelter (home design) magazines. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve gotten many an inspiration from their pages, but I always wanted to dig deeper than the picture perfect surface being presented, because interior design is so much more than mere aesthetic. So much transformation happens between the “before” and “after” picture than could ever be caught with a photographic image. I have been fortunate enough to journey with people in that space in between and I have seen design’s ability to re-align people and bring beauty, balance and well-being back into their lives.
The Interior Design Shrink life…re-designed is a moniker and motto I did not choose lightly or with a sense of irony. For me, it encompasses the whole process of honestly analyzing things as they are, seeking new solutions and ultimately creating something better than what came before. This is the same process needed for any kind of re-calibrating and re-building that we are asked to do several times in the course of our lives.
I have spent the last year in deep reflection and am now committed to finding ways to pursue and promote interior design as the healing modality that I wholly understand it to be. While the end result is always aesthetically appealing, it’s the work being done that is where I’d like to raise awareness and add this as a vital prong in the mind, body, spirit healing conversation. The environments surrounding us cannot be dismissed into the realm of the superfluous any longer, and new generations of designers need to proceed into the field with a deeper understanding of what they are being called to do.
The world and its inhabitants are hurting desperately and old solutions and ways of thinking no longer provide all the answers. Alternative healing modalities are being asked to come forward at this critical point in time and help and they may just be some that have always been right under our own noses. Those of you that know, or have worked with me, already have an understanding of the profound shifts that happens when interior design is approached from this angle. But there are many more that could benefit from being offered this as an additional tool in the re-alignment tool chest. So, it seems I am volunteering for the front lines.
I am so grateful for all of the opportunities and experiences I have had that have led me to this place in my life’s work. While they weren’t always pleasant, they’ve led me to see that we all have hurdles needing to be cleared, but once we do, the clarity and fluidity of the universe brings us to the place that feels good and right.
It’s good to be back.
