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6 Ways Your Home Can Boost Your Self-Esteem
(Elle Decor España) You can see in someone's environment if they have self-esteem. That sounds like a bold statement, but it is fairly simplistic. If you want to know what a person thinks of themselves, there are very basic ways to tell just from looking at their...
Live Your Dreams!
Sometimes its even hard to put into words what the dream is, but everyone has them, and only some people live them. Let's be the people who do! xoxo Dana
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain!
I have already talked to you about why handwriting (and specifically cursive writing) can act as a tool to to open up your mind, so today I thought I'd throw out a Betty Edward's life-expanding art book classic "Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain," to push the...
Round Coffee Tables Can Create More Gravity & Flow!
(via) We all need spaces that are grounded and focused. We all need to be grounded and focused. That said, lots of times we create rooms with no sense of gravity and we hang out on the sides of the space tentatively. You wouldn't want to hang out tentatively on the...
Rugs That Make The Room!
It only takes one dazzling item in a room to light it up, and brilliant rugs are an inimitable way to accomplish that transformation with ease. You can roll out a rug to add motion, texture, personal style and color to any space. While these moves are bold for...
Feng Shui Q & A: How Can I Stop Being So Messy?
(Dash Snow & Dan Colen's Nest from Deitch) A reader asked a great question about the mess in her home that doesn't seem to resolve itself: " I have a big problem that I have had forever and I was wondering if you had an advice for me. I am a clutter bug. I have...
Feng Shui For Control Freaks!
(Mikko Kuorinki) Self-help has failed me on a large scale, at least when I tried to use it to control life. This was a hard video to make because it forced me to admit how greedy-wanty-angsty I used to be, and have the potential to be if I am not aware. In the past I...
Feng Shui & The Big, Beautiful Concept Of Love!
For all the frantic want I have seen and experienced, for all the gurus and sages who can "bring in" your soulmate, for every person who has used the word love very lightly, it never escapes my consciousness that love is a driving force of society. There are those...
Instagramming: All Sorts Of Feel Good Stuff!
Welcome to my week as seen on Instagram! Above, at Ohwow gallery on LaCienega, I am standing next to a piece of conceptual art involving a canteloupe on a skewer. Who could resist memorializing that? It's been a week filled with wild and directed energy and an...