Your home wants to help you.
And when you join in on this conversation with your home, you can really begin to RECEIVE this support.
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What brought me to this conversation?
I come from a long line of women who like to putter and rearrange, and I always have, too.
My mom keeps those furniture gliders under all her furniture because she is a petite little lady and she likes to move her stuff around!
When I had my own home, I found myself doing the same thing. I couldn't tell you exactly why, but I would wake up one day and just know I needed to move some things around. My kids would tease me— Oh, mom's moving stuff again—and during some of those years, I was grappling with a lot of heavy energy so I was moving stuff often. But I knew it worked. I wouldn't have had language for it, but I always knew when it was needed, and I knew things felt different and better afterward.
Fast forward to my 40s and I discovered feng shui—an ancient wisdom practice and finally, a map for how to intentionally work with what I'd been doing by instinct.
I began to dive headfirst into studying it and then I hired my first feng shui consultant.
She asked me what my goals were and I told her I wanted more clients to find me and I wanted to start putting myself out there in the dating world.
When she got to my house, she literally said: I couldn't find your house. The driveway and the house were hidden by trees and bushes. It was really easy to miss.
And I just laughed. Because of course it was.
I wanted to find and be found by clients and by a future partner but I’d been kind of hiding out for a long time and my house was reflecting this pattern back to me.
Once I saw that, I couldn't unsee it.
So, just as I was doing the inner work to process my fears around being seen, I paired it with the outer work of feng shui. And I got my body and my space involved.
I cut back the overgrown greenery.
I put solar lights along the driveway.
I gave some extra love to the front porch.
And I regraded the bumpy gravel driveway so it was smooth sailing all the way to my front door.
My partner and I found each other six months later.
this is my kitchen table…
…once I started a conversation with my home, I couldn’t help but bring in more life—more flowers and color and scent and beauty. Because it matters.
What is feng shui?
Feng shui is the practice of interpreting energy patterns in our surroundings and how they affect us — and then arranging those patterns to support our well-being. Translated from Chinese, feng means wind and shui means water. Wind represents energy and water represents fortune.
Or as physicist and feng shui practitioner Barry Gordon puts it: "Feng shui is the intelligent use of intention through environmental metaphor."
Just like my home was giving me the metaphor and pattern of hiding and not being seen, so is yours reflecting metaphors and patterns every day to your subconscious. So, with the wisdom of feng shui, we can make sure our home is reflecting the metaphors and patterns we want to be absorbing in our lives.
I love how feng shui gives us a language to name what we've likely already been feeling and tools to consciously work with these dynamics. I think this is why we choose the spaces we live in. In a way, we're signing up to learn certain lessons from our homes that mirror what we’re learning in our lives. And our homes want to help us with this process! The more you can be in conversation with your space, the more you can receive this support.
This is not about treating ourselves (or our homes) like a problem to be solved or just another improvement project.
It’s about healing all the way to the roots and taking loving and conscious responsibility for the life we’ve been given, including the home and land where we live.
The piece most people are missing
Most of my clients (like me) have done a lot of spiritual exploring and a ton of personal development, but they are often trying to make big changes, like writing a book or shifting deep relational wounds, while unknowingly sitting in the same spaces that are reinforcing old patterns.
In Taoist wisdom, there are three types of “luck.”
Heaven luck is what we're given at birth. This is our temperament, our family of origin, our astrology chart, and some might say our “karma” or the life lessons we came here to learn.
Human luck is the stuff we can change/adapt about ourselves. This is the inner work of therapy, coaching, mindset work, and our willingness to grow and learn.
Earth luck is about our physical environment—the spaces we live and work and sleep in, and whether they are quietly supporting or quietly undermining the life we're trying to build.
I love how this wisdom shows three different channels that are influencing our lives. In my experience, most people doing serious inner work have left earth luck almost entirely untouched. Their spaces are still telling the old story, even as they're working hard to write a new one.
This was true for me and when I started to bring in the deep wisdom of earth luck, things really began to change.
what my clients are saying…
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"Things have really shifted things around here. I think everyone is feeling lighter and has more energy to face life with (and the kids were tidying up without me asking!). We needed that uplifting energy so badly—thank you!”
—Katie
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"We are so grateful for our space clearing. It’s like you sprinkled fairy dust on everything and it feels so alive and our home is so happy now. What a gift.”
—Stacey
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“I’m loving learning more about feng shui and I’ve actually been adding more color to my space, too. It’s been feeling so good and I have a lot of fresh optimism.”
—Jenn
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"My house felt really heavy and making those changes and the clearing has made such a difference. It feels so good and everyone who comes over comments on it now."
Jon
My Services
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A focused 60-minute session zeroing in on one area of your home or office, with three needle-moving adjustments you can implement right away.
Virtual or in-person. Investment: $150
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A focused 60-minute session for writers and creatives, looking specifically at your desk and creative workspace. Tailored adjustments to support your writing practice and creative energy. Can be booked as a standalone or as an add-on to an existing coaching or editing engagement.
Virtual or in-person in Fort Collins/Northern Colorado. Investment: $150
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The full experience—floorplan review, 90-minute walkthrough of your space, and a written report with clear, practical, tailored recommendations organized around your 2-3 primary goals. Followed by a phone call and 30 days of email support as you begin implementing.
Available in-person (Fort Collins and Northern Colorado) or virtually. Investment: $425
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An energetic cleanse of your home. Especially powerful after a move, a divorce, a loss, or when you’re trying to trigger change. (And for those recovering from people-pleasing, a space clearing can be a profound act of reclaiming yourself and your space.)
We'll spend approximately two hours walking through your space together—I bring everything we need, including the roses. This can be booked as a standalone or as an add-on.
In-person only (Fort Collins and Northern Colorado). Investment: $275
The details…
my training
I'm a certified feng shui practitioner trained in the BTB (Black Tantric Buddhist) lineage through Amanda Gibby Peters' Simple Shui House Therapy program.
For over twenty years I've been working with creatives and people asking the larger questions in life. I bring decades of experience in reading patterns, spotting metaphors, and working closely with people's inner lives to every feng shui engagement.
how/where
Wondering how to book or have some questions? You can connect with me here.
Sessions are done via zoom or in-person at your home or office for Fort Collins and Northern Colorado clients.
