Your home wants to collaborate with you.
And it’s probably been trying to tell you some things.
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What brought me to this collaboration?
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. I didn’t have language for it back then, 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 about my goals, not just for the house, but for my life (because in feng shui the two are inseparable). I told her I wanted to show up more in work and my relationships, that I wanted more aligned clients to find me and I wanted to start putting myself out there in the dating world.
When she got to my house, the first thing she said was: I almost 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 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 fixed the potholes in the gravel driveway so it was smooth sailing all the way to my front door.
And while I don’t think feng shui is ever transactional, I also don’t think it was just coincidence that 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. My neutral home suddenly had more flowers and color and scent and beauty. I think of these things as a kind of offering of gratitude to my home and to myself.
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What is feng shui?
Feng shui is an ancient Chinese wisdom practice of interpreting energy patterns in our surroundings and then consciously working with those patterns.
Or as physicist and feng shui teacher 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 start interpreting these messages and then make adjustments so that our home is reflecting the metaphors and patterns we want to be absorbing in our lives.
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 the rest of 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.
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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 healing deep relational wounds, while unknowingly sitting in the same spaces that are reinforcing old patterns.
In Taoist wisdom, there are three types of “luck” or energy influencing our lives.
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. These are our values and beliefs and the 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 equally influencing our lives. In my experience, many 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.
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My Services
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A focused 60-minute feng shui consult zeroing in on one or two areas of your home or office, with adjustments you can implement right away.
Available virtually. 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.
Available virtually. Investment: $150
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An energetic cleanse of your home or office. Especially powerful after a move, a divorce, a loss, when you’re selling a home, or when you’re trying to trigger change.
And for those recovering from people-pleasing/codependence, a space clearing can be a profound act of reclaiming yourself and your space.
We'll spend approximately 90 minutes 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, or by arrangement. Investment: $255 for average-sized homes/offices; larger spaces priced accordingly
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The full experience—floor plan review, 90-minute walkthrough of your space, and written follow-up notes with clear, practical, and tailored recommendations.
Available in-person (Fort Collins and Northern Colorado) or virtually. Investment: $350
My background…
For over twenty years I've been studying various wisdom traditions and working with creatives and people asking the larger questions in life. I'm a writer, coach, editor, and certified feng shui practitioner trained in the BTB (Black Tantric Buddhist) lineage of feng shui through Amanda Gibby Peters' House Therapy program. I hold an MA in English literature, am a graduate of The Center for Action and Contemplation's Living School, and I founded the award-winning literary magazine Ruminate, where I served as editor-in-chief for over a decade. I'm also a Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach and I’m trained in Developmental and Relational Trauma (DARTT). I bring all of this experience together in my work with clients and their homes. I live with my family in Fort Collins, Colorado, near the Poudre River.
