I went Fall shopping this weekend. Everything looked like clothes from Flashdance, but I managed to make out with some new threads that I really like. And now, of course, everything in my closet feels out of style! So this led to a massive closet clearing on Sunday afternoon. I came home with five new items and ended up with ten empty hangers – not to mention stuff from my drawers. Wow! My wardrobe shrank but I love everything in my closet...

In the documentary film, The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard examines our national obsession with stuff and how it all began. She attributes our consumption addiction to the post-World War III economic policies that propagandized the notion of buying stuff. Our insatiable appetites haven’t been able to stop since. That is, until now. With the decline of the economy – whether directly affected or not – we have all started to take...

Feng Shui reminds me of yoga in the ‘90s.  Yoga was coming on the scene as an eastern practice with a catchy name.  It sounded like something we should do, but we weren’t quite sure why.  That’s about where we are with feng shui today.  Although I am happy to say that it is quickly increasing in popularity.  Why?  Like yoga, we realize that we simply feel better if we do it. When explaining what feng shui is I often liken it to yoga...

This is a repost of my article that appeared on CrazySexyLife.com. Although I don’t have any linguistic rules to back me up, I feel like it’s not coincidental that the word “HOME” includes the word “OM” and has the same prefix as the word “HOLISTIC.” Holistic living is being more and more embraced with conscious eating, preventive and alternative medicine, and simplicity. Holistic implies being ‘whole’ or looking at the...

When you think of the Law of Attraction, you probably think about your thoughts, your emotions, and maybe your affirmations.  You most likely don’t think about your home or living environment.  But you should and here’s why… We know that everything is energy – our thoughts and most certainly our emotions.  In fact, our emotions are just heightened byproducts of our thoughts.  You can think of it with this simple formula:  Thoughts +...