A little over a year ago, I was living in a different house, in a neighborhood I no longer wanted to be living in. Things had become too crowded, too commercial. It didn’t feel like the place where I could build my biggest life and become my highest self, but it was all about to change.

For years I had wanted to move, but the circumstances never seemed right and my husband wasn’t really on board. It was only once I detached from that desire and got happy with where I currently was that everything changed.

For years, I had yearned to move to a place where I could truly flourish, but the circumstances never seemed right, and my husband wasn’t particularly keen on the idea. It was only once I managed to let go of that intense desire and embraced contentment with our current situation that the universe seemed to align in our favor. Suddenly, opportunities arose, and discussions with my husband became more open and optimistic. It was as if a veil had been lifted, revealing a path to a brighter future.

Detaching from the desire to move started with embracing all the good about our current situation. Once I had truly convinced myself that our first home would be an ideal place to stay and raise our children, I began to visualize how it could become a place of true beauty. We’d done a lot of renovations and decorating, but there were projects I still yearned to tackle. I went full-force into redecorating two of our main living spaces, and over several months saw the visions I once held only in my mind come to life.

Every morning when I opened my bedroom door and headed down the stairs, I smiled looking down onto our family room that I had completely transformed. The house was finally starting to feel like “me.” And for once, the design process had been easy. The vision I desired for the space had come to me so easily.

Through the past several years of studying the law of attraction and manifestation, this all now comes as no surprise. I detached from the outcome, raised my vibration, and followed my intuition.

Now I’m here…in a new home where everything feels possible. That’s the sticky part though- EVERYTHING feels possible and I’m overwhelmed. In arriving at the next stepping stone on the path to where I had dreamed of going, I once again became obsessed with a future destination and yet have no GPS, not even a map. In the desperation to find my way I found that I didn’t even trust myself. I started to feel like I was a stranger to myself, questioning whether everything I thought I knew about me was true. I’ve now taken a step off that path I started down and I’m heading into the woods. It’s a mysterious, sometimes frightening trek I’ve embarked on but I feel it’s necessary in order to find the right path. This new journey into the deepest parts of myself will underlie everything I write about here on this blog. Sure, I’ll share the practical tips I know to be true about creating a space that looks and feels great because that is so crucial to helping you manifest what you want in life. But I’ll also be digging into the learnings I discover about what it truly means to be creative. What it truly takes to know yourself.

I will authentically discover my likes, dislikes, the feelings I want to feel, the experiences I want to experience, and I’ll express it through my style. 

This is my interior manifesto.