How do you make your health a priority?

Cleaning and spending time with my sons. I also walk almost every day and I try to have at least one day a week where I don’t get in the car and I don’t spend any money. For me, it’s a form of reset, of conscious consumerism and an environmental nod.

“Also, I’ve been writing more than I ever have.”

My book has become a diary and I honestly don’t know if it will ever see the light of day… and yet I keep going. I’m working on a capsule of stories from the last five years of the last five homes my sons and I have lived in, clients I’ve worked with during that time, and projects I’ve done around all of these homes. There’s many a pattern revealing themselves through the documentation, and it’s been deeply healing to map it all out and have it live in one place. It’s actually creating the basis of a unique interiors modality that I have been building, both consciously and unconsciously.

What is your go-to coping mechanism?

Cleaning is my deepest catharsis. It’s absolutely my go-to coping mechanism for my mental health. I will blast music and go to town. I drop into what I call a Moving Meditation, where I let myself be guided from one activity to the next and that’s how I connect with my space and thus myself. I talk about it on my membership frequently. My body is lost in movement while my brain is lost in contemplation or cleaning my proverbial house. I know it doesn’t come from the healthiest place, but it’s everything to me… It’s my trauma. It’s my bliss. It’s my control. It’s my preference. And it moves a shitload of energy. My sons will come home from their father’s and ask me: “What’s different this week, mama?” They look forward to my rearranging.