Interior design for highly sensitive people.
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The Eccentric Genius Habitat Intervention
Interior Design for Highly Sensitive People
The manifesto and how-to guide for creating spaces that support your genius. Available in e-book and paperback everywhere.
“What a validating book…if I quoted all my favorite impactful parts, I’d be breaking some sort of copyright laws…”–B.R., Amazon reviewer
- Trust your needs, not your conditioning. Discover how creative entitlement can matter more than your bank balance when it comes to designing a home that fits you.
- Sensory assessment exercises help you understand how your own nervous system responds to the world, and how to adjust your space to feel at home.
- Understand how your environment can drain your energy, and how to boost your mental and physical health by adapting your space to your needs, not vice versa.
- Work with color, sound, light and space in ways that transform your experience of everyday life.
- Notice how your space mirrors your relationships, and learn to adjust physical boundaries to create more harmony and balance in your emotional life.
- Step into your agency on a personal and societal level, and use your expanded awareness to create healing in those around you.
From Grunge to Gorgeous
March of 2020: lockdown. What I crave more than anything: a garden. What I’ve got: 100 square feet of broken concrete, surrounded by a broken fence, looking onto a vacant lot which the guy down the block insists is his. (It’s not.) I’ve gotten into a guerrilla gardening war over this lot, and lost.
Why Get Political? A Love Letter.
“Don’t mix business with politics.” If you follow Practical ...
7 Simple Fixes for the Highly Sensitive Person’s Home Office
The amount of natural light we are exposed to, the air quality, ambient noise, textures, visual clutter and smells can help us manage our stress. Taking some time to align our workspaces can have a big payoff in terms of our mental and emotional resilience. You don’t have to remodel your home, fire your family, or spend a ton of money you don’t have on office furniture in order to radically improve your working and living space in a short time. Most of what you need is already available; it’s just a question of fitting the puzzle pieces together.
Sensory Integration: How To Decode What Your Child Is Telling You
So often, children with sensory issues are treated for behavioral problems, with or without acknowledging what sensory needs might be driving the behavior. When therapists focus on addressing unwanted behaviors without digging deeper, we can miss an opportunity to help a struggling child.
The ONE Biggest Mistake
You don't have to take down a wall to see radical improvement in your interior design. Just start with the simple stuff!
The Eccentric Genius: Neurodiversity and Design
Neurodiverse people have brains that differ from the majority, in the ways they organize and process information. This can include people on the autism spectrum, people with sensory sensitivities, and people with ADHD. There is a lot of overlap, and specific patterns of neurodiversity vary quite a bit.
Are you an eccentric genius?
You’re in the right place, darling.
In this free e-course, you will discover:
The ONE design mistake that NEARLY ALL HUMANS make in their habitats, and how to fix it in 15 minutes. (You will roll your eyes. And cry.)
Three senses your kindergarten teacher didn’t mention. (And how they make you a NINJA.)
The design trend which created an epidemic of shut-ins. (NOT COVID-19. Some of us now know the meaning of schadenfreude.)
Why Febreze is EVIL. (There should be a warning label.)
What kinds of light fixtures will be BANNED when the establishment comes to its senses.
What color has to do with hormones. (And how to leverage it–St. John’s Wort, piffle!)
What NEVER to do, ever ever, if you do not wish to induce psychosis, extreme depression, vertigo, or actual regurgitation in guests and members of your own family. (We all love those Bad Examples.)
Practical Sanctuary, sensory interior design, specializes in interior design for highly sensitive people.
We help you create spaces which are:
