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Creating Sanctuary at Home

Take time to honor your own peace and desires no matter who is in your life or what phase you find yourself in.  Envision and create your own version of sanctuary.

I imagine a place where my mind is still, my body is warm, both silence and naturescape create a hum around me. I may be wrapped in a fluffy blanket or immersed in the warmth of water in my bath. My favorite scents are blended and blowing through an oil diffuser, baking in the oven, or floating on breeze from my garden. As sensuous beings we crave sanctuary. As a working, independent mom, it is both a desire and a necessity. The question is, how do we plan it – create, build, utilize this?

Sanctuary means a few things – the most sacred part of a religious building, a place of protection or refuge, a safe place. The goal is not to seclude myself from others, but primarily about planning an experience in the home that is easy to get to and guaranteed to revive spirits, uplift the soul, and bring me back to center for the purpose of  personal and family development. At the end of the day, if I’m tightly wound and emotions are running high, it’s just not as easy to be that conscious parent that loves, educates and nurtures.

In a corner of home, breathing one hundred breaths of quiet golden light.  Giving life to a majestic and maternal aura that gifts a luminescent glow. I know myself when I remember the dizzying feeling of love and passion or the quickness of a gust of wind whipping the scent called home.  Filling the space with objects d’art to spark a wild ornate spirit and old soul harmony.  Falling breathless in the place that enwraps me in my own knowing and beauty.  I radiate and slow my heartbeat in my creation -my Sanctuary.