Reflections

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INNER LIFE/OUTER HOME

My love affair with houses started as a child. I improvised doll houses and forts and puppet stages. Every trip my family took it seemed we ended up at an historic home like Monticello or Mount Vernon or the House of the Seven Gables. I loved visiting recreated historical areas like Newcastle, Delaware or Williamsburg, Virginia. An overnight at a friend's home was twice the fun in that I got to visit and to see firsthand how the home functioned. It was only as an adult that I realized that places and structures have a particular type of energy that I feel or "register". That energy reflects interior aspects of the lives of those who live or work or visit there. Anyone with some assistance can understand what the house is mirroring back. The relationship between human and home is reciprocal. That relationship can be ignored or utilized. That's my love affair now.

Along my life's path I've renovated houses, helped rehabilitate homes for Habitat for Humanity, designed and built a home, worked for a construction company, studied interior design and later studied Denise Linn's interior alignment and feng shui. In some respects I'm still the little girl who is wowed by homes, only now I understand more of what that passion is about.

What's your relationship with your home?

Do you enjoy coming home?

Does your living environment support or depress you?

Is it cluttered, bare, uncomfortable or just right?

Your home reflects parts of your interior life. With a variety of tools I can help with both the physical structure and with your understanding of what home can mean and do for you.

Bibliography:

Denise Linn: Sacred Space: Clearing and enhancing the Energy of Your Home. Ballentine bocks, N.Y. 1995

Vishu McGee: Archetype Design: House as a Vehicle for Spirit. Archetype Designs, Taos, N.M. 1999

Anne Cain 336-601-5420 or e-mail: acain100@triad.rr.com

Themis Institute provides support for those struggling with spiritual emergence for as long as is needed.