What Home Means to Me
Finding peace in everyday spaces
Back in the day when I was just beginning to launch my career in space clearing, I was invited to write a piece for a site called Lifebyme. Being included among some of my heroes like Seth Godin and Byron Katie felt like a dream come true.
The piece was called “What Home Means to Me.” It became my manifesto.
Here’s an excerpt:
It doesn’t take much for me to feel at home. Give me a comfy chair, surround me with beautiful objects, simmer me a pot of soup, soak me in a hot bath at the end of a long day and I’m in heaven.
Home is not just a physical structure, but the sense that’s built into our human experience of feeling safe and whole. Home is what informs and gives meaning to our lives. Home and well-being go together.
As I see it, homes are not just empty boxes we fill with collections of stuff, life experiences and unique personalities. They’re alive and dynamic places that respond directly to our attentiveness (or lack of it). Our homes and workplaces are extensions of us: they affect us, reflect us, and support us. There is no separation.
When we tend our homes with awareness, we nourish ourselves. When we nourish ourselves, we come back into balance. When we restore balance, we bring peace to the world.
That is my idea of home. And heaven. 1
When I read it again I realize how much of what I wrote back then is still true today.
What does home mean to you?
What is most nourishing about it?
Ahhh 🏡
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Full text of “What Home Means to Me,” by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks! 💃 This will be my new manifesto for 2025! 🤩
While contemplating on why home is important to me I can't help but thinking of all those who recently lost their home in the LA fires. What it is like to have no home? To have your home destroyed by flames?