Home + Life By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA If you’re wondering how to reach your goals and dreams, creating a vision board may be the first step to help you find clarity. A vision board is a visualization tool to help you manifest your goals, hopes, dreams and desires. However, there’s one catch. You need to take action. Have fun creating a vision board to help you design a healthy home and life. Vision…
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The intersection of health + design can help you live better now because the fusion can create harmony and balance. Designing a beautiful living space with purpose and passion can be aesthetically pleasing. However, designing a beautiful living space with healthy design elements, can help you live healthier and better. A well-designed beautiful healthy space can evoke joy. It may improve your well-being and help you live better because health is at the center…
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Simply, wellness means health and happiness. Wellness for your home is simply about designing a healthy and happy home. Your home is a place to nourish your soul. Wellness is also about harmony and balance. To achieve harmony and balance, begin with small steps. Small steps can make a huge difference. Adding color to your home is one small step. Color is a very powerful design tool and adding pops of color to…
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2018 Health and Wellness: Everyday Well Design Health and wellness is about designing everyday well 2018 Health and Wellness: Everyday Well Design | Health and Wellness isn’t solely the absence of disease, it’s about designing everyday well. It’s about living joyfully in sync with your innermost self. It’s about nourishing your mind, body and soul. It’s mental well-being, physical well-being and spiritual and social well-being. It’s about designing a life and home you love with…
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Health: Everyday well is healthy design for you and your home. What is everyday well? Living everyday well means designing a life you love with style, passion and purpose. It’s chic and healthy lifestyle design. It means living blissfully bold. It’s about finding the beauty in the everyday. It means creating a happy and healthy home and life that you love. It’s about relishing your surroundings and feeling content and cozy…
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Stay happy, healthy and stress-free with these three simple healthy design tips to help you glide through the holidays stress free and keep you on track for a fun and festive holiday season. 3 Healthy Design Tips for Stress Free Holidays Shine Bright This Holiday 1. Design your bedroom for a good night’s sleep. Don’t skimp on sleep. Let’s face it; if you’re not getting the right amount of sleep each night, it can wreak…
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Fill your kitchen with style, love, laughter and healthy foods How do you design your happy and healthy kitchen? Does your kitchen reflect your style? Is it filled with love, laughter and healthy foods? Designing your happy and healthy kitchen is part of designing your healthy life. When you’re in your kitchen, how do you feel? Is it a space that makes you feel happy? Is there harmony and balance? Does it bring…
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Where do you go to unwind to reduce stress? Do you take time just for you? Do you have a place in your home where you go to unwind, relax and reduce stress? A place that brings you harmony, balance and happiness? A special sweet spot in your home where you can go to #take15minutes to focus on you? I love this Tweet from Elle Décor Magazine, “A Colorful Look At The Home…
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Healthy Design Element: The Color Blue The Color Blue – It can spark happiness, bring calmness or ignite boldness and energy. I love the color blue. It reminds me of the beauty in nature, a clear blue sky, the ocean, flowers, birds, and butterflies. (It also brings back great memories. My dad had beautiful blue eyes.) One of my favorite places to travel is the Caribbean. The tranquil turquoise waters are truly spectacular. Blue is…
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Declutter your home and life, but first you need to ask yourself one very important question. Organization is the Achilles heel of so many rooms. The golden rule: There must be a place for everything. Imagine having just the right space for it all. Using space in the right way can bring harmony and balance to your life. You can be organized in the smallest of places. Just take a look at these New York…
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