How to Design Your Life and Home Now With 5 Simple Vision Board Ideas

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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5 Ways to Design a Happy & Healthy Home Right Now

5 Ways to Design a Happy and Healthy Home Interior Designer Christopher Burns, Health Designer Barbara Ficarra for BarbaraFicarra.com

Bring wellness into your home and create harmony and balance. Design a happy and healthy home right now. There are simple decor tricks that you can do right now to to make your home happier and healthier. Your home is a reflection of you. It’s your foundation and it’s your oasis. Wether it’s large or small, there are simple tweaks that can do to make your home happier and healthier. Design a Happy & Healthy…

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4 Simple Ways to Make You and Your Home Office Healthier

4 Simple Ways to Make You and Your Home Office Healthier

by Barbara Ficarra Working from home can be challenging, however it’s possible to stay productive and healthy at home. Indoor spaces can have an affect on your overall health and well-being. Creating spaces that are conducive to a good work environment includes spaces infused with light, nature and air. Furthermore, it’s vital that you focus on your health & wellness needs during your work day. There are simple ways to stay healthy while working from…

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13 Questions for Fine Art Photographer, Nate Zeman—And Find Out Now How to Display Photographs at Home

Nate Zeman

In a Q & A with award-winning fine art photographer, Nate Zeman, known for his beautiful nature, wildlife, landscape and travel photographs, he shares what inspires him, his most rewarding and challenging experience — and he offers tips on how to select and display photographs at home. Zeman captures majestic and wondrous photos of our world. His photos of wildlife in their natural habit are dynamic and create deep emotion.  Photographer—Nate Zeman  Photographer—Nate Zeman Q…

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Your At Home Self-Care Checklist

During these unprecedented times, it’s important now, more than ever, to focus on your wellbeing by practicing self-care. But what is self-care? “Self-care means paying attention to and supporting one’s own physical and mental health.” Self-care is different for everyone, but there are core foundations of good health such as getting the proper amount of sleep (7 or more hours for adults), eating healthy, and exercising. While you’re staying at home, what are the best ways…

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WELLNESS: 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO ADD MORE YELLOW TO YOUR HOME AND LIFE

WELLNESS: 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO ADD MORE YELLOW TO YOUR HOME AND LIFE

    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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Intersection of Design and Health: Designers Team Up to Bring Wellness Into the Home

Barbara Ficarra, Health Designer(TM) and Christopher Burns, Interior Designer Team Up to Bring Wellness Into Homes

Two creative designers, Christopher Burns, INTERIOR DESIGNER, and Barbara Ficarra, HEALTH DESIGNER team up to bring wellness into the home. Intersection of Design and Health Barbara Ficarra, registered nurse and HEALTH DESIGNER™ has made wellness her career by designing methods for wholesome living and empowering people to design their own healthy lifestyles. Barbara has joined forces with Christopher Burns, a sought-after New York City Interior Designer to integrate design and wellness into homes. Christopher has been…

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2018 Health and Wellness: Everyday Well Design

 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 life and home

    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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Six Seeds Pack a Healthy Punch

  DESIGN YOUR MEALS SMART HEALTHY EATING Six Seeds Pack a Healthy Punch By Jane Dummer, RD   Did you know that nine out of every 10 bites of food we eat today start with a seed? In my new book, The Need for Seeds – How to Make Seeds an Everyday Food in your Healthy Diet, I discuss the numerous health and nutritional benefits of seeds. Let’s explore my favorite six seeds that pack…

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