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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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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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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3 SUREFIRE WAYS TO DESIGN YOUR OWN HAPPINESS

Think DESIGN when you think about your own happiness and health. What steps do you want to take to design a happy and healthy life? Do you think it’s possible to design your own happiness? A happy and healthy life is about living blissfully, with passion and purpose, and it’s about designing your life. The great news is that you don’t need a complete overhaul. Take simple and small actions every day to design the life…

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HEALTHY DESIGN | WHERE DO YOU UNWIND TO REDUCE STRESS?

    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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