#inner wellness

In the self help / spirituality / mental wellness world this word is used all the time and there’s a reason for that. You can’t begin to attain your goals if you don’t know what they are. Setting intentions is simply putting some side aside to communicate your goals to yourself clearly. These can be micro goals (my intention for today is to be gentle and gracious to myself) or macro (my intention for this year is to invest more deeply in my relationships). Sis, you can set intentions for your workout, for doing your dishes, for your creative sessions. I am working toward getting better at setting daily, weekly, monthly, yearly intentions more regularly - I like to sit down with some water, some music and my journal and really clearly communicate with myself. Because ✨ you can’t know where you want to go unless you consciously choose it ✨ the more you drill your goals into your head, the more they exist at the front of your mind and the easier it is to make moves to address them. This is science, my friends. 🌡🧬🧪 and here’s the trick: setting consistent and clear intentions is where they turn into manisfestations — because you can only speak your goals into existence and act on them consistently for so long before they 👏🏻 become 👏🏻 real 👏🏻 (but that’s for a different blog)

So how can we set intentions for our spaces?

You can make your space work for YOU by clarifying what you want the space to DO. Grab a piece of paper and list out the spaces in your home. Next to each one, write a verb that describes what you want each space to do for you. Mine look like this:

Bedroom: empower; rest

Studio: energize; creatively stimulate

Living Room: entertain; bring joy

Dining Room: create community

Kitchen: calm; cleanse; enrich

Bathroom: purify; empower

Backyard: create community; bring fun

So obviously a few of my spaces have overlapping descriptions. Also for a few, I couldn’t find the perfect verb so I cobbled together a crude description (bring fun? 😂) but simple and clear to you is more important than fancy verbs. You should be able to read your list and immediately and easily understand what you want from that space. And it’s okay if you want multiple things in a space — I want my bedroom to be a calm place for me to rest, but I also want it to make me feel sexy and powerful when I’m getting ready for my day or dressed for a date or dinner with friends! We will talk later about how to create your space to serve multiple functions.

This list is the first step in what I call ✨ spiritual decor ✨ Before you do any redecorating or soul searching, there are a few daily tricks you can start with to get the spiritual mojo flowing in your home to make this place the place that really helps you be the best version of yourself:

Use each space for its desired function! If you’re feeling like you need to wash off your crazy day and find a sense of clarity, go hop in the shower! If you feel like you need to get your creative juices flowing, relegate to your studio or workroom! I try to always journal, do my yoga and writing in my studio because sofa is for fun. Bed is for sleep (mostly😈). Obviously this isn’t a hard and fast rule, sometimes I’ll work outside in the sunshine, but the more often you do specific tasks in specific places, your brain will associate that place with that task and get you in the mood more immediately! That’s science, folks 👉🏻👩🏻‍🔬👉🏻

If the space isn’t functioning according to its intention, do a quick organize! The worst thing you can do is eat pizza 🍕 or dump your laundry 🧺 on your bed, or take off your muddy stinky clothes and leave them on the floor of your bathroom! (And trust me, these are lessons I had to drill into my brain) Help your spaces function the way you want to by not cluttering them with items meant for other spaces!

When you move to a specific space for a specific task, remind yourself of your intention. This is cheesy as hell, but it does help to speak your space intentions to yourself. Sometimes I will hop in the shower and say out loud, “I want to purify myself from the day I’ve had” and YALL. That shower becomes SO. SENSUAL. I can tell you.

The thing is we all already have intentions for our spaces — we go to specific rooms for specific things. We just don’t a. always have them named clearly in our minds and b. don’t always have them connected to the spiritual functions our homes serve. But if you can ~name~ them, it will become a lot easier for you to use your home not only for practical functions, but to fill your spiritual cup. 💫

In later blogs, we will start to look at how you can fill and decorate your homes to fulfill these intentions, but it’s not about stuff. You can do it right now with what you have. I challenge to you sit down for fifteen minutes this week and create your own list of intentions for your spaces. And follow my list of daily tricks to start to change how you feel about and operate within your home. I’ll be back soon to continue to share my secret treasure trove of advice ✨

All my love!