Your Home Environment is a Reflection of Your Internal Environment

Your home environment mirrors your emotional and mental state.

The Home as a Mirror of The Self

The thoughts, uncertainties, worries, trauma wounds, and emotions that you have not addressed, processed, and released, are mirrored in your home environment. When we experience significant mental preoccupation and emotional distress, as learned in previous blog posts, our body begins to feel the effects from the significant accumulation of stress, which can manifest in different ways. Those constant ruminating thoughts that continue to overwhelm your mind and any unprocessed emotions have the ability to make you feel detached from your home environment. Ruminating thoughts can make it difficult to shift our attention to planning, managing, organizing, cleaning, and modifying our home environment. Additionally, emotions that are stuck in our body can make it difficult for us to interact with our home environment. In particular, emotional distress can impact our mood, energy, safety, and comfort levels needed to engage authentically in our home environment.

Your current home environment may also be a reflection of your trauma wounds. For example, if you grew up in a chaotic, unstable, unpredictable, or unsafe home, your current home environment may reflect the chaos and instability that you grew up with. You may have normalized growing up in these conditions and may be unaware that you are recreating similar patterns in your current home environment.

Take a moment to reflect on the following questions:

Does your home or a space in your home feel overwhelming? Are you having trouble figuring out how to make your home or a particular space in your home make sense? Are you struggling with keeping your home organized? Are you finding it difficult to feel at home in your own home? Do feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your home? Does your home or a space in your home create a lot of stress for you?

If you answered yes, to any of these questions there may be a deeper layer to explore that will help you gain insight into how your internal state is disrupting how feel in, interact with and engage in your home environment. 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, there may be a deeper layer to explore that will help you gain insight into how your internal state is disrupting how feel in, interact with, and engage in your home environment. 

Creating a supportive home environment goes beyond decor and furniture, it is also a process of inner growth and healing. Read about what my client had to say about their experience with our home wellness refresh service.

Client Testimonial

“Working one on one with Maria was such a beautiful and eye-opening experience. My bedroom was a relic, an homage to my post college life. After the pandemic, like many others, I found myself feeling stuck and wondering about my life and what I wanted to achieve. My bedroom felt stuck and in need of some change, just as I felt I needed. Speaking with Maria was calming and reliable as she was very attentive to what I was looking for. Our design meetings felt like mini therapy sessions where I could speak my mind on the changes I was looking for. Now I have a new fresh space that aligns with the fresh start that I was seeking in my life.”  

-Marialejandra Gutierrez

disclaimer: This blog post does not replace therapy. This is an educational resource.