I take care of your spaces so your spaces take care of you. Consider me your “Interior Space therapist.”
Hi! I’m a diva on a mission to empower, empassion and enliven others to live their best life through providing supportive, inspiring spaces from which to live a sky-rocketing, super star life!
I’ve combined my passions for: helping others, interior decorating and taking care of our planet’s health into this fabulous adventure. My specialty is eco-friendly interior decorating that reflects and supports you, without sacrificing your style, color or wallet.
Why?
The condition of our external spaces (our environments) can really affect the well-being of our internal spaces (our mind & body). Our homes are sanctuaries where we rejuvenate, entertain, share intimacy and raise families. Our offices are a type of 2nd home where we share our passion and inspiration with the world whilst manifesting our livelihood.
A space can be a “launching pad” or a “prison.” Spaces that support, inspire and welcome us are “launching pads,” key elements to empower, empassion and enliven us to live our best lives. Spaces that don’t, well, those are the “prisons.”
Support, with respect to our spaces, can be defined in a number of ways:
- feel
- look
- function
- affect on our wallet
- affect on our health
Everyone has different needs, limitations, dreams, and desires. I rejoice in meeting each person’s unique combination of such. It IS my true honor to contribute to people living seam-busting, powerful and delightfully fulfilling lives through my home and office interior services!
How Did I Get Here?
Well, all my life, I’ve been creative, be it art, dance, performing, decorating, fashion, etc. I grew up surrounded by creativity and aesthetics in the home, as my mother was an artist and cabinet maker and my father, a carpenter. Together (and with a twee bit of my help), they built my childhood home. So perhaps, the seed was planted early on!
Since I didn’t want to move to the big cities, wait tables on the off-season or teach dance classes (the life of a professional dancer), I thought “tap into that naturally-inclined helper side and become a counselor.” It was only after spending 5 years in college for that BA in psychology that I realized, “I don’t want to do that!” Go figure, right?
Well, being that a gal has got to support herself, I needed work somewhere. My gal Angie (still my great friend to this day) referred me to an administrative job with a resource agency. And thus launched my career in administrative work for the next 10+ years. I don’t think this is a coincidence, but I always worked at places that contributed to the quality and improvement of people’s lives. There’s that psychology degree…maybe it wasn’t a waste of time after all.
What else snuck in all those years? The creativity and interiors aesthetic inclination. Yes, that’s right folks…I organized (and re-organized) each office I worked in over those 10+ years, leaving each place better than I found it (I get to blame my dad for THAT talent!).
As much as I loved helping all those people at those various businesses, the other side of admin work just wasn’t doing it for me, excepting the organizing bit. One day, I came across a career ad: “Become a Professional Organizer” and I thought “Aren’t I already doing that, just not as a my own business?”
And thus was born my life as a professional organizer, and my business Peace of Time. I got to help people, be creative, improve interior aesthetics (and function), and clients felt liberated and ecstatic with the results. (Do you see a pattern yet?!)
Organizing evolved into re-design and re-design into full interior decorating. I think the turning point that led me into full interior decorating was during my “detour” in graphic design school (which wasn’t really a detour, as I learned a lot which I apply to interiors, as well as being able to do graphics for my business). Anyhoo, I digress. The turning point was when friend said “I think you’re an Interior Decorator in denial.”
Doh! Obviously, I took that comment to heart. In 2007, I wrapped up all my greatest passions: creativity, interiors, helping others and taking care of the environment into one nice package called EcoKind Design. I had no idea that it would eventually include writing for my blog and the Examiner online paper column, but now that I’m here, I’m not stopping!
Keep your eye open for at least one book, and while I’m at it, I might as well add workshops and speaking adventures!
So, as irony would have it, after all these years, I have become a therapist of sorts anyway. I just wasn’t envisioning “space therapist” during those 5 years of earning that psychology degree!
Thank you to all of you who have supported me along the way. I wouldn’t be here without you! May your every day be filled with all of the awesome wonderfulness* that you could possibly imagine, and then some!
Brightest Blessings,
Amy
* Yes, that IS a word. Well, in my vocabulary anyway. It’s all about fun and creating your own reality!
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