Yes it is true that a touch of House Therapy can make a difference to your life and your home. Now in the grip of this coronavirus lockdown it is, perhaps, the perfect time to seize a copy of House Therapy and immerse yourself in its pages and wisdom. Life as we know it is changing fast and reorientating yourself is vital if you are to adapt in this new world. Do you really know all of who you are? Are you ready to flexibly adapt to a post-COVID-19 world? Check out the Working at Home section inside House Therapy for tips on making this kind of change to your life.
What Can Your Home Tell You About Yourself?
What is a home? Is it a place where we have accidentally found ourselves over time or is it a carefully designed structure, which conforms to our every need and want? Perhaps it is something that exists between these two extremes, or not. I imagine that our homes are as unique as we are ourselves, or at least our perception of them is. The home, holder of the hearth (see fireplace & kitchen stove), a place you may return to at day’s end, for rest, replenishment and relaxation. What would your life be like without a home to go to? We often hear about the lives of the homeless on the six a clock news. Homeless children who may have fled domestic abuse, or ennui, to live on the city streets, and usually these poor unfortunates are paraded as examples of extreme social neglect. Homeless adults who have fallen through the cracks of our societies and live lives less than what is expected of 21C human beings. For the home is considered one of the most basic requirements of life, indeed the right to have a home/shelter, a place to call your own, no matter how small or poorly maintained, is as important as is having enough food to eat. Our home is our refuge and sanctuary from the challenges we may face in the outer world, as we bid for survival and success.
The first principle of a home, I would suggest, is that it be a place of safety, warmth and some comfort. What makes a home safe? Is it the bricks and mortar it may be made of? Well if you were one of those infamous “three little pigs” the answer would most definitely be yes. It all depends on what wolf is at your door I suppose. Once you have the structural elements in place, a home and its safety then become issues of who and what inhabits your home. We imbue everything in our lives with our selves, with projections of who we are. With our loves, families, gods and interests. Our homes are almost like living, breathing entities, which smell, feel, look, sound and most probably taste a bit like us. Very much in the vein of the tortoise and its shell, we are linked to our homes by everything that makes us uniquely human. A touch of House Therapy can make a difference to your life.
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