Dwelling: Simple Ways to Nourish Your Home, Body, and Soul

by Melissa Michaels

Overview

Feel Well Where You Dwell
 
Our dwellings—both our home and body—are intricately connected. Each has the potential to inspire the other to be its very best! 

Your home is where your life happens. Learn how to create a sanctuary that inspires your well-being, so you can experience a greater sense of peace, comfort, and belonging.

Your body, including your mind and soul, needs daily nourishment to help you feel healthy and happy. You’ll discover simple ways to make self-care a priority in your home.

Melissa Michaels wants to show you how meaningful it can be to live a life that nurtures both your home and body. By making a series of small, intentional choices—from what you bring into your home to how you shape your daily habits and mind-sets—you can create a more rejuvenating environment that equips you to go into the world and accomplish all you set out to do.

Dwelling will help you

• learn to better care for your home environment so it takes care of you
• make decisions that simplify your life
• create more peace in your day
• invest in relationships that make you feel positive, challenged, and supported
• lean into faith for strength and renewal

When you discover the connection between your home and body and the action steps you can take to improve both, you’ll be on your way to a more balanced and happy life!

And for even more inspiration, discover the Dwelling Well journal, your everyday companion to inviting more peace, joy, and purpose into your home and life.  

   

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736963190
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Melissa Michaels is the creator of The Inspired Room, voted the 2015 and 2014 Better Homes and Gardens Readers’ Favorite Decorating Blog. With creative, simple ideas for decorating and organizing the home, she inspires more than half a million women each month. Melissa is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Love the Home You Have, Make Room for What You Love, and The Inspired Room coffee table book. She and her husband live in Washington, where they planted a church in 2009.

Table of Contents

1 Invitation 5

Feel Well Where You Dwell

2 Well-Being 19

Commit to Healthy, Happy Choices

3 Sanctuary 33

Create a Refuge

4 Loveliness 55

Create Loveliness in Your Dwelling

5 Savoring 79

Slow Down to Soak Up Joy

6 Streamlining 101

Simplify Your Process and Priorities

7 Foraging 123

Gather Peace and Health from Nature

8 Nourishing 143

Feed Your Mind, Body, and Spirit

9 Gathering 177

Share Your Journey

10 Thriving 199

Trust Your New Momentum

Final thoughts 219

Notes 221

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“We all want to feel that our home is our haven, but, in between the messes and everyday life, it can be hard to get to that point. In Dwelling, Melissa Michaels shares how to create a haven in your home, body, and spirit in a way that is both doable and uplifting, with words of encouragement and the sure knowledge of having experienced this difficulty firsthand. You won’t be able to put the book down because the steps and processes are ones you’ll want to implement as you’re reading it!”
—Becky Rapinchuk, Clean Mama blog

Editorial Reviews

01/28/2019

Caring for oneself and one’s home go hand-in-hand, writes Michaels (Love the Home You Have), founder of decorating blog The Inspired Room, in her approachable, faith-based guide to home design. Being aware of the correlation between one’s spirit and one’s surrounding can help one simplify, balance, and find peace, she advises, providing tools for making changes—physical as well as mental—that can help create a home that is a refuge and haven instead of a source of stress and frustration. Topics include eliminating clutter, slowing down and prioritizing tasks, meditating on scripture for inspiration, and embracing nature. Michaels suggests starting a garden, rearranging furniture to maximize window space in dark rooms, drinking purified water, and homing in on a sensory experience of the home (as opposed to a purely functional one). Committing to happy, healthy choices will make a difference in spiritual and mental health, she suggests, and recommends keeping a written account of the process to track how one begins to think more clearly. Journaling prompts and “Dwelling Well” suggestions appear throughout to help readers stay on track. This is a great resource for Christians looking to rethink their home environment. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

We all want to feel that our home is our haven, but, in between the messes and everyday life, it can be hard to get to that point. In Dwelling, Melissa Michaels shares how to create a haven in your home, body, and spirit in a way that is both doable and uplifting, with words of encouragement and the sure knowledge of having experienced this difficulty firsthand. You won’t be able to put the book down because the steps and processes are ones you’ll want to implement as you’re reading it!”
—Becky Rapinchuk, Clean Mama blog

From the Publisher