Calm Beyond the Storm

You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.   

— Timber Hawkeye

Happy Monday,

Life can be full of one storm or another. There are storms we can see coming and storms that seem to come straight out of a blue sky. In my opinion, there is no better place to ride out the storms of life than the places in our homes that give comfort, most especially when we need it most.

Where are those places in your home that are calming and help to take you through the darker stormy days?

The spaces that open your heart to the possibilities beyond the storm.

When my garden is up and running that is where I find my calm and joy.

However, now that the garden has gone to bed there is another special place that I love to go to that allows me to feel the calm. A room that helps me to block out the noise of the world and where I can still get my fingers once again into the dirt.

This is the room I am writing to you from this morning. As my finger clicks the keyboard, I can hear the sound of water trickling from my little bird fountain and close to about 40 plants of all varieties surround me.

My indoor garden is a room we added to our house about 7 years ago. Little did I know what a game changer this room would be for me. I went from having a few plants scattered around the house to so many thriving in this space.

You can take a tour of my garden room here in this week's video.

My challenge for you this week is to take a walk around your home, and I would love to know what room or section of your house do you love most?

How often do you spend quality time in that room?

Is there something about that room that needs a little tender loving care? Perhaps some decluttering to open up the flow of that room for you?

With the colder days ahead, making your home even more cozy and calming is a wonderful gift to give not only to yourself but those you live with. Because we never know when we will need to take a pause brought on by an illness and other life’s happenstances. Those events can grant us permission to be spending even more time in the special places within our home.

Would love to know which room in your home brings you joy. You can send an email to Hello@GrowYouGirl.com and let me know. Perhaps you even want to make plans to redo a room over the winter months let me know that as well so I can cheer you on!

Wishing you a week ahead that brings comfort and joy wherever life takes you.

Plant often and with Love!

Cheri

Cheri Ruskus

Author, Creator and Growth Mentor