The practice of F L O W | where our soul touches our space
How I Design for Energy, Not Just Aesthetics
A Moment of Recognition
After my body said 'no more,' after operating in that fast-paced rat race, I couldn’t go back to designing the old way. I couldn’t walk into a space and just ask about style preferences anymore. Because I’d learnt something crucial: your space isn’t just holding your furniture. It’s holding your energy.
Once you see this, you can’t unsee it.
The Gap I Kept Seeing
During my healing journey, I kept thinking about how I could bring together everything I knew as a stylist and designer, and integrate it with what I was learning about energetic alignment. I started noticing a pattern everywhere I looked.
Clients were trying to keep up with trends, creating aesthetically perfect spaces that looked like they belonged in a magazine. Beautiful, yes - but soulless. And more importantly, their nervous systems were screaming for something else entirely.
The traditional interior design industry is still operating at breakneck speed. Sales targets, fast turnovers, project after project. It’s perfect for Generators or Manifesting Generators energy types who thrive on that constant momentum. But it leaves a gaping hole for the rest of us who aren’t wired to operate at those intense levels.
Here’s what I realised: aesthetics alone leave people feeling incomplete. As much as I love the look of perfection, the stillness of negative space, I also believe design needs to touch our souls. Not everyone will understand this. And that’s okay. This work isn’t for everyone.
How F L O W Was Initiated
FLOW didn’t come from a business strategy session. It emerged from my own healing. From learning to design for my Projector energy. From understanding that I needed to honour how I’m actually wired, not how the industry told me I should work.
My philosophy has always been to operate in flow and ease. That’s non-negotiable for me now.
FLOW is my design practice. How I see space. How I work with clients. How sanctuary is created. It honors my Projector gifts, my ability to see what others can’t and creates sustainability in how I show up.
For my clients, FLOW offers a holistic journey that aligns their external space with their internal truth. Not surface-level styling. Deep alignment.
When I work this way, energy moves freely. I’m not burning out. They’re not fighting against their space. We’re creating something that actually serves everyone involved.
That’s the ecosystem I’m building.
Breaking Down F L O W
Let me walk you through what this actually looks like.
F | Feel Your Energy
This is about understanding your unique Human Design, how you’re actually wired, and what you genuinely need instead of what productivity culture has conditioned you to think you need. Once I understand your energetic blueprint, it informs everything: colour psychology, spatial flow, material choices. Every decision becomes intentional. I can’t design your sanctuary if I don’t first understand your energetic blueprint, just as you can’t build a house without knowing the land it sits on.
L | Listen to Your Space
This is about developing awareness and learning to notice what’s draining you versus what’s nourishing you energetically. Your body already knows, we just need to tune in. We walk through your home with fresh eyes, noticing where energy gets stuck, where you naturally avoid spending time, what makes your shoulders tense versus what helps them drop. Your body already knows what’s not working, we simply need to listen and then respond with intention.
O | Orchestrate with Soul
This is where we align your environment with your truth, not with what’s trending or what others think you should want, but your actual truth. Strategic placement, intentional curation, removing what doesn’t serve. This isn’t about minimalism for the sake of aesthetics but about creating space for what matters. This is where soul meets strategy, where your energy type guides every design decision, and where we stop forcing and start flowing.
W | Welcome Sanctuary
This is about creating a space that allows you to shed the outside world and return to yourself, a place where you can clear the energies you’ve picked up throughout the day and remember who you are underneath it all. This is the final layer where the beauty and elevated aesthetics come in, but it’s always in service of your nervous system, never at the expense of it. Sanctuary isn’t a luxury, it’s your birthright, and it doesn’t require a big budget, just intentionality, alignment, and truth.
Why This Matters Now
The world right now is chaotic, overwhelming, and energetically depleting in ways we’re only beginning to understand. We need spaces that actually restore us, that help us regulate, and that support us in coming back to ourselves when everything outside feels like too much. This isn’t about perfection but about integrity, and like a building’s architectural design, when your space has that kind of structural integrity, everything it holds becomes stronger, more stable, and more able to weather whatever comes. Holistic design creates sustainable outcomes for everyone involved, not just beautiful spaces that fall apart the moment life gets messy, but spaces that evolve with you, support you, and hold you.
What Working Together Looks Like
When you work with me through F L O W, we’re not just rearranging furniture or picking out cushions.
We’re creating an ecosystem where:
Your space supports your energy type
You feel grounded the moment you walk through your door
Your home becomes a tool for your evolution
Beauty emerges naturally from alignment
It’s collaborative. Exciting. Transformative but gentle. This is about softly levelling up, not forcing change. It’s about creating the conditions for you to unfold naturally into who you’re meant to be.
The Invitation
If my first blog resonated, if you felt that pull toward something different, FLOW is how we get there together.
This is for you if you’re ready to:
Stop fighting your space and yourself
Design from your soul’s truth, not someone else’s aesthetic
Create sanctuary that evolves with you
I’m genuinely excited to share this with those who need it. Those who are aligned and ready. Those who understand that conscious design isn’t a trend, it’s a return to something we’ve always known but maybe forgotten.
Which part of F L O W speaks to you most? Let’s create spaces with integrity.
Design for the human in you.
Ready to flow? I’m here to build sanctuary with you.
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