A Feng Shui Strategy to De-Stressify Your Space

Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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1 min readJan 5, 2021

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Actual science bears this out: Your space affects your mood. A decluttered living environment equals a happier you.

One strategy for revamping your home (and thus, your emotional equilibrium) comes from Anjie Cho, a New York City-based architect and feng shui practitioner: reassess your environment, beginning with the objects inside of it.

In an interview with Rebecca Tucker for Forge, Cho explains that “the items we surround ourselves with carry weight”—as in, emotional weight. Where such objects are concerned, Tucker writes that it might be in your best interest to do an intentional purge. Root out the items that “may no longer serve you or may be affecting your mental wellness in harmful ways,” she says, like “a gift from an ex, or a 1,000-piece puzzle that you bought with the best intentions in March,” and be rid of them.

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Kelli María Korducki
Kelli María Korducki

Written by Kelli María Korducki

Writer, editor. This is where I post about ideas, strategies, and the joys of making an NYC-viable living as a self-employed creative.

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