articles by: Erica Sofrina

The Gifts of Random Acts of Kindness

It had just started sprinkling. I was hurrying home in my car, anxious and stressed, having put off until the last minute writing a keynote speech I was to give the next day. In my preocc…

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Bring Your Favorite Nature Places Inside

Bringing nature into the home is a powerful way to increase the vibration in your home and an important part of any Feng Shui practice, which is called the Five Elements Theory. Whether you practice F…

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8 Steps to Feng Shui Your Bathroom

By Erica Sofrina, author of Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World. In many traditional Feng Shui books you will read that bathrooms are negative places that should be clos…

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4 Steps to Starting a Vegetable Garden

Avis Licht is a landscape gardener, educator, and author of the wonderful book, The Spring Garden Made Easy. Her passion is to create beautiful gardens that incorporate edibles that can be harvested y…

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How Color Affects Our Mood

Jeanette Chasworth is a designer who specializes in color and the author of the book, What's Color Got To Do With It. She is often called a “color whisperer." She can go into a room and communicate w…

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9 Ways to Heal Family Issues with Feng Shui

Feng Shui teaches that there are certain parts of the home that corresponded to key areas of our lives. By working with these energy centers we can identify what is going on in that area of our lif…

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Feel Stuck? 7 Home Changes to ‘Unstick’ Your Life

There are many times we feel stuck in our lives. Often it is because we are at an in-between stage and we don't know what direction our life is going or what we really want. It might be that we are…

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Important Rules for Shared Living Spaces

Sharing a space with others is something many of us have to do or have had to do in the past. Whether we are in a family, dorm room, communal living space or live with friends, keeping these basic rul…

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Downsizing as a Mindful Practice

When we were in our 20s and 30s, many of us were in the 'accumulation' mode. We had young families and felt we needed to get all of the 'stuff' to support our ever-expanding lifestyle. As our familie…

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10 Tips for Creating a Zero Waste Home

I do my part to recycle and bring my own bags for purchases, but I am far from producing zero waste. While lugging multiple recycling bins to the curbside every week it has occurred me that I have a l…

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Erica Sofrina is a motivational speaker, author and life coach specializing in connecting people to their spiritual essence. She is also an Internationally recognized Feng Shui speaker, green living columnist, teacher and the author of the book Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World and the Founder of the West Coast Academy of Feng Shui. She is also the founder of Earth Spirit Adventure Travel which takes people on retreats to powerful energy vortexes such as Bali and Hawaii to facilitate their deep earth/spirit connection. Find out more at www.ericasofrina.com

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