Building a Balanced Life: When Your Surroundings Support Your Healing

Environmental wellness encompasses both the natural world around us and the spaces we inhabit at home and work. It invites us to thoughtfully examine our environments, recognizing not only their benefits but also their drawbacks. Consider how your interactions with these spaces influence your overall well-being.

Our Indoor Spaces

Take a moment to reflect on your current home and work environments.

What elements do you enjoy most?

Which aspects leave you feeling drained or uncomfortable?

Small, intentional changes can make a meaningful difference. Incorporating your favorite colors, maximizing natural light or using light therapy lamps, adding plants, displaying art that brings you joy, or using a calming diffuser can transform how a space feels. Consider what your ideal environment looks like and take steps to bring your spaces as close to that vision as possible. Notice how these adjustments can positively impact your mood and daily energy.

Our Outdoor Spaces

Our connection to the natural environment plays a powerful role in helping both our minds and bodies unwind. Sunlight, fresh air, greenery, and even the simple act of grounding - such as walking barefoot on natural surfaces - can boost energy, ease stress, and promote mental clarity. Stepping outside allows us to reset and reconnect, offering relief from the often overstimulating and artificial aspects of daily life.

In Summary

Be mindful of when and where your stress levels rise, as your environment may be contributing more than you realize. Environmental wellness is not about perfection or professional design; it is about creating spaces that support your mental, emotional, and physical health.

With small, thoughtful changes, your surroundings can become a source of comfort, balance, and ease, helping you move through your day feeling more grounded and supported.

Anna Grace, Clinical Intern

Anna Grace is a Clinical Intern, completing her Masters Degree in Clinical Counseling at Bellevue University. Anna Grace is on track to be a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado.

She loves to work with adults, young adults, and teens navigating anxiety, life’s transitions, interpersonal relationship challenges, and maternal mental health. Her approach is holistic and integrative, acknowledging the complexity of human existence.