BOOKS & MEDIA
Hearth: The Place We Return to And The Life We Make There
Do parts of your home feel messy, cluttered or out of balance?
Is there something about your space that makes you uncomfortable, but you can’t put your finger on what it is?
Have you ever thought that the place you return to each day could be stopping you from moving forward in life?
In Hearth, Mary Nondé invites you to reconsider the space you live in – not as an impartial backdrop to your busy life, but as a living partner in shaping it. Your home affects you in ways you may rarely stop to consider. Home influences your well-being, your relationships, your sense of identity and belonging, and even the way you navigate the world.
When something changes at home, something inside you shifts too. And even the smallest adjustment can carry unseen power.
Drawing on Feng Shui, Anthropology, Somatic Arts Psychotherapy and more than three decades as a practising Environmental Therapist, Mary explores the profound relationship between people and place.
She describes how the condition of our homes mirrors our inner life – and how consciously focusing our attention on the home can transform not only our inner life but, through association, our outer life too.
Through personal stories, client experiences, practical insights and ancient wisdom, Hearth explores how to:
• create a healing haven and a deeper sense of belonging at home
• engage the life-force of your home to restore balance and flow
• become more rooted and supported by the place you inhabit
• understand how your surroundings affect how you feel and who you are becoming
• cultivate a conscious relationship with your home for nourishment, renewal and inner peace.
Eight elemental chapters – Hearth, ET (Environmental Therapy), Earth, Eat, Heat, Heart, Hear, and Art are all expressions of the Hearth itself. For example, Heart is about cultivating love, sanctuary and soulful belonging. Hear helps you to tune into the invisible energies influencing your well-being. Art shows how what you place shapes how you feel.
At the heart of the book lies an ancient idea we have largely forgotten: that tending the hearth is inseparable from caring deeply for ourselves and those we live with. When we give the home our attention, we strengthen the ground beneath our feet – and life begins to feel calmer, clearer and more coherent.
In the final chapter, Hestia’s Manifesto, the lens widens to explore how the gradual erosion of the hearth has contributed to a deeper cultural imbalance – and why restoring the hearth to its rightful place feels both timely and necessary.
Intimate yet expansive, Hearth invites you to see your home in a new light: as a sanctuary, emotional anchor, source of nourishment and catalyst for change.
Because the place you return to each day is not separate from the life you are creating.It is inextricably linked.
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Awaken Your Intuitive Vision
Awaken your Intuitive Vision – unlocking possibilities you never knew existed
When you’re stuck at a crossroads wondering where to go next. By sidestepping overthinking, you’ll discover how to use your intuition to find the answers, with stories of how peoples’ lives have changed with this creative, intuitive process.
What if the answers you seek are already within you?
In Awaken Your Intuitive Vision, Mary Nondé reveals the transformative power of the Intuitive Vision Board – a unique process that helps you bypass overthinking, awaken your intuition, and uncover the clarity, purpose and possibilities already waiting to emerge.
When life throws you a curveball, how do you find your way forward? When you stand at a crossroads, uncertain which direction to take, how do you choose? And when you long for an enthralling vision but cannot yet see what it looks like, what do you do?
In her 50s, Mary lost almost everything at once – her partner, home, career, belongings, savings, pension and financial security. Thankfully, she still had her teenage daughter and their Labrador, and together they had to rebuild their lives from the ground up.
Four years earlier, while studying for a Master’s Degree in Somatic Arts Psychotherapy, Mary had developed the Intuitive Vision Board. It was only when her own life unravelled that she discovered the extraordinary depth of this deceptively simple process. It became the compass that restored her confidence, rebuilt her self-esteem and revealed a future she could never have imagined.
When we are anxious, fearful or overwhelmed, the logical mind often struggles to find solutions. Yet another part of us remains quietly available. By engaging the intuitive, imaginative and creative right hemisphere of the brain, the Intuitive Vision Board opens the door to fresh insight and unexpected possibility. It helps you reach beneath the noise of everyday thinking to discover your deepest aspirations, while gently illuminating a pathway through uncertainty. Once completed, your board becomes a vivid companion, continually guiding you towards the life that is seeking to unfold.
Suitable for anyone searching for greater direction, clarity or self-awareness, Awaken Your Intuitive Vision offers a process that is both profoundly simple and deeply transformative. No artistic ability is required, and the method can be returned to whenever life calls for fresh perspective or important decisions to be made.
Alongside Mary’s own story are inspiring accounts from others whose lives have been transformed through Intuitive Vision Boards. Their names and identifying details have been changed to preserve confidentiality.
Read the book from beginning to end to discover the psychology and philosophy behind the process, learn how to create your own Intuitive Vision Board, and understand how to interpret the signs, symbols and metaphors that emerge. Or dip into individual chapters whenever inspiration calls, each introduced by a thought-provoking quotation from one of history’s great creative thinkers.
More than a book about vision boards, Awaken Your Intuitive Vision is an invitation to trust yourself again, rediscover your imagination, and become curious about your future. It will leave you feeling hopeful, inspired and excited by the possibilities that lie ahead.
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“This book is a gem. A fabulous resource for anyone that wants to make their dreams manifest in the world. It will make a difference in the lives of many.“
Denise Linn – author of 19 books including The Hidden Power of Dreams & Sacred Space.
Environmental Therapy
From Corporate consultant to Environmental Therapist, Christina Bachini interviews me
Intuitive Vision Board
Take a look at what happens in the workshop
Meditation
A 13-minute meditation accompanied by gentle piano music. To clear your mind, rest your body and release stress. Enjoy the softening, calming and rejuvenation it brings.