You really are the moment of truth.  Jan Calzon

CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR HOME Carole J. Hyder, M.A.  Read an Excerpt
Create a new relationship with your home. An intriguing and original approach.
Hyder teaches you:
• To receive answers from your shelter about who you really are and were meant to be
• What you and your space could create together to bring you more health, beauty and happiness
• Archetypes, exercises, and stories will show you the way.
I did a fun and meaning exercise about naming my home. Historically, people did that before the
postal service was created.
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HOME -- A SHORT HISTORY OF AN IDEA by Witold Rybczynski
• Discusses five centuries of how homes changed and developed
• Interesting insights into the relationship of a person’s interior
consciousness and the changes in the meaning of home. 
• Also the dramatic change in our understanding of childhood
• And the history of furniture and the meaning of various rooms.
My favorite two intriguing sentencse from the book:
"Life was a public affair, and just as one did not have a strongly developed self-consciousness, one
did not have a room of one’s own.” “The interior furniture of houses appeared together with the
interior furniture of minds.”
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HOUSE THINKING: A ROOM-BY-ROOM LOOK AT HOW WE LIVE
Journalist and cultural critic, Winifred Gallagher, takes you on a psychological tour of the American home.
• Explores relationships between who we are and what our homes are like.  
• Chapters cover each main room of a home offering meaning, history, and insight.
Insightful theme I liked - "I absorbed the idea that not unlike medicine, places have effects, and that
when accurately "prescribed," they can make us feel better."
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BEAUTY AND THE SOUL: THE EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF EVERYDAY BEAUTY TO
HEAL YOUR LIFE by Piero Ferrucci
Transpersonal psychologist, Ferrucci, offers a deep look into beauty and its role in our lives.
• Explores the effects of beauty on our personalities and happiness or lack thereof
• Beauty is an antidote for what he calls the “poverty of the affluent.”
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Recommended Articles:

The Importance of Play in Promoting the Healthy Development of Children and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds (a PDF from the American Academy of Pediatrics)

The Magic of Family Dinner (a PDF of a Time magazine article)

Recommended Unique Things for You and Your Home

You caught me! No this isn't a book, but it is an insightful item related to homes or jewelry for your body. Barbara Shipka is a wonderful artist working with stones, photography, graphics and more. Her inspiring journey has led to the creation of stone lariats like the one shown here. People initially were wearing them as jewelry, but more and more are bringing them into their homes as hanging artwork. Check out her website by clicking Shipka.