In this rich and deeply grounding conversation, Karen Mellers and Dr Rosy Daniel are joined by healthy homes pioneer Gina Lazenby to explore the Health Creation Principle My Space, and how the environments we live and work in profoundly affect our health and our wellbeing.

From Feng Shui and geopathic stress to clutter, boundaries, sleep, sacred space, ancestral connections and working from home, this episode invites listeners to develop a new sensitivity to the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways our homes influence our physical, emotional health and energy levels.

In This Episode We Explore

• Why your home is not separate from you — it is in constant continuum with your health
• How Gina’s own illness led her into Feng Shui and healthy home design
• The two most important rooms for health: where you sleep and where you prepare food
• What Feng Shui is (and what it isn’t)
• How clutter drains energy and why letting go can be emotionally complex
• The concept of geopathic stress and how it may affect sleep, inflammation, fertility and chronic illness
• Why beds, Wi-Fi, EMFs and materials matter more than we realise
• How working from home blurs boundaries and practical ways to restore balance and how to consciously ‘close the day’ and reclaim home as a place of rest
• The power of your vista: how what you see shapes what you believe is possible
• Using art, imagery and nature to expand your inner and outer landscape
• Creating an Elders’ or Ancestors’ Corner to honour the past without being weighed down by it by dragging family baggage along with you
• Why love, intention and presence are the true foundations of a healthy home

Key Takeaways

• Your home is an energy container — it both reflects and shapes your inner world
• Sleep quality is deeply affected by bed placement, materials, EMFs and subtle energies
• De-cluttering can support transition clearing space for “Who am I becoming?”
• Expansive views (real or created with projections or images) expand our sense of possibility and creativity
• Working from home requires clear boundaries and rituals to protect your rest time and relationships
• A healthy home is not about perfection — it’s about awareness, intention, care, space and beauty

About Gina

Gina Lazenby is a pioneer of healthy home design in the UK and founder of one of the world’s first professional Feng Shui training schools.

She is the author of:

• The Feng Shui House Book
• The Healthy Home

Gina has spent decades helping individuals, families and organisations create spaces that actively support health, clarity and vitality.

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In this engaging conversation, Karen Mellers and Rosy Daniel explore the profound impact of personal space on our mental, emotional, and physical health and well-being. They discuss the importance of creating a nurturing environment with beauty and space for stillness, as well as the necessity of personal time and sacred spaces for self-care. They examine the effects of clutter and how it reflects our mental state.

The dialogue also touches on the significance of light, oxygen, and nature in our lives, the challenges of maintaining a healthy work–life balance, and the healing power of sacred space, silence, and ritual. Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful insights, they emphasize the need for awareness and intentionality in shaping our spaces to support and enhance overall health and happiness.

Takeaways

• The environment around us significantly impacts our health.
• Creating personal space is essential for mental clarity.
• Light and nature are crucial for emotional well-being.
• Clutter can be a sign of depression and deeper emotional issues.
• Sacred spaces, however small, can facilitate healing and self-connection.
• Silence and stillness can lead to profound insights.
• Working from home needs clear boundaries to protect our home environment.
• Intentionality in designing our spaces can enhance our quality of life.
• The spirit of a place can influence our mood and energy.
• Small details in our environment can create a sense of safety, love and care.

Chapters

• 00:00 New Beginnings and Personal Space
• 01:09 The Impact of Space on Well-being
• 09:24 Light, Oxygen, and Our Environment
• 15:13 Clutter and Emotional Attachment
• 22:45 Creating Sacred Space
• 26:56 The Power of Silence and Stillness
• 34:49 Enhancing Our Space with Beauty

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In this beautiful closing episode of Season 2, Karen and Rosy welcome circle sister and Rising Connected facilitator Amy Mullery — the very first Scottish voice on the podcast and a woman whose journey with circle work has touched both of our hearts deeply.

Together, we explore why Women's Circles are transforming lives, how the Rising Connected framework, and especially the 8 Agreements, creates profound emotional safety, and why being witnessed in authenticity is one of the most powerful catalysts for healing.

Amy shares:

• How becoming a Weleda Wellbeing Advisor connected her to Karen’s community
• How joining Joey’s online circles with babes in arms became a lifeline
• How circle work helped her rediscover her voice, leadership and balance

Season 2 threads — community, belonging, authenticity, emotional regulation, feminine wisdom and healing the sister wound — remind us:

We are stronger together.

Takeaways:

• Circle is a practice of showing up for yourself
• Being witnessed is healing
• The feminine way is rising
• Deep healing happens collectively
• The pause is where clarity arrives
• We are mending the sister wound together
• Circle wisdom is moving into workplaces
• Community is medicine

References Mentioned

• Rising Connected: Joey Walters
• The 8 Agreements (Authenticity, Awareness, Responsibility, Purpose, Wellbeing, Relatedness, Heartmind, Integrity)
• The Heart Seat process
• Broughton Hall & the Science and Consciousness Conference (WYRD)
• Dr Alan Watkins & emotional self-regulation
• The Japanese concept of ma — the sacred pause
• Jude Currivan — unified consciousness & interconnectedness
• The Healing Space to Blossom online program
• Weleda Wellbeing Advisor community

Chapters

• 00:00 — Welcoming Amy and the story of how we all met
• 02:30 — Discovering community through Weleda & the online circles
• 05:00 — Showing up imperfectly: babies, darkness, exhaustion
• 06:00 — The power of authenticity
• 08:30 — Facilitating safety in circle and the softening that follows
• 10:00 — Fun, joy and celebration in women’s circles
• 12:00 — Amy’s profound grief shift at Broughton
• 14:00 — Losing yourself in motherhood and finding yourself again
• 16:30 — The Japanese concept of ma: the magic in the pause
• 18:00 — Creativity, clarity and slowing down
• 20:00 — The science of witnessing and energy
• 23:00 — Feminine power and rising consciousness
• 26:00 — Heart Seats and the art of holding space
• 29:00 — Healing, belonging and reclaiming the feminine
• 31:00 — The sister wound: where it came from and how we heal it
• 36:00 — The call toward unity, connection and collective energy
• 38:00 — Women’s circles in the workplace
• 44:00 — Circles as catharsis: lightness after expression
• 48:00 — Amy’s vision for circle leadership and community
• 50:00 — Closing reflections: community as the golden thread of Season 2

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