This DOES feel incredibly soothing, sarah_jacoby!
, and tai chi, but Dr. Barron says that she now thinks of rearranging furniture as a similar form of creativity or self-expression and as a way of “grounding yourself” in your environment.
Plus, there’s the creative aspect—you can make your home however you want it, which reflects, validates, and feeds your true inner self, Dr. Barron says. “When you walk into the space and the space is how you want it—clean, minimal, full of things, not full of things, whatever it is for you—then there’s something comforting,” she says.
There’s the idea that you did it, “you mastered it,” Dr. Barron says, recalling a time she found a 1930s-era chair in just the right shade of chartreuse leather by the side of the road in New Orleans. She “had to have it” and remembers just how good it felt to lift it into the truck to take it home all by herself. “I wanted it, so I did it,” she says. “There’s a very concrete satisfaction.”
When I rearrange my space, it’s a distraction, but it’s also a beneficial one. Aside from breaking any negative thought patterns I might be dealing with, it gives me something productive, creative, and challenging to direct my effort towards instead.Rearranging your home can be a safe way to work through your perfectionistic tendencies, but it also has the potential to become a problematic obsession. There’s a place for perfectionism, Dr.
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