Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.

A lot of us spend more time thinking about living somewhere else than we do figuring out how to feel more belonging in the place we already live.

Before you sign on the dotted line, stop and ask yourself one last question: Does this home make you smile? Will you be glad to wake up in this place every morning? Will you smile when you open that front door to pick up the newspaper and when you walk across that funny bump in the floor to get your cup of coffee?

Instead I’m asking you to ask yourself: where do you feel most comfortable and confident? Where do you laugh the loudest? Where do you let your guard down? Where do you feel the urge to take an Instagram photo because you want the world to see what you see and feel how you feel? Where do you get your biggest ideas? Where do you feel free to stretch

The emotional and physical investment that working on a place entails means that over time it becomes woven into our sense of identity. As such it can be a protective part of our identity too, one that can help buffer us when the going gets tough. But as the traditional pattern of a rooted relationship to place has been lost, so we have lost sight