I used to think Feng Shui was just moving furniture around

If you had told me a few years ago that I would end up running a Feng Shui consultancy, I would have looked at you blankly and then probably changed the subject.

I had written it off entirely, not because I had strong feelings about it, just with that particular brand of polite dismissal we reserve for things we have decided are not for us. I thought Feng Shui was about furniture placement. About moving a sofa slightly to the left and hoping for the best. I did not understand the why, and honestly I was not interested enough to look for it.

And then something happened that I did not go looking for either.

I was at an event in Newcastle called Mani-Fest. And there was a woman on stage talking about Feng Shui. I almost tuned out, because again, not for me, already decided. But then she said something that stopped me completely.

She started talking about cycles. About how in Feng Shui there is a system of periods, and that we had recently moved into what is called Cycle 9. And she described what often happens when that shift occurred, particularly for women. This rising urge to stop hiding. To build something. To finally stop waiting and start moving. Like something that had been dormant was suddenly ready.

And I felt it in my body instantly.

Because I had done all of those things. Without knowing anything about cycles or Feng Shui. The year we moved into Cycle 9 was the year I left my full time job. The year I started telling people what I was building and actually owning it rather than quietly hoping nobody would ask. The year I went to therapy and unearthed things I had no intention of dealing with.

I had unknowingly stepped into exactly what she was describing, and hearing it named out loud for the first time made something click into place.

I had not made those changes because I was brave or ready or had finally got everything figured out. I had made them because something had shifted, and I had been in the right place, energetically, to feel it.

I went home and started researching. And the more I looked into it, the more I started connecting the shifts in my life with the places I had been living. I started seeing patterns I had not known to look for. Times when things had flowed and times when they had not, and the homes I had been in during each of those seasons. I started noticing things that could not quite be explained by coincidence, or at least that deserved more curiosity than I had been willing to give them.

And then I started practising it in my own home. Small things at first, and I started noticing shifts in myself. Not dramatic, not overnight, but real and important. Subtle and cumulative and undeniable once I was paying attention.

And now we are here, with my very own Feng Shui business. Talking about it everyday because I can’t not.

I want to be honest about something, because I think it matters for anyone who is where I was.

I did not come to Feng Shui through a belief in anything mystical or a desire to align with the universe using it. I came to it through a moment of genuine recognition, that something I had done completely unconsciously had been described back to me with an accuracy that made me want to understand why.

That is the version of Feng Shui I practise and teach. Not furniture rearranged for luck. Not rituals and superstition. But a deeply intelligent system that understands that the environment you live in is in constant conversation with your nervous system, your energy, and your sense of what is possible for you. A system that has been refined over thousands of years and that, when you look at it properly, makes more sense than most things we accept without question.

Your home is not just the backdrop to your life, it is participating in it. Every day, whether you are paying attention or not, the space you live in is either supporting you or quietly creating resistance, and we aren’t in general taught to look at our home like this.

The thing I hear most often from people who are where I used to be is some version of: I like the idea of it but I am not sure I believe it works. It’s a bit too woo woo for me. And what I always want to say to that is that I am not asking you to believe anything.

I am asking you to get curious.

Because the woman who sat in that audience in Newcastle was not someone who believed in Feng Shui. She was someone who recognised herself in a description she had not expected, and was curious enough to look into it further. That curiosity changed the direction of her life. Not because Feng Shui is magic. Because it is a framework that finally helped her understand the relationship between where she was living and how she was feeling, and gave her practical, specific tools to shift that.

The most sceptical version of you just needs one moment of recognition. One thing that resonates and makes you think, actually, that makes sense.

Maybe this is yours.

If you have questions, I would genuinely love to answer them. You can book your free 30 minute call through the link.

The only question is whether you want to understand what your home has been doing to how you feel all along, and if you do, let's talk x