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Dwelling: Simple Ways to Nourish Your Home, Body, and Soul Hardcover – April 2, 2019
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Feel Well Where You Dwell
Our dwellings—both our home and body—are intricately connected. Each has the potential to inspire the other to be its very best!
Your home is where your life happens. Learn how to create a sanctuary that inspires your well-being, so you can experience a greater sense of peace, comfort, and belonging.
Your body, including your mind and soul, needs daily nourishment to help you feel healthy and happy. You’ll discover simple ways to make self-care a priority in your home.
Melissa Michaels wants to show you how meaningful it can be to live a life that nurtures both your home and body. By making a series of small, intentional choices—from what you bring into your home to how you shape your daily habits and mind-sets—you can create a more rejuvenating environment that equips you to go into the world and accomplish all you set out to do.
Dwelling will help you
- learn to better care for your home environment so it takes care of you
- make decisions that simplify your life
- create more peace in your day
- invest in relationships that make you feel positive, challenged, and supported
- lean into faith for strength and renewal
When you discover the connection between your home and body and the action steps you can take to improve both, you’ll be on your way to a more balanced and happy life!
And for even more inspiration, discover the Dwelling Well journal, your everyday companion to inviting more peace, joy, and purpose into your home and life.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTen Peaks Press
- Publication dateApril 2, 2019
- Dimensions6 x 0.75 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100736963197
- ISBN-13978-0736963190
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Hi, I’m Melissa Michaels, creator of The Inspired Room.
My philosophy has always been that our dwellings—both our home and body—are intricately connected. Each has the potential to inspire the other to be its very best. The relationship between how we feel, the way we live, and the home we live in is as inspiring as it is important. Join me as we explore the simple choices and changes we can all make to create a healthy, happy life.
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“We all want to feel that our home is our haven, but, in between the messes and everyday life, it can be hard to get to that point. In Dwelling, Melissa Michaels shares how to create a haven in your home, body, and spirit in a way that is both doable and uplifting, with words of encouragement and the sure knowledge of having experienced this difficulty firsthand. You won’t be able to put the book down because the steps and processes are ones you’ll want to implement as you’re reading it!”
—Becky Rapinchuk, Clean Mama blog
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“We all want to feel that our home is our haven, but, in between the messes and everyday life, it can be hard to get to that point. In Dwelling, Melissa Michaels shares how to create a haven in your home, body, and spirit in a way that is both doable and uplifting, with words of encouragement and the sure knowledge of having experienced this difficulty firsthand. You won’t be able to put the book down because the steps and processes are ones you’ll want to implement as you’re reading it!”
—Becky Rapinchuk, Clean Mama blog
About the Author
Melissa Michaels is the creator of The Inspired Room, voted the 2015 and 2014 Better Homes and Gardens Readers’ Favorite Decorating Blog. With creative, simple ideas for decorating and organizing the home, she inspires more than half a million women each month. Melissa is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Love the Home You Have, Make Room for What You Love, and The Inspired Room coffee table book. She and her husband live in Washington, where they planted a church in 2009.
Product details
- Publisher : Ten Peaks Press (April 2, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0736963197
- ISBN-13 : 978-0736963190
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #56,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #116 in Home Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating
- #195 in Home Decorating (Books)
- #644 in Christian Women's Issues
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Melissa Michaels is the creator of The Inspired Room (theinspiredroom.net) and twice voted Better Homes & Gardens Reader’s Favorite Decorating Blogger. Her mission is to inspire women to create homes they can’t wait to come home to.
She is also the author of several popular home decorating and lifestyle books, including the New York Times bestseller Love the Home You Have, Dwelling, Simple Decorating, and The Inspired Room coffee table book.
Melissa has a passion for helping readers find contentment at home, encouraging them to embrace each season, experience peace and comfort in rhythms and routines, to welcome others into their home, and care for their well-being by keeping their lives and homes clean and simple.
Melissa and her husband recently became empty nesters for the first time and live in their new dream home near the beautiful San Juan Islands in Washington state.
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Customers find the book helpful for building healthy habits and maintaining a home. They appreciate the simple guidelines and tools it provides to identify needs. The book's style is described as lovely, with a great American style and a gentle message conveyed.
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Customers find the book helpful for their well-being. It provides useful insights into healthy homekeeping habits, self-care ideas, and journal prompts. Readers appreciate the practical advice and feel inspired to live their best lives.
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"...This book is so easy to pick up and read as it provides wonderful insights into how to nourish and maintain our body and home...." Read more
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"Love this book. It’s calming and has realistic things to do to live well in your home. Love picking it up." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2019Melissa’s new book is an invitation for us to be more intentional with ourselves. This book is so easy to pick up and read as it provides wonderful insights into how to nourish and maintain our body and home. The author gives us a glimpse into her own journey and shows incredible vulnerability with her own challenges as lessons for us to relate with. Dwelling is like your long lost friend. A friend that you can revisit and derive new meaning over time based on your own journey and growth. Sometimes you just need a friend to remind you what is most important in life - you’re home and body.
Melissa reminds us that our body and home are inexorably linked and that our very being is not sustainable when one or the other is not being nourished. The book provides simple guidelines and tools to help identify your needs. Like many things, our mind, body, home, and soul requires intentionality, maintenance, grace, and an understanding that our home grows with us as we develop.
It is a beautiful reminder that well-being is a lifelong pursuit. Melissa shares her own stories around faith, family, struggles, and her own discoveries as she calls for us to not be perfect but make progress towards a more holistic life.
This is the right book to pick up in any part of our lives as we examine and continue to re-examine who we are and the people that we invite into our sacred spaces - home. :)
- Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2019I think the alternate title for this book should be Living Lovely because the message Melissa conveys is gentle, encouraging, and delightful. Finding your "art" when it comes to your home and self is a process in which you should enjoy and edit until you find what makes you feel well where you dwell. A delightful addition to my Melissa Michaels collection on my bookshelf, this will make perfect gifts for others in my life. I am already looking forward to the next one!
5.0 out of 5 starsI think the alternate title for this book should be Living Lovely because the message Melissa conveys is gentle, encouraging, and delightful. Finding your "art" when it comes to your home and self is a process in which you should enjoy and edit until you find what makes you feel well where you dwell. A delightful addition to my Melissa Michaels collection on my bookshelf, this will make perfect gifts for others in my life. I am already looking forward to the next one!Beautiful and Heart-Warming
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2019If I ever encounter a rough patch in my life, I will go back and read this book as a reference.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019This book is so lovely. So many simple & wonderful ways to create a healthy & happy life. I felt so much encouragement and hope reading this gem. This is a must have and I will be referring to again and again. Melissa's books never disappoint. This is my new favorite and I have loved them all.
-Cydnee V.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019This little book is all about creating a home that makes us feel like we have our own little heaven on earth. A sanctuary where we feel our best and may never want to leave. It’s about making a home that our friends and family will want to visit and feel inspired to live their best life. It really is all about living our best life.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2019I love Melissa Michaels books about home. Creating spaces we use and love is a favorite of mine and her books combine my love of books + my love of creating home.
I love the titles of the chapters in Dwelling.
It has ten chapters and each chapter focuses on an attribute or action.
The First Chapter is…… invitation.
Second is……..well-being.
Third is……….sanctuary.
Fourth is……..loveliness.
Fifth is………..savoring.
Sixth is………streamlining.
Seventh is………foraging.
Eighth is………nourishing.
Ninth is………gathering.
Tenth is………….thriving.
I always love Melissa’s tips and practical ideas for adding special moments and touches to our days and our homes.
Dwelling is a book about not only our homes, but our bodies that we dwell in and live in everyday. Melissa wisely points us toward creating a home sanctuary we can thrive in, dwell in, feel well in. She shows us ways to simplify and add order and peace to our rhythm of life.
Sitting down and turning the pages of this book refreshes me!
I received a copy to review and all opinions are 100% my own.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2019I found myself frustrated with this book. I purchased it because of the high recommendations from others. I like the mostly Christian perspective; sometimes other wordly philosophies seem to creep in. But, my frustration was the lack of any real help or new information. If this is your first book of this type, you might like it. But, I've read other, and in my opinion, better books on the subject. So, I was fairly disappointed. This one is getting donated instead of being kept for my collection.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023Love this book. It’s calming and has realistic things to do to live well in your home. Love picking it up.