Room-by-Room Series: The Bathroom

What if your bathroom isn’t a Feng Shui disaster but a quiet win waiting to happen? Rachel breaks down the “waste room” myths and shows how small, repeatable actions protect your health, money, and mood—without redesigns, big budgets, or perfection. This is the practical side of Feng Shui: doors shut, lids down, colours that ground, and cleaning that actually sticks when life is busy.

We start with the basics that matter most: how energy moves toward drains, why toilets and sinks deserve attention, and how a simple red ribbon on waste pipes can set a clear intention for safeguarding resources. Rachel shares when and why a small mirror on the bathroom door helps, the pitfalls of overusing blue, and better options like sage greens, stone, shells, and warm neutrals. You’ll hear sensible guidance on mirrors doubling what they reflect and the easy fixes when layouts can’t change.

From there, we get real about mould, toy clutter, and the bathroom cabinet that hoards old gels and syringes. Rachel lays out a decision-first declutter method, then a hotel-level standard of clean delivered in tiny, consistent bursts. She offers a quick morning reset routine that takes minutes and stands up to family life, neurodiversity, busy schedules, and imperfect habits. No scolding, no shame—just doable steps that keep energy contained and the room feeling fresher every day.

Along the way, Rachel dismantles the pressure of Insta-perfect spaces and invites you to choose a calmer, more abundant version of the life you already live. Expect practical Feng Shui, compassionate coaching, and a focus on what works in real homes. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs bathroom peace, and leave a review with the one tip you’ll try this week. Your space will thank you.

Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Welcome Back And Context

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Hello, I'm Rachel. You could say I'm a modern-day Feng Shui consultant here to help you transform your home into a space that truly supports and uplifts you. My passion is showing you how to work with your home to unlock its full potential. I'm here to show you how to tap into the power that your home holds and make this powerful practice simple, accessible, something everyone can use. Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. So for the last two weeks, I've been promising you information on the bathrooms. The first week I I don't know what. I think my brain had a moment, and we went on to the kitchen. And then last week, but there was just no way that I was going to um get this recorded for you because it was half term. Here it was October half term, so that is the first school break after the children go back to school in September, and it I was just needed as a mummy, I was needed to um you know just make sure that everybody here was okay because we do have some school um not issues, it's not school issues, but I have one who doesn't particularly enjoy going to school, so he just needed a bit of my extra time. However, we are back into the school term, and here I am finally ready to let you know more about the bathrooms. So if you've been waiting for this, I am very, very grateful for your patience.

Why Bathrooms Get A Bad Rep

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So bathrooms get a little bit of a bad rep in Feng Shui, um, and it's because they're considered a waste dream. Now, people get quite hung up about it on the basis that there's just so much information out there. It's one of the easiest rooms to talk about um in the world of Feng Shui because because there is stuff to say. Um and sadly, there is, you know, this um they've done studies on it, haven't they, whereby you're in terms of what you will pay attention to, you will pay more attention to things that um make you either fearful or angry or upset than you will to things that make you happy or um you know joyful or anything like that. And therefore, quite a lot of the time, a lot of the focus is especially if you're kind of following Feng Shui on platforms like Instagram, people just want views and time and stuff because that is sadly what makes the Instagram world go round. So it may be that you have seen more of the negative stuff about bathrooms and whatnot than um than you need to really. So I'm just basically here to say don't get that hung up about it. So there's all sorts of different rules, right? Um, that is you know, try not to have um a bathroom in the centre of your home because your health will be flushed away. Try not to have a bathroom opposite your front door because it will suck away all the positive energy. You know, ultimately, in this day and age, unless you are privileged enough to have the opportunity to build your home your own home, um, which most of us are never going to be in that position, you have got what you've got. I've never, ever, ever would I suggest that anybody buys a house based on where rooms fit according to Feinchui. It is just it's just not needed. Um, we don't have the luxury of having that level of choice, I suppose.

Don’t Panic About Floor Plans

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And again, you know, if if we did have that opportunity, yes, there are, I was gonna say rules, but there's guidance, and wouldn't it be amazing to be able to design a house that is completely Feng Tway friendly? But that's not reality. We don't live in that world. So if you have got things that are, let's say, less than ideal that you may have seen anywhere, um, then the first thing is to say just don't worry about it that much because if you can't everything can be I was gonna say don't worry about it that much because you can't do anything about it. That isn't true. I mean, ultimately, the sort of deeper level feng shui that the flying stars goes into, and that is you know, your home energy alignments and your home energy blueprints, it can remedy pretty much anything. It's that that's that's the power of those remedies. But on surface level feng shui, which is all I can really share with you over these podcasts and on Instagram and via email and things, you know, if you can't do anything about it, then there's no point in worrying about it because you're just gonna get stressed. And if you're thinking about it and worrying about it, you're just gonna attract it into your life. So there's just no need to stress about it. So let's get going. Bathrooms in Feinchway are seen as a waste room, which kind of makes sense, isn't it? Because energetically we flush things away, which is lovely. Um, but most of the drains are in there. Obviously, we do have a drain in the kitchen, but you know, most of the drains in the home run out of the bathroom, whether that be through sinks or toilets or baths or showers, whatever it is, that's

Practical Basics For Bathroom Qi

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where most things get taken to waste. So there with that, there are a few kind of let's call them basic rules. Um, and I say that lightly because honestly, again, I live it in a I live in a home where I have got a husband and I have got three children. Now, my husband is not witchy like me, he is not into energy like me, he is a straight run-of-the-mill chap who, you know, like all men, leave the toilet seat up and he doesn't think as like I do. And my children, they're seven, ten, and eleven. They're nearly twelve, that's scary. Um, they don't think like I do. They don't think, oh, must shut the toilet lid because mummy wants it closed, like to protect the wealth of the family. They don't think like that. So I literally spend I laugh about it as I go around my house now. Um, but I have got a couple of rituals that I do to help me keep on top of the fact that I do have a house full of people who don't necessarily think um in the same way that I do. So the rules, the general rules, the general guidance around bathrooms is to try and keep the door closed so that the energy doesn't go into the bathroom to wash away anyway. Keep your, and I say this with a caveat of be very careful if you are putting sink um, like you know, plug, what do you call them, like plug stoppers, um, into sinks or baths. I am out of the toddler era, however, I do very vividly remember when my daughter was about three, she went into our downstairs bathroom. Um, and actually, so I'm bouncing all over the place today. So we took our bath uh our sink plug out of our downstairs bathroom because when my daughter was three, she went in there and I think she was trying to make a swimming pool for her barbies. Her brother was a baby, so I was sat feeding him on the sofa, and before we knew it, the downstairs bathroom had been flooded along with half of the hallway because she turned the tap on, got distracted, and you know, toddled off and did something else. And yes, so this is this heed my warning. If you have small people who might start running taps, then um please be careful about putting your your stoppers in your plugs. And actually, I still haven't um replaced that, which I really need to do. But this is what I mean. This is how much we don't worry about things, okay? Like I'm a phone training consultant, and I still haven't replaced the stopper in my downstairs toilet sink. So, you know, let's not get caught up in all of these tiny things and put more stress into our lives because none of us need extra stress. So we're gonna try and keep the door closed to the bathroom, um, and that is applicable to as many bathrooms as you have in your house. Um, it's often a little bit easier to keep the door closed in the downstairs ones, but also try for upstairs bathrooms. Um, with your sinks, try and keep them plugged. I've got in our bath, I keep our bath plugged as well. We've got one of those um press plugs, not like a chain plug, and I try and keep that um plugged down as well. Um, you

Red Ribbons And Door Mirrors

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can't do anything really about the shower, so again, don't worry about it. If you've got we've got we haven't got a door on our shower, we've got just the screen bit, so again, I can't do anything, but if you've got a shower door, keep the door chapteau shower. That's as good as you know, that's as good as you can do. So they're sort of the basic bits is you know, keep the toilet seat down, shut the door, put the the plugs in the plugs in the plug. That's what I'm trying to say. You know what I mean, I'm sure you do. Um, and and that's kind of the the starting point with bathrooms. What we can do from there is we can, if you can access your um waste pipes from either your sinks or um some people can get to their baths, wake bath waist if you've got a like a panel bath and the panel comes off. Um you can tie a red ribbon. Get yourself a lovely pretty red ribbon and tie a red ribbon around the waist pipes of your um your sinks and your bath if you can get to it. And that when when you do that, we're just doing that with the intention of protecting the wealth of the home, protecting the money of the home, protecting the health of the home. The thought is that in um Chinese culture, red is a very lucky colour, and therefore, if you tie a red ribbon around those waste like drainage pipes, it means that we will protect those things that matter to us from draining away. So let's talk a little bit about where these bathrooms are in our home. So if you have got a bathroom that sits within the centre of your home or that is opposite your front door, I mean that's not very um, I can't think of a home I've ever mapped or seen the floor plan for where there's been a bathroom literally opposite the front door, but there must be, I mean, there must be some somewhere. So if your um bathroom

Colour Choices And Earth Elements

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sits opposite your front door or it's in the centre of your home, you can use um like a little mirror. So I every time I talk about these mirrors, I think about what's the um the fairy tale with mirror mirror on the wall. Um and there's the is there, I mean, maybe I'm making this up. Maybe maybe this isn't what it is at all. But in my head, there's like, you know, this small round mirror that's got like a little hanging bit. Have I got that wrong? Or is that a handheld one? Do you know? Scrap all of that. Maybe I'm talking rubbish. But you know, you can get some lovely sort of decorative small mirrors. So I'm not suggesting that you go and put this wildly enormous um, you know, ornate mirror on your bathroom door. One that probably wouldn't really suit the space that you're gonna put it in anyway. It would probably look a little bit strange if you had a huge mirror on the front of your bathroom door, but you could put, you know, a small, let's kind of I mean, I'm not very good at measurements, but like, I don't know, eight inches across, ten inches across, like a round mirror, and you can get them that have got a like a lovely hanging chain, um, and you could have a little science bathroom or something if you wanted to, just to make it look like it wasn't wildly out of place. So you putting something like that, so something reflective on that bathroom door, if it is in one of those positions, is a really good idea. Um, if you have got a bathroom that sits above a kitchen or under the stairs, then adding in some earth sort of colours and earth remedies into that space is a really lovely idea, just to kind of really settle that um that energy down. The other thing with bathrooms is to try and avoid too much blue. So if you think about um, you know, the bathroom being a waste room, there's quite a lot of flow, energy flow um in that space. And if you put more blue and which is more of the water element kind of colours in, you're almost like making that flow even more, making it into more like a torrent rather than a flow. So we're trying to kind of move away from

Kids, Clutter, And Mould Control

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the blues in a bathroom, which is such a popular colour for bathrooms, but try and sort of move away from that. Better options for a bathroom would be um like your greens, like your sage greens and things like that, because that's sort of a bit more grounding. Anything that's turquoisey may well still fit under the um the water element. So you're more than welcome to um ping me over some photos. I mean, if you've got a blue bathroom and you don't fancy repainting it, which is fine, because you know, maybe one, you love it, awesome, and maybe two, life. So don't get stressed out if you have got a blue bathroom. Add some earth elements in there, some crystals, some stones, some shells, things like that, and that will just help to kind of bring that down. And when you do come at some point, because we all have to at some point to redecorate, is that just maybe think about leaning away from those blues a little bit. So we have got our bathroom door shut, we have got our plugs in, we have got our toilet seats down, we have got our red ribbons around the pipes, and we have got some earth elements in there or some greens, and we're steering away from the blues. What else can we do? Now, because the bathroom is this waste room, it's all about trying to make it as luxurious as possible. So, again, you know, I know what it's like. I have had and still have young children, and there are toys and all sorts of things that go with that. All I would say is don't get rid of things, don't get rid of the fun, you know, the stick-on suction cups that go on the side of the bath. You don't have to have this Pinterest Instagram bathroom. You don't have to have that. If you have got young children, you are still allowed for your home to look like you have young children, okay? Let's normalize homes being for the people that they live in rather than for, you know, people on the internet. It's a big bugbear of mine. So don't stress about that. Keep things like that because that is what makes your life your life. There are things you can do though, um, to minimize the clutter. So you could have, you could downsize in terms of um, you know, only keep the toys, the bath toys that they play with, or rotate them if you need to, but you could have a little basket that can maybe fit into a drawer or a cupboard that has got the bits that go in the bath. And the only things that I would urge you to be wildly cautious of, uh because they're disgusting, is the squeezy, you know what I mean. You know, when you squeeze you squeeze the animal, they're usually animals, and it sucks the water in and then it squirts the water out, and they're great for about four weeks, and then after that, they start going black with mould. So, from a plastic perspective, I'm not gonna say replace them regularly. If anybody has got these incredible, um, you know, the the world's full of hacks these days, and I love a hack. If anybody has got a hack for how you stop those things from going mouldy on the inside, then please, you know, let me know. I'm out of that era now mostly, but you know, I'm still interested. I can share it with people who are not out of that era. But what we don't want is that mould. We don't want that mould. Um, and bathrooms in general, even if we're not talking about children's toys, they're very, very easy um to sort of to get the mould because they're wet all the time and they're warm. So keep your eye out for black mould, and you know, ideally, we don't we don't want it in there. One, it's not good for our health, and two, it's not good for our for the energy, because you you know, you walk in there and you see it all the time, and and that will be affecting you know how you feel about that space, and that's not what we want. So there are some um amazing products out there now to be able that that supposedly kill it, or you can just whip your silicon off and redo it if you are handy, but keeping on top of mould, whether that be like generally in the bathroom um or within

Hotel-Level Clean And Cabinets

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the toys, is is a massive, massive one. The the the biggest thing that you can do on top of you know, keeping your plugs down and and things like that is keeping your bathroom clean. Now, like I know, do you know, like I know, I do it's so not a fun job. It's not a fun job, nobody likes scrubbing the toilet, it's not an enjoyable thing to do for anybody. Um, but again, it is really quite important in from a from a Fengish way and energetic perspective. So think about when you go to a hotel, or you know, if you're not in that phase of life or you've been to one for a while, just imagine what one of these luxurious hotels is like, right? Beautiful, beautiful place. That's the level of clean we want, like super duper sparkling. So in my home, we have I mean, we are very lucky. We've just had, um I say just a few years ago, had an extension done, and we now have got a very big and very beautiful bathroom. Still sits above the kitchen, so it's not ideal. Don't think that I have an ideal house either. Um, but it is uh lovely. But we're just getting to that point now where we've had to replace some of the silicon because it was starting to turn either yellowy or starting to get a bit grimy. Um, but having a sort of habitual way of keeping on top of keeping that space clean has been really important to me because obviously I know the value of that in doing the job that I do. So making sure you keep your bathroom like super duper posh hotel clean is a really, really important thing. The other thing in your bathrooms is to watch your cabinets, so they just become like a hoarding ground, don't they? There is um cowpol syringes by by the bucket load and all sorts of wild and wonderful things in bathroom cabinets. So I would absolutely urge you to just have a declutter of your bathroom cabinets and be ruthless. And I, you know, I was gonna talk about this on something else, so I'm only gonna go into it briefly, but I was thinking this morning actually, the um sort of the the bit that people fall over when it comes to decluttering, it's not necessarily how hard it is to dispose of things or anything like that. A lot of it comes down to indecision and just not being confident in your, you know, making making making a decision. If it's not yes, then it's no. Like it's that it needs to be that um that that kind of rigid, I suppose. So when you go through your bathroom cabinets, have a look. If there are products that you have got in there that are your own products, um, that you are never ever going to use again, and they've been sat there for a year untouched. They're you know, it's really tricky, isn't it? Because quite often we have this sort of feeling that if you spent money on it, then you should keep it. And I don't get on board with that. And actually, it's one of the things that me and my husband um we don't clash about it so much anymore because I just do it anyway, but and he knows that he's he knows that that's the way I am. But he's very much the person that would say, Well, it it you know, I spent money on that. I might and I might I keep it just just in case I'm gonna use it because it costs that hair gel cost a tenner or whatever and didn't like it, but I'm gonna keep it because it cost a tenner. No, if you don't like it, either give it to somebody else or be rid of it. Like, I know, you know, it's not gaining you, there's no value in things cluttering up your house because they cost money to buy or that you're never gonna use again. There are so many different um like schemes and amazing things now where you can donate partially used products and all sorts, the things that you were gifted for Christmas, or you know, stuff that you're just not gonna use. It's not you being ungrateful to re-gift them or donate them. That's not being ungrateful by saying you don't want that in your home. You know, it's you protecting your energy and the energy of your home and your family, and that's okay. So that lasted longer than I expected it to. So go through your

Daily Rituals That Actually Stick

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cabinets and just get rid of stuff that is not needed. Throw out anything that's expired or or empty, you know, makeup, skincare, hair products, that kind of stuff that you're never gonna use again. Um, if it's things that you are going to use, then keep them. Don't chuck stuff just because you need to make space, but to keep it. If you're gonna use it, keep it. And then within that area, try and um just try and have a little bit of organization so that things have got a place. Try and keep your bathroom completely neutral. So, you know, without photos or um and again, I don't think I've ever come across any um anybody who has kept photos in their bathroom, but there is a very famous story of an actor who put his um Oscar award in a bathroom. That it's not ideal feng shui because you don't want the uh the energy of that to be flushed away, do you? So just just think about the things that you've got in there. And do you want energetically those things to be flushed away? So if you have got um photos of friends or religious altars or anything in there, um you know move them out. The other thing with your bathrooms is mirrors. Now, they obviously you need a mirror in your bathroom because you can't get past without one. Um, you just need to be a bit mindful about what is reflected in the mirror of your bathroom. So ideally, we wouldn't have anything with a drain reflected, and we wouldn't have anything like a toilet reflected. So obviously, mirrors more often than not sit above the sink, but they're usually above the sink, so it's not reflected. Does that make sense? So it's not usually opposite the sink. So if you can try and keep it so that when you look in the mirror of your bathroom, you can't see the toilet and you can't see something with a drain. If you can, again, there's no need to worry, don't get hung up on it. It's just that in Feng Shui mirrors double the energy. So you would be essentially doubling what would be flowing away down that drain. Again, if you have got that situation and you and you're not going to rearrange your bathroom. If you've got a freestanding mirror, and we're talking about a freestanding mirror, crack on and move it. If we are talking about a wall-mounted mirror or a cabinet with mirrored doors, just don't worry about it. Try and use some of those earth remedies if you can, and try and use some green to ground the energy. But other than that, there's not much that you can do. Keep the bathroom door closed if you can. But you know, just don't get yourself hung up about it. So, with all of that information, this is what I mean. You could talk about bathrooms in Feng Shui forever. It just goes on and on and on, and it is, and it is like it's a bit of a negative one because it is all about flushing away. But there's you know, so many little tricks and tips and things, um, albeit most of them aren't very exciting because they do involve keeping things clean and tidy and stuff. Um, so my own personal kind of ritual, if you like, for making sure that I keep on top of the bathrooms in our house. Uh we have got um three bathrooms in our house, and I kind of each day of the week I clean a different element of those bathrooms um to make sure that they are always clean. And I'm

Perfection Myths And Real Homes

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not going to tell you how to clean your house, by the way. There are other people that do that wildly better than me. Um, and this is going to be yet another plug for um The Organised Mum Gemma Bray. There I did a podcast with her way back when, um, and you can go and find it if you just put in everyday Feng Shui Gemma Bray or Everyday Feng Shui housework, um, it will come up. And she honestly, I can't tell you how much that woman has changed my life. This isn't, I don't get paid by her. This is not a um, what do they call it when you're like an affiliate? That's the word I'm looking for. This is not an affiliate link. Um, I have been a follower of the Organize, it's now called the Organised Method. I've talked about it so many times. If you listen to this regularly, um, you'll have heard me talk about her. She is incredible, her system is incredible, and I pay, I think I pay $3.99 a month, and it gives me an app whereby I can she will do guided cleans. And for me and the way I am, my brain the way it is, I'm I've got a very, very busy brain, and I am somebody who is a wild perfectionist, and therefore I can get very, very easy, I can lose hours trying to make something perfect, and that is what I was doing. Um, I would either get complete overwhelmed and not do any housework, which was the situation many, many years ago um when I had my children and they were very young, um, or I would just be stuck in it for hours and hours and hours. So for me, having somebody, I literally just put my headphones on and she walks you through, it's I can't I can't even explain it to you. It's just a game changer, and I think you can do free trials and stuff. So if you struggle with housework overwhelm, I cannot recommend it enough. It's not like hacks and stuff. I love a hack, but it's not hacks, it is a system where it's like a buildable system. So over a period of a few weeks, you kind of realize that you've covered everything. It just it's amazing, absolutely amazing. So I plug her into my um my ears every single day and clean a different part of my house, but um, I do my bathrooms kind of um parts of my bathrooms on different days, and then so obviously we're talking about my house is full of human beings and they're all kind of at a very messy age. I mean, I've got a preteen daughter, so you can well imagine what chaos comes with that. I've got an autistic son, uh, which again you can probably imagine what chaos comes with that, and I have a seven-year-old son who's just put on this planet to be loud and noisy and beautiful and just wildly full of energy. So, what I do in my home is do you know, between the hours of like 5 a.m. when I get up, and frankly, they're not that far behind me, to be honest. Um, it's like they have this radar when mummy's awake, we must wake. Whatever. But before they go to school is what I'm saying. I just don't worry about it because I'm not gonna walk around my house and put more stress on my day and my life by adding, you know, trying to close all the doors and whatnot. Not gonna do that. So, what I will do is try and make sure that I'm always the last one downstairs. So I will literally like get them all ready and send them downstairs. Then when I'm upstairs on my own, I then will just do literally, it takes me minutes, and more often than not, I do it whilst I'm brushing my teeth because multitasking, because life. So I'm brushing my teeth and I'm walking around their bedrooms, and I've I've already made their beds and stuff, but you know, I'll close their bedroom windows, pick up anything like their pajamas that they've thrown on the floor and put them on their bed, and I'll, you know, I'll go around the bedrooms and do that, and then I'll go into the bathroom and I will close the bathroom window, I'll put the plug down in the bath, which sometimes has been left up from the night before. You know, again, I'm not gonna get hung up about it because there's more important things in life to worry about. I'll flush the toilet and put the lid down of the toilet, I'll make sure that there's nothing left in the sinks, um, and I'll just put those away in the we've got drawers underneath our sink. Um, yeah, hang the flannel up to dry, put the towels back on the hooks, you know, all the stuff that, you know, bother me during the day. Put the bath mat over the bath and put the plugs in, and then I'll close the door behind me. So that's how I keep on top of um bathrooms as an everyday kind of task. Now there are going to be, as soon as I get home again from school,

Starting With Surface-Level Changes

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the toilet seats are gonna be up, the bathroom doors are gonna be open, because they live here and that's okay. And I I'm not gonna start, you know, making I have to chase them enough to do things. I'm not adding putting the toilet seat down and shutting the bathroom door to the list of things I have to nag my kids about on a day-to-day basis because the list is already long enough, as I'm sure you you know experience as well. So don't do that, don't do that. You don't need to do that. Just as and when if you walk past the bathroom door and you notice that it's open, close it. If you walk past the toilet and you see the toilet's up, close it. Don't get hit up about it, don't add stress about it. Nothing is perfect, nobody is perfect, and it is all about the intention, it's not about it being, you know, we're never ever gonna, and this is what annoys me. I'm gonna I feel like I'm gonna go off on a rant. I am gonna go off on a rant, I think, because I am getting a little bit overwhelmed by. How much there is out there that tells us we have to live in these perfect homes. We don't live in perfect homes. We are never gonna live in perfect homes. And I would absolutely rather have a happy, healthy, joyful family that live in a home that is aligned and supportive but not perfect, than I would live in a house that I could take a photo of at any minute and put it on Instagram because it's amazing and perfect and wonderful. You know, so many of us watch. I did a little post about it actually on Instagram myself about these Amazon favourites, right? I see it. I mean, my feed is just because I work with homes, obviously, the the algorithm tells me that I should look more at things to do with homes. So my feed is absolutely full of, you know, Amazon favourites, influencers who I don't know, I mean, BM people, or just stuff, stuff. You need this for your home to be perfect, or um, look at my decor, isn't it perfect? Or this one corner of my home, isn't it just so beautiful, or whatever it is, I just get so sick of that messaging. Not from my perspective, but I just think you know, I know where I was, I know what how I have come through this last sort of ten years, and this is another completely different story that I will probably touch on at some point, maybe next week, who knows. Um you know, ten years ago, I was in a very dire place. I had horrific postnatal depression, I had um two children at that point under the age of two. I had a child, a baby who was incredibly poorly, and I couldn't keep on top of my house. Like there was just there was nothing, and I know how I've come from being in such an awful place to where I am now. So seeing things like that doesn't bother me anymore, but I know how that would have affected me, and it wasn't like 10 years ago, Instagram wasn't as big as it is now. You know, we weren't on it as much as we were as we are now. Um, and I know how much that really would have got under my skin. So it I find it really hard that we it just creates this comparison, and comparison, I mean, I am one of the worst people for comparing. Um, you know, I'm always thinking about, and I shouldn't, I shouldn't do it at all, but it's one of my you know not very positive traits, is that I'm forever comparing myself to other people. Am I doing as well as other people? All of this sort of stuff. But if if if that had come to me and if that was being fed to me daily in those really sort of dark times, not just from people I knew, but from this like global platform, I don't know. Which I think it probably would have been a really different, different story, and it would have been a really awful um and much harder journey. Uh so that's why I get a bit of a bugbear about it. So don't think that your home is ever going to be perfect. Maybe you are, maybe you're listening to this and you're going, What are you talking about, Rachel? My house is perfect, it's absolutely top dollar. Well, then I have some kudos for you if you have a perfect house. Well done. Congratulations. Most of us don't. Myself included, my house is not perfect. I have children, I have toys, I have mess, I have clutter, I have things that I shouldn't have. There are clothes that uh sometimes make their way to the floor. That is life, and that is normal. So,

Values, Balance, And Simple Abundance

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how have we gone from the bathroom to Rachel's take on life? I don't know. It's just the way this goes. This is not, they don't ever script these um podcasts. I literally sit here with my snoring dog who I have booted out because he was getting very loud, um, and I chat and I chat to you about things that people tell me they're interested in. So if there is anything that you want me to do a podcast on and you want me to talk about, then let me know because this is the way that I can give this information to you. And as I've said a hundred times, like I can't, without going into the depths of um home energy alignment reports and things like that, I can't give you specific advice about your home, but I can give you the top level advice, I can give you the surface level advice, and actually, there's a lot of change that can come from that. And you know, that's often where people like to start with Feng Shui is making these kind of manageable, um, familiar changes. Like if I said to every single one of you who was listening that you needed to put uh 25 kilos of metal in your southeast area or whatever it is that's generalized, don't actually do that. Um, I'm just saying, if that's what I said to you all, you'd probably go, um, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Why why would I why would I just go and put 25 kilos of metal in my house? And you almost need to start with feng shui, unless you're like really into energy and you have prior kind of understanding and knowledge of this stuff and you're familiar with it, then it's not so scary. But if I was to say to somebody who'd literally stumbled across um this podcast or my Instagram because they had seen something that I'd talked about and they didn't know that that was to do with feng shui, and they've kind of come into it that way, which is the way that this stuff works, always find you when you need it the most. But if I, you know, if I if I gave you that real deep level energy shifting stuff, you you wouldn't do it because it would feel so weird. I couldn't do it anyway because it all dependent on there's so much information about your home that I have to have in order to do that. But you know, these sort of surface level changes, these I'm not gonna call them quick fixes, because there's nothing quick about it. You know, decluttering your home, cleaning your home, and having things set up in the most sort of ideal way for flow, there's nothing quick about that. It's a journey. And I think I will, you know, close this podcast down shortly, but you know, I think there's so much. Um again, I'm gonna blame social media to a degree for this, is that everybody thinks that that it's the overnight success stuff, isn't it? It's the well, look at you now, look at you, look at you, look at you with your your nice house that's feels lovely, and look at you with the this and the that. And actually, what you don't see that goes behind that is how many years, how much learning, how much time has gone into chipping away. And that's I suppose my I like to think of it as my little superpower, right? Because I don't know many Feng Shui consultants who have got three children who live a very busy life, who have got children with extra needs, or you know, so everything that I talk to you about I have lived. Everything that I say to you, I have done. And I've done it from a place of being absolutely desperate, but it has taken me years because I haven't had anybody. There's been no guidance, you know, it's taken me such a long time to find systems and you know, strategies and read and learn and study and all this kind of stuff. So, what I want to give, what I want to give to people who aren't ready to go into that real deep, those massive energy shifts that come with the like the specific remedies for your home. I just want to give people the opportunity to be able to experience the change in your life, in your and when I say the change in your life, I don't mean you're gonna suddenly go off and go and live in barley. Like you might choose if that's what you're gonna do. But actually, you just might want a nicer, karma, more abundant, less stressful version of the life that you already live. And actually that's my that's that's my feng shui goal. You know, I don't have these big, I don't have these big dreams, I don't have these

How To Reach Rachel And Offers

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big kind of grandiose things that I want to do and achieve. I actually just want to be a really happy and joyful mum. I want to be a present mum. I want there to be enough um money flow in my life and my family's life for us to be able to do um fun things when we want to. I want my children to be happy and healthy. Like what I want for in life is really, really simple. And it's just an elevated version of what I'm already living. And actually, I think there's we don't talk about that enough. With there's a whole load of pressure on we should want all of these amazing things in life, and actually, that's not what I'm here for. Like, if that's what you want to do, if what you're saying is you want to go and make a million pounds in a month, then then great, but that's not that's not what I'm here for, and that's not really the people that I work with. The people that I work with tend to gravitate towards me because they can see themselves in me, they can see the busyness of their lives in my life, and you know, I'm fairly normal. I mean, I'm not normal, I have got like 300 kilos of metal hiding in my house. Not that you can see it. Um, but you know, I am just a normal mum and I'm a normal person. And somebody walking down the street wouldn't necessarily look at me and go, wow, she's a hippie and she's you know, she's this crazy feng shui lady. And I think that's what people come to me for is the how do you weave this magic? How do you weave this um like this energy work into a day-to-day life that is normal? And I guess that's my superpower. So with that, I'm going to leave you. If there's anything that you would like me to discuss on a post on a podcast, then do let me know. Um, you can grab me by email, which is hello at everydayfeng shui all one word.co.uk. You can grip me on Instagram, which is at everyday underscore fang f underscore shui s-h ui. Um, or you can um, I think you can now message me on the on the podcast apps. I think, I think, I think the old podcast is big enough for you to be able to do that now. Um anyway, I do hope you have the most amazing um week. I hope you have a fabulous day. And if anybody does feel like that they are, you know, at that point of needing those those major shifts, then there are gonna be a couple of Black Friday offers, which are probably gonna land um over the weekend or Monday, um, which are gonna be fun to do because I've not done one of those so far. So that's gonna be exciting. And I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful week, and I will speak to you really, really soon, beautiful.