OM DENNE EPISODE
How do you find the grit to completely reinvent your life and pioneer an entirely new industry when a global recession wipes out your finances and leaves you living with your in-laws?Stephanie Lee Jackson spent two decades pouring her intense sensory awareness into her work as a fine artist and licensed massage therapist in New York and San Francisco. But when the 2008 economic crash entirely wiped out her finances, she was forced into a brutal pivot. Relocating to Philadelphia and living with her mother-in-law out of pure survival, she faced a barren job market. Instead of giving up, she channeled her raw frustration and deep understanding of the human nervous system into an audacious new path, accidentally pioneering the field of sensory interior design.
Today, Stephanie is the founder of Practical Sanctuary, where she uses space therapy to help neurodivergent and highly sensitive people emotionally regulate and thrive in their environments. In this conversation, she breaks down the gritty reality of being forced into entrepreneurship when you have painted yourself into a corner. We explore the profound connection between our built environments and our mental bandwidth, how to establish unapologetic physical boundaries in a chaotic household, and the audacity required to stop merely tolerating the spaces we inhabit and start demanding environments that heal us.
In this episode of Becoming With Precious, you will discover:
Hitting financial rock bottom can be the exact catalyst needed to force a necessary and audacious pivot into a completely new life path.
Your brain is constantly draining energy to tolerate bad lighting, annoying sounds, and physical clutter, robbing you of the bandwidth needed to create and connect.
Fixing family chaos does not mean fixing one person, it requires building unapologetic physical boundaries that respect every single neurotype in the household.
True environmental change is rarely about spending money on expensive decor, but rather about rearranging what you already own to actively support your mental health.
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Connect with Stephanie Lee Jackson on https://practicalsanctuary.com/
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