Transforming Grief and Loss
Feng Shui in the Home for Grief and Loss
Feng Shui for Grief and Loss: Creating a Healing Home with Jessie Kim
In this special session, Jessie Kim (Ms. Feng Shui) leads you through a compassionate, heart-centered process using Feng Shui to support emotional healing during grief and transition. This lesson helps you adapt your living space to hold you gently, while facilitating slow renewal and restoration.
What You’ll Learn
- Recognizing Energy in Grief
Jessie begins by acknowledging how grief can make spaces feel heavy, stagnant, or “off.” She encourages tuning in to these sensations—identifying which parts of your home feel emotionally weighed down or depleted. - Subtle Adjustments Over Radical Changes
Because grief is fragile, Jessie offers gentle techniques rather than drastic overhauls. Ideas include clearing blocked pathways, softening sharp edges, introducing natural elements, and selecting materials and colors that bring calm. - Symbolic & Elemental Activations
Drawing on Feng Shui’s system of Five Elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water), she suggests adding items that carry gentle, supportive energy—such as plants, rounded shapes, or soft lighting. These act as emotional cues, helping your space lean toward harmony again. - Honoring Past & Inviting the New
Rather than removing all reminders, Jessie teaches you how to include sacred objects or memory corners in a balanced way. Simultaneously, she encourages inviting new light, energy, and life into the space so it supports movement forward. - Practical Starting Steps
- Open windows or doors to release stagnant air
- Clear items that obstruct movement or energy pathways
- Incorporate a small water feature, plant, or gently curved item in heavy corners
- Use soft fabrics, muted tones, and warm textures
- Designate a “healing corner” with objects of personal meaning
Why This Lesson Matters
Grief impacts your emotional, physical, and energetic fields. Your home doesn’t have to add to that burden—it can become a supportive sanctuary. Through small, heart-aligned shifts, your environment can gradually hold space for sorrow, healing, and renewed possibility.
This lesson is an invitation to move slowly, with intention. Let your home respond to you as you respond to it. Over time, that space can evolve into an ally in your healing journey.
Deepen Your Supportive Learning
- Chinese Medicine & Grief — Learn how Traditional Chinese Medicine views grief and emotional stagnation through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM): nccaom.org
- Feng Shui Foundation — Explore foundational principles, ethics, and education on Feng Shui via the International Feng Shui Guild: ifsguild.org
- Internal Radiant Shenti Link — For further inspiration, consider our article on Feng Shui for Deep and Calm Sleep: Feng Shui for Deep & Calm Sleep
