Hi,

My name is Emily aka The Home Alchemist.

Welcome to my online sacred space dedicated to helping you come home to love.

I’m a Byron Bay based writer/blogger, feng shui teacher and curator of conscious environments for wellbeing, healing and success.

I’m also a bushfire and PTSD survivor, passionate wellbeing and self care geek that loves sharing inspiration and healthy home hacks.

MY STORY:

I spent a lot of my childhood creating little homes and cubby houses, so when I discovered feng shui in the 90’s I really thought I had found my thing.

I studied extensively to become a feng shui practitioner and went on to become an advanced teacher with one of the largest feng shui schools in the world.

However in 2003 my parents and I were caught in a life threatening firestorm.

We were outside their house as the fire front hit and 100ft flames chased us down the street. My parents lost their home, both cars and all their belongings.

But, we were alive and safe – after what we had witnessed this felt like all that mattered!

Over 500 homes were destroyed that day, only 20% of the suburb I had grown up in was still standing. Even more tragically, four people had lost their lives.

Although my physical home nearby did survive, my sense of home and the landscape of my life changed dramatically.

Over the next ten years profound insights emerged from the ashes.

My own journey home, which included a significant chapter working through PTSD (and narcissistic abuse – another story) became my greatest teacher of all.

Along the way I gained deep insights into how our physical environments can support our healing and the immense power of cultivating sacred space as an act of self care.

I also realised that when we stay centred (at home within), we can truly navigate anything! Such an important and useful skill in these times…

BLOG:

Essentially, here you’ll find inspo, musings and tips under these categories:

♥ Coming Home:

Mindfulness, Being Centred (at home in your heart, mind, body & life)

♥ Feng Shui:

Feng Shui, Intentional Styling, Organising, Clutter Clearing

♥ Ritual & Ceremony:

Sacred Space, Space Clearing, Meditation

♥ Love:

Spirituality, Miracles, Illusion v’s Reality

♥ Wellbeing:

Healthy Home & Lifestyle Hacks

♥ Trauma, Grief & Loss:

Positive Psychology, Disaster Recovery, PTSD, TMD, Narcissistic Abuse, Brain Health

Overall, the goal of my blog is to share meaningful content that inspires you to empower both your sense of home and physical environments.

Ultimately, I’d love to help you create a home and life YOU love, even or especially, if you are starting from ground zero after trauma, grief and loss…

Everyone deserves to come home to love!

Bright Blessings,

Qualifications/Memberships:

2019 – Post Natal Doula Training – Celebration of Birth, Doula Academy
2013 – Egyptian Anubis Reiki Master
2012 – Reiki Master
2011 – 2013 – Owned & operated the Lotus Heart Centre for Wellbeing in Lennox Head, NSW.
2011 – Reiki II
2010 – Reiki I
2008 – Life Coaching Academy, Certificate IV Life Coaching
2002 – 2008 – Foundation Council board member, International Institute of Interior Alignment*
2006 – Master Educator of Interior Alignment® , Teacher of Advanced Interior Alignment® , Advanced Interior Alignment® Practitioner, Medicine Wheel Feng Shui Practitioner
2004 – Worked for Brandon Bays, The Journey Australia
2003 – Master Teacher of Interior Alignment®
2000 – Certified Practitioner of Interior Alignment® (Practitioner of Feng Shui & Practitioner of Space Clearing)
1999 – Roger Green’s Feng Shui Practitioner Certification**

* Interior Alignment is a system of Feng Shui and Space Clearing (founded by Denise Linn) that honours the power of nature to create a home for your soul.

** Roger Green is recognised as one of the world’s most innovative and dynamic teachers on Feng Shui. A pioneer of classical Feng Shui methods in the West, he was one of the first to teach it in Europe, London and America in the early 1990s. He was also one of the first to develop a western Luo-pan compass, and has also developed a unique system of Feng Shui for the Southern hemisphere. Roger currently teaches his curriculum with the New York School of Feng Shui, and is the Director of the Academy Sacred Geometry and the Academy Healing Nutrition.

FUN FACTS:

I’m known for my #turquoisetoes
I’m half Irish and proud of it. Growing up the word HOME in our house, meant Ireland.
I love animals and have been vegetarian since I was 12 years old.
I still don’t know how I had the courage to leave everything and everyone I’d ever known to move to Byron Bay. Over 17 years later, I’m still grateful everyday that I did.
Jewel is one of my favourite artists.

‘Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty
Someday we will become what we see’ – Jewel

I’m not a yoga teacher. People always think I’m a yoga teacher. I might do something about this one day.
I’ve done a number of 10 day silent Vipassana retreats, and LOVED every minute!
I have a powerful White Owl Totem – I know when people are not speaking their truth.
My own home is humble, eclectic and real – the washing piles up and keeping up with the weeds in the garden feels like a full time job. But having watched my parents lose everything in a bushfire I am always grateful to just have a place to call home. My home is a sacred space for my heart, which is what matters most. Is yours?
I am an empath and have often been called an enigma…hahah?!# For daily inspo from my own home and life around the Northern Rivers NSW, Australia, check out my insta account:

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