{"id":3452,"date":"2014-02-19T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2014-02-24T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:33:30","slug":"interior-design-for-healing-health-and-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/interior-design-for-healing-health-and-wellness.html","title":{"rendered":"Interior Design for Healing, Health and Wellness"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much has happened since I last posted on the blog!<\/p>\n

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Wishing you a Happy New Year! | Paul Merriman<\/p><\/div>\n

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A new year is upon us and I love the opportunity it affords us to continue to grow, change and expand, reconnect with people and strike out in new directions.\u00a0 And, as with many new starts, I myself have been developing a new direction here for my design firm, one that has been coming for awhile now.\u00a0 For me, 2013 was a year of laying the foundation for things to come, and I took time to step back and really connect with the responsibility I feel to affect positive change in people\u2019s lives, both personally and professionally, through my work as interior designer.\u00a0 You may have heard me talk at some point about how our interiors affect us and this year I took that premise to a new level, in that our environment affects everything, from how we feel to how we heal. In 2012, I was asked to design the chemotherapy infusion center at Mammoth Hospital and, as a designer, I\u2019m used to the creativity and the process around a project.\u00a0 However, what I didn\u2019t expect was the ah-ha moment that profoundly impacted me the day we opened the rooms to the public. I didn\u2019t expect the heartfelt connection to this project and the people, the outpouring of emotion from the doctors and nurses, and most of all, from the patients who came to see their new treatment facility, hugging me and the team, tears running down their faces, so happy to have a beautiful new space to receive treatment. \u00a0But most of all, I wasn\u2019t prepared for how I felt when we left.\u00a0 This room was going to change lives.<\/p>\n

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Mammoth Hospital | chemotherapy room – Before<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the areas for chemotherapy patients to receive treatment at the redesigned chemotherapy room at Mammoth Hospital<\/p><\/div>\n

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It took time to realize exactly how I would change the direction of my design work. My heart has always leaned toward aligning my love of design with providing help and support those who need it, so it seemed like a natural ‘next step’ to focus on design for healing and wellness, through designing spaces that support others in their healing, for whatever circumstances they may be going through.\u00a0 This literally creates an environment for healing, from the inside out, many times on a deeper level than just inside the client\u2019s four walls and I’ve heard from clients that they feel a shift on a personal level, as well.\u00a0 Again, we’re right back to ‘our environment affects everything’!<\/p>\n

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Our environment affects everything, from how we feel, to how we heal (Nicole Cavanaugh)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Since making that decision, it\u2019s all seems to have taken on a life of its own and I\u2019m more connected to my purpose than ever before,\u00a0 working on a few amazing, heart-felt projects! I have begun designing a surrogacy clinic here in Orange County, to create healing environments for couples that come from around the world on their journey to begin a family and we’ll begin work on a chiropractic wellness clinic shortly that will serve the Santa Barbara and Ventura area by providing healing and wellness to the children of that area, possibly with a strong focus on helping children with autism and autism spectrum disorder.\u00a0 It is such an honor to connect with these clients and to know that the work we do together will help families for many, many years to come!<\/p>\n

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Healing happens in so many ways, and usually the most profound changes are those that begin on the inside.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\r\nIf you are thinking about creating a space you truly love, contact me about our in-person or virtual design services at <\/em>nicole@cdgdesign.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much has happened since I last posted on the blog!     A new year is upon us and I love the opportunity it affords us to continue to grow, change and expand, reconnect with people and strike out in new directions.\u00a0 And, as with many new starts, I myself have been developing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdgdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}