Explore the new world of Renovation Psychology!
How can people make their dream homes?
Does it just take putting up a new building? Or will it matter how we work together to get the job done?
Renovation Psychology explores the ways that we can build teamwork at home and work on our house projects in harmony that will bring about TRUE Home Improvement! 
Any ideas of situations or issues you would like Dr Debi to consider? What’s your story?
I am a clinical psychologist with a life time of home construction. I would love to share my ideas and examples with you.
Dr Debi of www.RenovationPsychology.com
Dr Debi Warner, psychologist, author and radio host, offers fun and helpful advice to any domestic home team looking for greater harmony, organization, teamwork, matching abilities to tasks, as you seek to survive and thrive in your projects!
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July 15, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Dr Debi has been busy at the beach! Often asking people what they did at the beach as a child with the sand, this summer Dr Debi takes to the dunes and starts researching how children’s sand castle building can relate to their later renovator skills, as well as confidence building and teaching how to persevere in unknown elements. Very interesting results - preliminary findings reveal that what we did as children in the sand can predict how we approach home projects when we are grown. To join in the fun, visit http://renovationpsychology.com/sand/
Tell us what you think and share your stories of building castles in the sand as a kids and even lately - we would love to hear about it. You can share pictures, too! I will post some of them on our website. Happy digging to you!
Dr. Debi
January 7, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Location, location, vocation…
What is luck anyway? Some ascribe it to timing being ‘right’ as in right time/right place sort of thing… Others feel that they were born under either a lucky or an unlucky star and are therefore either blessed or ill-fated their entire lives. Charmed or doomed however, we’ve all experienced bouts of good luck and stretches of bad luck. Learning to ride the wave is what growing up is all about. The Peter Pan syndrome of avoiding the crests and crashes but rather staying just above it all is a tempting trap to fall into. Puer Aeturnus (Eternal Child)…swashbuckling adventures—fighting pirates, flying and having all of your basic needs met with a little wishing and fairy dust doesn’t sound so bad after all.
But I still remember the sensation of quiet freedom and satisfying independence of the first meal I ever cooked in my very own kitchen…Having lived with family and then roommates for years, when I finally moved into my own place the first meal I ever cooked was ‘barefoot spaghetti’…nothing fancy—just an ordinary pasta dish with a little improvisation on the ingredients.
Barely unpacked, I roamed around the kitchen while the floor was still drying from its much needed scrub down and rummaging through my newly contact-papered shelves I felt what Peter Pan never experienced—the simple pleasures of adulthood. May have taken me longer than most to get there, (my therapist would gently remind me that it’s not a race) but that just meant I cherished it all the more. At the moment I forked in my first bite of barefoot spaghetti—I knew I was ‘home’. Right time, right place, right me.
Excerpted from “Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin” by Courtney A. Walsh http://www.lipstickandthongbook.com