The Mudroom: A Sacred Space for Deep Healing

And the mudroom is arguably the most sacred space here at the living room. It's designed to look as if you're walking into a house from the outside. So, it's an exterior door. There's an exterior light over your head and the door somehow magically just opens slower. And when you open it, it's quite dark inside and it's all candle lit and the furniture is black velvet. And on the adult side, there's a wall that has velvet skulls which serves purpose. And on the adolescent side, it's a jungle scene. We wanted to go a step further than getting people to sort of be like okay with the parts of themselves that they feel are ugly or have done bad things. I didn't want people to just be okay with those parts. I actually wanted them to witness the fact that everything beautiful about them is born in those parts. And the second you stop judging it, the second you stop resisting it, the second it will become what it was always aimed at becoming. That the mud, as rancid as it can sometimes be, we don't want to get it on us. We try to keep it off of us. It's dirty. If we look closely at it, it holds the seed that without it there could be no lotus. There could be no flower. And the darker that mud, arguably the stinkier it is, the sweeter the flower. So, we're not talking about celebrating unskillful acts. We're talking about celebrating the love that lives behind them.