Read by Natasha Soudek

Home-decorating expert Melissa Michaels invites you to experience the peace and joy that come from a well-balanced life that nurtures your home and soul throughout the year. You might think that you need to make big changes to create a better life but it's often the small, intentional, everyday decisions that shape our environment over time and bring sustained contentment and well-being. Savor the process. Melissa Michaels shows you how to cultivate a lovely life in each season: Spring-experience renewal as you clean up and reimagine your spaces and learn to enjoy everything the outdoors has to offer. Summer-enjoy refreshment with a summer staycation, self-care nourishments, and the delightof simple pleasures. Autumn-make room for reconnection when you decorate to reflect your family, style, and story; embrace gratitude; and adopt seasonal rhythms for body, mind, and soul. Winter-enter a season of rest as you establish morning and evening rituals, winterize your bedroom, and indulge in restorative home spa treatments. Home-decorating expert Melissa Michaels invites you to experience the peace and joy that come from a well-balanced life that nurtures your home and soul throughout the year. You might think that you need to make big changes to create a better life but it's often the small, intentional, everyday decisions that shape our environment over time and bring sustained contentment and well-being. Savor the process. Melissa Michaels shows you how to cultivate a lovely life in each season. My name is Melissa Michaels and I'm the author of A Lovely Life. I love to write about finding contentment at home. I focus on embracing the seasons to putter + nest, find peace and comfort in rhythms + routines, get inspired to gather + welcome others into our home, and care for our well-being by keeping our life and home clean + simple. Seasons will come and go, but the life we create and the rhythms we practice at home become like an anchor to the ebb and flow, so we can find a refuge of joy and delight in the simple pleasures of them all

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