"I feel most at home in the middle of a forest. I like to get lost in the patterns on the underside of a mushroom or close enough to see fractals growing beneath old bark. It allows me to identify with nature's cycle of discarding and renewal." Read the full article at psychologytoday.com
July 22, 2020 - Susie's book, "Designing For Wellness" was named a winner of the 11th Annual International Book Awards in the Home & Garden category. Over 2000 entries were submitted by major publishing houses around the world and only 92 winners were chosen in various categories.
May 17, 2020 - Susie's recent article, "Wellness at Work Begins with Biophilic Art," published in Organic Spa Magazine shares one simple but effective tactic for supporting your health and well-being as you go back to work. It doesn't matter if you work in a corporate office or you're working from home. The science that supports the practice may surprise you!
March 17, 2020 - Read Susie's recent article, The Art of Biophilia: A Visual Practice For Creating Inner Calm by Susie Frazier. In it she explains how connecting with the earth helps us find calm during times of uncertainty. Widely documented as the key to personal restoration, the intimate relationship any of us have with the natural world is important medicine for our emotional minds.
January 13, 2020 - Susie Frazier took to the stage at the NARI Home Show, in Cleveland, OH to deliver a talk about Designing For Wellness. Featuring practical tips anyone can implement in their own homes, Susie empowered listeners with decorating ideas that have been scientifically proven to reduce anxiety. Pulling from her own self-taught principles featured in her book Designing For Wellness and best practices coming out of the guidelines for the new WELL Buidling Standard, Susie encouraged homeowners to become curators of their own calm.
November 19, 2019 - Susie Frazier was presented with a Pioneer Award at Women's Entrepreneurship Day in Cleveland for her role as a leading businesswoman in the arts. The event was part of the global Women’s Entrepreneurship Day movement that celebrates, empowers and supports women in business to alleviate poverty.
November 11, 2019 - Susie Frazier appeared live at CBS studio in San Diego, CA to talk with Stella Escobedo about ways to stage your home with little fixes that can help reduce anxiety by up to 60%. As we begin the height of holiday stresses, decorating the home is not just overwhelming but incredibly stressful. However, Frazier has some tips to avoid all that anxiety. Frazier recommends bringing the outside back inside to your home. Gather leaves, introduce rocks and branches from your neighborhood and use them as table decorations.
September 15, 2019 - Susie Frazier was interviewed for an article in Associations Now Magazine.......Meeting planners eager to entice and engage attendees will have to think about wellness in every part of the meeting, from the food, to the physical fitness offerings, to the lighting and visual design, even to what attendees take home with them, explains Susie Frazier, an artist at 78th Street Studios in Cleveland, Ohio and author of Designing for Wellness. “There’s increasing evidence that connecting to nature within our gathering spaces can reduce stress and improves our emotional well-being,” she says...
April 11, 2019 - As an ambassador of Destination Cleveland, Susie joined her region's convention and visitors bureau on a trip to Washington D.C. and delivered a keynote talk at XDP, a two-day conference for association professionals. The topic was Wellness in the Workplace: How To Design Environments and Curate Activities That Feed The Soul. As a thought-leaders in wellness design, Susie inspires audiences to think about the decor of their built environments, both at work and at home, as being highly influential in one's state of mind. To learn about the varying topics Susie can cover in her public appearances, please contact [email protected].
April 9, 2019 - A feature story at Iconic Life Magazine in Scottsdale, AZ. Susie Frazier brings the concept of “sacred space” back to Earth with an aesthetic that’s at once calming and dramatic."...I look at things that are slightly imperfect when developing a piece or a room,” she says. “The desert speaks to that idea. It’s slow and ancient, and yet it represents new growth and new life in unexpected ways. One of the big goals of my work is to translate this as a metaphor into something tangible and serene. The colors of the desert have always made up my palette no matter where I have lived."
February 25, 2019 - 3 Common Design Practices That Unknowingly Harm Your Health by Susie Frazier. It seems like everywhere we turn these days, we’re hearing about wellness, whether it’s a new approach to nutrition, a revolutionary skin care regimen, or some energizing workout that also feeds the soul. However, taking better care of yourself involves more than what you put into your body or how you move your body. The latest scientific research indicates that design elements surrounding your body can also affect your health.
