SOLVED. How to create Home for yourself [s]

[Soundarya]

This is adult nonfiction. The book opens with a person saying Paris is home for them, and they created a list of words that signaled Home for them. That was the first exercise they suggest readers do. The book is centered around how to create a sense of Home for yourself.

[Kris]

Soundarya, around what year did you read this book?

What's the genre - psychological self-help, interior/home decoration, travel, etc.?

[Soundarya]

It’s self-help I think. I didn’t fully read it, but I saw a preview of it on amazon. So, the book intended to help you find your own sense of Home.

So, it started with the author describing how whenever they landed in Paris, they felt a sense of Home. They thought of the flowers and other aspects of it that they felt at home. The first exercise the reader was then prompted to do is to create a list of your own words that remind you of Home. That’s about as far as I got in the book. I know that’s super vague, but any help would be appreciated!

[Kris]

Thirty Chic Days: Practical inspiration for a beautiful life by Fiona Ferris?

www.worldcat.org > Advanced search > Keyword: Paris psychology | Subject: home | Non-Juvenile | Non-Fiction | Book | English

[Soundarya]

I don’t think the entire book was centered on living in a Parisian way. Rather, that’s how the author described her sense of Home. She then encouraged us to find ours as readers.

The beginning also involved a husband and wife sharing their sense of Home to someone else. Thanks for the help!

[Andria]

Home Life: A Journey Through Rooms and Recollections, maybe?

[Soundarya]

It wasn’t a memoir...hm, maybe I just read too little of it to find that many identifying details?

[Andria]

ooh, maybe this one: Feeling at Home: Defining Who You Are and How You Want to Live

[Andria]

(Google books has a preview of Feeling at Home, and it starts out talking about Paris and has a list of words that signify "home.")

[Soundarya]

YES @Andrea (idk how to tag) THIS IS EXACTLY IT YOU ARE MY HEROOOOOO ❤️❤️❤️ I hope you have an amazing day, having known you’ve made mine!!

[Soundarya]

Also, please teach me how you did that. I’d love to know for future reference.

[Andria]

Yay!!! So happy to help. I tried a bunch of different search strategies but what finally did it was a Google book search: "self help" subject:"home" - then scrolled through the results until I found one that sounded right.

[LauraW]

Thanks for this query. A couple of years ago, I wrote a song titled "Where Is Home?" I am going to look for this book to see if her quest to find home was similar to mine.