Inspired by a soulful trip to Vietnam...

About Nancy, Owner and Buyer for Creating Quiet Spaces

Creating Quiet Spaces grew from Nancy's desire to help herself and others find peace and quiet. With a lifelong history of helping others, she strives to combine work and spiritual values. In both her personal and professional life she has observed that mental and physical health are closely linked to awareness and a thriving spiritual core. With Creating Quiet Spaces Nancy hopes to help activate that vital space for us all.

As part of her own process of embracing life changes and gathering wisdom, Nancy recently made a pilgrimage to Vietnam. That trip served as a catalyst for the building of a new project -- Creating Quiet Spaces. She was awestruck by the symbols of spirituality, the communal divinity of the temples, and the people -- especially their healing and forgiveness related to the "American War." Upon her return from Vietnam, she was ready and determined to begin the next chapter. With a fresh perspective of how art and spirituality can transform the human experience, she was inspired to action.

After competing her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology in 1991 Nancy worked for nine years as a professional counselor with community mental health agencies, crisis hotlines and in private practice. She learned how precious and critical contemplative time is in our busy lives. From late 2000 until early 2008, Nancy co-owned and operated a specialty gift shop called Stella's on 21st in Portland, Oregon. Creating Quiet Spaces combines Nancy's work experience in psychology and business with her life vision of service.

She delights in finding individual artists who create works of intention and loves sharing with you through her online store.

About Creating Quiet Spaces

Learning to Pause… Take a cleansing breath; create a space that honors you. In our often chaotic lives, living in our over-stimulating Western culture, we need to find moments of peace and quiet. Creating Quiet Spaces was born of the belief that by each of us working on our own inner life, our body, mind and spirit will benefit, and our outer world can grow into peace as well.

Seeking your stillness… Finding balance is no simple feat. For some it is finding oneself in beauty and meditation once a day. Others focus on mindful practices throughout the day. However chosen, it is shedding the minutiae, releasing the strife, transitioning to your peaceful self. Some find it helpful to cultivate a place for surrender at home or in the garden furnished with intentional objects. Others establish a sense of well-being with the placement of inspirational tokens throughout their personal environment.

Guiding your intention… Creating Quiet Spaces offers works of art crafted by artisan hands. In both our online store and home showroom, you will find symbolic objects of personal significance, contemplative art, mood shifting illumination, archetypal icons and meditative sculpture. We must all be responsible to create our own stillness. As a source for treasures for self and loved ones, Creating Quite Spaces offers the opportunity to access your creative, spiritual, and expressive self.