Hello! I’m Serra Ann. I’m a devoted wife and a mother, living and nurturing our family’s roots in the Shendandoah Valley.
After years of training and practice as a Catholic psychotherapist, I felt drawn to help highly sensitive and intentional women (myself included!) cultivate peace and make places to welcome the ones they love. the place she made (tpsm) is my creative studio and online journal that inspires and shares very practical resources in home and lifestyle design.
Probably just like you, I’m on a journey seeking health and holiness. I’m daily asking for grace to persevere as I’m tirelessly teaching myself how to become the best woman I can be. I have a deep melancholic soul with a real choleric flame, so I like to keep a sense of humor to get through that intensity! I have a lot of healing to do but I’m on the path and God is faithful.
I love nature and hiking and gardening and flowers, dancing (though it’s been a while), spiritual reading and psychology books, learning housewifery skills, and renewing all sorts of spaces to bring out their beauty and potential to draw others in to a sense of safety, belonging and joy.
Our family has a special calling to true Montessori education. Most of our children attend part time at a local Catholic Montessori school on a 23 acre farm campus, where we also pour our hearts into community life. I supplement the academics with “light homeschooling” and work in the margins for tpsm’s mission.
I hope to share as many resources as I can to help free you from overwhelm and for flourishing. I’m happy and honored that you’re here and love that you’re interested in all these things too.
Please drop me a note to say hello, I’d love to hear your story and walk this vocation together!
the main things
The online journal is full of free resources for inspiration and sound support in your homemaking and mothering journey:
I provide design and styling consulting services to beautify spaces, both virtual and in person:
I make pretty seasonal videos as visual “letters” to my friends (that’s you now 🙂
Finally, exciting news…the tpsm shop is opening soon!
I’m working hard creating a reservoir of excellent resources and products for you, designed to cultivate peace and make places to welcome the ones we love.
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