“It is the main earthly business of a human being to make their home, and the immediate surroundings of their home, as symbolic and significant to their own imagination as they can.” — G. K. Chesterton
Hi! I’m Sarah, a mental health therapist, life coach, and founder of Ettie Ro House. I help clients and health practitioners create wellness and healing from both the inside out and the outside in. My work blends psychology elements, design, Feng Shui, and mind/body education to help you create a home or office space you love, and that loves you back.
My great grandparents Garrett and Ettie Postema owned Postema Painting and Decorating. These are some of their children (including my grandma and namesake Sarah!), in front of their business truck in Highland Illinois.
Ettie was my paternal great-grandmother, and her name means “little.”
"Ro" means calm, stillness, or peacefulness in Norwegian. It also holds a connotation of being free from distraction.
Working in the mental health and social work field for over two decades, I’ve seen firsthand how much our environment affects our wellness. I also completed a huge clear-out in my own home, and I’m still benefitting from it one year later~ feeling more inspired, breathing deeper, and less burdened. It was like 7 years of psychotherapy!
It was with this knowledge that I created Ettie Ro House, with the desire that you too would have your own little calm house. A place that welcomes you home, holds you securely, lets you create, surrounds you with items you truly love and that feel current, and that opens the door to what’s next in your life.
“Sarah sat down with me and in her kind, compassionate and nonjudgmental way listened to our home’s story as my family and I have journeyed through life in it. Because we spoke out loud the history it helped us come up with healing ways to decorate and arrange areas of the home to become more of who we have become. I’m still using the principles she taught me because they’re truly invaluable!”