Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin
You’re living a life full of health and happiness because you subscribed to Better Home: Better Health with Michelle Ogundehin. It helped you build better habits and start on the pathway to a home that heals, a mindset that uplifts and a lifestyle that supports your best self.
After all, isn’t it time you made your home your superpower guided by evidence-backed writing based on research not rhetoric?
Substack has always been the place I think in public — the space where threads connect, where I test, explore, articulate, and deepen the principles behind my #homeishealth mantra. And because I want to be sure that this work is available to anyone who needs it, every post — past and future — is completely free to read. Every essay, every idea, every piece of research, every reflection. Open. Unlocked. Accessible to all.
Why subscribe? Because then these newsletter nuggets go directly to your inbox and you’ll never miss a thing. I post every Wednesday and every other Sunday. So just enough, not too much. Every word useful.
I’ve also arranged posts via seven different tabs (listed below) on the site so you can find everything more easily, and also dive in directly to an area that excites you.
Home as Health
This is the foundation. Essays that explore why our environments matter — psychologically, physiologically, emotionally. The science, cultural context, and bigger picture behind the idea that the home is a health tool, not just a lifestyle choice.
Room by Room
Pieces that ground the thinking in real spaces: bedrooms, hallways, living rooms, materials, light, clutter, sleep — how specific domestic conditions shape how we function day to day. Plus all your decorating intel.
Inner Life
The reflective strand. Writing about grounding, rituals, uncertainty, discipline, beliefs, seasons of life, and the quieter inner shifts that often accompany changes at home. Some personal, some philosophical, all connected to how we live.
Cleanest Greenest
Work on sustainability, materials, energy, toxins, renovation, and the practical ethics of creating healthier homes in the real world — with all its constraints, compromises, and trade-offs.
Japan
A recurring lens inspired by Japanese ways of seeing and living. Reflections on ritual, seasonality, simplicity, and care, returned to over time.
Interior Design Masters
Observations on taste, judgement, creativity, personal essays and reflections, and what Interior Design Masters reveals about the value of good design.
Monthly Letters
My monthly letters (posted on the first Wednesday, or Sunday of every month) draw all of these threads together across home, health, and inner life. Less instruction, more orientation. If you loved my Editor’s Letters at ELLE Decoration, these are for you.
Example posts include: 8 Things to Never Have in Your Home; Let’s Talk about Gas Hobs (the hidden carcinogen in your kitchen); What is joy?; Does Reality Go Where Belief Leads (yes, and once you understand this, everything changes)?; Let’s Learn about Collagen; The A-Zen of Design; Motivation vs Discipline; and Colour made Easy — so you see, a broad wealth of inspiration and intel.
My mission is to keep sharing what I learn so as many people as possible can realise their potential through the power of their homes.
Let the #homeishealth revolution begin!
Michelle x
