Renovation Psychology helps domestic harmony as you renovate your home! Restoration, Remodeling, Building, Designing, Moving. True 'Home Improvement' - Practical tips for your Home Team to tackle and finish your project, all while building lasting family strengths and a great home. Dr. Debi Warner combines three decades of family practice in psychology with her life-long home renovating experience to bring practical and lighthearted advice – interesting and useful to both men and women. A great gift – and a needed book. This book should be on the kitchen table of every Do-It-Yourself family.       
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Advice for the Home Team Toolbox

Dear Dr. Debi,
Why don’t kids build tree houses? Can we get ours interested?
Signed, Lost in the Leaves

Dear Lofty Escape,
    A tree house is a great place for thinking and getting perspective on yourself, your life, and whatever just happened that ran you out of the house. Somehow we see fewer of these natural treescapes any more. No wonder people are stressed. A tree house can help you regain your direction and set things right. So, let’s get into it again!
    Perhaps start by telling stories of your own tree house as you remember, or maybe ones you have heard of. Tell how you built it, where you got the stuff. How you stole the wood from Dad’s new project and even the old falling down shed. How you dragged a magnet through the dirt to collect nails and then straightened them with a hammer on a big rock. And, share your advice to use a flat rock instead of the craggy one.
    Tell your kids how you picked the tree. You made it far enough from the house to be hidden, but close enough to hear when dinner was ready. A big tree with spreading branches and good strength. How you spent time looking for a tree with some level branches that were parallel to each other and the ground, too. How you got permission, or got in trouble for picking the wrong tree. Each of these stories is an adventure and lesson for our kids.
Your kid will learn that you were not perfect, that you made do with found materials. That you got into trouble just like they do now..... Read more... 

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Dr Debi's Renovation Psychology book takes Honorable Mention at London Book Festival
Be sure to read the book
that changes the way you renovate your home
and yourself! 
Great reading and sweet fun. 
A great gift and an inspiring read.
See book...

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Visit www.cet.org for research info, a self-administered diagnostic tool, and links for recommended products

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What is RenovationPsychology?  This area of expertise has been developed to help you and your family gain strength and harmony during the tasks of home renovation and to accomplish your projects using your Home Team's best abilities. 
Dr Debi is a Clinical Psychologist with a lifetime of home renovating in her toolbelt - Let her help you find great joy and improved teamwork in your projects!		 Research Project - Dig in! 
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Sandcastle Research ~
Find your inner renovator! 

How do children express themselves in their sand play? Does it have anything to do with their later abilities? What fun times at the beach can do for self esteem, coordination, and perserverence? Dr Debi Warner of Renovation Psychology will be attending the East Hampton Annual Sandcastle Competition. She will be collecting information for her research on Sandcastles and their relationship to children's development and adult building skills. Visit her tent on the beach August 4th!
See the results in detail at the sandcastle project's pages here...

See what Dr Debi learned about how we develop our Inner Renovator!
It's fascinating!  Sandwork and Sand Play

Please email and tell your stories, send pictures of your children's sandcastles and sand play.   We will put some of them up on this website to share.

Enjoy the beach and enjoy the kids!

Happy Home Team,
Dr Debi
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More info ~> New book Renovation Psychology: Putting the Home Team to Work makes a great gift!
Enjoy your home and your Home Team fully with Dr Debi's unique and delightful book!
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And - here are more links for related books to help you with your renovation attitudes and process:

Dr Neil Fiore's book The Now Habit - helps us all turn procrastination into relaxing productive days

Dr Sharon Fried Buchalter's book can help us with our attitudes about handling our children on our team

Judy Umlas' Pwer of Acknowledgment will help you prepare for a positive attitude in teamwork

Life approach to gardening - poetic and practical

Finding out the history of your old house helps you be the detective in your own home!

Honorable Mention at

New York Book Festival has awarded
Renovation Psychology® Putting the Home Team to Work
by Dr Debi Warner, an Honorable Mention in the “How-To” book category.

The New York Book Festival is an important annual event for the city, which is the publishing capital of the world. It is a large and fun event for the public to enjoy the latest and best book releases, held in lovely Central Park on Saturday, June 23rd with book displays, appearances, and readings by many authors, actors, and representatives from the media. Dr Debi Warner, psychologist, radio host, actress, and author of Renovation Psychology®, appeared throughout the day with her book, and provide visitors with stories and advice concerning Home Team issues in their renovation projects.

Advice for the Home Team Toolbox 
Trouble Facing the Money?

Dear Dr. Debi,
You said to sit and talk money together, but all we do is fight. How can we talk money safely?
Signed, Screaming Checkbook

Dear Anxious Over Money,
Fighting is not always as it seems. It may be possible that each of you might be anxious and are acting noisy about it. Maybe you need to learn a new tool. Just like using a miter saw to learn complex cuts, facing money certainly is an important part of your successful project – so it bears some practice to get it right.
So, let’s figure out what the cuts are, and angle ourselves to get ready to approach it square on. First, we need to get agreement on the intention to face the money. We don’t jump in and do it yet, just begin with a statement by both Home Team grown-ups that you will do what you can to safely face it somehow together. This does not mean it is simple, it’s just a place you both wish to head.
So – what is your own issue about the money? Do you have some beliefs about how your partner spends or saves that grieve you? Do you feel bad about your paycheck?
...read more...

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  We know that home renovation can often be stressful and challenge everyone's patience.  Yet we have found that if we approach it from a fresh point of view, we can actually learn from these experiences and improve our teamwork and harmony in the home.  Projects will go more smoothly and save money, with less strife, and positive results!
What a great book for any home project!
 MORE INFO on great book: Renovation Psychology: Putting the Home Team to Work makes a great gift!
Fun ~ Practical ~ Helpful!

Improve your Teamwork!
 Get renovating projects done!
 Get your kids in on the action!
 Enjoy domestic harmony!

We have Great Ideas and cool stuff for you from the field of psychology to help you out!  Practical Help and Suggestions that will save you from many exasperated moments!

Enjoy the fun encouragement of this practical book.
Every Home Team at any stage of life finds helpful perspectives and strategies to handle current and future projects or to recover from any lingering issues from past ones.

For the price of a can of paint - buy the book and build a great Home Team

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We hope you make great progress on your home construction and that the process strengthens your family and close relationships.
The advice offered in this website, our workshops, columns, and books is not meant to replace medically necessary psychological care and does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Warner and you or any one reading this material.  We provide our services solely for enlightenment and to provide additional perspectives that can help you find your way through your renovation in a positive and growth enhancing way.  There is no guarantee that using this material will achieve all of your hoped for results.  Change is a dynamic process and rarely comes out exactly as we expected.  But with flexibility and communication on your Home Team, you may find many new opportunities to make the best of things and have a richer experience and relationship than you had thought possible.
The publisher and author reserve the right to change terms and edit content on this website and the book as it suits the emerging technologies and needs of the Home Teams, the author, and the publishing house.

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