The Healing Power Of Coziness

I have sought out and created coziness from as far back as I can remember–spending hours tucked inside my carefully crafted blanket & stuffed animal forts with a Little House on the Prairie book as a child, covering my box-size college dorm rooms floor to ceiling with peaceful posters and gauzy fabrics, filling the roach infested apartments of my youth with fluffy pillows and jasmine candles. Whatever space I inhabited, it had to be cozified. Now this may sound like a personality quirk–that’s how I always saw it–but I’ve come to see that my quest for cozy is not an indulgence but rather...