No Broken Arrows: How Feng Shui Found Me, With Lynn Lee

“Well, I don’t see any broken arrows…so that’s good!” Lynn states confidently as she surveys the front of my home.

Broken arrow? Like I was Robin Hood with terrible aim in a past life?

Not exactly.

A “broken arrow,” which signifies sharp, negative energy directed at a person or their living space, is what she is referring to. These arrows aren’t literal. They represent angular, pointed, or aggressive architectural and design features that disrupt the natural flow of energy. Think rooflines aimed at your front door, sharp corners pointing toward a bed, or long hallways that rush energy like a wind tunnel.

Well. That sounds…comforting.

What else would she uncover as she moved throughout my home? I have seven kids, so surely we were going to unearth some sort of disruption in architecture, design, or basic daily function. Is that how the creative and energetic process unfolds? A little chaos first, then clarity?

That’s how the business of Feng Shui was born for Lynn Lee.

In 2001, Lynn had her first experience with Feng Shui. A friend received a session with a practitioner to stage and sell her home. After a quick and profitable sale, Lynn was intrigued. The idea that energy and environment could influence business outcomes caught her attention immediately.

Curiosity led her to meet the same practitioner, who surveyed Lynn’s own space and made alignments—or, rather, identified misalignments starting with something as simple as a fountain and a ficus tree. Lynn and her husband adjusted the energy of their backyard, where they could make changes easily.

Her husband, Mike, was looking for a new career, and they felt their marriage could benefit from some additional enlightenment. Within days of their practitioner making a few suggestions (in Feng Shui, no more than two changes at a time should be made), Mike received a new career opportunity. This “cinder block of worry,” as she describes it, began to lift, and their marriage felt great again. Coincidence? Maybe.

But the timing was enough to make Lynn pay attention.

Vision boards were another tool she began experimenting with. A vision board is a personalized collage of images, affirmations, and quotes representing your goals, designed to sharpen focus and intention.

“I put ‘travel’ on my board, and we traveled! I put a Range Rover on the board, and I was hired by Range Rover to do a nationwide tour! It was amazing. And honestly, it didn’t make any sense how these opportunities kept coming to me.”

I ask, “Were you always like this? A visionary? A manifester?”

“As a child, I just always wanted to help people. I’ve been doing that in a million different ways my whole life,” Lynn says.

But improving stress levels wasn’t enough. They didn’t just want relief—they wanted reinvention.

Was there a way to shut out the noise of the world, then retreat and focus fully on “us against the world”?

For the Lee family, the answer was yes.

In 2005, Lynn and Mike sold their business. They packed up their life and traveled the world. In three months, they visited 13 countries. They were grateful that Mike’s family took care of their house and dog.

“We were forced to problem-solve together. We learned new languages, new cultures, and new ways to communicate. We had to rely on each other in ways we hadn’t in years,” shares Lynn. For 13 years, she and Mike had worked in corporate events and personal business ventures that slowly drained the fun and creativity out of their lives. While many couples might land in weekly counseling sessions, Lynn and Mike chose weekly country-jumping instead. And somewhere between airports, train stations, and unfamiliar hotel rooms, clarity began to emerge.

While most of us enter a hotel room and assess it on a purely functional level, asking if there is a nightstand, or if they’re going to walk into a wall trying to find the bathroom, Lynn was evaluating something entirely different.

She was moving planters. Opening shades. Adjusting bedspreads. Covering mirrors in hotel rooms to promote better sleeping.

She did all of the above according to the Bagua Map, which is a foundational Feng Shui tool that divides a home into nine sections, each corresponding to areas of life such as wealth, career, family, reputation, and relationships. Once you lay that energetic grid over a space, you can evaluate where blockages might exist.

“When we came back home, I had a new mindset,” Lynn recalls. “I take life less seriously now. We’re more discerning about where we spend our time and intentions.”

At the age of 40, Lynn enrolled at the Western School of Feng Shui, completing an intensive program that prepared her to bring people and their spaces into harmony. More than 20 years later, she continues her work as a practitioner.

“I listen to the client. I evaluate their space. I observe the energy flow of their home or business. And ultimately, we solve the real question, ‘What’s not working in my life?’”

With decades of stories to tell, three stand out in her mind.

The first involves a friend navigating the aftermath of a difficult divorce. Months had passed, and she was struggling to meet someone new. She asked Lynn to evaluate her space to see if something was blocking the energy of love and connection—and there was.

It was subtle: cracked mirrors.

In Feng Shui, cracked or distorted mirrors symbolize fractured self-reflection and disrupted energy. They’re believed to scatter positive chi and reinforce feelings of brokenness.

Three weeks after replacing one large cracked mirror with two whole, independent mirrors, the friend suddenly found herself with two promising suitors, one of whom became her husband. Today, she laughs about it, but at the time, the shift felt undeniable.

The second story is even more inconspicuous.

A woman was struggling in her marriage. Lynn identified that her home workspace—specifically her computer and trashcan—were positioned in the love and relationship quadrant of her master bedroom. Symbolically, work and “waste” were occupying the space designated for partnership.

After a simple rearrangement and removal of the trashcan, the couple experienced renewed harmony. They have now been happily married for 11 years.

The third story hits close to home for me: A family had a child with severe sleep disturbances. Not the typical developmental phase, but persistent, disruptive sleeplessness. Desperate for solutions, they invited Lynn to assess their home.

Her recommendation? Addressing the mirrors.

The child had huge mirrors in his bedroom. Lynn suggested that they be covered by his artwork—as it might be reflecting too much energy for a sleep space—and place a separate mirror under his bed to deflect the energy from the garage, which was located directly beneath him. Strategically placed mirrors can redirect chaotic energy and soften harsh lines. Within weeks, the child’s sleep improved dramatically. As mirrors reflect and redistribute energy, they can also create a calmer, more balanced environment when positioned away from the current one that isn’t creating peace, rest, and prosperity.

I, too, have children who don’t sleep well. And yes, the mirror is already on the way.

So what did Lynn discover in my home? Surprisingly, not much.

I exhaled.

She noted that I had intuitively balanced the space with love and abundance through plants, meaningful photos, and even small details like the grouping of vases displayed together. In Feng Shui, numbers, placement, and intention all matter. Without realizing it, I had created pockets of positive energy. Maybe motherhood trains you to sense flow. Or maybe survival does.

Today, Lynn and Mike help business owners sell their businesses alongside her Feng Shui practice. They describe this season of life as balanced energetically, relationally, and financially.

“Our life philosophy is ‘Livin’ Life,’” she says. “It’s our reminder of what matters. Just live this life the best we can. It’s the only one we have.”

And perhaps that’s the true lesson of Feng Shui. It isn’t about superstition or perfectly angled furniture. It isn’t about chasing luck or rearranging your couch every time life feels off.

It’s about awareness. It’s about asking honest questions when something feels stuck. It’s about recognizing that our environments quietly influence our stress levels, our communication, and even our hope.

Maybe we can’t control everything. But we can adjust a mirror. We can move a plant or paint a wall. We can shift a trashcan out of the love corner of our life.

And sometimes, those small adjustments open doors we didn’t even realize were closed.

If you’re curious about experiencing the transformative energy of Feng Shui for yourself, Lynn Lee can be reached at lynn@mikerlee.com.

Just don’t worry—she probably won’t find any broken arrows.