Style Harmony

 When you head to your closet each morning, what do you do to pull your outfit together?  Which of these sounds like your routine: Grab a top, a bottom, and a pair of shoes and you're done, or Grab a top, a bottom, a pair of shoes, some jewelry or accessories, and head to the mirror to make some outfit "tweaks" If #1 is your go-to, you are getting dressed.  If you answered #2, you are styled. Styling makes ALL the difference when it comes to stepping into your closet each day.  It is what adds personality to your looks and gives them that little something extra that makes your outfit get noticed (and makes you feel better, too 😉). Before I get into some tips for being styled, let's talk about WHY it matters. Our relationship with our clothes is a complex one.  There is an entire field of study all about the Psychology of Fashion and I NERD OUT on this stuff as a Certified Style Coach™!  Firstly is Enclothed Cognition.  This was a study performed in 20...

Happy New Year!  It's always so hard to fathom that another year has come and gone as we look forward to a brand new year.  What is so refreshing about the New Year is that it feels like a clean slate.  We can begin anew with new intentions and goals.   In the previous post, we explored the importance of reflecting on your 2023 and setting intentions for 2024. If you missed that post, you can re-visit it here. As I promised in my last post, we are going to take our reflections from the past year and dive deeper into two powerful tools for personal growth: choosing a "word of the year" and keeping commitments to yourself. Choosing a word of the year is going to change how you look at your intentions.  Remember, we are not making resolutions, we are setting intentions because they are more flexible when life throws curveballs at us.  Living your life by focusing on one particular word that you want to live by is extremely transformative.  Your ...

The end of the year is always such a busy time. There are so many things to do and I am going to suggest that you add just one more to your list.  I believe it's important to take time for reflection. Let's face it, the years seem to go faster and faster with each passing one and it's easy to forget or "misplace" all that you have accomplished in the past year. Many times when people talk about reflecting back on the past year, they think of it from a place of negativity.  They think that reflection is about what DIDN'T get done, but I encourage you to reflect from a place of positivity. By reflecting on both the things that you did AND did not get done, it will allow you to evaluate what that means.  Is it really something that is important to you?  Do you need to remove that thing from your list or make a new commitment because upon reflection you realize just how important it is? By reflecting on the past year, it allows you to tap into personal growth. Thi...