Why you can’t let go of your skinny jeans
Episode 40, Fashion Freedom: You know those jeans, lurking in the back of your closet, tempting you every time you look at them…“try me on, remember how much fun we had together!”
You use them as a barometer of how on or off track you are with your eating and exercise.
Many of us like to reminisce about the days when those jeans fit – how in shape we were, how much freedom we had, how non-middle-aged our bodies felt.
You gotta let them go, my friend. I know it’s hard to hear. And experiencing body grief as your body size and shape change during midlife is distressing.
But before you click away from the show, unsubscribe, and tell all your friends how un-relatable the Savor Food and Body Podcast is, hear me out – or rather, hear out my guest Dacy Gillespie, online personal stylist, and owner of Mindful Closet.
Dacy’s mission in life is to help women release the patriarchal standards they’ve been conforming to for way too long, and uncover their true, authentic personal style and beauty.
In this interview, you’ll hear…
- How Dacy went from professional base player to online stylist and what inspires her to focus on debunking the arbitrary standards of fashion for women in midlife.
- A brief history lesson on where those arbitrary standards came from and how they’re reflected in fashion culture today.
- Dacy shares her thoughts on why holding on to clothes that no longer serve you is like holding yourself to a previous life’s standard that likely wasn’t obtainable, and what you can do to help yourself move towards body acceptance by owning your authentic style.
- How it’s rarely about just the clothes, but more about the story behind why you’re wearing what you think you should be wearing instead of what you want to be wearing.
- Finally, Dacy offers 2 key strategies to help women in midlife start to develop their own Fashion Freedom, authentic style and step into their authentic beauty – from the inside out.
Find Your Fashion Freedom
Dacy Gillespie intuitively guides her clients to discover what they feel the best wearing. She helps them let go of the external messages they’ve been given about what they should wear and get to the heart of what’s making them uncomfortable about their clothes. Through their work building a functional wardrobe, Dacy’s clients make a mindset shift from thinking they need to wear what’s flattering to unapologetically taking up space in the world.
After a lifetime of jobs in high-stress careers that didn’t suit her highly-sensitive, introverted personality, Dacy started mindful closet in 2013 in an attempt to create a more emotionally sustainable lifestyle. She has two boys, ages 3 and 7, and a husband she adores who is well aware of her mental load.
Learn more about Dacy’s work and group programming via her website and social media
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