YOU-NIQUE

It’s Sunday! And what a glorious Sunday its been. Despite that pandemic business, it’s been a gorgeous day.

So I thought I’d write…..and the best subject to write about is…..YOU. Well, me and a bit about you!

You know how last week I mentioned I joined a personal styling group? Well I’m loving it sick. Totally loving the way it’s changed my thinking, and more so, challenged my thinking on who I am and how I portray myself to the world.

I mean, our teens and twenties are a lot about fitting in. Belonging. Feeling like we are as “normal” as our peers. Thirties begin to see a bit of a shift, although for me, they were full of being “Mum” and the need to fit in only applied to the bed we shared with our little babes.

Early forties, I felt a little more of a shift. I lost the panic about whether people liked me or not. I lost the need to feel, or talk, or act like everyone else and that feeling is getting stronger by the year. But confidence eluded me. I would go shopping in search of something to make me feel great. And it wasn’t working anymore. I didn’t know what “great” was anymore.

Today I’m 48. And you know what I’m just beginning to get?

I AM UNIQUE.

And guess what???

SO ARE YOU!!

Unique. YOU-NIQUE!

I was thinking about this today.

The course I’m doing is amazing. I’m learning this woman’s principles on how to put together an outfit, or even bigger, a wardrobe. MY wardrobe. My best colours, my best shapes, my best necklines, even the best toe shape on my shoes, all based on my uniqueness. My hair, skin, body shape, facial lines. It’s bloody incredible. May have not only had light bulb moments during the course, but had light bulb explosions.

With those brain explosions, comes confusion. This course challenges everything I thought I knew about myself! Weird, huh! I’ve never really considered some of this stuff. Worse, if I had considered it, I was wrong. About myself! Because I’d never really thought this deeply about what makes me, me. I also would never have guessed that I would figure this out by doing a styling course! Go figure!

So the woman who runs this course has an incredible ability to work all this out, while teaching you how to figure it out for yourself. And she has an amazing “tribe” of followers. People like me, who lacked confidence and/or ability to know how to bring out their best features.

These principles caused a major meltdown in my head. My best colour is yellow? Are you sure? Damn straight!

My biggest concern about doing this course? I was worried about looking the same as everyone else in the group. I was worried it was a “cookie cutter” course where you buy the same kind of thing as everyone else in the group and GOD FORBID if you attend a function with any of these women!

Boy, or girl, was I wrong. Because I am unique. What suits one woman in our group, may not look right on me. What looks awesome on me, may not appeal to another in the group. WHICH IS FANTASTIC! And at a function they had in Adelaide last night, the variety of outfits was unbelievable. Around 100 women who were loving life, loving the connections, loving themselves sick and so damn confident.

It’s knowledge about what suits you, what doesn’t.

You know what this course is about?

It’s about owning who you are, warts and all. Big nose and all. Covid kilos and all. Red hair and freckles? No problem. Learn how to highlight your amazing UNIQUE features. Greying hair? Embrace it and learn how to look and feel fantastic with that change in your appearance. Who would ever have thought that a personal styling course would bring out something in me that had been missing. CONFIDENCE. ACCEPTANCE.

That, my friends, is the power of knowledge.

The biggest lesson for me?

I can learn the principles and apply them to my already large (don’t tell hubby I admitted that) wardrobe. I can go to my drawers, pull out a top and tweak it to make it work for me. And I feel like I’m walking out the door ready to face the world, with not a worry about how I look. AND that feeling is bloody good!

In a tribe of women who also embrace these principles, I would still look like me, but much more “put together” and certainly much more confident. Because I now wear what suits me, not what society says I “should” be wearing. And I don’t look like anyone else. Just me. Maybe a little tiny bit like my little sister. But mainly, me.

I AM UNIQUE.

And now I’m starting to dress like it.

Now I just need to be able to go somewhere to wear my confidence!!!

Have a great week!!

Love,

Cherie with a C. xxx