Have a favorite color to wear in winter? Last winter mine was heathered grey, and this year, it’s…wait for it…silvery grey. Hahaha. It’s not even the most flattering color on me since I look better in saturated colors like this hot pink below (which I LOVE and may throw in my cart). The rest of my favorites are fairly neutral, comfy and casual. In Fashion Over 50: Classic Mostly Casual Pieces + Dr. Brené Brown Quotes, we’ll visit a collection of easy to mix pieces and thoughts to challenge us as we journey and grow (and I hope you pin every single one to create ripples!).
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Fashion Over 50: Timeless Neutrals
I am aware that following up a vulnerable post like my last one with a bunch of wardrobe ideas is curious.
But it is actually reflective of a dynamic at work behind the blog.
Let’s face it. It’s uncomfortable to get vulnerable.
Things can get awkward.
I don’t know about you, but I tend to leave a social situation where I was bravely open or emotionally messy and need a recovery period for the vulnerability hangover.
So maybe this can be that tall glass of water after the hangover.
And isn’t a tall glass of water often just what we need when we are out of sorts and have no idea what we need?
I need reminders of that all of the time!
I still don’t have a pair of these slippers, but they make me smile! Oh, the cherries!
These velvety beauties are on sale!
Dr. Brene Brown Quotes
Not that we’re not getting heavy here too…
One of my favorite things about learning about shame, empathy, and interpersonal matters from Dr. Brown is that she offers us so many tools to use in our relationships this very moment.
She offers us a vocabulary for emotions and complexities that when left unexplored can cause deep pain.
One of the tools from her that I use all of the time?
When I feel hurt and need a way to start an awkward, vulnerable conversation with someone close to me, I start by saying “The story I am telling myself is __________________.”
It is so effective for beginning a dialogue that leads to clarification, healing, and repair.
REPAIR is something that keeps surfacing in my consciousness these days.
I’m just not sure most of us were ever taught about repair in ways that could be truly transforming in our loving relationships.
With all of the chatter everywhere you turn about boundaries, toxic relationships, and dissolutions, you would think there would be more discussions of repair.
It’s something I am working on personally and will have more to share later.
Brené Brown on Blame
Because repair is what we need in the culture in such critical ways!
Repair is needed between parents, grandparents, and children.
And I think we simply need more tools to learn how to lovingly navigate tough conversations and welcome healing into our hearts and minds.
Here’s that Heather Grey I Love Living In
Brené Brown on Perfectionism
Find more quotes to pin RIGHT HERE and HERE!
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Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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Hello Michele, needed some distance from the internet and back it was paramount to click on your site. I was
so surprised that you made a try in fashion which is a nice variety from time to time. But honestly I wanted to
know how are you doing with health an mood? Latter affected the most of us because the confinement take already
too long. Don’t know how the situation in the US is but in the EU there is a prolongation from week to week and
month to month and nobody knows when there is a light at the end of the tunnel. For you my dear, all the best,
stay healthy and happy. b.t.w. good quotations from Dr.B.Brown…although at the end of my life I would rather
say “it was a good one”
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I missed you but am always happy for anyone spending more time unplugged and away from social media – so healthy to do that. Hoping you are finding ways to stay optimistic and creative in spite of restrictions. My health is holding steady at the moment so I can’t complain. A medicine prescribed for my rosacea also seemed to agree with my digestive issues…bonus! My mood is good most days – but I am being gentle with myself even when it dips since under the circumstances you’d have to be nutty to not despair. Was happy to visit Arizona and may head back soon even though I’ll be distancing. Being out in nature helps so much, and here in the deep freeze, there is no venturing out these days. Peace to you, lovely one.