Over-50 Outfit Ideas & Personal Growth Quotes to Help on the Journey

Have a favorite color to wear in winter? Last winter mine was heather grey, and this year? Wait for it…silvery grey. Hahaha. Light greys are not even the most flattering on me since I look better in saturated hues such as the hot pink below (which I adore and may throw in my cart). Just colored my roots yesterday, and my grey hair is taking over. Maybe it will look like this model’s soon! In Over-50 Outfit Ideas & Personal Growth Quotes to Help on the Journey, we’ll chat, consider a collection of easy to mix pieces, and entertain inspiring quotes to challenge us as we grow.

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Fashion Over 50: Timeless Neutrals

So here I am following up a vulnerable post like the last one with a bunch of wardrobe ideas and quotes related to vulnerability. Is that curious?

I suppose it is a natural reflection of the work I am doing in my personal life behind the blog.

While I am growing and maturing, it’s still pretty uncomfortable to get vulnerable whether it is writing to you in this format or being present in my relationships.

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.

I think the same goes for when I write about something close to my heart on this blog. So maybe this can be that tall glass of water after the hangover. Hahahaha.

Goodness gracious, it can be hard to show up rather than safely hide.

And isn’t a tall glass of water often just what we need when we are so out of sorts or overwhelmed or fatigued or pained that we have no idea what we need?

I need reminders all of the time, and these personal growth quotes I share are as much for me as Pinterestland!

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

Fine. We’re getting vulnerable in this post too! Two in a row? What’s next?

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 vocabulary for emotions and complexities so healing discussions can happen and so resentment and pain can shared.

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 __________________.”

I can’t tell you how powerful it is. It’s entirely different when you begin by checking out if what you have been agonizing over is even accurate.

When we allow these narratives in our head to just run the show without ever checking them out?

So much harm can come to us and our relationships.

“The story I’m telling myself…” 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.

Brené Brown on Blame

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.

Because repair is what we need in the culture in such critical ways!

Repair is needed between parents, grandparents, and children.

Here’s that Heather Grey I Love Living In

And I think we simply need more tools to learn how to:

lovingly navigate tough conversations,

welcome healing into our hearts and minds,

live freer,

live more fully,

and live with more courage.

Brené Brown on Perfectionism

I don’t know much at all, but I know how important it is to feel seen, heard, and understood.

Thanks for visiting each day and reading about the imperfect stops and starts along my own journey.

As I grow older, I am becoming aware of how behavior and patterns that served me in the distant past are keeping me from living with fullness and joy in the present.

There is always something more to let go…

something more to give myself to.

And something more to learn.

Find more quotes to pin RIGHT HERE and HERE!

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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