The benefits of journaling for self care

Journaling for self care will help you reveal your thoughts, stop hiding from yourself, identify unconscious beliefs that stop you from dressing better than you do, and challenge your brain’s acceptance of your life status quo.

If you are not looking your best every day and hiding from yourself, if you know you could look and feel much better than you do, but feel stuck, or overwhelmed, I really recommend you develop a journaling practice and learn the benefits of journaling for self care.

Specifically I recommend, wardrobe journaling, a journaling practice which focuses on your clothes: what you wear, what you think about what you wear; what you might like to change.

Rather than rushing into buying clothes you don’t need or want in an effort to stop feeling like you do I recommend that you stop.

Stop, sit down, get yourself a drink a notebook and a pen.

And start to write.

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Give yourself a rest from the incessant brain chatter

We all have so many thoughts a day, some estimates are around 60,000 thoughts a day. And we know that not all of those thoughts are positive, self affirming thoughts. If we leave the brain to its own devices the thoughts that come out of there are not always the most positive.

I think we sometimes have this idea that the brain is the brain and thoughts come out of it and there is nothing we can do. So, some people have positive, happy thoughts and great lives. And other people, like you or like me, have negative, sad thoughts and have lives that we have to put up with or endure. And that’s just our lot in life.

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VISIBLE magazine

Do you remember what you wanted to do and what you loved doing as a child? I do. I remember seeing Karl Lagerfeld on TV a long time ago and wanting to be a designer. I loved ballet and wanted to teach it. And I have always loved magazines. And real estate. But back to the magazines.

My mother used to buy, and still does, women’s magazines. I grew up reading her magazines and then when I was old enough, I started to buy my own.

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We know it’s good to wait for what we want. To delay getting something. We know that patience is a great thing. But for some of us, delayed gratification is hiding another issue which is low self esteem. We think we don’t deserve something and so we create situations where we continually don’t get things or achieve things. This proves to us that we don’t deserve things in life ‘like everyone else does’. And so the cycle continues.

Read on for how to spot the signs that delayed gratification might just be hiding your self esteem, and how to stop this cycle with a simple method.

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Are you stuck in dull, negative thoughts patterns?

Do you stop yourself from having what you want because of low level, sometimes unconscious chatter in your brain that tells you, “It doesn’t apply to me.”?

Do you look at someone else’s life and see areas where they are successful, the kind of success you yourself would like but think “Oh that kind of success, that kind of luck, it doesn’t apply to me.”?

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What do you need to be the best version of you?

The answer to this question may lie in how you think about yourself and how you think about life.

Do you think life is about achievement, doing, working, getting? Or do you think that life is about experiencing, feeling, being?

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Self esteem

You don’t ‘do’ anything to develop self esteem

on the other hand everything you ‘do’ gives you self esteem

or not

When you value

appreciate

love

yourself

you grow your self esteem

When you think negatively about yourself

hate yourself

criticise yourself

there is no room for a healthy self esteem

A healthy self esteem comes from a practice of

generous love

toward yourself

Start today

Be kind to yourself

think some positive thoughts about yourself

List 3 things you did well this week

go on

you can find 3

Put on some clothes that make you feel great

Take some exercise

Tidy up your make up or your wardrobe or your belt drawer

or your knicker drawer for that matter

Practice the art of being you

This is what life is about isn’t it

learning to be you

Learn a bit more today

Learn how to love yourself

accept yourself

acknowledge yourself in this world

Clothe yourself in garments that make you feel loved

You are loved

We love you

The secret is to learn to love yourself

 

 

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Join us in our membership group: reDRESS. Our primary aim at Working Frocks is to help you look and feel your best, to help you find your own style and to guide you to your own unique Zone of Peace, where the outer you and the inner you meet. We want the person you are on the inside to match the person you look like on the outside. But first you need to know who that person is.  And you need to know what you want to wear and how you want your own unique style to be. This is what reDRESS will help you achieve:

 

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Lose 5, Stylise, Organise

Setting personal goals, and then achieving them, can be hard work especially with everything else that clamours for our time. It’s easy to deprioritise ourselves in order to prioritise others: work; family; responsibilities.

Building momentum, through continually achieving goals you set yourself, can be impossible if you don’t have a framework that will ensure your success.

So today I’m sharing with you the framework for our new course, “Lose 5, Stylise, Organise” to show you how you can set and achieve your personal goals.

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Here we are at the start of a new year. If there is one time in the year when we make goals, plans and dreams it is this time of year.

Exercise, diet and financial goals are big topics for new year’s resolutions.
We start with the greatest of intentions but statistics show that the majority of people forget their new year’s resolutions after about 3 weeks and then return to their old pattern of behaviour.

Creating your own personal clothing protocol, maintaining an organised wardrobe and understanding your own unique style are empowering resolutions to make and here at Working Frocks we are designing systems and courses for you to join which will help you design, create and implement your “new you”.

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