Mel Robbins explains how clothes work as therapy. Before you get dressed, pause and ask who you want to become that day, then let your outfit embody that intention. The texture, color, and fit of what you wear can shift your emotional state.
So number one, I may be a celebrity stylist or a fashion stylist, but I've never seen it that way. I see myself as a fashion therapist.
A fashion therapist? Yes. What does that mean?
I love clothes. I always have since I was a little kid. But fashion is the incidental part. The clothes are the choices. The clothes are the tools and how you put them together and the texture and the color and the silhouette and the proportion. And ultimately how each piece makes you feel is the story. What you wear is the story. Fashion is like the icing on the cake. That's like the next level part, style. But I don't think the point is style. I think it's about learning to use fashion or what you wear as a tool to embody your best self that's possible to you.
So when you say fashion therapist— Yeah. Yeah. What are you teaching women to learn about themselves based on the decisions they're making when they open their closet in the morning and they decide what they're gonna wear?
I, number one, I want women to like stop. I want them to take a pause and get clear on who they want to be and what their potential is. And I think like the therapy is you can't do that without having compassion for yourself because you don't get to decide how you feel when you wake up in the morning. And most days, some of we may feel anxious or tired or bloated or, you know, jet-lagged or confused or not our best self. So how can you have compassion for yourself and take a pause to get clarity, to return back to who's that person I want to be and how do I want to feel. Like, that's where the compassion comes in. And that's like self-therapy, that's self-care. Ultimately, it's, it's a pause that like those moments and those rituals, if you choose to bring them into your life every single day, they will change your life.
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