Whatever makes you feel good is what you should reach for, when it comes to your personal style choices. Even a difficult time can be made better if you find a way to raise your emotional state with your style choices.   Here are the biggest takeaways from this episode: The power you have over your experiences and emotions when you decide how you want to feel about the changes in your life. The importance of truly getting to know your own preferences (i.e. what makes you happy or puts you at ease). How self-knowledge can help create stability in your life. Some personal examples of how living a life of "style and intention" has helped me get through some difficult times.   Hey there! Thank you for stopping by today! In the past few episodes of this season, we've been circling around the concept of how our emotions are inextricably linked with the experiences we have in life - but sometimes the world can throw us curve balls - I know I’ve dodged my fair share! In the toughest of times, deciding how I want to feel about the changes in my life has been very empowering. What if I told you that you could use your personal style to help you manage your feelings and sustain you during difficult times?  Well, I’m here to tell you that you can  - and this goes way beyond the old adage, “when you look good, you feel good.” This episode is really about the strength you get from truly knowing yourself - I hope you enjoy it! As always, my goal is to make it quicker and easier for you to access more ease, joy, and intention in your life...because happy looks really, really good!   Enjoy the show! BONUS CONTENT If' you're looking for a way to take back a little control in your life, you might want to check out our bonus content, "Own Your Day (and Your Life!) With These 5 Simple Phrases"! These simple phrases can help you set limits firmly and politely, speak up for what you want without being demanding, and even take yourself out of the impossible job of trying to figure out what will make other people happy. These are all skills which can help make difficult times a little easier! Click HERE to get the bonus content and we'll send it out right away!   ___________   In case you'd rather read than listen, here's the FULL TRANSCRIPT EPISODE #7 GETTING THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES WITH STYLE   Welcome to Style With Intention - I’m Annie Kip and today we are talking about Getting Through Difficult Times and how intentionally making choices that feel good can help with that!   I’ve come to really appreciate how important style choices have been in my life and how knowing what lifts me up has helped me get through tough times.   I’ve been through plenty of changes in my own life - marriages, moving, national disasters. Each time, deciding how I want to feel and then defining my personal style around that feeling has helped me get through it.   I’ve always had a core to my style, but each time my life has changed, I’ve had to go back and think about how I want to feel and how I want to live in this next phase of my life. When I think about how I want to feel, I take into consideration where I am in my life, figure out where I can and cannot change things, and then decide what choices I can make. Even in tough times, deciding how I want to feel about the changes has been very empowering.   One of the big changes in my life happened in September 2001. We were living in downtown NYC and on 9/11 our life changed dramatically - my family and I were evacuated that day and we ended up living in a rental house in Gloucester, MA for 3 months, while we decided what to do next. It was incredibly scary and disorienting -but we were lucky, we didn’t lose anyone. We left NYC that day without anything but the clothes on our backs, a few extra diapers, and some boxes of raisins for the kids.   We didn’t have any o