Knowing your personal style and dressing how you want to feel is crucial to your happiness and it’s as easy as listening to your brain’s quiet messages about what will make you happy!   Here are the biggest takeaways from this episode: The importance of knowing how you want to feel & how you can use that to define your personal style. Why it’s so important to use the changes in your life to make a choice intentionally. How I use my personal style as an exercise of living with intention You’ll discover how to uncover your personal style by listening to“whispers” (also know as: life's little nudges)   Hey there! Today’s mission is to reclaim that personal style of yours - -  even if it’s been missing in action for years. We’ve all heard the old adage “when you look good,  you feel good” - - and while there’s whole lot of truth in that saying, I’d like to suggest that you start with knowing how you want to feel - because I believe looking good is an inside job! Dressing how you want to feel is crucial to your happiness & it’s as easy as listening to your brain’s quiet messages about what style - for your personal wardrobe or for your home - will make you happy! 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 Been so long you don’t even know where to start? This week's free bonus content, "The Personal Style Audit Checklist," will help you get going! We know it’s so easy to put yourself on the back-burner, because let’s be real, life gets in the way. Now is your time! Download the guide now and get clear on what you need to do to start looking and feeling happy! Click HERE to get the bonus content and we’ll send it out right away! ___________     In case you'd rather read than listen... FULL TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE #4 RECLAIMING YOUR PERSONAL STYLE Welcome to the Style With Intention podcast where we talk about how to use your personal style as a tool to create a life you love.   We believe that choice is empowering, complacency is boring, and happy looks really, really, good!   I’m your host, Annie Kip, and I want to welcome you to today’s episode - all about how you can reclaim your personal style - even if it’s been missing in action for years.   For many of us, there’ve been a lot of competing pulls on us for years and our personal style has been less important - we’ve had kids who need us, relationships that require us to stretch and compromise, parents who need our attention, friends we want to find time for, and jobs that require our energy and focus.   All of these obligations and commitments take time. If you’re like me, you barely have time to stop and feed yourself and your family at the end the day, so paying attention your style can seem like a luxury. Or even a superficial indulgence. Style was something we might have paid attention to when we were younger, dating, and only had ourselves to think about. As adults, we don’t have the luxury of only thinking about ourselves.   Sort of like the Velveteen Rabbit, the children’s storybook, our sense of personal style may have been smushed, damaged, pushed, pulled, edited, adjusted, or ignored for years.   Our preferences have definitely taken a backseat to the needs of others.   Lots of us don’t even know what we like anymore. We may have forgotten who we are in some ways - and lost some of the personal power we once felt. I’m here to tell you that it isn’t too late to get that back. And now is the best time to do it!   This seems to be an age where a lot of my friends and I are taking a look around and wondering what’s next. We’re adjusting to the changing needs of our families - kids are growing up, going off to college, needing us a lit