Why now?

We live in challenging times. Fortunately, these are also times of transformation and renewal, where many of us are choosing to tend to our bodies in more intentional, caring ways. More and more, we are understanding and embracing the power of therapeutic body work… of moving our bodies, of stretching and exercising… of feeding and nourishing our bodies and our families with wholesome, healthy, life-giving, planet-sustaining food.

Many of us are doing the best that we can for our bodies while simultaneously raising children, growing enterprises, running businesses, building our careers, homemaking, creating art, caring for our elders and our communities, participating in activism, and more generally acting and working in the world to make a positive difference. This is not the time to be adding to the weight of expectations that we place on ourselves.

This is why, in my work with Rosa Macher, I help my clients connect with and embrace a different understanding of beauty.

When looking to feel beautiful, so many people feel the need to “improve” their outer appearance, so that this more closely matches externally defined ideals—ideals which are themselves often entirely unattainable and unrealistic. This is especially the case for women.

So many of us have experienced the disillusionment and burn-out that comes from grappling with the pressure to “work on” our figures, our hair, our skin, our exercise regimes, our diets, our fashion choices, our wellbeing, and so on. So much of modern life has become about improvement, productivity, self-enhancement, and performing to external standards.

Rosa Macher understands and empathises with all those who have felt or continue to feel these pressures, while encouraging something different.

In my work and for myself, I nurture compassion, body acceptance and self-love, including of the bits of ourselves that we might not like, or the parts of ourselves which don’t tick the boxes of mainstream expectations, or even willingly resist and defy them. I help clients accept it all as part of what makes each of us unique.

While we can seek to dress for our best selves, this must be on our own terms, and in keeping with our own life’s journey, not others’.

My work helping clients connect with and express their own beauty is therefore infused with compassion. Together, as women, we can grow our sense of being at peace with our bodies, and deeply grateful for this great vehicle carrying us through our lifetimes. We all need reminding of this: we can all be too harsh on ourselves.

Given the wounds many of us carry, connecting with the strength and distinctiveness of our own inner beauty, and seeing and expressing that beauty in and through our bodies, is always going to be a work-in-progress. When it comes to style, there is no finish line. Style, much like each one of us, is ever evolving, and reflects our multifacetedness as human beings and our journey here on earth. I am delighted and honoured to be able to join my clients on their journey.

To learn more about the impact that intentional personal styling can have on women’s lives, please see some of my previous Clients’ Feedback and Style Stories, in which we talk through aspects of how their personal styles have evolved and what this has done for them in their life’s journeys.