I was recently offered the opportunity to make myself over. As a style blogger and general fashion junkie, I have quite a soft spot for all things makeover. I’ve always loved those shows where women go in frumpy, middle-aged and exhausted and come out shiny, approximately 163 pounds lighter, 35 years younger, and ready to take on the world.
There is just something about a makeover that smells of renewal and hope; the chance to begin again with a clean slate and a pocket full of possibilities. Needless to say, I greedily snapped-up the chance to go through an online program called Dressing Your Truth.
Dressing Your Truth is the brainchild of Carol Tuttle, who is a woman of many talents. Among her titles are Alternative Psychotherapist, Healing Expert, Personal Development Specialist, Spiritual Teacher, and Bestselling Author. The founder of parent company Live Your Truth (based in Lehi, Utah), Tuttle has now turned her healing hand to the world of fashion.
When introducing the Dressing Your Truth program, Tuttle expresses a vote of zero confidence in the fashion industry, calling it “a system of styles and trends” that is failing women. Tuttle believes that what she calls the “supermodel standard” of beauty found on most fashion runways and in magazines is not applicable to a majority of women, and that it doesn’t encourage women to find their own unique beauty.
As a response, Tuttle created Dressing Your Truth. Instead of blindly following a series of fast fashion trends, Tuttle encourages women to uncover their own unique beauty by dressing in harmony with the type of energy that they express. The program is based on Tuttle’s Energy Profiling System, which she created using her expertise in alternative healing.
The Energy Profiling System honors a woman’s inner nature, personality, and outer expression of her physical self. Ultimately, this is what makes Dressing Your Truth so different from any other makeover system out there.
My experience: finding & dressing true to my Energy Type
According to Tuttle’s Energy Profiling System, each of us fall into one of four types of energy profiles.
While everyone has qualities of more than one of the energy types, apparently we all possess a dominant type that we lead with in everything we do; from the way we move through the space around us to a particular method of eating corn on the cob (the initial bites are swift and vertical, followed-by a horizontal, typewriter-like method. You know, the right way).
Corn on the cob notwithstanding, the underlying theory that drives Dressing Your Truth is that once you can determine and understand your true nature via your Energy Profile, you can dress to express your true energy, taking your cues from your Energy Type.
The energy traits associated with each of the 4 Energy Types are as follows:
Type 1℠: light, animated, and upbeat.
Type 2℠: flowing, muted, and relaxed.
Type 3℠: active/reactive, dynamic, and swift.
Type 4℠: bold, structured, and precise.
I found the Energy Profiling process quite fun; the video portion of the course was both entertaining and visually stimulating, and it also encouraged me to do some honest reflection on the way I interact with my environment.
Carol Tuttle’s Energy Profiling System makes some very astute observations about each of the energy types, and even though I felt that I had many traits from a number of different energy types, her guidance and descriptions were so specific, it was like she was addressing me directly.
I identified so strongly with one type that when it came time to decide, I had little doubt. For me, all signs were pointing in the direction of a Type 3 woman; active, reactive, dynamic type.
As I worked my way through the program, I realized that the insight I was gaining on my Energy Type was also helping me to understand some of the sartorial preferences I’ve always had, but have never been able to fully explain.
As a style blogger, I have a healthy selection of photographs of myself in various looks, so I set about sifting through them, grouping my looks into ones that fit my Type 3 energy and ones that didn’t. Across the board, the looks that fit my Type 3 profile are some of the looks that I generally feel happiest in, and are the looks that I tend to wear more often.
What Dressing Your Truth did was show me that there is actually a reason I am drawn to so many of the things I am drawn to; the nature of my energy type has been leading me in the direction of some of these things all along.
Dressing Your Truth opened a door for me in that I can now recognize the outward expression of my energy, as opposed to just randomly being drawn to something for the sake of it. Ultimately, this has led to me being more mindful of what I am trying on, or putting on my body, as I have a better understanding of how it interacts with my energy and that of those around me.
Overall, I think that Dressing Your Truth works for everyone, whether you’re new to the fashion game or have reinvented yourself more times than you care to remember.
As a blogger and someone who quite enjoys both the art and business of fashion, I am coming from a different place than someone who perhaps has never really “got” fashion, is stuck in a style rut, or just doesn’t quite know where to start. But that is the real beauty of the Dressing Your Truth Program.
Because it is designed to give you insight to your own unique energy, there are no two people who will experience the program in the same way or have the same truth – and this is the real beauty of Dressing Your Truth .
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