Fashion Fury

What happens when your love destoys you? Not your partner, but your passion. I LOVE fashion and clothing. As soon as I make an outfit in my head, it's over. I need that outfit.

Now, let's focus on that word "need" for a second. Need is a word that gets thrown around a lot, abused and misused. To clarify, I don’t “need” any more clothing. I have plenty. In fact, I don’t “need” much of anything, except food, medicine, water, and shelter and love.

Material possessions, like fashion, can make us feel better in the moment. A dopamine rush. I know literally everyone says that but it’s true. The more you acquire, not necessarily have, but aquire, the more you’ll keep looking for your next big thing. And fashion changes by the second. So there will ALWAYS be new options. But controlling that urge, and trying to get a handle on acquiring that next best thing will help those urges subside.

Shopping your stash is a great way to see(and use!) what you have and possibly even resister some goodies forgotten about. I shop my quite extensive closet all the time! I need to do it more often though!

Fashion is one of those areas that is hard for me. When I put my identity in my fashion and how I appear to the world, I actually get a little anxious. I want that newest and cutest! As I said before, a make an outfit out of it, it’s over.

But I got advice from someone to slow down. I tend to live my life at a rabbits pace. But if you slow down, you can appreciate where you’re at and what you have. I just bought my last piece of the year. I told myself I would get five pieces and I already passed that. So I’m going to try to stop. I have enough!. Easier said than done of course! But I’m going to try!

You can try with me! Think of something you overindulge in and try to cut back or cut it out. Either one is fine! Especially if what you overindulge in is something you can’t just cut out, like eating. But you might be surprised by how much less you want something if you don’t consume it for a while. Or overconsume it. Do a test run. See how it goes. Then let me know how it went!