Dopamine Dressing: How to Use Colour to Improve Wellbeing, Reduce Anxiety and Boost Confidence. An Interview with Uplifting Personal Stylist, Abbey Booth.

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Abbey Booth is an Uplifting Personal Stylist, and founder of Stories With Clothes.

Abbey believes the colours we wear can have positive or negative effects on our wellbeing and confidence. She feels colour can be used to boost our mood and energy, provide a sense of direction or protection, and reduce anxiety.

Clothing can also boost dopamine for those with ADHD and/or Autistic.

Abbey is also a course leader for the Women’s Styling Diploma at The London College of Style, and a mother of two teenagers.

This episode explores:

-The power of colour: How we can use it to get noticed, feel a sense of direction and purpose, but also give us a sense of calm and reduce anxiety.

-The science and research about colour and what it does to the brain.

-Dopamine dressing: what is it and how we can use it, especially if we have ADHD or are Autistic.

-What is colour analysis and how is it done, including the benefits of draping.

-What are the differences we can expect when wearing colours that work for our skin tone?

-How we can use colour analysis to use colours to help our mood, confidence and wellbeing.

-Tips for ways we can add colour to our wardrobe for little, or no, cost.

-Advice and resources to find out your body shape and how to dress to accentuate your specific shape.

-How diet culture within society affects the views we have about our bodies.

*Trigger warning*

Contains conversation about Suicide, Grief, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Autism, Wellbeing, Menopause, Diet Culture and Body Shape.

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Abbey can be found via her website Stories With Clothes, Instagram and TikTok.

Abbey’s Colour Blog: https://www.storieswithclothes.com/post/how-to-wear-colour

Abbey’s ‘Finding Your Waist’ Reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClnbZTMjAX7/

Abbey’s free Body Shape Guide: https://www.storieswithclothes.com/free-body-shape-guide

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