How Personal Style Becomes a Spiritual Practice: Kimberly Parry on The Wellness Driven Life
- Kimberly Parry | Your Real Life Fairy Godmother™
- Sep 4, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Summary: Kimberly Parry, Certified Personal Stylist and Certified Master Professional Coach joins April Chavez on The Wellness Driven Life to explore why personal style is one of the most powerful tools for confidence and self expression. She breaks down the difference between fashion, image, and style and explains how intentional dressing can become a daily spiritual practice that transforms how you show up in the world.
What if the way you get dressed every morning could actually become a spiritual practice?
That's exactly what Kimberly Parry explored with host April Chavez on The Wellness Driven Life, a podcast dedicated to helping listeners live with greater wellness, purpose, and intention.
Kimberly's Journey From Burnout to Success
Kimberly's path to personal styling was anything but conventional.
As a former religion teacher, she spent 16 years teaching her students about faith and spirituality. That's when burnout changed her life. In the midst of life upheaval which involved the loss of her health, her marriage, and her career, all in the same year, she leaned into a new career as a Certified Mater professional Coach using frameworks she created from her own hard experience to help others avoid the devastating, and avoidable, effects of burnout.
Over time, she realized her clients started saying similar things.
That once they'd done their inner work, their outer lives didn't always reflect that.
That realization led her to combine personal and professional development coaching with personal styling into a single, transformational approach: an immersive mind-body-spirit style transformation from the inside out.
Fashion, Image, and Style Are Not the Same Thing
One of the most clarifying moments in the episode is when Kimberly distinguishes between three terms most people use interchangeably.
Fashion refers to the industry, trends, designers, and what is happening on the runway.
Image is how others perceive you.
Style is how you communicate who you are to the world. It's the deliberate choices you make to express who you are and communicate your values.
Most people are operating on autopilot when it comes to their appearance. Styling is what happens when you take back control.
How Getting Dressed Can Be a Spiritual Practice
In this podcast, Kimberly describes intentional styling as a daily spiritual practice, a moment each morning where you make a conscious choice about how you want to show up in the world. Instead of letting your clothes control you, you control them. Instead of defaulting to whatever is easiest, you ask who am I today, and how do I want to be seen.
This shift from passive to intentional is where the transformation begins.
The reason Kimberly's approach works is because she uses fashion as a tool for personal and professional development. She knows that confidence built on the inside needs to be reflected on the outside to create a total transformation. When both are aligned, something shifts in how you carry yourself, how others respond to you, and how you move through the world.
This is the foundation of Kimberly's Succeed with Style™ framework and how she helps high-performing women transform burnout into next-level success.
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About the Author
Kimberly Parry is the founder of Emergence Life Coaching and a Certified Master Professional Coach, Certified Personal Stylist, and professional burnout speaker based in Utah. With more than 20 years of experience in personal development, she helps high achieving women and organizations transform burnout into a launchpad for success using fashion styling as a powerful tool for confidence, clarity, and reinvention. She's been featured in Voyage Utah, Bold Journey, and Yahoo Finance, and delivered her TEDxWoodinville talk on the transformative power of style.
FAQ
What is the difference between fashion, image, and styling?
Fashion refers to the industry and trends. Image is how others perceive you. Styling is the intentional, deliberate choices you make to express your identity and communicate your values.
How does personal styling help with burnout?
Burnout often disconnects women from their sense of self. Intentional styling reconnects you to your identity, restores a sense of agency, and helps you show up with confidence when everything else feels out of control.
What is Kimberly Parry's approach to personal styling?
Kimberly combines archetypal personal development coaching with personal styling to create a holistic transformation experience. Rather than focusing only on clothes, she works with clients on the internal and external simultaneously.
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