

Discover Your Type  
of Beauty

CAROL TUTTLE

Best-selling author of

Remembering Wholeness and It's Just My Nature!

Copyright © 2010 by Carol Tuttle

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DEDICATED TO THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD.

MAY YOU ALL DISCOVER

YOUR GREATEST BEAUTY,

AND LIVE IT TO THE FULLEST,

INSIDE AND OUT!

WHAT WOMEN ARE SAYING ABOUT   
CAROL TUTTLE'S BEAUTY PROFILESM SYSTEM   
AND DRESSING YOUR TRUTH®

Thank you for letting me know that I can be me! I've never felt my own sense of self: I've been looking in the mirror for 45 years and not seeing me! Thank you so much for your Beauty Profiling and the Dressing Your Truth systems. Now I am seeing the real me more and more each day! —Myra

Dressing Your Truth has given me permission to be me! I like shopping now because I have a purpose and I know what I am looking for. —Amanda

I now wear more muted colors. To my surprise, my skin looks more alive with those colors! —Rosie

I want to share a wonderful experience I had with my four girls...we all went shopping. We spent the whole day, went to lunch and found lots of bargains. We laughed a lot and enjoyed our new insights about our strengths and challenges within our Types. What a fun and empowering experience it was...[to] support each other in such a positive way... You have made a difference for all of us. —Terry

I have been following Dressing Your Truth for almost a year. I get compliments daily! I love knowing what works in my wardrobe.

—Janet

What a relief to finally know my true self and to stop wasting my money, time and energy on all the wrong things. —Bea

I feel so great and look so hot...after completing Dressing Your Truth, my closet is filled with clothes I love wearing. —Sherry

This has been an amazing journey, one I plan on continuing over my lifetime...my husband has commented daily on how nice I look. One of the most enjoyable things is that I know what I am wearing works and I no longer have to worry about that. —Kelly

I have been applying some of the rules for my Type and all I can say is "Wow"—and so does my husband... What is amazing about this is that I really do feel pretty and feminine for the first time in many years. —Rochelle

How does one give thanks for getting a life back? I feel like the fire inside is beginning to glow. Thank you for leading out, doing what you do and being your authentic self. You've been so instrumental in the transformation of many. —Nancy
OTHER BOOKS FROM CAROL TUTTLE

The Path to Wholeness

Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century

It's Just My Nature! A Guide to Knowing and Living Your True Nature

The Child Whisperer: The Ultimate Handbook for Raising Happy, Successful, Cooperative Children
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the many women who have shown up in my life to teach me that every woman is innately beautiful.  
Thank you to my daughters, Jennifer and Anne. You have learned your true natures and beauty at an early age, and this knowledge will serve you well your entire life. Thank you to my daughters-in-law, Sarah and Jaleah, who have embraced my teachings whole-heartedly and brought out their beauty to share with the world.

Thank you to my sons Chris, Mark and Mario, and my sons-in-law, Tony and Tanner. Your example to other men of how to support the beautiful women in your life is so admirable.

Thank you to my great husband, Jonathan—you continue to support and love my passions for dreaming and living big.

Thank you to my team, the people who have come and gone in this journey and the team members who continue to support the worldwide vision we hold to help every woman know her truth and dress it! My husband Jonathan, my son Chris, my son-in-law Tanner, my daughter Anne, and daughter-in-law Sarah are the core members of my team, and they are each invaluable in the roles they play in building our business.

Also thanks to our web designer, Timothy Kavmark, who continues to share his genius with us; our film and production crew including Marcy Brown, Jenner Brown, Anna K Findlay, and Tanner Christensen who took what had previously only been taught at live events and created world-class online learning courses so women worldwide could learn how to dress their truth; and to my amazing editor, Kathy West.

I have a passion to revolutionize the beauty and fashion world, and to help women all over the world take back their beauty. I acknowledge you for finding and reading this book, and becoming the next woman to discover the secrets to your true beauty and learn how to use the tools to express your beauty almost effortlessly and with growing confidence.

INTRODUCTION

What if I told you that the shape of your nose could reveal your personality? Or that the way you walk into a room is a giveaway to how you think? Or that any time you've felt ugly, you were just missing one essential piece of truth about yourself? I'm excited to introduce you to a system that identifies 4 Types of beauty that women naturally express—including you.

When you discover which unique Type of beauty you express (both inwardly and outwardly), you may find that your so-called flaws are actually your best features and you can better love and be yourself in a way you never have before. Discovering which Type of beauty you express is a powerful, enlightening experience and I'm excited for you to have it.

This system has changed my life forever, as well as the lives of tens of thousands of other women around the world. It's called Beauty Profiling, and it's an assessment tool that teaches you how to recognize, understand, and love your inner source of beauty—the true you. As you read this book, you will learn how your outer beauty and inner beauty are connected, more closely than you may have ever imagined. Your beauty isn't expressed in only your face or your body. It also expresses in your thought and feeling processes, your behavior tendencies, and even your personality. When you look at all of those together, you learn the truth about your inner beauty. In other words, you learn your Beauty Profile.

That is the goal of this book: to support you in identifying your unique Type of beauty, or your Beauty Profile. Knowing your personal Beauty Profile will give you a deeper and clearer understanding of who you are—your unique gifts and talents, your inherent qualities and traits, why you are the kind of woman that you are. In other words, the purpose of this book is to support you in recognizing the truth of who you are, as woman, as a human being, and move forward in your life in greater confidence and awareness. In this day and age, we women are finished with a shame-based approach to beauty that's just not working. We're ready to know our true selves more fully and clearly and to live that truth with honesty and confidence.

This book is the first step of a two-part process that brings you into an experience of enjoying truth-based beauty. The first step is learning your personal Beauty Profile. This book will give you in-depth information about each of the four Types of women and guide in you a process to consider which one best describes your unique expression of beauty. We'll look at how the shame-based myths of the current fashion world have prevented us from stepping into our true, powerful, beautiful natures as women. My goal for you is that after reading this book you will be able to say, "I know my personal Type of beauty, and my life will be different forever now! I love myself!"

The second step in the process is to dress your truth. Dressing Your Truth is a personalized fashion makeover system that teaches you how to create a personal style that's true to your unique Type of beauty. For many women, dressing and adorning themselves feels like a lifelong battle that starts in their young teens. Many women feel defeated by that battle because—based on the way the fashion world works—it seems to be a battle you can never win. Fortunately, you will discover in the pages of this book how unnecessarily hard we have been on ourselves for something that, quite frankly, until now, we have not had the tools to change.

That second step—the Dressing Your Truth makeover program—is beyond the scope of this book. You will learn so much about yourself and your true nature as a woman in this book, but you will not find specific instruction about clothes, jewelry, accessories, makeup, skincare, or hairstyles here. You will find that information in the hands-on tools and online learning resources at the dressingyourtruth.com website, which I will reference in this book.

The fashion world has presented an idea of beauty that leaves us feeling inadequate and shaming ourselves into believing that we are somehow flawed, and therefore must put beauty on. But I'm committed to teaching women how to love their true selves and bring their true beauty out, a beauty that has always been there, that our current fashion system has prevented us from seeing. That's why this book focuses on discovering and honoring you first, not fashion. Only after you know your Type of beauty will you be prepared to learn how to honor it in your daily dress and fashion choices.

The Beauty Profiling system will teach you a new way of looking at yourself, not just for today but for a lifetime. I am excited for you to start this journey. No matter your age, size, or color, you are beautiful and you deserve to understand and see the reasons why!

Clothes should look as if   
a woman was born into them.

—Geoffrey Beene
Part 1

  * It Started With Twiggy!—  
My Personal Beauty Nightmare
  * How The Fashion World Has Failed Women
  * It's Time to Take Back Your Beauty
  * What This Book Is—And What It Is Not

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My story is like many women's stories when it comes to how I felt about my appearance. It is not a very fun story.

For most of my life, I hated my body and struggled with how I looked. Even so, at age 45, I finally discovered the tools that allowed me to love and appreciate my body and my looks. I'm about to tell you how. But first, let me tell you about my beginnings.

Around age 12, I started to notice that what I wore and how I looked made a difference in how I felt about myself. I was an attractive girl who was pretty much left to myself to figure out how to put clothes together, wear makeup, and so on. I lay no fault at the feet of my mom. I believe she did the best she knew how, and I can't imagine that I made it easy for her to convey her beauty secrets to me—which I now know would not have been right for me anyway. I had no sisters to seek advice from and my brothers thought "girlie" stuff was pretty much a waste of time.

I thought I looked boyish. I didn't like how I looked because my appearance didn't align with what I thought I was "supposed" to look like. In an effort to change that, I decided to do something to my substantial eyebrows, which to me were bushy and boyish. I hated them. So one night, I took action and removed most of my eyebrows with a pair of tweezers and a bathroom mirror. I had no help and no instruction, which was readily apparent by the looks of my eyebrows once I was done. Not knowing any better, I assumed this new look was an improvement—that is, until I hit my seventh period band class where a boy next to me looked at me in horror and exclaimed, "What happened to your eyebrows?" In that moment, I realized I didn't look any better than I had before. Overcome with a feeling of shame that I was just not pretty, I wanted to disappear. That experience was an initiation to my journey with my own appearance, which seemed like one frustration and failure after another. I know I'm not alone in that journey.

About this same time, my three brothers and their friends added their two cents by shamelessly teasing me with the nickname, "Carol Barrel," and comments like, "Hey, peg legs!" and "Crater face!" Needless to say, that did not help in my opinion of my looks and body image.

By high school, I had made little progress and did what most girls were doing—buying and trying to wear what was in fashion (except miniskirts—I just could not pour my larger frame into that fashion that was the rage). My battle with weight and hatred for my body really kicked in at age 15, which went on to last 30 more years. I had little inner confidence and I felt disgusted with myself because I believed I was overweight on the outside.

I never liked how I looked, and I felt increasingly uncomfortable in my clothes. Just as many other girls do, I pretended, hiding my shame for my body and looks and pretending I felt good about myself. By age 17, my shopping and dressing room experiences were a nightmare. I had gained an excess of 30 pounds at this point and created an eating disorder of binging and—oh, but I forgot the purging part, so I just kept gaining weight.

I hated trying on clothes and had many an argument with my gentle-natured mother who felt more than confused about how to help me. I started a pattern of being late for school, since I tried on outfit after outfit in the morning, trying to find something I felt halfway decent in. My mom finally insisted I pick out my clothes the night before, which only gave me more time to try things on, hate them, and berate myself even more. I told myself that my body and outward appearance were inferior.

After years of this inner struggle, off to college I went, and for the first time in my life, at age 18, I found a makeup class at a local salon in the college town I lived in. I signed up for a personal consultation, and went to learn about how to put on makeup from someone who I figured knew better than I did what was right on me. In spite of what help I got (or did not get) from the makeup class, my battle with food, body image and low self-esteem continued.

Fortunately, I met a man who loved me for who I was at the time. I married Jon Tuttle when I was 22 years old, just four days after my university graduation.

On to marriage and motherhood and the next 23 years of doing my best to look my best, still influenced by fashion trends and styles, but never feeling I looked great in them. I had the perm in the 80s, the black in the 90s and didn't start to discover my true beauty until the 2000s!

For 33 years of my life, I fell prey to the belief—as most every woman out there—that my inability to look great was all my fault, and there was little I could do about it.

THE SUPERMODEL STANDARD

I was introduced to the fashion world when the first supermodel and British fashion icon was a 91-pound teenager. Her name was Twiggy. Remember her? Twiggy was the first of a long line of women who set the standard of beauty that we call supermodels.

And guess who didn't like herself, her looks, or her body at all growing up? You got it: me! I hated my body, I hated how I looked, and had absolutely no self-confidence in my teenage, female self. As I mentioned earlier, at age 12 I began to look to the outside world, and the fashion and beauty world, as the reference to my developing womanhood. Because the beauty icon of the time was a striking, 91-pound, blonde female with the name Twiggy, I would bet it is safe to say not many girls of my time had a chance at feeling beautiful.

Girls are influenced from an early age that they should worry about their appearance, as the literal models they're given to follow express a Type of beauty that they don't express. Unfortunately, for most of my life, all of my efforts in beautifying myself were to improve what I thought was originally flawed. My natural Type of beauty is not found in the supermodel version of fashion and beauty!

Ladies, it has been 40 years that we have been judging ourselves against a "supermodel standard" that we can never measure up to. The standard of a tall, thin, sleek, woman who appears to be much younger than she is—that's what we have been told to consider beautiful. And to make matters worse, all the over-the-top photo enhancing and airbrushing that take place in the media pit us against a superficial beauty standard that can only perpetuate a deep inner sense of failure in the effort to feel beautiful as a woman.

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (see www.dove.us) was started after Dove did a worldwide study on beauty called The Real Truth About Beauty: A World Report. The Dove report confirmed their premise that the common definition for beauty had become impossible for most women to attain. The study pointed out only 2 percent—yes, 2 PERCENT—of women considered themselves beautiful, and only 12 percent of women said they were "very satisfied" with their physical attractiveness. On the other end of the scale, 75 percent of the women who responded wished that the media did a more responsible job of portraying the diversity of women's physical attractiveness, including size and shape, across all ages.

The Dove campaign and others like it have voiced the discomfort that so many women feel. But the source of that feeling goes deeper than just the super-model standard, which we'll get into in this book.

If it weren't for discovering my own Beauty Profile and developing Dressing Your Truth, I may have never discovered my own unique beauty. At this phase in my life, I am incredibly grateful that I can look past current fads and styles that just don't work for me—and wear an expression of who I truly am.

WHERE I AM NOW ON MY JOURNEY

At the time of this writing, I am in my early fifties and I honestly feel and believe that I look hot! In fact, I know I have never looked better! Even more importantly, my outer appearance is now an authentic expression of the dynamic woman I know I am inside. I'm not trying to look like anyone else's expectations of me, as I did for so many years. I love how I look, and I feel confident that what I am wearing is perfect for me. I love to shop and find the pieces that are just right for me. Now that I know my Type of beauty and I dress my truth, shopping is a breeze, getting dressed is enjoyable, and feeling confident about my inner self and outer appearance is just a given in my lifestyle now. I find what I want fast and what I find is always affordable.

My challenge when getting ready is no longer wondering what to wear, but asking myself, "What great outfit should I wear today?" I know the best color, cut, and style for my hair. I know how to do it every day so I never have a bad hair day. I no longer worry that my body is too big, or whether my butt looks big. I no longer look in a dressing room mirror with disgust, thinking I can't look good until I lose 20 pounds. I look in the mirror and love what I see. I don't have to ask my husband or my friends, "Does this look good on me?" because I know what looks good and I buy it with confidence.

I have spent years in healing my wounded feminine self. As you will understand more as you read further in this book, I am a TYPE 3SM woman, which is a rich, dynamic expression of beauty. Repressing that active, determined, passionate expression for most of my life caused my lack of self-esteem. Discovering my Type of beauty and allowing myself to live it and dress it has brought me a whole new life, even in my middle years. I am grateful for my journey. It is due to my own experience that I have come to understand yours.

As my daughter Anne shared with me, "Mom, if you had not gone through what you have, you would have never created all the great resources you have that are helping people all over the world!" This is true—thanks for the reminder, Anne!

Because I know how my journey has turned out, I know how yours can turn out, too. Let's get started in taking back your true nature and true beauty so you too can look in the mirror and love what you see—and most importantly, feel the love you have for your true self.
HOW THE FASHION WORLD HAS FAILED WOMEN

After reading this section you might just say to yourself, "Why didn't I think of that? It makes total sense!"

Culturally, there has been a belief that a woman's appearance is one of the most—if not the most—valuable things about her. In media and society, we see a lot of emphasis placed on women looking a certain way, comparing them to that impossible supermodel standard. The current cultural approach to beauty comes from a place of shame: shame that you're not good enough, that you're flawed, and that you use clothes and beauty products to make up for deficiencies that you'll never fully be able to compensate for.

The fashion world has failed us in many ways because it was built on that belief and that shame. It is an ever-changing system of fashion trends and styles that dictate which clothes a woman should wear in order to feel valuable. It does not give us the insight into the truth of who we are, or the tools we need to bring out our greatest beauty as women. However, the ever-changing fashion trends do work to create demand—demand to purchase the latest fashions—in women who do not know what works best for them, or what they really want, which is possibly the majority of women in the Western world.

Think about it for a moment. From the beginning of recorded history, fashion has separated those who have money from those who have little or no money, and thereby created social classes— separation and lack and envy and turned-up noses.

Current fashion magazines have become a form of entertainment, and in some cases bizarre art, showing women in outfits that the everyday woman would never wear. The fashion system has not and will never even attempt to teach us the skills and tools to honor our true nature and our unique physical traits so we can express our true beauty. Rather, it has left us guessing. Shaming ourselves into being the problem, and keeping us on the treadmill of chasing the latest trends, only to buy more clothes with more and more uncertainty.

We have blamed ourselves and our physical traits for not looking great in the clothes that we are lured to purchase by a fashion culture with an insatiable appetite for trends and change. Who in the world thought that the latest fashion trend could look great on every woman? Since we all have different bodies, face shapes, and personalities, we can't all look great in the same clothes. Fashion trends and styles are focused on clothes, not a woman's thoughts, feelings, personality, and all the other things that make her the unique woman that she is. So women go into dressing rooms and get discouraged when the latest trends don't seem to look good on them. What's really happening is the clothes aren't expressing the truth of the woman inside them. The problem is the system, not the woman.

The current fashion system teaches us how to put on beauty, not how to bring out our true beauty. I've learned that when you feel insecure about how you look, and try to put on your look or your beauty, you can become intimidated by other women—especially women who seem naturally amazing and beautiful. These insecurities get stirred up when you're still trying to put beauty on. You can't put on beauty unless it reflects the beauty you recognize inside yourself.

When you see a woman who looks fashionable, you are usually seeing a woman who is putting beauty on. You see the clothes first, then the woman! When you see a woman dressing her truth, you see the woman first, then the inspiring ensemble of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and hair supporting her real nature. What she has on her body looks like a natural extension of her true self, her true beauty.

I believe very few women care passionately about fashion, but I believe every woman deeply cares about being authentically beautiful, expressing the truth of who she is, inside and out.

HATING HOW YOU LOOK

As I was going through some old pictures to find the images I wanted to share in this book, I was startled by something I discovered. As I mentioned earlier, I hated how boyish my thick, bold, bushy eyebrows made me look when I was in seventh grade. But had forgotten what I was about to see, so when I came across my picture in my seventh grade yearbook, I was shocked. I had taken a pen and completely scratched out my image! The picture of me was taken before I had my private eyebrow-plucking session.

The disdain and embarrassment I felt for trying to make my boyish looks more feminine were very powerfully witnessed to me by this act of scratching out my picture when I was 13. I really did hate how I looked. Looking back and reflecting on this now—almost 40 years later—brought me to tears and got me even more fired up to change what we do to ourselves as women and to expose where the fault lies.

Let me say this really clearly: the fault does not lie with us as women. It is in the system of fashion and beauty that we have blindly accepted and have been convinced is acceptable since our pre-teen days. We have not paused to question it. It is like a slow, torturous drip of false programming that starts in a female's life somewhere between the ages of 10 and 13. It sets us up to believe that if we don't conform to a certain standard of what looks "good" in the current trends and styles, the fault is in our body and physical appearance, not in the system itself.

When I came across pictures of myself at 15, when I weighed 150 pounds, I was also surprised and shocked. I saw myself in a whole new light. I was not overweight by reasonable, healthy standards. Yes, I had a more athletic build and was more muscular (definitely not the skinny girl) but what I saw was a perfectly healthy teenage girl!

I am convinced that my imbalanced belief and perception at that stage was the catalyst to develop an eating disorder in the next couple of years, which ultimately caused me to gain more weight. If I had had a healthy view of myself then, sustained by sound beliefs, I never would have developed those patterns and likely would have avoided 30 years of body image despair.

Like most girls, I accepted these false beliefs about my body image and appearance that came from media-based fashion and beauty standards. I compared myself to them, like most other girls, and fully accepted the lie that I was not thin enough or pretty enough and that it was my fault. I now know the standard I measured myself against was seriously flawed.

JENNIFER'S STORY

I am immensely grateful for the stories and excitement I hear from women all over the world who are discovering their Type of beauty, Dressing their Truth and loving the truth of who they are. Learning this information can make powerful shifts in a woman's life, as it did for Jennifer:

"It has been one week since I began my journey of discovering who I am. I am ecstatic about having the knowledge, the resources and the freedom I have given myself to be me! I am also delighted by the fact that it has given me greater understanding and a higher level of respect for the three key women in my life: my teenage daughter, my daughter-in-law and my boss!

In addition to everything I've mentioned, Dressing Your Truth has opened my eyes to the beauty of every woman. I have a deep appreciation for individuality as well as a better understanding of each Type.

Humbled and forever grateful, Jennifer"

Women are waking up to how the fashion world has failed us. They're recognizing unrealistic beauty standards. They know there's more to them than just appearance. They want to feel beautiful, valued, and appreciated for the whole person that they are.

Many women say the solution to unrealistic beauty standards is to just love yourself as you are, which I agree with. Loving ourselves is exactly what we all should do as women. But women still encounter a problem when they get dressed. Many women who want to love themselves still feel dissatisfied with their appearance because what they see in the mirror doesn't seem to reflect an authentic expression of their beautiful, inner nature.

They are dissatisfied because they know there can be more. They know there has to be a way to live true to who they are on the inside and feel beautiful and authentic on the outside. That's what I love about the Beauty Profiling system and Dressing Your Truth. Every woman deserves to look beautiful every day of her life, and now every woman can have the tools to accomplish that goal effortlessly, affordably and joyfully.

The world of fashion has failed us and shamed us long enough. You no longer need to believe that you are the problem, because you are not. I am confident in saying that once you learn how to dress your truth, you will own your beauty and personal fashion and dress with confidence and success. Where the fashion system left you guessing on what to buy, you will now know each and every time you go shopping what is perfect for you. I fully expect that you will have your own success story just like Jennifer's!
IT'S TIME TO TAKE BACK YOUR BEAUTY

I say this whole-heartedly: most women do not know how truly beautiful they are. Frankly, they have never had the tools to discover their innate beauty or to express it effortlessly.

Most women hear compliments like, "That's a nice jacket," or, "I like your purse!" But after learning how to dress their truth, our clients consistently hear compliments like, "You look amazing!"

Is this what you are experiencing now?

You look in the mirror and say, "Who is that? Is that me? I look terrible!" And the older you get, the more you are feeling this!

  * It drives you crazy to get dressed in the morning because you can't decide what looks good on you.
  * You look in your closet at the beginning of the day and say, "I have nothing to wear!"
  * You have a closet full of clothes and only really love a few items.
  * You despise clothes shopping because you can't find the right color, or what fits or feels right to you, or what you can afford.
  * You go into convulsions at the thought of stepping into a dressing room.
  * The compliments you hear may be nice but deep down you feel like they are obligatory.

Once you start Dressing Your Truth, these experiences will no longer be regular occurrence. Why? Because you'll love the way you look, every day. You'll totally enjoy dressing in the morning, and will do so with great confidence. You'll love to shop for clothes because you will always know exactly what you are looking for and what works for you. It will be fun to step into a dressing room again. And you will hear genuine compliments—in fact, they will become an everyday experience.

I heard from a customer, Julie (TYPE 1SM), who said, "I went to my profession's bi-annual conference yesterday. My friends haven't seen me since the last conference and since I have started dressing my truth. Boy, did I get the attention—like I have never received! One friend after another couldn't stop mentioning how great I looked. I had one friend say specifically as she couldn't stop staring, 'Your make-up just "pops"!' I had to silently laugh because what you say about the compliments we would hear is right on. Of course, I told them to go to your website to learn more. Once again, Carol Tuttle is right."

I receive emails like the one below every day from women who are falling in love with their appearance and their body, and they are not even at their ideal weight! Pamela shares:

"Today was the first time my friends saw me dressing my truth and no less than six people at church today stopped me to say how amazing I looked. I love this stuff. I had to see it to believe it, and I sure do now. It also helped me to deal very effectively with a very challenging situation and I never lost my cool, my dignity or my focus. I think feeling so secure in my skin made a big difference for the better. Thank you."

Along with Julie and Pam are thousands of women worldwide, some of whom are featured in dressingyourtruth.com. Later in this book, we can talk about the amazing results of Dressing Your Truth. (You can also see a collection of Before and Afters in the color section of this book.)

Because you may not be used to being noticed for your beauty, this may feel awkward and uncomfortable. It is common for women to share with me this sentiment, "I am afraid that dressing my truth will be too much. I am going to stand out."

I tell women to consider the possibility that Dressing Your Truth and bringing out your beauty is not over-stating yourself; consider, rather, that you have been understating yourself and settling for mediocrity in your appearance most of your life.

It is time to take back your beauty and become your own beauty expert. You really can express outwardly how naturally beautiful you are, both inside and out. I have personally witnessed hundreds of women who have shed tears of appreciation when they looked in the mirror and saw for the first time how beautiful they truly are.

I want you to be the next woman to fall in love with herself and to love your body just the way it is right now! Amazing things happen when you feel the true love you really do have for yourself. I am excited for you.

WHAT THIS BOOK IS—AND WHAT IT IS NOT

As I mentioned before, learning to Dress Your Truth is a two-step process. This book is the first and vital step of that process. The information in this book opens your eyes to who you are and makes everything I teach in the Dressing Your Truth course make sense.

1. Discover your unique Type of beauty.

Women have said that simply discovering their Type of beauty has been a life-changing experience for them, and it can be life changing for you. As you discover your Type of beauty, you will understand the truth about your feminine nature, and you will learn why some of your so-called flaws are actually evidence of your greatest strengths. This is huge!

2. Learn how to Dress Your Truth

The second step in this process is learning to actually Dress Your Truth. There are five elements of Dressing Your Truth: color, pattern, texture, fabrication, and design line. These five elements are expressed in clothing, jewelry, accessories, makeup color and application, and even your hair color, cut and style. Once you know your own Beauty Profile, you will be ready to learn how to Dress Your Truth using the five elements as your guide to create your own personal style. As you do that, getting ready each day can become a daily practice in honoring who you are as a woman.

I must stress it is imperative that you first discover your own Beauty Profile before you can take the next step, the Dressing Your Truth online course. Dressing Your Truth only works in helping you bring out your beauty if you know which Type of woman you are. I feel confident that with the resources in place to assist you, you will recognize yourself in these pages and be eager to live in alignment with who you truly are.
Part 2

  * The First Step in Dressing Your Truth: Discover Your Personal Beauty Profile
  * Your Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep
  * Your Beauty Sixth Sense

THE FIRST STEP IN DRESSING YOUR TRUTH: DISCOVER YOUR PERSONAL BEAUTY PROFILE

This is where the fun starts—discovering your personal Beauty Profile. To help you in this discovery, I will refer to my system called Energy Profiling to help you learn your Type of beauty.

The Energy Profiling system is a groundbreaking and revolutionary profiling system that helps you discover your innate character and that of others. It is a study of how you move through the world. In my Energy Profiling system, we learn the natural expression of our human nature captured in: personality, behavior tendencies, thought and feeling processes, body language and physical features. With the help of this Energy Profiling system, thousands of people have learned that their perceived weaknesses and flaws are actually their greatest strengths and gifts.

(If you have read my book It's Just My Nature, you will no doubt see some similarities between that book and this book. The Beauty Profiling and Energy Profiling systems describe the same four Types of human expression. It's Just My Nature! offers a more thorough guide to using the Energy Profiling system to understand yourself and others. This book discusses content that I have developed specific to women and the shame they experience around their appearance.) 
YOUR BEAUTY IS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP

Your beauty is truly more than skin deep: it is actually created from the four elements in your DNA! These four elements create your inner beauty (your true nature, feelings, and thought patterns) and your outer beauty (your facial features and body language).

Think back to your chemistry class to recall what these four basic building blocks are. The four elements are nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon. These elements create an innate movement that expresses itself naturally and effortlessly in every aspect of your life. Mother Nature truly is a beauty expert!

You might be asking, "What do the four elements have to do with me? And how do they relate to my beauty?" What you are about to discover may surprise you. These four elements, in terms of their natural movement and expression in you, have everything to do with your natural beauty.

The four elements are the basis of your Beauty Profile. Your physical features, body language, personality, and many of your behavioral tendencies are influenced by the core expression of these four elements. They are the basis of the four Types of beauty you will be learning about as you discover your Beauty Profile.

For simplicity, I have given each element a number and refer to each as a Type, for example:

  * Nitrogen—TYPE 1SM Energy
  * Oxygen—TYPE 2SM Energy
  * Hydrogen—TYPE 3SM Energy 
  * Carbon—TYPE 4SM Energy

You express a unique combination of all four elements in you, but you lead with the dominant expression of only one. I call this your dominant Energy Type or Type of beauty. Our dominant Energy Type is the most prevailing expression influencing all aspects of our life. As I have previously mentioned, you will learn how this innate quality in you is influencing your looks, personality, and numerous behavior tendencies. Even when we try to override our Energy Type and change our personality, this core movement cannot be silenced. We see it expressing itself most naturally when we are not thinking about it. It expresses itself in ways that we don't judge readily, like walking, talking, doodling or laughing, just to name a few examples.

I can determine a woman's dominant Energy Type most easily by simple assessments—that is, her demeanor when coming into a room of people she does not know, how she behaves during a class, how she moves through the process of learning new material, and the types of questions she asks, if she asks any. I can even tell by her facial features, the shape of her nose, the lines of her face, and the pitch and tone of her voice which Type of beauty she expresses.

It is when we are not consciously thinking about who we are that who we truly are unmistakably expresses itself.

There are four Energy Types that create your whole Beauty Profile. I believe we are each unique in the creation and expression of who we are, yet I have found an uncanny similarity in the tendencies of expression found in women of the same Dominant Energy Type. We are each unique and also very much the same within our Type of beauty.

The full Energy Profiling model that is taught in my book It's Just My Nature! is a simple, yet profound tool that helps us understand our natural gifts and talents, our strengths and weaknesses, our approach to the world, our ways of processing and perceiving our life experience and how we process information and make decisions. It helps us understand that we were created to express these core movements in every aspect of our lives, and to enjoy who we naturally are. With a deeper study of Energy Profiling, you also more fully appreciate the character and natural expressions of others. Your judgments of other people drop away when you see them through the Energy Profiling lens.

We teach women that all of the Types of beauty stand equal in their value, that there is not one more gifted or capable than another, not one more beautiful than another. When we are living in conscious alignment with our own Energy or Beauty Profile, we experience a balanced life.

Every woman has the right and opportunity to be successful, ambitious, determined, fun, loving, caring, nurturing, prosperous, generous, enlightened, and incredibly beautiful—all the qualities we strive for in our human experience. What will look different is the way we move and express ourselves in these qualities.

As you read through the description of each Type of beauty, open yourself up to who you really are. Pay attention to your heart more than your head. Your mind will tell you who you think you are, but your heart just knows it. Listen to your heart. It will not fail you.

MARY'S STORY

"I did the [Beauty Profiling and Dressing Your Truth] program over the weekend and felt a big shift in my life immediately. It has helped me understand my self and have more appreciation and compassion for myself, and also for others. I have 3 sisters—I think they are Types 1, 3 and 4 (I am a 2)—and I can see how our lack of understanding of our quite different natures has led to much misunderstanding in the past...

I am 60 years old and now I realize how I have tried all of my life, since around puberty, to be different than I was born. So, you can imagine my intense relief to suddenly understand that I don't need to try to be more outgoing, dynamic, quick-witted, dramatic or funny—that I am fine giving to the world the natural gift of totally being myself as I am naturally. And FUN—I am having SO MUCH FUN going through my clothes and getting rid of all the black... and all of the loud colors that don't suit me and the crazy stripes and plaids. It has been like a curtain parting and seeing a truth, from which I can never go back. It is truly a delight to have this experience. Thank you, thank you." 
YOUR BEAUTY SIXTH SENSE

Every woman has a sixth sense for her own beauty. Very few women have developed this sixth sense because the fashion world only offers them one system, one that is based on styles and trends. For a woman to get in tune with her beauty sixth sense, she first needs to understand how her personality, body language and physical features influence what will look best on her. My Beauty Profiling assessment will help you start to rediscover your beauty sixth sense.

In order to know what looks best as an outer expression on you, you need to learn about what Type of woman you are. Since there are only four Types of beauty in my Beauty Profiling system, you may even feel concerned about being put in a box, which would confine you to a certain look rather than free you to create your own personal style following your beauty sixth sense.

This is a fair concern. But before you prematurely conclude that four Types of beauty mean that there are only four looks in the Dressing Your Truth world, consider the possibility that more is going on here. The truth is that, within each Type of beauty, there are countless varieties and variations that you can choose from in order to create a very unique look that will match your inner beauty and that will honor you. We actually find that most women feel that Dressing Your Truth is incredibly liberating because they discover a personal sense of expertise and direction in what they shop for, rather than being at the mercy of trends.

I love Carolyn's insight with her recent comment on my blog, www.thecarolblog.com: "I find that Carol's Dressing Your Truth system provides the tools for any woman to honor her inner beauty. This system is great as it provides guidelines—not absolutes—for what works for your Type of beauty."

All women intuitively have a sixth sense of what will honor their natural beauty, but the fashion world has never offered a program that teaches you how to tap into this sixth sense and develop it. Dressing Your Truth is a program that honors this sixth sense. Time and time again we hear from Dressing Your Truth clients, "Now I know why I have always loved that!" or, "I used to trust my own instinct for beauty, then I started doubting myself and thought I had to do what was considered fashionable."

You have an instinct for what looks and feels best on your body, every woman does. My goal is to help women of all ages, colors, and sizes tap into to their own beauty sixth sense. Your beauty truly does start on the inside, and once you learn to Dress Your Truth, you will have connected to the natural instinct you have to know what looks best on you because it feels right on you. The more you allow yourself to dress your truth, over time you will refine your beauty sixth sense and create a personal look within the vast array of choices offered by Dressing Your Truth.
Part 3

  * There Is More Than One Type Of Woman—   
Which Type Are You?
  * Type 1SM: The Bright, Animated Woman
  * Type 2SM: The Subtle, Soft Woman
  * Type 3SM: The Rich, Dynamic Woman
  * Type 4SM: The Bold, Striking Woman

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF WOMAN— WHICH TYPE ARE YOU?

When I was growing up, the culture I was raised in depicted feminine nature as soft, gentle and sensitive. Not only were women expected to be soft and gentle, but also more subdued, cute and perky. Men, on the other hand, in their masculine nature, were expected to be more aggressive and bold. We have been depicting women and men with these stereotypical qualities for centuries.

One of my biggest insights and discoveries in creating my Beauty Profiling system is the discovery of the different Types of feminine.

It is time to redefine the feminine!

The subtle, soft feminine alone can no longer be culturally acceptable or supportive to the different Types of women who are in the world.

In my interactions with women all over the world, I have met women who thought they were one Type of woman, only to discover they had lost touch with their true nature and had fooled themselves into believing they were a different Type of woman.

It is interesting to bring new light to a woman who is misperceiving her true identity! They are commonly a bit confused and frustrated, and sometimes angry and afraid to see their true self.

How does this happen? How can a woman lose touch with her greatest qualities, her greatest strengths and gifts, her innately inborn beauty?

It happens every day in the lives of parents and children. When you are told that who you are is not okay when you are just naturally expressing yourself as a small child, you start to alter your personality to fit in and get your needs met. The irony is, your needs never get met, because as you continue to hide your true nature, the love and acceptance you are seeking cannot be received by your true self.

My quieter, more subdued mom inadvertently sought ways to silence my determined, dynamic nature by shushing me frequently while I was in my childhood. I also witnessed the negative side of my nature via my father who was powerfully reactive and intense—and unpredictably so—all through my years growing up. I did not want to be like either of them. Now that I know which Type of energy they each expressed, I understand where they were coming from.

I am intrigued by female superstars who have stayed true to their feminine nature that was contrary to the stereotypical cookie-cutter feminine of the past. Pink, the rock artist professionally known as P!nk, is a great example of a young woman who refused to conform to becoming a subtle, soft feminine expression. P!nk expresses TYPE 4SM beauty, a bold, striking feminine expression. She has lived true to it her entire life. She refused to be molded into a false expression of who she was when she launched her music career.

I recently watched P!nk's biography on TV. This story is a perfect example of her staying true to her bold, blunt, TYPE 4SM nature. In the process of being discovered as an upcoming musical artist, she had the opportunity to perform for a major recording label executive in his office. She was only 15 years old at the time. Half-way through the song she suddenly stopped and bluntly asked the question, "Are you going to stop shuffling through the papers on your desk and start listening to me?"

I believe the women who have lived true to their feminine expression are women who have risen to the top of their careers and pursuits, and we are intrigued by their confidence and honesty that naturally comes through in the roles they play. I have also noticed that women who are not living their truth can be unnecessarily critical of these successful women. They are unconsciously thinking, "Why does she get to live her truth? I conformed to the female standard. Why doesn't she have to?"

I recently read an article about the late superstar comedian Joan Rivers. Joan was a TYPE 3SM woman—a rich, dynamic woman. Her nature was to be outspoken and edgy. She shared in this article that she had to go against what she thought was her feminine nature, the subtle, soft feminine stereotype of the time, to be a successful comedian. Ironically, Joan staying true to the Type of woman she was made all the difference in her years of success as a comedian.

In my Beauty Profiling system, the four Types of beauty are each beautiful and remarkable, and each very much as feminine as the other, just expressed in different ways. Each is also incredibly sexy and powerful in their own right, and each fabulously beautiful when you know how to dress your truth. The four Types of women who reflect the model I previously mentioned in this book, and that relate to the four elements we are all created from, are as follows:

  * TYPE 1SM: The Bright, Animated Woman
  * TYPE 2SM: The Subtle, Soft Woman
  * TYPE 3SM: The Rich, Dynamic Woman
  * TYPE 4SM: The Bold, Striking Woman

You might be asking, "How can we reduce all women to just four classifications?" As an individual, you express your own unique composition of all four Types of beauty, so you may see yourself in all of them. Yet you will find that you lead with only one dominant expression of the four. I respect the fact that we are all created to be our own unique, expressive self. But it is uncanny how consistently the movement of the four Types of beauty are expressed through women. I think you will agree with me after you have read the next few sections, that there is a remarkable similarity in the expressions of all of us that can be classified into four groups. Sure, within these groups you will find unique differences, but the general tendencies you will come to notice in aspects of our feminine expression are certainly there. Remember that the tendencies being described and measured are general and universal—all describing your natural movement that expresses itself effortlessly in you.

DISCOVER YOUR TYPE OF BEAUTY

As you go through the Beauty Profiling process, you may see yourself in each Type of beauty—how the natural expression and movement of each Type influences your personality traits, behavior tendencies, thought and feeling processes, gifts and talents, personal space, body language, and most importantly, your physical features.

You have all four elements of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon inherently in you. Every woman expresses a Dominant Energy Type that does not change over her lifetime. When assessing yourself, you will be looking and feeling for which of the four Types of beauty most aligns with you. I believe you innately know who you are. Listen to your intuition! In your personal validation of who you are, you will take on a new level of ownership and permission to be yourself.

I will not offer you a personality assessment questionnaire in any of my Profiling resources. There is a higher percentage of error when we just look at personality and behavior (especially when only using a questionnaire). We have a safeguard for that in my Beauty Profiling system that allows us to see more clearly what your true Type is: your physical features.

We can assess how the movement of your Type of beauty expresses itself through your physical features, meaning your facial features and your body language. The way you sit and stand and move are expressions of your natural Type of beauty. This provides a default mechanism for looking beyond personality and getting a more accurate reading of who you truly are. You likely have never looked at your nose and wondered what it says about you. With the Beauty Profiling system, you will look at your nose in a whole new light!

Closely examining your physical features is valuable exercise for many women, helping them to discern their true Type of beauty. I tell women that their body never lies when it comes to telling the truth about who they are. After a woman has adapted and conformed herself to the needs of others throughout her life, she too often loses perspective about who she is. If you were shamed or disciplined for being your true self as a small child, you would be less likely to want to embrace your true nature due to some wounds that need to heal, and are likely ready to heal now that you are reading this book. I believe you would not have come in contact with this material unless you were ready to heal!

KELLY'S STORY

I recently heard from a woman who saw herself in all four Types of beauty when she first learned about the Beauty Profiling system. Kelly got confused because of who she thought she was supposed to be, rather than just allowing herself to be who she was. Like most every woman who feels uncertain about which Type of beauty she expresses at first, Kelly got it figured out and the journey of getting there was perfect for her. I'll let her share in her own words:

"I am so thankful for this program. It is so wonderful to finally understand who I am, and why I am the way I am, and begin to accept it and be free in it...I saw myself in all the Types and jumped the gun, and picked TYPE 1. I have been living in my secondary TYPE 3 for a couple of years to get things done and am tired, burned out and exhausted...I put TYPE 2 colors and flowing fabrics on my body and came home. I have been trying to "be more" than I am for several years. I am at peace, and ready to heal. Thank you for your help. I now know I am exactly who God created me to be."

My Beauty Profiling system truly is more of a right brain, intuitive personal experience. When we are operating more from heart than logic, we have a much better sense of who we are. When logic is our reference to who we are, we often get confused, or allow ourselves to be influenced by expectations put on us. Remember to trust your heart, your feelings about who you truly are!

ASPECTS OF FEMININE NATURE

I have consistently found that the natural expression and movement of each of the four Types appears in many aspects of our human experience. What we will look at in this book is where and how the natural expression and movement of each of the four Types of beauty is being expressed in the following aspects of our feminine nature.

Gifts and talents—The natural movement of our dominant Energy Type supports us in having a unique gift and talent that not only adds great value to our own life, but also contributes to the wholeness of humanity working in harmony. Ironically, we often judge the very gift nature has endowed us with to be a weakness and a flaw. Knowing your natural gifts and talents that are supported by your Dominant Energy Type will be amazing and freeing to you.

Personality traits—Even though we can consciously manipulate our personality to play roles and hide our true nature in these roles, we still see the expressions of each Energy Type pushing through all of these roles, insisting on being expressed naturally. These natural expressions cannot be totally silenced, but they can be restrained, shamed, judged and deemed unacceptable. Most likely, what you have disliked about yourself or judged as unacceptable could be your natural self and who you truly are. This is one of the most important concepts of the Energy and Beauty Profiling systems.

Thought and Feeling Processes—The four Energy Types are expressive in our inner world of thoughts and feelings. The inner world creates the outer world—it all begins with our own inner thoughts and feelings. This is our personal space that we can never step outside of. You are always experiencing you. Everything in your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. How you perceive your reality is being influenced by your dominant Energy Type, and your dominant Energy Type is influencing what you value in yourself and others.

Behavioral tendencies—These include how we express the natural movement of the four Energy Types in our communication, personal relationships, social interaction, work, physical activity, money management, and even our shopping tendencies and perceptions of our body and physical appearance.

Doodling—Doodling is an innate activity that demonstrates the natural movement of who you really are without conscious judgment. Just pause for a moment and think about how you doodle. Look in the next sections to find which dominant Energy Type captures your doodle. It's not 100 percent accurate 100 percent of the time, but it's very close. It was correct for me!

Body language—We will also look at how the movement of the four Energy Types expresses in the way you walk, sit, stand, talk, use your hands, what your word choices are, and how you maintain your personal space, including what interior design elements you are drawn to.

Physical features—The physical body is a manifestation of your inner essence. The vibration and movement of the four Types of beauty are expressed and shaped in all your physical features. Most people are blended, showing lines and shapes of at least two of the Energy Types, but you do have a predominant expression that honors one of the four. The body—and the energy in it—does not lie! It is honestly expressing your true feminine nature.

How your energy affects other people—As you live and express yourself, your leading Energy Type will shine through, and will have an effect on other people. Understanding this can help you identify which characteristics will either inspire or irritate other Types of people.

How your appearance affects other people—Other people perceive you from the outside. When you put a style on your body that outwardly expresses your true inner nature, you help others to instantly and intuitively recognize you for who you are. A common mistake is to dress in a way that attempts to hide what we think is a weakness but which is really our strength. When we do, we make it more likely for people to misjudge us according to how we dress.

Most common fashion mistake—I'll go over the common fashion mistakes that each Type of woman tends to make—where each stumbles—and how you can overcome these mistakes.

Shopping tendencies—You may not realize it, but you have unique shopping tendencies, true to your Type of beauty. I'm talking about clothes shopping, not shopping for groceries. Some move through a store quickly, others take their time. Some benefit from taking a friend along while others do better shopping alone. Some of your tendencies are strengths while others hinder your shopping experience.

Beauty code word—Each Type of beauty has a beauty code word. The word captures the Beauty Profile of a given Type in a single word.

Your Beauty Sixth Sense—You have an innate beauty sixth sense of what looks good and feels right on your body. You were born with this intuitive gift as a woman. Dressing Your Truth will help you rediscover this often hidden gift that the fashion world ignores. Each Type of woman has a sixth sense of her own beauty.

Famous Women of each Type of beauty—For each Type of beauty, you'll see a list of famous women. It will help you understand and appreciate your own Type of beauty more when you see it displayed in popular, well-known women.

As I mentioned a few paragraphs ago, you may see yourself in each Type of beauty. That is because you have all four Types of beauty in you. You are created from the four primary elements that influence the movement of each Energy Type. That is what makes you a whole woman. But you dominantly express only one of the four Types of beauty. I have not met one woman yet who doesn't. Your secondary Type in your Beauty Profile does play a strong supporting role for most women when it comes to learning how to dress your truth.

HEDY'S STORY

Before she took my Beauty Profiling course, Hedy was a reserved, quiet woman who took a lot of criticism and bad treatment from everybody because she was afraid to speak out. She lives in Germany and grew up in a family with a great rift between her mother and father's side, making two factions. Hedy and her younger brother Hein belonged to their mother's side, and her youngest brother Norbert belonged to her father's side, especially to her grandmother.

Hedy was a cheerful child and often danced around and sang with joy. But this was not acceptable to her father's side of the family, and the joy was literally beaten out of her. When Hedy's mother died after a four-year struggle with ALS, the light went out from her. She was only 14. She had to cover up her joyful nature in order to survive in her father's family.

"This is how I then became oblivious to my true inner nature," Hedy says.

When Hedy did my Profiling course, she found out that she expressed TYPE 1SM Energy. No way, she thought. However, the more she considered it during the ensuing weeks, the more she realized that she really was a TYPE 1SM woman. "I remembered who I truly was," she says. "I remembered the light and joy within me."

As time has passed, the light within her has grown stronger, as well as the joy. Hedy says that the impact of the Beauty Profiling system has been so profound that it has changed her life. She is now more aware of her inner nature and does not tolerate bad treatment from others anymore. Her relationship with her 18-year-old son has also changed for the better. The discord is gone. Now there is harmony, and a lot more fun! Her friends have noticed the difference, too, as she is far more upbeat than before.

Please understand that in each of us are variable levels of our dominant Energy Type. Just notice what your tendencies are and which Type of beauty you see yourself as. As time passes, you will find that you can more readily assess your natural expressions and movements, and most of all, you learn to follow your heart. In the end, your heart and intuition will not lead you astray.

There is no wrong way to find your true, feminine nature. Your path will be perfect for you though it may not always seem so. Ultimately, after some experimentation, it all works itself out perfectly.

At first, some women thought they expressed a certain Type of beauty, but then after learning what their physical features were saying about who they are, they came to realize they had been repressing their true nature or misjudging it.

It is possible that you had to hide your true nature in your childhood due to feeling unsafe or unacknowledged. Even though this might be the case, you will recognize the natural movement of your core true self in the following sections.

I believe women innately know who they are if they will tune in

and honor their true, core nature that expressed itself so freely in the earliest childhood days.

TO DETERMINE YOUR TYPE OF BEAUTY

The process of discovering your Type of beauty is unique for every woman, but I do recommend a few key steps:

  1. Set an intention. In other words, before you begin, choose what you want to experience. Put yourself in the mindset of choosing to recognize your true self in the following pages. The majority of what you read in the section on your dominant Energy Type will speak to you. The level to which you express all the tendencies of your dominant Energy Type will vary and you also experience the influence of your secondary energy. You may not match any given Type of beauty 100 percent, but one of the following descriptions describes you most. Intend to recognize it.
  2. Read each section—that means learning about all four Types of beauty. Different Types of women have a tendency to skip around, skip to the end, or make an assessment of themselves before they even have all the basic information. Feel free to skip around true to your natural movement, but make sure you read each of the four sections that describe the four Types of beauty. See yourself in the one you have the most connection with.
  3. Use the resources available. Many women read this book and gain a sense of which Type of beauty they express pretty quickly. They just know. It's highly possible that this will be your experience. If you do come away with more questions, be assured that we have more resources available to you at dressingyourtruth.com to support you in feeling confident about identifying your Type of beauty correctly.
  4. Avoid asking other people's input. It is common to look to other people for feedback about what they see in you. But doing so can influence you in a way that distracts you from your own intuition. Other people also learn to see us in the way we want them to see us, so their assessment may not be accurate. Take the time to learn this information for yourself before asking for feedback. 
  5. Most importantly, embrace who you are. Consider the possibility that you have deemed your greatest gifts your biggest weaknesses and your natural beauty in your physical features as flaws. It is not uncommon that after a woman has been through the Beauty Profiling system that they have one of the biggest ah-ha moments of their life! They realize that their innate gifts and talents that are being influenced by their dominant Energy Type are really tremendous blessings. However, all along they have been perceiving these qualities as flaws in their character. What a relief! You no longer have to try to quiet and stop your God-given feminine nature!

I expressed to my daughter Jenny (TYPE 1SM Energy) that I have come to realize that, as a TYPE 3SM woman, my energy moves forward swiftly, pushing things and people to create outcomes. Yes, I can be experienced as forceful and intense at times, but the more consciously I manage my natural movement in balance with the other three Energy Types, I allow others to experience my gifts in a balanced way.

I have realized that trying to stop or slow my natural movement would be as easy as stopping Niagara Falls! In fact, I use the following metaphor any time I start to judge my natural qualities in a negative manner, comparing it to standing on the banks of the Niagara River and saying: "Knock it off, Niagara Falls. You're just way too pushy. Can't you just calm down and be more like the Mississippi River?"

Have fun with this, enjoy yourself, and notice when you begin to put judgments and labels on what you are learning about. After all, it is all just natural expression and movement supporting us in expressing who we truly are as women.

Remember that every woman has the right and opportunity to be successful, prosperous, happy, fulfilled, creative, and generous, in all the qualities we strive for in our feminine experience. It is our dominant Energy Type that makes us different in the way we move and express our true feminine nature in pursuit of these ambitions.
TYPE 1SM: THE BRIGHT, ANIMATED WOMAN

Primary Movement: Upward, Light

Natural Gift:  Ideas—"I have a new idea, and we can do it!"

Dominant Quality:  Cheerfully lifting us up to feel more fun and hope.

Beauty Code Word:  Cute!

The TYPE 1sm expression comes from the element of nitrogen/air, and its natural primary movement is upward and light. If you express dominant TYPE 1SM movement, you have an upward, light energy. You are naturally inspiring, fun-loving and hopeful. Your dominant shapes in physical features are animated shapes, like a circle, heart, and the points of a star. This is visible in the eyes, the cheeks, and the overall body and facial shape.

TYPE 1SM Energy moves upward and out to create in this world, which is generally seen as an extroverted energy. You have the highest level of natural movement of all the Energy Types. This natural, high-level, upward, light, buoyant, random movement can be consistently observed through all aspects of your feminine experience.

Other key words that describe the movement of this energy in a dominant TYPE 1SM woman are: fresh, youthful, animated, bubbly, brilliant, radiant, connect-and-disconnect, fun and unstructured.

Due to the high movement that expresses itself spontaneously, you may have been told a lot as a child—and even in your adult life—to "Settle down!" or "Stop moving."

Your energy is like the sun shining brightly or a burst of fresh blossoms on a cherry tree. You truly are a breath of fresh air, just like your dominant element—nitrogen/air!

Keeping life light and fun is one of the primary motives for a TYPE 1SM woman. Fun is a mood or energy, not necessarily an activity (though TYPE 1SM women do love fun activities). This energy is a naturally bright, spontaneous expression of being that a TYPE 1SM woman can bring to any experience or setting. Most cultures have labeled this movement as a childlike expression and only acceptable when we are at a party, taking a break or on vacation. We have perceived it as a movement that we should grow out of when we become adults, and that to be successful, we have to move through life more seriously.

This is not true.

TYPE 1SM Energy is always light, fresh, and fun, no matter the age of the woman. In fact, it is critical that a TYPE 1SM woman come up with a way of approaching the activities of her life (whether it be work or play) in a manner that makes them feel more fun and hopeful.

My daughter Jenny (TYPE 1SM Energy) has found many ways to add this element of fun to her day-to-day life experience. She realized that using a planner or electronic calendar was not fun for her. To organize her life, each week she takes a piece of paper and draws up her weekly calendar with all her commitments on it, and fills the paper with animated pictures, which she then puts on the refrigerator. She shared with me, "Having the animated doodles and pictures helps me feel like what I have to do can be fun and light."

MARCY'S STORY

When Marcy first heard about my Beauty Profiling system, she was curious to know more but was not really that enthused. She assumed it was like other personality tests she had taken over the years that attempt to classify people by everything from colors to seasons to star signs and alphabet soup. She was very surprised to find that my Beauty Profiling course really isn't like any other program.

Once Marcy discovered and accepted the fact that she dominantly expresses TYPE 1SM beauty (and she admits she came kicking and screaming to that conclusion!), she was able to see very clearly how the strengths and weaknesses of her TYPE 1SM Energy played out in her life.

She now knows why she loves starting projects but may not always be motivated to finish it right then, and she has a much better sense of which complementary Energy Types can help her be more effective in managing her business and life in general.

One of the first things Marcy did after discovering her Energy Type was call her business partner—who she is quite sure expresses dominant TYPE 4SM Energy—and laughingly acknowledge that she must drive her crazy sometimes, and now she knows why!

"I have seen many relationship revelations come about in my family as my children have been profiled," Marcy says. "The result is always positive and leads to a great deal of acceptance and understanding—of each other and of us."

NATURAL GIFTS AND TALENTS

TYPE 1SM women initiate the cycle of wholeness by coming up with new ideas and the inspiration and the hope of making them come true. Animation creates new life, and TYPE 1SM energy creates new life.

If you put this into a phrase, the TYPE 1SM phrase would be,

"I have a new idea, and we can do it."

You truly do believe in the possibility of all your ideas. At the time that an idea or impulse of a new possibility comes to you, you believe in it at the same moment it hits you. You readily express your ideas in a way that enables you to see others believing in them and the idea. Because you tend to naturally produce more ideas than you will ever be able to accomplish, you have the unique challenge of choosing which ideas you will disconnect with, and which you will carry to the end.

Ideas come easily and readily to you. Your natural movement of being light and carefree can keep you from following through and finishing things. Your constant challenge is execution and bringing plans to the final outcome. My TYPE 1SM daughter Jenny shares, "I have great, big ideas, some of them elaborate ideas, but I know I benefit from getting help to make it all work, to make a plan and to execute the big ideas."

Because you can readily connect to an idea, plan, or project, and can disconnect just as quickly, you move through life like a bouncing ball. Your primary shape is a circle, the shape of a ball. You can see the bounce of the ball in your movement from point A to point B. Like TYPE 1SM energy, a ball can bounce off its surface from any possible angle, in any possible direction! This energy expresses itself in your desire for newness and variety, as well as your natural ability to be adaptable and change your mind quickly.

You are naturally optimistic, and you tend to look at the bright side of things. You are like the sun, shining brightly on humanity, with a bright, brilliant nature or disposition. The shape of the sun is also a circle. Of any Energy Type, you are the most able to overlook difficulties and believe in the possibility of success. If you fail, you do not worry about it for long, but console yourself easily and move on.

You tend to be keenly alive in your environment, and of all the Energy Types, you are the most naturally able to experience the present moment of your life.

Important: It is important that a TYPE 1SM have fun and keep things light. If you try and slow down your movement to move more deliberately through life, to be more "serious," or to create strict routines, you will start just going through the motions, losing your connection with your core true nature. If you stay in balance with your upward, light energy, you will feel happier and more at ease with yourself.

The same natural tendencies that are your gift and talents can also be challenges in your life, causing imbalance and disharmony. If your dominant movement takes over your life and is not balanced by the other three Energy Types that are also a part of your being, it can be a challenge being you!

Challenge: You can get stuck in the idea phase, bringing in more ideas than you can follow through with. You easily disconnect from one thing that is already in progress to start something new. You like the feeling of newness, so you may leave other things undone that have already been started.

Challenge: Because you always have more ideas than can be executed, you may naturally become distracted by other new possibilities as they pop up. When you are living in balance with your nature, you will be able to select which ideas are worth following through on. When this tendency gets out of balance, though, you may not always follow through on what you say you will. This can confuse and frustrate other people when it appears to them that you have dropped the ball. As a result, you may feel it is harder to be taken seriously. Communicating changes in plans will be supportive to others knowing what to expect from you.

I recently told my TYPE 1SM daughter, "You need to allow for your randomness within a world that demands a certain amount of structure, and you need to follow through on things that support your relationships and quality of life. Be more conscious of where you drop the ball, so it does not interfere with the harmony you desire in your relationships."

Challenge: Because you express such a light energy and you are so naturally adaptable, you may tend to make light of things that are hurting you on a deep level. You may hold back and adapt to others continually, and in this, lose yourself. This will cause your light to dim over time, and cause you to not know who you are if you continue to play roles that are not the true you.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

You like change and new experiences. You may talk readily and easily to people. You like to keep things optimistic, encouraging and motivating to others along the way. If someone is feeling down, you readily want to lift them up, cheerleading them to feel better. You tend to move forward with excitement and hopefulness, bringing an energy of fun along the way.

You are naturally cheerful and have an innate love of pleasure and fun. You love company and amusement, and you want to enjoy life. Your nature is to be carefree. You tend not to worry, but if you do, it's because of endless possibilities. Your imaginative mind can quickly jump from one possibility to the next that can trouble you if you let them. You are able to respond to changing situations spontaneously with an inspired perspective. This adaptability makes you consistent in not being consistent, able to change plans or direction quickly. Excessive structure or routine weighs you down.

The dominant element that expresses itself in you is nitrogen/ air. Phrases commonly used to describe your personality are: "You are a breath of fresh air," or when it becomes a judgment, "You are such an airhead."

You are a natural optimist and, are naturally resilient. It is your gift to uplift and bring hope, even in the midst of difficulties. Even when you are exasperated and sad, you have the natural ability to find your balance quickly. However, because your mind can go so many directions, you may tend to worry if you start living out of balance with your bright energy. You can fret with the best of them. Your sadness does not often last long, and can give way quickly to happiness. This sunny quality allows you to get along well with others, even with persons generally difficult to work with.

You are generally friendly in speech and behavior and can pleasantly entertain others with interesting narratives and witticisms.

Challenge: Because you are so adaptable with your light, nonstructured, airy energy, and you have a sunny nature that boosts others, you may tend to consider what others want before you consider what you want. You want to put a smile on others' faces, which you do naturally. With this tendency of saying, "What do you want?" to others, you may also be avoiding responsibility in case things don't work out. This may even develop into feeling like you need to ask for permission for anything you want. If this is happening to you, you have allowed your upward, light, airy energy to take over, losing yourself in your own carefree nature.

Challenge: If a new point of view presents itself, you may easily change previous plans to adapt. However, this inconsistency may lead others to perceive you as flaky or irresponsible—particularly if you switch directions without communicating the change to others. If you have let someone down by not keeping your commitments and not communicating, you have a tendency to give yourself excuses or create stories as to why you could not follow through. You do not perceive yourself as flaky, because in your mind, there is a good reason for your change of direction. You may forget that at times, it would be supportive to your relationships to consider other people's expectations and agreements and to investigate the ramifications of change before you start to make it. As you are aware that you are easily captivated by new ideas or moods, you may need to more consciously manage what you have already committed yourself to with other people.

Challenge: You value the new, so before you have mastered one subject, your interest may wane because new impressions have already captured your attention. You can be hard to convince that you have missed any details—on the contrary, you imagine that you have grasped a subject wholly and perfectly. (Because your mind moves so quickly, you have often grasped quite a bit!) You are so good at convincing others that you understand something fully, that you often convince yourself. In areas of life that have standards of measurement (such as school grades or jobs that require more structure), you may need to be more open to feedback about what you have grasped and what you haven't.

Challenge: You love variety in everything, like a hummingbird that flies from flower to flower, the child who soon tires of the new toy, or the woman who grows weary of a new outfit. You are able to put your mind to a job and get it done, but as you do, you prefer to keep the process light and fun, and you prefer to engage often with new ideas, people, or projects. This can be a strength in roles where you need to manage many new things, but it can lead to inconsistency in situations where strict routine is required of you.

THOUGHT AND FEELING PROCESSES

Your thoughts and feelings are quick and spontaneous. You process information quickly to know what is right for you. Your energy is bright—and so is your mind. Follow your quick intuition and impulses to stay balanced in your life.

Because TYPE 1SMs think things through quickly, they can appear to others to not take things seriously or to not think things through. To the rest of us, it appears you would need to take more time to think it through, but with the radiant, light, brilliant movement you are supported with, you do not. It is common for women who express TYPE 1SM Energy to feel they have to slow down their energy and change who they are to be taken seriously by others. But doing so will put you out of balance.

If you express TYPE 1SM energy, both your movement and your approach to life appears to be more random. You can juggle many things at once, so it all fits together for you. Because you have quick mental organization, you tend to be highly intuitive and can sense possibilities that others cannot, which is a brilliant gift you share with the world.

Challenge: Because you readily see what doesn't exist physically and express your belief in it, you can attract disbelief from others, which can cause you to doubt your own inspiration. As you live true to your innate optimism, you will find that you naturally inspire hope in others, too.

Challenge: Your high level of belief can cause you to appear naïve or gullible to others. As you recognize your tendencies and honor your true nature, most of this will drop off in your life and you will be seen as ingenious!

Your feeling process can show an animated quality. When living true to your nature, you can easily express animated delight over seemingly small things. Hurt feelings can lead to bursts of emotion. When you feel able to express yourself freely, you can move through your emotions quickly. When you are living in balance with your true nature, you have an open heart that tends to love others easily and optimistically.

Challenge: Though you are highly adaptable to others, when you get upset, you may respond emotionally by digging in your heels, being stubborn, or wanting to distract or disconnect from the emotional issue. You might disconnect from what you want, saying, "Never mind," or, "I don't want to talk about it." If you get upset with yourself, you may try to disconnect from your light nature, which will only make you feel burdened and heavy.

While walking on the beach on a recent trip to Hawaii, my daughter Jenny was lamenting over her own personal struggle of expressing dominant TYPE 1SM energy. She was not allowing herself to be who she is and this trip was providing a lot of reminders of how she was not. She was getting headaches on a daily basis the first few days we were there. She realized her headaches were an indicator to her that she was trying to conform to be someone she was not.

She was judging her light, airy ways as weak and immature. She was even bothered by the sun coming out every day and shining brightly on us! She made me laugh when she shared, "Mom, I was even mad at the sun for being so bright and shiny. It just kept reminding me that I was not living true to myself, thinking I need to be more serious and deliberate in my approach to life." She jokingly started shaking her fist at the sun, saying, "How dare you be so bright and warm. You better just knock it off sun. You are really starting to get to me!"

Jenny once again committed to be herself—her TYPE 1SM animated, fresh, light self. At the end of our walk, she had an impulse of an idea to run into the ocean with all her clothes on and just go for a swim right then and there. She told me before she took off, "I need to follow this impulse just to honor myself right now." It was a lot of fun to watch her skip off into the water!

COMMUNICATION

You value change, fun, and spontaneity in your communication. You love having fun while understanding and connecting with others. TYPE 1SM women tend to be the chatters and talkers of the four Types of women. You may like to talk, chitchat, and enjoy verbal interaction while doing other things. You can often interrupt or jump from topic to topic in mid-sentence when you are in the middle of a conversation because you process information so much faster than other people do. When you feel free to be yourself, you speak what you are thinking almost instantly. You feel no need to sort it out before you spit it out! You tend to be talkative, social, and your emotions are readily expressed.

You appreciate a variety of conversations, meaning that you relish meaningful conversation and you can also chitchat or make small talk with the best of them. They are not mutually exclusive, and you tend to approach any kind of conversation with a lightness and sense of optimism. You have a high level of belief and like to share that and use it to encourage others. In your conversations, you can move from one idea to another so quickly, it appears random to others. You like to change focus often and move from one thing to the next, taking a lot in.

You may also communicate in an animated way, using varied facial expressions and lively hand movements. Some TYPE 1SM women were shamed as children for their effervescent way of speaking. When you live true to your animated nature, you find that others enjoy the light you bring to conversations.

Challenge: You can change your mind effortlessly and agree with others easily. Because of this gift of adaptability, you may appear random and ungrounded to others. Therefore, you have an opportunity to learn how to say what is true for you, be true to your intuition and inspiration, and stay in your own light, upward momentum without feeling either guilty or pushy about it. Speak your truth as quickly as you know it. Act on your first impulse and trust it.

BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES

You move through life like a babbling brook, bubbling along buoyantly in rapid succession, turning from one activity to another.

Relationships—You tend to seek a wide range of friendships. You are not selective or exclusive. You are not insistent upon acceptance of your ideas or plans. You tend to agree readily with others' wishes, being flexible and adaptable. You value seeing a smile on others' faces and you tend to be a natural cheerleader for those you love.

Challenge: You are so adaptable you may lose yourself to others. You are especially vulnerable to losing yourself as you adapt to TYPE 3 or 4 energy. Feeling weighed down is a clue that you have adapted to others' energy or expectations. Doing something that makes you feel light and free is one way to reconnect with your true nature.

Social—You have an eagerness to participate with others, whether at work or play. To you there is no difference between work and play if it is light and fun and you can be sociable with others. You readily make acquaintances with other people. You are naturally communicative and associate easily with new people. You may enjoy bouncing from room to room and person to person at social gatherings.

Timeliness—You may have a tendency for being late. If you get close to the agreed upon time to be somewhere, getting there close to the time feels like being on time to you. You tend to be late because new possibilities can distract you as you move from point A to point B.

Work—You excel in positions that require innovation, new ideas, intuition, creativity, fun, and a sense of freedom. You have a bright, inventive mind with a vision for future possibilities. You can concentrate on multiple tasks at one time, which makes you a great fit for positions where a lot is going on or you are regularly required to handle the unexpected. Remember that because you love the freshness of starting something new, you tend to leave tasks unfinished. The more you are aware of this tendency the more you can manage your natural movement to be a gift in your life rather than a detriment, especially if you can delegate the completion of tasks to others.

Money—You tend to be carefree with your money. Because you can readily disconnect with things (including money) in order to connect with something new, you can see a lot of money come and go in your life. You are a generous person and because you love to light up someone's life, you easily share your money and goods with others to bring a smile to their face. You enjoy using your money in this way.

Physical activity—You tend to prefer group activities, whether work or play, though you do enjoy alone time for activities that feel freeing and enjoyable to you. Though my daughter-in-law Jaleah (TYPE 1SM) loves social time, she also enjoys spending some time alone, watching shows that are particularly fun for her. TYPE 1SM women will approach both social and solitary activities with the same upward, bright, light-hearted movement that's true to their natural energy. You often enjoy individual projects that are motivated by putting a smile on someone else's face. My daughter Jenny (TYPE 1SM) told me she is extremely motivated to finish things that she is doing for other people because she loves to see the smile on their faces when she shares it with them.

When you are exercising, you tend to prefer to socialize at the same time and prefer group sports to individual sports. Variety and spontaneity are essential for you. You may have tried to create routines for certain activities, such as exercise, and had trouble sticking with them. You'll find that you're most successful at achieving goals when you allow for variety and newness in your process—variety in location, in activity, or in people involved.

BODY LANGUAGE

Not all of your body language will express themselves in a TYPE 1SM movement. Most women are blended in their physical features, so you won't see yourself in all these expressions, but you will notice many TYPE 1SM expressions of body language and physical features if you are a dominant TYPE 1SM woman.

Walking—You tend to walk with a buoyant, bouncy spring in your step.

Sitting/standing—With your high, upward movement, you tend to sit and stand with a lot of movement, shifting your position often. You can appear to be restless and fidgety to others, as you do not like to sit or stand still, focusing on one thing for very long. You often sit with your legs crossed, or comfortably on the floor.

Voice/language—A TYPE 1SM voice is a higher pitch and can even sound squeaky. It is an animated voice, or like a child's. When you answer the phone, even though you are an adult, people may say, "Can I talk to your mother?" If that is the case, you have a TYPE 1SM voice!

Due to your bubbly, buoyant nature, when you speak, the tone of your voice rises and falls a lot. You tend to speak with more expressive, descriptive, animated language, and a lot of laughter. You typically talk with your hands—actually, your whole body will be involved in expressing what you are saying. You like to use animated words and descriptions. Rachael Ray, a popular American TV show host, is a perfect example of TYPE 1SM language. While demonstrating cooking on her show, she uses animated words like delish or yum-o, and uses acronyms like EVOO for Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and calls a sandwich a sammie. My TYPE 1SM friend Lori will end her phone conversations with me using expressions like, "See you later, Toots!" It doesn't bother me when she says it because of her animated nature; but if I were to say it, it would sound out of character!

Giggling is common for a TYPE 1SM woman, but because you so effortlessly laugh while you talk or interact, you may not even notice this tendency in yourself. Something else you may do that you have not noticed is use the phrase, "Just kidding!" frequently. My daughter Jenny (TYPE 1SM) says this immediately after she has teased someone or said something lightly sarcastic.

Doodling—You tend to doodle using shapes that represent your natural movement—circles, stars and hearts—with repetition that creates a feeling of animation, youthfulness and liveliness.

Personal space—You like to keep things in sight, out and around. You would really rather not have to take the time to clean up. You find you can do it later, or just do it real quick, so you can go do something more fun. If you create ways to make cleaning fun, it is more interesting to you.

Due to your quick and spontaneous thought process, you have a tendency to misplace things, car keys being one of the most common items. You also frequently lose track of glasses, wallets and purses. This happens because your mind moves so quickly. You are already on to your next thought, and will not pay attention to where you put your keys. Jenny knows her tendency for this pattern and now consciously puts her keys in the same place or even has a few back up sets to cover herself when she doesn't remember to put the keys in the designated place.

Interior design—TYPE 1SM décor is animated and bright. You tend to like a lot of decorations. You have the highest movement in your being of any of the Energy Types, so seeing that high level of movement in your physical surroundings is comfortable to you. You tend to have a lot of fun with decorating for holidays! It is possible that Halloween is one of your favorite holidays. While not every TYPE 1SM woman loves Halloween, everything about Halloween screams TYPE 1SM energy: the dressing up, the trick or treat theme, the candy, the spoofing—all are animated and fun.

PHYSICAL FEATURES

If you are a TYPE 1SM woman, many of the features listed below will show up in your face. (But not all of them—remember, you are a mix of all 4 Energy Types.) Your features express a dominant overall quality of your dominant Energy Type. If you are a TYPE 1SM woman, the overall quality of your physical expression is animated, youthful and cute. Your bone structure creates circles and points of a star with your features being asymmetrical or random.

Skin and Skin texture—TYPE 1SM skin is fresh and youthful. Freckles, small moles randomly on the skin, blemishes and reddening (blushing) of the skin are all typical TYPE 1SM skin features.

Face shape—Circular or heart shaped.

Cheeks—Circles, what we call apple cheeks. Dimples are also a TYPE 1SM feature. High cheek bones—upward movement.

Nose—A circle shape on the tip of the nose or what we call a button nose. Also, a point of a star which can been seen on the tip of your nose. TYPE 1SM energy moves upward, so a turned up nose is a TYPE 1SM nose. A TYPE 1SM nose also tends to be smaller in size.

Eyebrows—Come to a soft point, or are half circles—short in length, asymmetrical, upward movement.

Eyes—Round, pop out, with a sparkle or light in the eyes. Fine lines around the eyes tend to move upward. A unique TYPE 1SM feature is what we call smiling eyes. When a TYPE 1SM woman smiles, her whole face smiles with an upward, light movement. Even your eyes and the lines on the sides of your eyes are moving upward when you smile.

Hands—Cherub looking, chubby fingers, with a small, youthful appearance. You also have short fingers, short or circular nail beds and nails that can be circular or turn upward.

HOW YOUR ENERGY AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

Your energy creates a youthful, joyful ambience. Your upward, light energy lifts people around you and tends to make them feel more hopeful. When you are living in balance with your true nature, you are fun to be around and others connect easily with your natural friendliness. You are naturally a light to the rest of us.

At times, your high level of movement can seem annoying or feel intrusive to other Energy Types, especially dominant TYPE 4SM energy, which you'll learn about soon. One of our Dressing Your Truth clients who expresses dominant TYPE 1SM energy shared, "As a business owner, I have the opportunity to deal with a lot of different people. Now I know why I annoyed some people and they did not take me seriously in my role. I am especially aware when I am dealing with a TYPE 4SM person to...respect their needs. This has allowed me to create some fabulous business opportunities."

As you are conscious of your natural movement and are more aware of who you are interacting with, you will be able to manage yourself in a way that supports others in being in rapport with you. As you stay conscious of who you are and love who you are, rather than judge your natural movement and try to silence it, you will be consistently aligned with your core true nature and others will always enjoy being around you.

Now I'll explore some specifics around fashion and a TYPE 1SM woman.

SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE: HOW YOUR APPEARANCE AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

What you wear sends a message to other people, which influences their perception of your natural energy. When you dress true to your TYPE 1SM nature, people know what to expect from you: a bright, effervescent, high-energy person. But when you are not "Dressing Your Truth", you send a message that conflicts with who you truly are. Your nature is to be bright and animated, and if you wear clothes that make you appear either more serious or subdued, you disguise your true nature to most others, and you can often be misjudged as silly and annoying. TYPE 1SM women often think, "If I dress more bright and colorful, I will come across as too animated." This is not the case. When you dress your truth, your inner truth is in harmony with your outer appearance, and you will be taken seriously for who you are: a bright, animated woman.

Even in a professional setting where you want to be taken seriously, putting on a "serious" look is not in your best interest. When you learn to dress your truth, you learn you can still look incredibly professional and maintain your brilliance and shine.

You have a gift of bringing light and hope to any situation. Set the mood everywhere you go by dressing your truth and letting your light shine through your outer appearance.

MOST COMMON FASHION MISTAKES

It is common for a TYPE 1SM woman to have a tendency to wear a lot of black in an effort to be taken more seriously and not look so youthful and cute. Ironically, it only conflicts with your light, fresh nature, making your natural animated expression more pronounced and amplified, which then comes across as silly!

Sarah Palin gave us a good example of this when she was running for the Vice-Presidency of the United States in 2008. Sarah is a dominant TYPE 1SM woman who dressed like a TYPE 4SM woman, wearing more bold, structured, stylized black clothing. Even her eyeglasses were heavy and structured. When a woman appears to the world in these styles, we expect a bold, concise expression from her. Sarah's winks at the camera and her animated, playful tone conflicted with her structured, serious style, making her appear silly and ridiculous, which the media picked up and then used to attempt to make a fool out of her. If she had hoped to be taken more seriously by dressing the way she did, it only backfired, which hurt her reputation. If Sarah had been dressing her truth, who knows, maybe it could have swung the results of the presidential race that year!

I recently met a TYPE 1SM woman who obviously had straightened her curly hair. I asked her why she was straightening her hair and she replied, "I think women are taken more seriously when they have straight hair!" Wow, who came up with that misconception? I told her she would always look her best bringing out the natural movement of her hair. I shared with her as she expressed her true nature as a TYPE 1SM woman, she would be taken seriously for just who she is—a fun-loving brilliant woman!

SHOPPING TENDENCIES

Because you love new possibilities and a lot of options, you may tend to own a wide variety of clothing, shoes, handbags, or accessories. You like options, so you tend to have a bigger wardrobe. You may also get overwhelmed with all the fashion options that are available these days. You have a tendency to become overwhelmed in a store when you have to consider so many possibilities. What motivates you to make a purchase is you think what you are buying would be fun to wear! Or a new hairstyle would be fun! In a fashion world where pretty much anything goes, you may have experimented with multiple hair colors and styles, having great fun changing your appearance. You probably have a lot of different looks and styles hanging in your closet but not a strong sense of what is right for you. Due to so many possibilities you often just buy what is on sale or on the mannequins!

You love to interact with others in anything you do, so shopping often feels more fun when it is also a social event for you. You might find that if you are having so much fun socializing, you are not paying close attention to what you are buying, and when you get home, you wonder why you bought some of the items you did!

My daughter Jenny (TYPE 1SM) is grateful to know how to dress her truth. She shares, "I used to get so overwhelmed with all the possibilities and it would take so long to find something I loved. I ended up buying a lot of things I didn't love and didn't feel great in. Now that I know how to dress my truth, it is easy—I go in and know which possibilities to completely ignore and focus on the ones that are perfect for me. I love it!"

THE TYPE 1SM WOMAN BEAUTY CODE WORD

Every woman is remarkably beautiful, no matter which Energy Type she expresses. Your natural feminine expression enables you to have a certain kind of beauty that radiates the Type of woman you are. When Dressing Your Truth and honoring your truest beauty, you may often be told, "You are so cute!" Cute is the beauty code word for TYPE 1SM women.

I have heard TYPE 1SM women complaining that they don't want to look cute or be called cute. These are women who are still judging their light, airy nature to be inadequate and superficial. When you know the true power of your feminine self, you embrace and welcome the words that depict your true feminine nature and your true beauty. When someone calls you cute, in your heart, you know it means, "You are a brilliant, fun-loving, amazing and beautiful woman!"

Looking cute and youthful when you are 65 is a good thing. You never have to grow old. Embrace this.

YOUR BEAUTY SIXTH SENSE   
DRESSING YOUR TRUTH TIP

Because you naturally have a light and buoyant nature, it is important that what you wear on your body feels light and free to you. If it feels heavy and cumbersome to you, it is going against your beauty sixth sense. Just ask yourself these questions when you are trying something on, "Does this feel light on my body?" and "Do I feel free in it?" If you can say yes, you are honoring your beauty sixth sense.

FAMOUS TYPE 1SM WOMEN

Julia Child, Paula Abdul, Drew Barrymore, Christie Brinkley, Katie Couric, Doris Day, Ellen DeGeneres, Sally Field, Goldie Hawn, Katie Holmes, Gladys Knight, Marilyn Monroe, Sarah Palin, Dolly Parton, Rachael Ray, Meryl Streep, Shirley Temple, Betty White, Alyson Hannigan, and Reese Witherspoon.

APRIL'S STORY

Here is story that April, a TYPE 1SM woman, told in her own words: "After reading your book...I thought I must be a TYPE 2SM who couldn't sit still for long, or possibly a TYPE 3SM who just needed to try harder—no way was I a TYPE 1SM!

"I had spent my entire life thinking I should be a 2 or a 3, and now I realize why I was making life so hard. I had to get right to the core of who I was, and then things started to become clear. I could finally get rid of the self-criticism for not measuring up. Now I realize I was just using the wrong measuring stick!

"Now I can find my natural gifts and talents, and appreciate

them, and finally accept and love myself! And I love dressing my truth! While it makes it easier to shop and know what to buy and what things look good together, the greatest benefit is that it has helped so much in how I feel."

SUMMARY OF THE TYPE 1  
BRIGHT, ANIMATED WOMAN

Nitrogen/air is TYPE 1SM energy. A TYPE 1SM woman has an upward, light movement. You are inspiring, fun-loving, and hopeful. Your dominant shapes in physical features are circles and points of a star that are most visible in the eyes, the cheeks, and the overall facial shape.

As a TYPE 1SM woman, you have a tendency toward these strengths:

  * Because of your social nature and outward movement, you may light up the room when you enter it, or often be called "the life of the party." Not all TYPE 1SM women relate to that term, though, so I would change the phrase to, "light of the party." Even when you're not outwardly engaging everyone, you literally have the presence, the energetic presence, of cheering up our space.
  * You have an optimistic, resilient nature, and you can see the silver lining even on a cloudy day.
  * You have the ability to multitask extremely well, and you can jump from one idea to another in the blink of an eye. Others may find it difficult to keep up with you.
  * You have many ideas and can think outside the box. When brainstorming, you may come up with the most ideas and the most creative ways to achieve them.
  * You are light-hearted and have an innocence about you that attracts others.
  * You look for fun ways to accomplish the things you want to do. Somehow, you can make any job seem fun.
  * You have a sweet heart that loves quickly. You may find it effortless to love and accept people for who they are.
  * You are gifted with a brilliant mind that can organize many ideas, events and schedules and move forward with them quickly and efficiently.
  * Your energy is light, scattered and upward. It is random and unstructured in movement, which allows you the ability to be flexible, change directions, and be effortlessly open to new possibilities.

As a TYPE 1SM woman you may have a tendency toward these challenges:

  * You may have so many ideas that you become overwhelmed with all the possibilities.
  * You may choose not to do important but undesirable tasks because they are not fun to you.
  * You may move, talk or act before thinking.
  * You may appear too scattered or random to accomplish tasks in an orderly manner.
  * You may approach situations with a lightness that can appear to others as insincere or void of serious thought.
  * Your ability to organize things in your mind so quickly and follow through may not appear to be organized to someone who moves forward in a linear pattern.

TYPE 1SM BEAUTY PROFILE KEY WORDS

Airy Lyrical

Animated Idyllic

Amusing Ingenious

Asymmetrical Inventive

Beaming Jubilant

Brilliant Lively

Bright New

Buoyant Optimistic

Candid Perky

Casual Pert

Cheerful  Pixie

Carefree Playful

Charming Precocious

Effervescent Quick

Energetic Radiant

Expressive Rapturous

Festive Refreshing

Fresh Resilient

Frolicsome Renewing

High Spirited Shining

Easy-going Spirited

Enchanting Sprightly

Exciting Surprising

Exuberant Twinkling

Flirtatious Unexpected

Friendly Vibrant

Fun-loving Vital

Hopeful Vivacious

Imaginative Warm

Innocent Youthful

Joyous Zestful

Light
TYPE 2SM: THE SUBTLE, SOFT WOMAN

Primary Movement: Fluid, Flowing

Natural Gift:  Details—"What do we need to know and do to make the idea possible?"

Dominant Quality:  Calmly connecting us to our hearts and each other.

Beauty Code Word:  Beautiful!

The TYPE 2sm expression comes from the element oxygen/water,  and its natural primary movement is fluid and flowing. If you express dominant TYPE 2SM movement, you have a fluid, flowing energy. You are naturally calming, inviting, subdued and sensitive. Your dominant shapes in physical features are elongated S curves, ovals and softened rectangles, which are visible in the eyes, the nose, the cheeks, the hairline, and overall body and facial shape.

TYPE 2SM energy moves inward, which is generally recognized as an introvert expression, moving in a subtle and connected flow to create in this world. As a TYPE 2SM woman, you express a medium-to-medium-low movement. This naturally subdued, connected, flowing movement can be consistently observed through aspects of your feminine experience.

Other keywords that describe the movement of this energy in a dominant TYPE 2SM woman are: blended, soft, steady, relaxed, connected, comforting, subtle, tender, thoughtful, and detail-oriented.

Due to your medium-to-medium low movement that expresses itself with subtlety, you may have been told a lot as a child and even in your adult life to, "Hurry up!" or "Make up your mind!"

Your energy is like the dusk after a beautiful sunset or the muted light along the horizon at dawn, creating an ambience of grace, softness and comfort. Your presence adds elegance and grace to the earth. Being in your presence helps us slow down and experience calmness in life. You move through life with a steady flow, just like the Mississippi River, which is just like your element—oxygen/water!

Making sure life is comfortable for yourself and others is a primary motive for a TYPE 2SM woman. Comfort is a priority in every aspect of your life. Acting appropriately so as not to cause any discomfort for others, wearing comfortable clothing, sitting on comfortable furnishings, enjoying comfortable relationships, consuming comforting food, sharing comfortable communication—you name it, comfort is a priority. In all my years of Dressing Your Truth, I have yet to meet a dominant TYPE 2SM woman who did not have comfort as her number one priority when it came to choosing an article of clothing.

One day, my daughter Anne (TYPE 2SM) returned home from shopping having bought herself a new, beautiful sweater. She enthusiastically took her new sweater out of the bag and called me over to feel how comfy it was. Being a dominant TYPE 3SM woman, I did not relate to the value of comfort that she was experiencing and realized that this difference was being created by our different natural expressions.

I want to clarify that every person values comfort. But comfort looks different for each Energy Type. If you are a TYPE 2SM woman, you particularly value softness in your physical surroundings and emotionally comfortable connections with people in your life. Because you are naturally sensitive and connected to your emotions, you may notice that you are attuned to the emotional comfort of others, which can be both a gift and a challenge in your relationships.

NATURAL GIFTS AND TALENTS

Once the idea has been created—which is initiated by the natural gift of a TYPE 1SM woman—the natural gift of TYPE 2SM energy becomes the next phase of the cycle of wholeness by starting the process of asking questions to gather the details. Your energy creates connection and flow. If you were to put your natural gift into a phrase, your phrase would be, "What do we need to know and do to make the idea possible?" It is necessary for you to ask questions, which you commonly approach by saying, "I have a question," or, "Can I ask a question?" Asking questions supports your need for connecting details and making plans, not necessarily for finding one final, solid conclusion. You tend to be comfortable with remaining in a gray area of thoughts and ideas while you are in the process of gathering details.

Once the details have been gathered, a TYPE 2SM woman is able to move forward, figuring out the steps to create a plan that will flow. This process is a tremendous gift to help you to gather, organize and flow with the details. In fact, this is necessary to make your thoughts into a reality!

Important: Asking questions and gathering details are so prominent in your natural expression that it is necessary for you to give yourself time to do both. Just jumping in and starting something without a plan is uncomfortable for you, so before moving forward, allow yourself time to process all the details, giving yourself time to make the most comfortable decision.

Your sensitivity to details is a remarkable gift. You notice the small, subtle details that make life flow more smoothly and comfortably for everyone else—like making things look nice, spending a little extra time on wrapping a gift, or presenting a meal you cooked. For   
example, my TYPE 2SM mother would never let us put the milk carton on the dinner table. Instead, she insisted that the milk be poured into a pitcher and then put on the table so it would be more attractive!

The gift of the TYPE 2SM woman is to connect people at the heart. You offer a sense of peace and calmness to the world.

Growing up with a TYPE 2SM mother was a great gift in my life. To be honest with you, I did not realize the gift my mother gave me and our entire family until I understood the nature of a TYPE 2SM woman. Prior to this understanding, I viewed my mother as somewhat of a doormat. I could not relate to how she managed her life. When I came to understand the nature of a TYPE 2SM woman, I was truly humbled and even brought to tears of gratitude for the gift of my mother's subtle, connected nature.

Having a predominantly TYPE 3SM and 4 energy presence in our family—due to the Energy Profiles of my dad, brothers and me—our home was often an intense, competitive, and harsh environment. It definitely lacked a playful, light mood since no one in my family expressed a dominant TYPE 1SM energy. What I came to realize, once I understood the gift and power of TYPE 2SM energy, is that my mother was and is the reason we came through as a family. My mother's gift was to keep us all connected when many situations through the years could have caused us to disconnect.

As a TYPE 2SM woman, you move through life like a deep, steady river. You are deliberate and planned out in your approach to life and you share that expression with others. My youngest daughter Anne is a dominant TYPE 2SM. Since Anne was a little girl, she always been attentive to details. At the young age of two, when she had a messy diaper, she would bring me the wipes and a fresh diaper when she needed a diaper change, all without me asking her to.

As her TYPE 3SM mother, I truly wish I had known Anne's Energy Type when she was young. I would have stopped moving with such intense determination every day of my life and would have taken more time to just sit and be with her, quietly and comfortably. But as I teach in my book Remembering Wholeness, it is never too late to be a good parent. So now, when I am with Anne, I choose to be sensitive to her subtle nature and not over-talk her or push her along too swiftly to make decisions in her life.

You are naturally sensitive. Your softened, subdued movement enables awareness and creates this quality of sensitivity. You are sensitive to details, plans, and the feelings of others around you. Anyone can be conscious and aware of others' feelings, no matter their Energy Type. But as a TYPE 2SM woman, you have a tendency to not only be aware of others' energy or feelings, but to also be emotionally moved or even distressed by them.

This can be a great gift. If others feel uncomfortable, you have a natural gift of inviting them to feel more comfortable; if they are sad, your presence can be naturally comforting. Your emotional sensitivity can also be a challenge if you encounter many intense, distressing emotions in the people or world around you. Your energy moves those emotions inward, so you can experience mental, emotional, or physical distress if you are not careful to establish boundaries for yourself.

You can even experience sensitivity to foods, chemicals, electronics and subtly toxic environments. A dominant TYPE 2SM woman once shared with me her frustration at having what she judged to be overly sensitive skin. I explained that her skin's sensitivity was connected to the gift of her TYPE 2SM nature—the gift of being sensitive and calm, of being aware of people and details, of helping us all feel connected and comfortable. Suddenly, she burst into tears and buried her head in her hands. Through her joyful sobs, she shared with me that she finally got it! That what she had been deeming her weakness was actually her greatest gift. I sat there amazed that such a simple interaction could call forth an innate understanding and validation for this woman.

My TYPE 2SM daughter Anne found that honoring her natural sensitivity actually improved her complexion. She experienced many break-outs that she focused on in detail, touching and picking her face and trying a variety of products. She discovered that all her efforts were just too much movement on her face, which intensified the problem. When she started just taking off her eye makeup at night and going to bed without using other products to wash her face, she was surprised to see improvement. She continues to give her skin gentler, lower movement and it responds beautifully.

The same natural tendencies that are gifts and talents for you can also present a challenge in your life, causing imbalance and disharmony. When your dominant movement is taking over and is not balanced by the other three Types, which are also part of your being, you can be challenged by being you!

Challenge: You can get stuck in the planning stage where, in asking questions and gathering details, you feel like you need to ask even more questions and gather more details before you can make a decision and move forward.

Challenge: Your tendency to constantly ask questions and seek details can cause you to question yourself and not trust yourself and your decisions. When something doesn't go as planned, you may worry that you were the problem, which leads you to second-guess yourself or your abilities. Due to your more subtle nature, you are not as readily adaptable to change, which can turn into a fear of change.

Challenge: You tend to fuss over details. If this attribute is not channeled in a positive way, you will frequently fuss and worry about life's details, such as money, health and relationships. Find a hobby that allows you to use this natural gift of paying attention to details so you can channel this energy into something that adds value to your life rather than prodding you to worry. My daughter Anne (TYPE 2SM) notices her tendency for fussing over the details comes from not channeling her gift for details into something that she enjoys, like cooking and gardening.

KATHY'S STORY

When Kathy started learning about the four Types of beauty, she connected readily with the description of the TYPE 2SM woman. She recognized her connected thought process and natural attention to details and plans.

Her only problem: she didn't want to be a TYPE 2SM woman!

She had experienced the challenges that many TYPE 2SM women tend to face. Growing up, she had sometimes felt invisible and struggled to speak up and be heard in the ways she wanted to. She had often worried that she wasn't fun enough or loud enough. She had been trying to fix or override her more subtle nature and to make decisions quickly. To hear that her subtlety was a permanent part of her felt like a disappointment.

She took the time she needed to gather more details and she began to see how much power there was in her quiet steadiness. Her attention to detail was useful. And her sensitivity was something to celebrate.

Every Type of woman can have an emotional experience when discovering her Type of beauty, but TYPE 2SM women in particular tend to become tearful most easily. This was true for Kathy. Her acceptance of her Type of beauty and herself brought her to tears.

Even after she had learned all the details enough to know that she expressed TYPE 2SM energy, she did what so many TYPE 2SM women do: she continued to question her assessment, almost to the point of worrying.

Her worry was not so much a worry of getting it right, but an emotionally based feeling of worry that she might not be connected to her true self. Once she realized that the very way she moved through the experience was true to her nature—processing what she learned with emotional sensitivity and then questioning herself—she relaxed into her TYPE 2SM energy and felt at peace with herself more than she had for many years.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

You have a great ability to help people feel connected due to your soft, gentle, relaxed, even-tempered way. You encourage other people to relax and slow down a little. You connect with people from your heart, which causes you to be sensitive to how others feel. If someone is feeling down, you are sensitive to that without them even having to share it with you, and then you quietly help them feel better. Because of your questioning nature, you might question whether or not you even know how to make someone else feel better. This worry can distress you, but know that just your gentle presence can reassure others that everything will be okay. You move forward in your life with soft and understated determination.

If you are challenged or dealt with too intensely, your tendency is to hold back or go within, feeling the need to retreat in some manner. You tend to turn your questioning inward, so you may think about what you may have done to cause such a strong response in another person, often assuming it was your fault.

Again, the dominant element that expresses itself through you is oxygen/water. Phrases commonly used to describe your personality: "You are so thoughtful," or "You're so accommodating," or when it becomes a judgment, "You are so wishy-washy that you can never make up your mind." Your gift of going with the flow can turn into wishy-washiness, like the water that represents your energy!

Challenge: Because your priority is comfort and ensuring that others feel comfortable with you, you tend not to give yourself enough credit when credit is due. You want recognition for who you are and what you do, but in order to be appropriate and keep things comfortable, you tend not to draw attention to your own accomplishments. When you hope that someone else will do it for you, you can feel disappointed. Let yourself be in the limelight more often. You deserve it.

Challenge: Your softened, blended, muted energy can make you feel like you blend into the background, causing you to feel unimportant. You can feel overlooked and unnoticed. Attempts to compensate by being loud or forceful may backfire and will wear you out. You can invite the attention to you that you desire by living true to your powerfully calming, connecting nature.

Challenge: Your personality is naturally sensitive. It would benefit you to pay close attention to your tendency to feel resentment, and your considerable sensitivity in the face of even small humiliations.

Challenge: You can judge your subtle, relaxed nature to be weak and wimpy, but the TYPE 2SM movement is a subtle power. The next time you have that thought, just think of the Mississippi River and compare yourself to that movement. There is no weakness there, just a deep steady flow, knowing exactly where it is going, winding and bending as it flows along its way. Or a mighty willow tree with deep roots and cascading branches, standing elegantly in the breeze, offering comfort and support to anyone who sits under its shade to rest and relax for a while.

THOUGHT AND FEELING PROCESSES

Your thoughts follow a steady stream that all connect the past, present, and future effortlessly. You want a lot of details so you can make these connections in your mind. You need questions answered and details gathered to make a plan. You like to put all the details together to see what the outcome could be. Change can be slower for you, but gathering information and details and thinking it out thoroughly makes change a viable option for you. You like to think ahead and know what direction things are going. You may find yourself asking, "What's the plan?"

You like your plans to follow a steady flow. You are not readily adaptable to change. You need time to ask questions and gather details and think things through before you commit to change. You cannot disconnect from your plan and connect with a new plan as readily as the other Energy Types.

Your thoughts are slower and more detailed. You have a continuous process of interconnected thought. You tend to connect the past to the now which then connects to the future. Being told to just live in the Now with no thought to the past or future would be a difficult challenge for you.

My daughter Anne (TYPE 2SM) shares that she now understands the nature of her thoughts and just goes with the flow of them. When she was dating with the intent to meet someone and get married, she would go into great detail in her mind about where the relationship might go with every guy she went out with. One thought would lead to the next, which would lead to the next and the next, all the way to wondering if they would marry, how many children they might have, where they might live—and this was all being thought out in her mind before they ever went on the date!

Because your thoughts also connect easily with the past, you have many fond, detailed memories that you love reflecting on. To maintain your connection to the past and your memories of it, you are inclined to create a connection to those memories through keepsakes, photos, scrapbooks and journals. Anne has faithfully kept a daily journal of the details of her life since she was in grade school.

Challenge: You are a more detailed thinker. To make decisions that are supportive to you, you need to take your time—you don't feel certain about something until you've had time to gather details, question them, and calmly consider. Because of this, others may judge you as slow.

Challenge: Heartfelt concern is a great gift of TYPE 2SM energy, but if it gets out of balance, it can turn into brooding, fussing and worrying excessively. Of the four Types of women, you are the worriers! Remember: worry is a prayer for what you don't want, or an interest payment on a debt that never comes due. Heartfelt concern helps you flow toward a plan or connect with a person. Worry just keeps you inwardly stuck

Challenge: You can process information over and over in order not to leave anything out, which creates a tendency to get overwhelmed and then find it hard to make a decision.

My daughter Anne (TYPE 2SM) and I were on our way to meet my other daughter, Jenny (TYPE 1SM), for dinner. My cell phone rang just as we were arriving at our destination and Anne commented, "I bet that is Jenny and she hasn't left yet!"

Yes, it was Jenny and she hadn't left yet! (People who express TYPE 1SM energy may have a tendency to be late, due to their tendency to get distracted easily.) Jenny was calling to offer us another possibility of where to go to dinner. She cheerfully made her suggestion, I told Anne about Jenny's new idea, and Anne replied, "No, I am not going anywhere else. I have already decided what I am going to eat, where we are going to sit, what we might talk about, I have it all planned out in my mind." I told Jenny, "No go. Anne has her mind set on this place."

Since Jenny's energy easily adapts and she is not deeply attached to her ideas, she was fine. As the mother of these two daughters, I was able to honor them both in that moment. I knew it would not offend Jenny to stay with our first idea and that she was just doing her job in offering another possibility. I honored Anne in her TYPE 2SM energy for not being as quickly adaptable and for having a mindset that thinks things through with many details to consider. We ended up having a lovely evening enjoying each other's company, which includes our similarities and our differences.

COMMUNICATION

You are naturally slower in responding. If you are called upon to answer quickly or to speak without preparation, or if you fear that too much depends on your response, you may become flustered and not manage to find the right words to express yourself the way you want to. There is nothing better or worse about being able to give a quick response. If you are faced with a question or issue that you haven't had time to research or think about, it's okay to respond with some of the most freeing sentences for TYPE 2SM women: "I'm not sure yet. I'll think about it and get back to you."

When you share an experience or tell a story, you tend to include a lot of details. You naturally notice and remember subtleties, and you have an ability to see connections between the details you share.

You tend to have a sensitivity to volume, so that others feel comfortable around you. In the past, if I got loud or outspoken in a public setting, it was common for my daughter Anne or my mom, both TYPE 2SM women, to shush me and tell me I was talking too loud. This used to cause me to want to react and get louder, but I now understand their desire to not want to cause discomfort to people around us.

BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES

Your behavioral tendencies are expressed like a flowing, steady river, moving along your steady current in a relaxed, subtle manner, following the plans you have made.

Relationships—You tend to value emotional availability, consistency, fiscal responsibility, and accountability in your relationships. Because you are more emotionally sensitive, you will be particularly attuned to the emotional nuances of your interactions with others. It is a priority for your close relationships to feel emotionally comfortable and connected to you.

Challenge: Because you can easily put yourself in someone else's emotional shoes, you may sometimes assume what another person feels or thinks without actually being certain. You may then proceed to respond to that person based on only your assumption. Rather than assume and move forward, share what you are assuming and communicate your assumptions to see how accurate they are. The easiest way for you to resolve this challenge is through your other natural gift of asking questions!

Social—You are empathetic, polite, tactful, and emotionally mindful, often observing until you feel comfortable enough to participate, particularly in new or larger social settings. You have an introverted energy. This does not mean you are shy. "Shy" is a label with a negative connotation. An introverted energy means that your energy expresses itself as an inward flow first, before it flows outward again. For example, this energy shows up in your tendency to take in details and information before moving outward with a plan. Due to your soft-spoken nature, others may perceive you as shy. I have met many TYPE 2SM women who have been bothered by this judgment of being called shy. They did not feel it was an accurate assessment of who they are. These same women have told me how much they appreciate understanding their more introverted soft nature that has nothing to do with their level of confidence and self-esteem. In a social setting, you will be aware of the sense of community and connection that is occurring or not occurring. You are sensitive to how everyone connects and fits together as a group.

Timeliness—If you tend to be on time, it's due to your ability to make a plan and stick to it. If you tend to be late, it's because of your naturally slower pace, which may make your detailed preparations take longer than expected. Give yourself a cushion and plan to be ready sooner than you need to leave in case something creeps up or takes a little longer.

Work—You may appear to others to be slow at your tasks. Yet what you are really doing is working carefully and reliably, but only if you have ample time and are not pressed. You can work in a steady flow when you have the resources you need and you do not see yourself as a slow worker. However, if you don't have all the details you want, you may procrastinate until your questions are answered.

You may default to behavior that lets others be preferred over you, even if they are less qualified and capable than you are in a particular kind of work or position. When this experience shows up, you may feel slighted because you think you are being ignored or you may assume your talents are not appreciated.

Money—Due to your detailed thought process, you have the capacity to be great with numbers and taking care of the details of managing money. Due to your attention to detail and preference for planning, you tend to be good with managing your money, but you can get bogged down by brooding, fretting and worrying about money concerns and having to know where every little cent is going.

Physical activity—You typically plan out your exercise and fitness. You like to have a plan and follow it. Many TYPE 2SM women prefer gentler forms of physical fitness, rather than intense workouts. The good news is, this supports your natural energy and creates better results. Rather than exercising with big groups, you may feel more comfortable doing recreational or physical pursuits alone, or interacting with others on a more intimate, one-on-one level.

BODY LANGUAGE

Not all of your body language and physical features will express themselves in a TYPE 2SM movement. Most women are blended in their physical features, so you won't see yourself in all these expressions, but you will notice many TYPE 2SM expressions of body language and physical features if you are a dominant TYPE 2SM woman.

Walking—You have a smooth, graceful walk. You take longer steps and keep your feet close to the ground. There is no bounce in your step, rather you have a fluid, flowing movement. When you were younger, you may have even been chastised for dragging your feet on the ground.

Sitting/Standing—You sit and stand in the shape of an S curve—a relaxed bend, holding your head to the side. Your priority is finding a comfortable, relaxed position that could be described as lounging. When standing, you may find that you prefer to lean on something.

Voice/Language—You have a softer voice of medium pitch. You can be hard to hear at times. You may have been told you mumble! You tend to use comforting language. You speak in detail and ask many questions. You may even find that words you mean as statements are heard by others as questions. Or you respond to others in questions without even thinking about it.

Doodling—You tend to doodle in long S curves, ovals and soft, relaxed shapes, connecting the shapes together.

Personal Space—You tend to be a pile maker in clothes, papers, things to do, etc. All your piles have a connection and you have an ongoing plan to get rid of the piles. And, when you do, it does not take you long to create new piles! When cleaning you like to take more time to go through things in detail.

You like to keep things that connect you to the memories of the past. My daughter Anne (TYPE 2SM) has kept personal items all through her life from her baby blanket, to a favorite sweater from grade school, to making scrapbooks and taking a lot of pictures through the years, all to keep the connections of her memories going.

Interior Design—Comfort is your number one priority in how you decorate your home. You like comfort in all things and you tend to be drawn to bedding, furniture, or other things that feel soft or cozy. You may tend to decorate with items of sentimental significance. Giving attention to detail in your décor and creating a soft, comfortable, cozy environment feels right for you.

PHYSICAL FEATURES

If you are a TYPE 2SM woman, many of the features listed below will show up in your face. (But not all of them—remember, you are a mix of all 4 Energy Types.) Your features express a dominant overall quality of your dominant Energy Type. If you are a TYPE 2SM woman, the overall quality of your physical expression is softened and blended. Your bone structure creates elongated S-curves and ovals, the shape of a long winding river, moving deeply, steadily on its course.

Skin and Skin Texture—TYPE 2SM skin is soft and supple with blended skin tones. It may be free of wrinkles and lines. Any wrinkles you do have will be softer S curves that are not very deep. As a result, you look younger as you age. TYPE 2SM skin drapes beautifully and softly over the bone structure. Women with TYPE 2SM skin maintain a soft, supple appearance to their skin, having the least wrinkles even as they age. My mother who has TYPE 2SM skin does not look her age at all due to her soft, supple skin. A dominant TYPE 2SM woman also tends to have a softened and blended quality to her skin tone, no matter her skin color.

Face shape—Oval or softened rectangle

Cheeks—Long S curve, elongated cheek, or dropping cheek, hush puppy cheek, full cheek softened through the jawline, jowls.

Nose—Soft on top, medium size, S curve on side, S curve in the nostrils.

Eyebrows—Half of an oval or long S curve, tend to be long eyebrows, with a lower arch.

Eyes—Almond-shaped eyes, doe eyes, dreamy eyes, heavy-lidded or drooping eyelids. Tend to have a downward, cascading quality in the skin on the sides of the eyes.

Hands—Soft, graceful, smooth, long fingers that taper toward nail, oval nail beds.

HOW YOUR ENERGY AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

Your energy creates an ambience of calmness and connection. Your fluid, flowing energy tends to relax people around you and influence them to feel more peace. When you are living in balance with your true nature, you are comfortable to be with and bring a naturally calming influence to the rest of us. Others experience you as modest and humble.

At times, your lower-level of movement can feel slow and draining to others if you are not moving forward in your life—like a log jam in a river that is collecting debris and getting murky.

Your need to ask questions before moving forward can cause others to see you as a "worry-wart" or a "wet blanket."

As you are conscious of your natural movement and are more aware of who you are interacting with, you will be able to manage yourself in a way that supports others in being in rapport with you. As you stay conscious of who you are and love who you are rather than judge your natural movement and try to silence it, you will be consistently aligned with your core true nature and others will always enjoy being around you.

Now I'll explore some specifics around fashion and a TYPE 2SM woman.

SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE: HOW YOUR APPEARANCE AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

What you wear sends a message to other people, which influences how they perceive your natural energy. When you dress true to your TYPE 2SM nature, people know what to expect from you: a calming, soft-spoken, detail-oriented person. But when you are not "Dressing Your Truth", you send a message that conflicts with who you truly are. Your nature is to be gentle and calm and when you wear clothes that make you appear more aggressive, your true nature is disguised to most people, and you are more likely to be misjudged as wimpy and weak. TYPE 2SM women often think, "If I dress more soft and subtle, I will come across as weak or boring!" This is not the case. When you dress your truth, your inner truth is in harmony with your outer appearance and you will be taken seriously for who you are: a subtle, soft, powerful woman.

Even in a professional setting where you want to be seen as a woman of confidence and strength, putting on a more aggressive look is not in your best interest. When you learn to dress your truth, you learn that you can still look incredibly professional and maintain your softness.

You have a gift of bringing calmness and connection to any situation. Set the mood everywhere you go by Dressing Your Truth and letting your gentleness express itself in your outer appearance.

MOST COMMON FASHION MISTAKES

It is common for a TYPE 2SM woman to have a tendency to want to brighten her look to counter her more subdued nature. Ironically, it only makes her blend into the background while her brighter clothes draw all the attention. Wearing bright or bold clothing will overpower a TYPE 2SM woman, make her complexion look pasty, and actually make her appear weak and shy to people.

I have met many TYPE 2SM women who brighten up their hair color with warm highlights that only age their faces, bringing out wrinkles and redness in their skin. Also, your movement has a natural flow, so straightening your hair stick straight can look severe on you, contrary to your more fluid energy.

At one of our Dressing Your Truth Club Member events, we featured a TYPE 2SM woman with shoulder length hair parted down the middle and worn straight. I showed her how to part her hair on the side, flipping her hair to fall from the top of her head in a soft S curve around her face, and we used the flat iron to create a soft curl flowing inward toward her face at the ends of her hair. The difference was remarkable—it was like an instant face-lift!

SHOPPING TENDENCIES

Because you have to think things through and you question yourself, making fashion choices you are confident with can be challenging for you. Two of your most common tendencies when it comes to shopping are (1) questioning yourself after you make a purchase and asking others if it is right for you; and (2) leaving the price tags on the clothes, even if you wear it a time or two, just in case it is not right and you decide to return it.

My daughter Anne (TYPE 2SM energy) and my mom (TYPE 2SM energy) both have this price tag tendency, and I have discovered this is common for many TYPE 2SM women. My mom dresses her truth as a TYPE 2SM and looks amazing. She is in her late 70s and appears a good 15 years younger than she is. I have gotten used to her tendency whenever I visit her to want me to see her newest fashion purchases and then to ask me if they are right for her. They always are, and I believe she knows it, but due to her questioning nature she can't help it! I always tell her she is right on with her choices and that she looks remarkable!

Probably your most telling aspect of your shopping experience is your strong sense of whether or not shoes or articles of clothing feel comfortable to you. You first touch a garment to determine if it is even comfortable enough to try on. Once it has passed your comfort touch test, you put it on and move around in it, touch it some more and then decide if it meets your high standard of comfort. You may spend a lot of time in the dressing room, questioning If the garments or shoes do not meet your standard, back on the shelf they go. If you try and convince yourself it's comfortable enough and you buy it, most likely it will be returned to the store shortly or will just end up never worn in the back of your closet! Whenever I compliment my mom and how great she looks, she always responds with a comment about her clothes or shoes with a statement like, "And it is so comfortable!"

THE TYPE 2SM WOMAN BEAUTY CODE WORD

Every woman is remarkably beautiful, no matter what Type of beauty she expresses. Your natural feminine expression lends itself for you to have a certain kind of beauty that depicts the Type of woman you are. When Dressing Your Truth and honoring your truest beauty, a TYPE 2SM woman tends to hear, "You are so beautiful!" Yes, the beauty code word for a TYPE 2SM woman is Beautiful!

Your natural expression of gentleness and elegance fits the most commonly used word to compliment an attractive woman—beautiful. You have a romantic, graceful quality that expresses itself to the world when you are Dressing Your Truth, so you will hear this a lot, "You are such a beautiful woman."

YOUR BEAUTY SIXTH SENSE   
DRESSING YOUR TRUTH TIP

You have a natural instinct for comfort, and it is your nature to be aware if something feels comfortable (or uncomfortable) to you. Your sensitivity to comfort needs to be honored in how you dress and accessorize. If what you put on your body is not comfortable to you, it goes against your beauty sixth sense. I am sure you already pay attention to your level of comfort in your clothing, but now you can do it with greater honor and respect for your more sensitive nature. Be sure to ask yourself these questions when you are trying something on, "Does it feel comfortable?" and "Does it support my sensitive nature?" If you can say yes, you are honoring your beauty sixth sense.

FAMOUS TYPE 2SM WOMEN

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ANNETTE'S STORY

Annette first became acquainted with Dressing Your Truth in March 2008. She was intrigued by the idea of supporting her true self by learning her Type of beauty because she had been focused for several months on and healing from a pattern of anxiety and fear. She had made significant progress, but was feeling stuck again.

Annette says, "As I began learning about the four different Types of women, I immediately recognized that I had many characteristics of a TYPE 2SM. My thought patterns are very connected. I get very caught up in details. When someone proposes a project, my mind immediately jumps to the specifics of how we are going to accomplish that task. Prior to learning about Profiling, I often described myself as a logistical thinker. I could relate to the idea that I am connected and comfortable. However, I was uncomfortable with many aspects of a TYPE 2SM. I did not consider myself as elegant, graceful, romantic, or even easy and relaxed. I remember thinking, 'I don't want to be subtle and blended. If I am a TYPE 2SM, I might as well not exist, because no one will ever notice me. I will just blend in and disappear.'"

Annette discovered her Type of beauty, but experienced a lot of judgment around it. She had many typical TYPE 2SM concerns about being invisible or boring. She said, "Learning all these new things about myself was very unsettling. I knew deep in my heart that I was a TYPE 2SM, but I still didn't want to be. I really felt that if I embraced being a 2SM, I would become lost to the rest of the world. No one would ever notice or see me. I realized I really hadn't accepted myself for who I am."

Even with her concerns, Annette decided to continue learning because she recognized her TYPE 2SM energy and wanted to support herself. She started Dressing Your Truth, which was the next step in supporting her Type of beauty. She learned that a TYPE 2SM woman's beauty is highlighted by more muted, subdued colors, which she perceived as boring and bland.

But, she said, "I decided to have a positive attitude, and see if there was truth in this experience that I needed to learn. I immersed myself in the process, and tried the clothing on. I actually found there was clothing I really liked! I loved my transformation. I felt beautiful!

"I took the challenge given at the end [of the course], and chose to exclusively dress like a TYPE 2SM for 30 days. I have never looked back. I had lost 35 plus pounds several months prior to attending Dressing Your Truth. Very few people had noticed. Once I began dressing my truth I had many, many people tell me how fabulous I looked and ask me how much weight I had lost recently!

"Knowing my Beauty Profile has been a life-changing experience for me. I have learned who I really am, and I love it! I love me! Having this knowledge about myself has validated me.

"Changing my outward appearance is only a tiny part of the changes I have experienced. In fact, it is probably the least important aspect of my transformation. I feel whole and complete now that I know myself. Beauty Profiling and Dressing Your Truth has been an integral part of my journey."

MILANA'S STORY

Milana initially assess herself as a TYPE 1SM woman. "Of course!" she said. "Energetic, spontaneous, playful—that's me." She didn't consider TYPE 2SM energy because those women were gloomy and self-absorbed. (Or so she thought!)

But when she began rereading the tendencies for TYPE 2SM beauty, she began thinking and questioning herself. She began to realize that she loved the company of bright, animated TYPE 1SM women so much that she just wanted to be one of them. She wanted to be energetic, spontaneous and playful. But in real life, that wasn't her natural movement. It was quite a discovery for her. Slowly, she started to see the positive traits of TYPE 2SM beauty. She stopped judging her natural movement and trying to change it. She stopped trying to be someone else and started to live more true to the amazing woman she already was.

MICHELLE'S STORY

Michelle learned about the 4 Types of beauty in the Dressing Your Truth online course, and as soon as she heard the TYPE 2SM keywords soft and gentle, she started crying. It brought up a lot of issues for her.

Growing up, her father wanted boys and never got any, so he called his five daughters his "boys." She also saw her mother and grandmothers dominated by Type 3SM and 4SM men. When she was younger, she decided that she wouldn't live that way and have anyone dominate her, so she admits that she lived contrary to her soft nature and tried to be more aggressive and forceful—all of the negative traits sometimes attributed to TYPE 3SM and 4SM energy.

But since Michelle has honored her subtle TYPE 2SM energy (and been dressing her truth), she says she has never felt better about herself! She now says that she feels so soft and feminine, and it's a good thing! She says she has been nicer to her husband and children, and for the first time in 15 years, she actually likes the way she looks.

She was surprised that discovering her Type of beauty and the Dressing her Truth program have been so freeing.

"I've used a lot of self-help tools for years that have helped me with a lot of my issues," she says, "but it's interesting to me how this process has helped me to become happier and more myself than anything else I've ever tried before. It's even brought up issues that I didn't realize I had."

SUMMARY OF THE TYPE 2SM SUBTLE, SOFT WOMAN

Oxygen/water is TYPE 2SM energy. A TYPE 2SM woman has a fluid and flowing movement. You are a detail-oriented, even-tempered, sensitive, accommodating Type of woman. Your dominant shape in physical features is a soft, flowing S curve, and an oval. You have a softness that is visible in your eyes, cheeks and overall facial shape.

As a TYPE 2SM woman you may have a tendency toward these strengths:

  * You are gentle and create a soft, comfortable, safe environment.
  * You are careful in your work and absorb all the details that others may not see.
  * You are kind-hearted and patient, allowing for life to flow at its pace.
  * You are a connector. Connecting people, ideas, places, businesses and happenings.
  * You are subtle and your strength is in the quiet determination you bring to everything.
  * You are detailed, conscientious and thoughtful.
  * You are a peacemaker, creating peace with your gentle, soft-spoken presence.
  * You naturally see another's point of view and understand where they are coming from emotionally.
  * You can accomplish many things in a calm, quiet, subtle way that is unobtrusive.

As a TYPE 2SM woman you may have a tendency towards these challenges:

  * You may get caught up in all the details, which can lead you to feel overwhelmed or have a difficult time making decisions.
  * You may be too attached to people, things, or memories and not be willing to let go so you can move forward in life.
  * You may appear to be too soft, too nice and not be able to stand your ground and share your true feelings.
  * You may become so concerned about others' feelings that you don't acknowledge your own or give yourself value.
  * You may require others to slow down because you think, like you, they need to move in a slower pattern and give more attention to details before moving forward.
  * You may be so soft-spoken that you worry you are invisible or unappreciated by others. You may make assumptions about others' lack of acknowledgment and feel unnecessarily resentful.

TYPE 2SM BEAUTY PROFILE KEY WORDS

Blended Mindful

Careful Modest

Comfortable Muted

Composed Mysterious

Conscientious Neat

Consistent Particular

Courtly  Picturesque

Delicate Placid

Demure Pleasing

Detailed  Poised

Dignified Prudent

Dreamy Quaint

Elegant Queenly

Ethereal Refined

Exacting Relaxed

Exquisite  Retiring

Fine Romantic

Finesse Sensitive

Finished look Serene

Flowing Silky

Fluid  Simple

Gentle Soft

Graceful Soothing

Harmonized Suave

Heavenly Subtle

Innocent Sumptuous

Intricate Sweet

Inviting Thoughtful

Lavish Traditional

Lovely  Warm

Luxurious  Wise
TYPE 3SM: THE RICH, DYNAMIC WOMAN

Primary Movement: Active, Reactive

Natural Gift:  Action—"Let's get to work and get it done!"

Dominant Quality:  Swiftly moving us forward to our desired outcomes.

Beauty Code Word:  Hot!

The TYPE 3sm expression comes from the element hydrogen/fire,  and its natural primary movement is active/reactive. If you express dominant TYPE 3SM movement, you have an active/reactive energy. You are naturally dynamic, sure and purposeful. The dominant shapes in your physical features are angles, triangles and asymmetrical shapes, which are visible in the eyes, the nose, the cheeks, the hairline, and overall body and facial shape.

TYPE 3SM energy is an extrovert expression pushing forward with intensity to create in this world. As a TYPE 3SM woman, you express a medium to medium-high level of movement. This natural, dynamic, deliberate and purposeful movement can be consistently observed through aspects of your human experience.

Other key words that describe the movement of this energy in a dominant TYPE 3SM woman are passionate, swift, textured, practical, resourceful, to-the-point, fiery, determined and down-to-earth.

Due to your medium to medium-high movement that expresses itself deliberately, you may have been told a lot as a child (or even in your adult life), to "Relax!" or "Slow down" or "You're too demanding," or "Pipe down! You're too loud."

As I mentioned earlier, your energy is like the dynamic push of Niagara Falls or the substantial depth and texture of the Grand Canyon, leaving a lasting impression with the results you create. You are a fireball, just like the sun, which is made up of the same element as your Dominant Type—hydrogen/fire!

Taking action to get a result is a primary motive for a TYPE 3SM woman. Results are a priority in how you approach life. Action that creates results and change are important to you. Because your energy is active/reactive in its nature, your motive in your actions is to create a result that makes an impression that remains for a long time, just like the action of the Colorado River carving a lasting impression we call the Grand Canyon! Ironically, you are not innately motivated to do what you do to impress other people—that is just an outcome that naturally happens, due to your dynamic energy.

When I was 15 years old, I had an experience that would have helped me better understand myself, if there had been a Beauty Profiling system to refer to at the time. I had long hair below my shoulders then, and one day I abruptly decided I wanted to get it cut. I had been given a coupon for a free haircut at the local beauty school. Since I couldn't drive and my mom and dad were out of town, I left school early, walked home (which was about three miles away), jumped on my bike and rode it 10 miles across town to the beauty school. I didn't have an appointment but, fortunately, they did take walk-ins. I got my haircut in a completely new style, cutting a lot of my hair off. I rode my bike home and just "got it done"! I think of that now and that screams TYPE 3SM energy all over the place. Just get it done! There are so many great clues all through our lives that point to who we truly are.

When you have your mind set on your results, your inner mantra is to do "whatever it takes" and you are willing to roll up your sleeves, get to work, and just get things done. While every Type of woman can get a lot done, your TYPE 3SM energy has a forward, action-oriented momentum to it. You naturally move through a project or challenge with a hands-on approach, and a push that is completely focused on the end result, rather than the details along the way.

When I started my business 20 years ago, I wore all the hats. I had to rely on the expression of all four Energy Types to launch my business: the ideas, the details, the action, and the refining process. What kept me motivated was the result I had my sights set on. Even though I played all the parts, I definitely led with my TYPE 3SM energy through the experience.

I was willing to burn the candle at both ends since my actions were being driven by a strong desire to create results. At the same time I started building my business, I had young children and I would not compromise my standards on being a good mother. This looked like a lot of late nights and early mornings to do whatever it required to achieve the results I was determined to create. I did not think much of it. In my mind, it was just what I had to do.

It would have bothered me to be labeled as a driven person or to be seen as too big of a thinker. I have always had some entrepreneurial venture going on and now I understand that it was just my natural ability to think big and go for it!

I have also come to realize that TYPE 3SM women have the capacity to "burn out" more quickly than any other Types of women due to our swift, determined movement, which is fueled by our pronounced, substantial energy output. We TYPE 3SM women experience a natural confidence about how much we can get done, which means we can sometimes overload ourselves and then keep pushing until we burn out.

We also have the tendency to be passionate about something and then move to the next thing abruptly. I have gotten into more things with great passion, going big and fast and then grew bored and moved on to my next big life experience. For example, I started running marathons in 2001. I went on to run 16 marathons over the next four years. One day in November 2005, I just decided I was done, like Forrest in the movie Forrest Gump: he ran and ran and ran, and then just out of nowhere, he stopped and felt complete with the experience. That is a very TYPE 3SM movement! I created a lasting impression, though, with all my marathon T-shirts and medals, and it seems to be impressive to people, yet impressing people was never my motive in going for the results I did. I did it because I have come to learn it is my TYPE 3SM nature that likes to experience life big and swift!

TYPE 3SM energy has not been considered stereotypically feminine in nature in our culture of the past. It is a dynamic, intense energy that some TYPE 3SM women have been conditioned to believe that they need to soften or subdue. TYPE 4SM energy (in the next section) is a bold expression. Some women can confuse whether they express dominant TYPE 3SM or 4SM energy since both expressions are strong.

DEBBIE'S STORY

Debbie discovered that she expressed dominant TYPE 3SM energy with strong secondary TYPE 4SM energy. She had always thought she should be the Type of person that TYPE 4SM women are. Any good person would be a TYPE 4SM, she thought. She recognized that there is a lot of TYPE 4SM energy in her and that sometimes that expression feels natural, but most of the time, she admits that she tried to force herself to be a TYPE 4SM woman when she was actually feeling more like a TYPE 3SM.

Debbie says: "The most amazing and miraculous thing this information did for me was to help me realize that whatever I am is good—better than just good—I am wonderful, just naturally as I am. I don't have to force myself to be any particular way. I already am what I am, and can just relax into it. I'm really not expected to be something else."

NATURAL GIFTS AND TALENTS

In the cycle of wholeness we have noted that TYPE 1SM energy initiates the cycle with an idea, the TYPE 2SM energy gathers the details by asking questions and making a plan, and the TYPE 3SM energy moves us into action. Your TYPE 3SM energy moves into action swiftly to make things happen to create a result. If you put your natural gift into a phrase, your phrase would be, "Let's get to work and get it done!"

As much as TYPE 1SM women love starting new things, TYPE 3SM women love finishing things they start. Both Types of women may finish projects, but a TYPE 1SM woman typically gets motivated by the idea at the beginning, whereas a TYPE 3SM woman gets motivated by the result at the end. As a determined, dynamic TYPE 3SM woman, you typically only start something that you are motivated to finish, so you can experience the result of your actions. And you don't just start one thing: you have the capacity to push several things along at a time and make sure they all get done.

For example, my daughter-in-law Sarah (TYPE 3SM) and I both noted how we get multiple tasks moving forward at the same time, so we can get a lot of things done at once. A typical morning looks like this: taking a shower, starting to get dressed, abruptly stopping to make the bed, moving to the kitchen to start loading the dishwasher, back to dressing, abruptly moving again to the bed, kitchen, dressing—keeping a lot of plates spinning until all the tasks are finished. If I were to trace my movement, it would create a lot of intersecting lines making geometric shapes and fast angles, and compartments—exactly the movement I doodle in, dress in, and express my natural self in!

My son Chris (TYPE 2SM energy) and Sarah (TYPE 3SM energy) were dating around the time I was developing Dressing Your Truth. At the time, I couldn't tell what Sarah's Dominant Type was. She is blended in her movement and facial features, and it was quite a mystery to me.

We had not introduced the Profiling information to her, and it has been my rule of thumb not to tell people their Energy Type, especially when they aren't familiar with the information. I began to notice her tendencies as she spent more time in our home. One incident stood out and was telling for me. Chris and Sarah came in early from a date and were talking about what to do next. I heard Sarah say to Chris, "Please, let's just clean out the car so I can check it off my list for the day!" Chris replied, "It can wait. Let's just relax and take it easy for a while. We've been going all day long."

They both approached the situation true to their natures. Chris in his TYPE 2SM nature, was encouraging them to relax and to find comfort for the remainder of the evening, and Sarah, in her TYPE 3SM determination, was interested in completing the tasks on her list, to get the results she had her mind set on, Sarah and I have since joked that we write on our to-do lists tasks we have already accomplished just for the satisfaction of checking them off the list!

We also noticed one Christmas how we both have a tendency to sit back and gaze at our Christmas trees after we finish decorating them. We realized that it is common for TYPE 3SM women to gain so much pleasure in creating a result that we will set aside time to take it in and bask in the pleasure of just looking at the result we accomplished!

You move through life like a tiger, with a purposeful, deliberate movement. You jump in and take action quickly. You see what needs to get done, and often wonder why no one else is taking action, assuming the rest of the world moves in your expression.

You can push a lot of things forward at once, moving yourself and other people into action. You are the ready-fire-aim person, and sometimes that can burn you and others out. Your primary movement is swift, with intersecting, connected lines that create compartments. Rather than moving on one track from point A to point B, you have at least three or more tracks at a time that you move things forward on. This movement would create a textured surface, which likewise is a physical feature in TYPE 3SM skin.

You can change focus abruptly, but you tend to come back to what you have started. You are aware of what has gone unfinished, and that you can spur you into action and cause an abrupt change of focus.

Important: It is important that you acknowledge your gift for moving things into action swiftly. Allow your energy to push things into motion. If you try to soften your movement and override it with apologies, it can be like a burning furnace that has no vent and will suddenly go into reactive mode—what we call rage! When you do not allow your Dominant Type to lead in your expressive self, you lose your connection with who you are. You will be out of balance from your active/reactive energy if you try to soften or sedate yourself. That big energy has to find an outlet somewhere.

The same natural tendencies that are your gift and talents can also be a challenge in your life, causing imbalance and disharmony. While you lead with your dominant energy, when your dominant movement is taking over your life and is not balanced with the other three Energy Types (which are also a part of your being), it can be a challenge being you!

Challenge: An impediment for a TYPE 3SM woman can be your yearning for great things with imprudent haste. You can become immediately absorbed by the aim you have in mind and rush for your goal with great acceleration and impetuosity. You may consider too little whether you can really reach your goal because you are so naturally sure of your abilities to get things done.

Challenge: You like to create a reaction from your actions. If you are not consciously allowing your substantial energy to be expressed in a healthy way, you may subconsciously create scenarios where you say and do things just to get a reaction out of people, and most of the time it will appear to be contentious!

Growing up, I had no reference to what a TYPE 3SM woman was like. I was exposed to a lot of TYPE 3SM and 4SM men, since my dad and brothers express a lot of this energy. My mom, being a TYPE 2SM woman, was not a reference for me. The church I attended appeared to craft the image of the ideal woman and mom to be either a TYPE 1SM or 2SM expression. Not having any conscious knowledge of my inner nature, I was not able to manage it consciously to add quality to my life.

It now makes sense to me why I have been the catalyst for so many arguments with my TYPE 2SM husband. I just wanted to experience my active/reactive nature.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

Action that creates results and lasting change or impressions are important to you as a TYPE 3SM woman. You measure results and base your success on whether or not the measured results are congruent with projected results. You can act before all the details are in place, often feeling like so many details are unnecessary as you have a deep sense of confidence and sureness about achieving success. You tend to be expressive about which results have been or will be achieved in your life. You can change directions abruptly and can handle diverse situations and many goals at once.

You move other people into action. If someone is feeling down, you tend to think of something to do to help the person change focus or what you can do (action-oriented!) to help fix it. You move forward with intense determination.

The dominant element that expresses in you is hydrogen/fire. Phrases commonly used to describe your personality are, "You're a go-getter," or, "You get things done," or when it becomes a judgment, "You are too pushy and intense."

Challenge: You can burn out by getting too much going on, making too many commitments, or taking action too soon.

TYPE 3SM women are passionate. Whenever you are driving toward carrying out your plans, or find opposition, you are filled with passionate excitement. You can become addicted to action! If someone challenges you or suggests you can't do what you are desiring to do, you most likely think, "Oh yeah, just watch me!" You are self-confident and self-reliant and tend to take success for granted because you expect it.

Because you are naturally determined and passionate, you tend to have the most competitive nature of all the Types, with the TYPE 4SM energy close behind you. That competitive nature may show up in games, sports, or any scenario against an opponent—or you may just compete with yourself. You may bring out a competitive element to an activity that isn't a sport, or technically isn't even a competition.

Challenge: You can be impulsive in a big way, plunging into situations where more forethought would have benefited you.

THOUGHT AND FEELING PROCESSES

Your thoughts and feelings are swift and deliberate. You compartmentalize your thoughts to keep track of all the activities you have put into motion. You compartmentalize things in your head and can move from one compartment to the next easily, without losing concentration because it all has a purpose to you.

Your thought process is practical. You tend to think about conversations, experiences, and ideas with a practical approach, wanting to experience your world and even your thoughts as useful and functional in reaching the results you have in mind.

You do not like to take time to read instructions in detail as you tend to have confidence that you will be able to figure it out as you go. You think first about the result and outcome to be achieved and then backtrack in your mind to see the major steps you need to take to get there. You like to move into action quickly.

In your feeling process, your TYPE 3SM energy is passionate and big hearted. You care deeply about the people and causes that are important to you and you move into action to express that passion. You can be passionate about expressing your love and concern to your family in big ways.

Challenge: Because you have an active/reactive nature, you may find yourself reacting without thinking first when you are emotionally triggered. You may abruptly and intensely say what you are feeling and it may come across as harsh. Consider giving yourself permission to feel your feelings intensely, but also giving yourself a moment to cool off and process those emotions before responding. You will be heard and understood more fully when you can share how you feel when you are more at ease.

COMMUNICATION

You value honest communication, credibility and realism. You tend to be direct in your communication, with the motivation being to keep things moving and get to the point. In fact, a common phrase you may use when someone is dragging things out is, "What's your point?" Going over too many details can bog you down.

When in authority—which is often the case!—you tend to be good at delegating. When you feel someone is credible and they get results, you give them free rein to do what you have delegated to them. If someone you have delegated to doesn't deliver on agreed results, you can become passionate in conveying what you want done, sometimes to the point of sounding aggressive. You don't like to beat around the bush, and you are practical and honest in your communications.

You value your accomplishments, the results you create in life. You like talking about your results and accomplishments readily. It may appear to others that you are bragging, but results are such a central focus of your movement that you don't think of it as bragging. Since you are not motivated by impressing people, it surprises you when people think of you this way.

BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES

Your behavioral tendencies model that of a hawk, circling the prey, moving along deliberately with your eye on the result you want, spotting opportunities, and moving swiftly or diving into action to create it.

Relationships—You are open in your relationships, eager to work things out with your loved ones. You express a great deal of love and affection for the select people you form deeper relationships with.

Because you are motivated by getting things done and you have so much going on, you may sometimes experience a challenge in giving yourself leisure time to connect with friends. If you add spending time with family or friends to your to-do list, you'll be more likely to make it happen.

With your "go big or go home" expression, you can also create big results when expressing love or concern, which could look like big gifts, big parties, or another big result.

Social—When living true to your TYPE 3SM energy, you express a natural confidence when interacting with anyone. You tend to be friendly and talkative in social situations. You are a natural sales person. You enjoy being engaged in some sort of activity or purpose while interacting.

Timeliness—You may have a tendency for being late due to your tendency to want to get so much done. You are not realistic about what can be finished in the time allotted, but you will try to do it anyway. You may experience the "10-minute phenomenon" that is common to many TYPE 3SM women. That is, you move forward saying that your travel time or whatever you need to finish before leaving will take "just 10 minutes," when that's not the case and it often takes longer. Being late sets the stage for you to move into swift action, getting done what you want before you leave for your destination.

Work—You tend to be reliable. You excel in positions that allow you to take the lead, motivate others, and challenge your entrepreneurial spirit. It is common for a TYPE 3SM woman to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity in her professional career. TYPE 3SM women are not afraid of the risk of doing their own thing due to their high level of confidence. Your reputation reflects that confidence, and people say of you, "You can count on her to get the job done."

Challenge: With your big energy, you may tend to dominate people of other Energy Types in work settings, sometimes without even noticing it—especially people with TYPE 2SM energy.

Money—You tend to be good with money and have a strong focus on it, as money is a clear measurement of results in your professional activities. The more money you are making, the more you are getting the results you want with your profession or business pursuits.

You also tend to focus on using your money only in ways that you perceive as practical. If this pattern gets out of balance, you can become so practical that you are cheap.

Physical activity—You are physically oriented to the world and you love a challenge. You tend to prefer group activities and competition. You are a physical woman, and if you're getting the physical outlets you need, you enjoy everything from exercise or adventure trips.

Lack of physical activity can be particularly detrimental to a TYPE 3SM woman. Physical activity is a healthy intensity that TYPE 3SM women need and without it, you can feel anxious and reactive for no clear reason. Without a healthy physical outlet for your big energy, you may create intensity in your relationships so that your energy has somewhere to go.

Variety and purpose are important parts of your physical activity. Years ago I was getting bored with my daily exercise routine. That is when I started to train for marathons. I found that as a TYPE 3SM woman, I was more motivated to get up early and train for an event that I wanted to be prepared for, rather than to just exercise without a bigger goal.

Since I have given up marathon running, I switched to competing in sprint-distance triathlons. One year, I had a goal to compete in one triathlon a month from April through November. I successfully met my goal and had a lot of fun doing it. I have noticed that most of the people competing in triathlons express TYPE 3SM energy, especially in the women's divisions.

BODY LANGUAGE

Not all of your body language and physical features will express in a TYPE 3SM movement. Most women are blended in their physical features, so you won't see yourself in all these expressions, but you will notice many expressions of body language and physical features that are TYPE 3SM if you are a dominant TYPE 3SM woman.

Walking—You walk with purpose and determination in your step, with a firm plant of your feet, quick and brisk. People can usually hear you coming.

Sitting/Standing—You create angles when you sit and stand. You will often have your legs crossed, or one leg pulled up under you, your head cocked to the side, hands on waist, or your body bent at the waist. Due to your swift, abrupt movement, others may hear or notice when you sit or stand.

Voice/Language—A TYPE 3SM voice is brassy with a medium-to-low pitch. You can speak loudly in volume at times. Your language can be intense, reactive, abrupt and even sassy. You may sometimes exaggerate when telling stories or explaining situations, in order to get the reaction you're aiming for.

Doodling—You tend to doodle using shapes that are consistent with your natural movement, that is, angles and asymmetrical shapes in all directions. You tend to create doodles with little compartments that you can then fill in.

Personal space—You tend to know where your belongings are, due to how you can compartmentalize things in your mind. You tend to have a lot out and around on counters or tables, for example, but can get it cleaned up swiftly. You might even let your personal space go a little bit so that you can quickly move into action to clean up and see the result. You don't mind cleaning up after yourself because the mess enabled you to experience the result of the effort expended.

Due to your practical nature, what you own needs to be useful to you. You may be known for getting rid of things too quickly, such as throwing away important receipts, unpaid bills, or if you are a parent, your children's homework.

Interior Design—You prefer your surroundings to be casual, natural and rich in color and texture. You tend to enjoy substantial furniture with various textures.

SHEILA'S STORY

Because she felt at one time less than beautiful, Sheila says that the Beauty Profiling system has been invaluable to her. She wanted a cute little nose and thought that a nose job would do it, but she could never bring herself to go through with it. She saw all the many flaws in herself, but then she would feel guilty for having those feelings. "I guess I just told myself that my appearance was as good as it was going to get," she says. "And that I should work on being the best me I can be."

After she discovered that she expressed TYPE 3SM beauty, she decided to continue forward in her journey by going through the Dressing Your Truth course. When she did, she found that her edgy haircut actually made her nose seem just right for her face. The perceived flaws were gone! She finally understood why she had certain features and how to make them just that—features, not flaws. They are beautiful features, part of her nature, made just for her.

Sheila has been dressing her truth for one year, and she feels that it has been amazing. She says, "I like the way I look. I like the way I feel. I have lost two dress sizes though I haven't changed my diet! Perfect strangers stop to tell me how great I look. They usually notice one thing, but then they can't pick out just one, so they will wave their hands up and down and go with the whole look. 'Perfect!' I haven't grown tired of it, and I don't plan on it! My family loves it. My teenage daughters' friends tell them that their mom is hot!?... I found myself again, a happy person who finally saw my beauty inside and out. I felt like I was starting to see myself as God sees me. It was too good of a feeling to justly describe."

PHYSICAL FEATURES

If you are a TYPE 3SM woman, many of the features listed below will show up in your face. (But not all of them—remember, you are a mix of all four Energy Types.) Your features express a dominant overall quality of your dominant Energy Type. If you are a TYPE 3SM woman, the overall quality of your physical expression is exotic, captivating, angular, and textured. Your bone structure has angles and tends to be chiseled, giving a look of strength and dynamic beauty in your asymmetrical features.

Skin and Skin texture—TYPE 3SM active/reactive energy tends to express itself in textured or asymmetrical skin features. Some of these include larger pores, irregular pigment, sunspots, age spots, and deeper, more textured lines. You may experience one, some, or all of these tendencies. If you have TYPE 3SM skin, you may have been investing time and money trying to eliminate the natural features of your TYPE 3SM energy expressing in your skin. Fighting against your skin's natural movement (rather than working with it), can make it prone to acne or other challenges.

I have TYPE 3SM skin, which is a higher, more textured movement, which expresses itself in my skin as hyper-pigmentation, more creases, and texture. I have come to learn that it is best to work with this expression and support bringing out the natural beauty of my skin rather than trying to change it. I use products that are supportive to my Type of skin. And when I am dressing my truth and have a hairstyle in the right color, cut and style, I enhance the appearance of my skin by having movement and vibration around my face that brings out the dynamic quality of my beauty.

Face shape—Triangular or diamond shaped. Angular facial planes, square or angular jaw, chiseled edges.

Cheeks—Various forms of triangles on cheeks and/or around mouth; higher, chiseled cheekbones.

Nose—Angular, beak, knobby, lump of clay, with triangular nostrils.

Eyebrows—Come to an arch somewhere after the middle of the eye. Tend to be shorter in length, move upward. Texture created by coarser eyebrow hairs.

Eyes—Come to a deep angle or point in the inside of eye or outside corners, angles above the eyes in the lid area create a very exotic look.

Hands—TYPE 3SM women love to use their hands to get to work. Some TYPE 3SM expression in hard-working hands: rough, textured, knobby knuckles, spots, veiny, with lots of pigmentation.

HOW YOUR ENERGY AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

Your energy leaves an impression, which makes you noticed by others. Your active/reactive energy moves people into action and naturally brings them encouragement. When you are living in balance with your true nature, you are naturally a leader to others. You may notice that family and friends turn to you to take the lead to make decisions and lead out.

For example, on a family vacation, you may be the one who decides which activities to do each day and gets everybody moving in that direction. When we were having dinner out one night with a large number of our family members, my daughter-in-law Sarah (TYPE 3SM), who was new to the family, noticed the need to decide which flavor and sizes of pizzas to order. She naturally took charge of getting the group to make the decision and called the waitress over to place the order. She got things done!

At times, others can experience your energy as overbearing, pushy or insensitive. You can be judged as being too much to handle or misperceived as overconfident. By being aware of your natural tendencies, you can manage and bring out the best in them.

Now I'll explore some specifics around fashion and a TYPE 3SM woman.

SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE: HOW YOUR APPEARANCE AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

What you wear sends a message to other people, which influences how they perceive your natural energy. When you dress true to your TYPE 3SM nature, people know what to expect from you: a dynamic, fiery, passionate person. But when you are not dressing your truth, you send a message that is in conflict with who you truly are. Your nature is to be dynamic and determined, and when you wear clothes that make you appear to be soft and quiet, your true nature is disguised to most people and it can come across as unexpected or often be judged as aggressive and pushy. TYPE 3SM women often think, "If I dress more dynamic and edgy, I will come across too intense." This is not the case. When you dress your truth, your inner truth is in harmony with your outer appearance and you will look feminine and captivating. You will be taken seriously for who you are: a rich, dynamic woman.

Even in a professional setting where you want to be seen as a woman who is passionate and caring, putting on a softer look is not in your best interest. When you learn to dress your truth, you learn that you can still look incredibly professional and stay true to your dynamic nature.

You have a gift of bringing decisiveness and action to any situation. Set the mood everywhere you go by dressing your truth and letting your dynamic nature express itself clearly in your outer appearance.

MOST COMMON FASHION MISTAKES

It is common for a TYPE 3SM woman to have a tendency to be drawn to and wear a lot of black. It seems like a practical color (we've been told that everything goes with black). TYPE 3SM energy is a strong expression and the color black makes a strong statement. The problem is that TYPE 3SM women express angular, chiseled, textured movement in their physical features which is quite the opposite of the stark, still nature of black. Wearing black, especially around the face, dramatically ages a TYPE 3SM woman beyond her actual age.

Before I started dressing my truth, about 65 percent of my wardrobe was black. I no longer own any black clothes. You might think, "How could I give up my black?" I promise you when you go through the Dressing Your Truth course and discover the rich, dynamic colors that express your true nature, you will not miss the black. You will actually get to a point in wondering why you ever wore it!

Another tendency is to want to soften your facial features by wearing soft lines in your hairstyle around your face. This will only make the angular bone structure in your face more pronounced to give you a manly appearance. A dynamic, angular haircut will honor your dynamic, angular features.

SHOPPING TENDENCIES

Your primary motive when you shop is to get it done swiftly and to get the best deal. You love a good deal. You are practical in your nature, so you are practical with your purchases. You love sharing with others what you paid for something when you found a great deal! If someone compliments a garment you happen to have found at a low price, you'll reply to the compliment by saying, "I only paid $10 for it!"

You have to watch out that your practical nature doesn't turn into being cheap! You can go overboard with saving money and holding back from spending money on what might be an important, lasting piece in your new wardrobe.

I have met many TYPE 3SM women who think, "I can figure out how to dress my truth without having to pay for Carol's course!" You actually like the challenge of trying to figure it out, and true to your nature, think you don't need all the details, and also think it is great you are saving money, but you are left without the details and tools you need to bring out your best look that brings out the true you.

Be willing to take the time to invest in yourself and the Dressing Your Truth information, it will serve you for your entire life, and when you look at the cost of that, you are getting a super great deal!

THE TYPE 3SM WOMAN BEAUTY CODE WORD

Every woman is remarkably beautiful, no matter what Type of beauty she expresses. Your natural feminine expression lends itself for you to have a certain kind of beauty that depicts the Type of woman you are. When you are Dressing Your Truth and honoring your truest self and beauty, you as a TYPE 3SM woman will be told often, "You are so hot!" Hot is the beauty code word for TYPE 3SM women.

True to your fiery nature that comes from your dominant element hydrogen, it just makes sense that when Dressing Your Truth you look hot! And this beauty code word does not just apply to younger TYPE 3SM women. I have seen many TYPE 3SM women over 55 go from looking quite grandmotherly to looking hot after their transformation!

I have heard some TYPE 3SM women who are hesitant to dress their truth in fear of looking too sexy and hot. They have been trying to tone down their more substantial nature for many years, and to step into their truth and look sexy, hot and amazing can be quite a step for some women. Let yourself come back to your truth as a TYPE 3SM woman, fully embracing and loving your new hot and sexy look!

YOUR BEAUTY SIXTH SENSE   
DRESSING YOUR TRUTH TIP

You are a determined woman and you don't like to fuss over yourself. You need to honor your desire to accomplish your tasks swiftly and practically. Saving money and saving time while looking great is your nature. Honor this natural movement of yours by shopping sales and shopping in spurts. Make sure you have a no-fuss hairstyle that can look great in 10 to 20 minutes. If it takes you more time than that, you will not be interested in keeping it that style very long! Honor your beauty sixth sense by maintaining your swift, no-fuss, practical nature. Learning to dress your truth will give you the tools to do this and look amazing everyday of your life. Don't let your practical nature keep you from investing in your Dressing Your Truth online experience. I have seen too many TYPE 3SM women think they know what they are doing and they charge ahead trying to dress their truth only to guess their truth! They end up wasting more money, wishing they had taken the time to get the practical tools taught in the Dressing Your Truth course.

Remember, I am a TYPE 3SM woman! I know our tendencies!

FAMOUS TYPE 3SM WOMEN

Mary J. Blige, Cindy Crawford, Amelia Earhart, Whoopi Goldberg, Katherine Hepburn, Beyonce Knowles, Eva Mendes, Michelle Obama, Susan Sarandon, Shakira, Maria Shriver, Hilary Swank, Tina Turner, Barbara Walters, Raquel Welch, Serena Williams, Idina Menzel, and Oprah Winfrey.

KAY'S STORY

Kay used to focus on what she thought was wrong with her. Growing up, she always tried to be like her big sister—the one who was the beauty queen, the star soprano in chorus, the favorite babysitter of all the neighbors. She was even valedictorian of her high school.

Kay looked totally different from her sister. Kay's sister had skin that would tan, had a small waist and feminine hands, but Kay had freckles and red hair, what others often perceived as a boyish figure and more masculine hands. Kay's face was also more angular, with a high forehead.

She was always trying to hide her so-called flaws.

"I used to feel almost apologetic for being competitive and driven," Kay says. "I thought I was that way, in part, because I was always trying to match up to my big sister. My friends would tell me I was working too hard, and to sit back and smell the roses."

Kay currently has two businesses, and loves them both. Even so, up until now, she always felt that she had to make excuses for being so driven. She loves being on the go all the time, and for many years she thought she had some sort of psychological hang up.

When she discovered that she expresses TYPE 3SM beauty, she was happy to find that TYPE 3SM women love action! They also do well in business and make natural leaders. And even their physical characteristics are strong or what Kay used to call masculine.

"I finally felt it's okay to be me, just the way I am!" Kay says happily now. "My friends have noticed that I assert myself more now. Where before I would go along with whatever restaurant or movie just to please them, now I state what I really want. I feel so much happier now. No more feeling like I have to hide myself or my true feelings."

DIANE'S STORY

For this last TYPE 3SM story, I will let Diane tell it herself. "When I [discovered] Dressing Your Truth, I was very interested in what you had to say! I had studied color analysis 25 years ago, and actually sold make-up and color draped people. We did it in seasons way back then, and I was pegged as a vibrant summer. I have spent the last 25 years wearing vibrant, cool colors and only silver jewelry. You can guess what my initial reaction was to finding out that I am a dominant TYPE 3SM woman. I started to tremble inside and couldn't imagine that I was supposed to be that dynamic, warm woman.

"Well, as I took time and really searched inside, I started to remember the assertive girl that I was in college, and how I enjoyed people and being involved with lots of things.

"Dressing Your Truth... started awareness inside me and got me so excited I felt like I was going to burst. I wanted to know more and I wanted it now (so TYPE 3SM, right?)...

"I feel like a new woman and feel like I am starting to be who I was meant to be again.

"My family is in awe. As I go to church and run into friends, they are all wowed with my new look. I think, as much as I have a new look on the outside, I feel different inside. I carry myself differently and feel younger and lighter.

"This process has been great for my soul, my family and those around me. My hubby loves my shift and notices that I am changing. Thank you for the fun new journey."

SUMMARY OF THE TYPE 3SM   
RICH, DYNAMIC WOMAN

Hydrogen/fire is TYPE 3SM energy. A TYPE 3SM has an active/reactive movement. You are a results-oriented, passionate person. Your dominant shape in physical features is the triangle and this is visible in the eyebrows, eyes and cheeks and overall facial shape.

As a TYPE 3SM woman you may have a tendency toward these strengths:

  * You are a source of powerful movement and fiery energy.
  * You are action oriented, with a driving force to accomplish or compete in order to achieve the results you have in mind.
  * You have the capacity to accomplish big things in a big way. You think big, you work big, you play big, you love big. You're always after big results.
  * You are an entrepreneur by nature and can easily figure out ways to make money doing what you like to do.
  * You tend to be a natural salesperson. You know how to promote and bring in the buyer. And you also know how to close the deal.
  * You are an independent soul and move forward into action without needing others' approval.
  * You have an abundance of sureness about moving forward, and you inspire others to have confidence in you. You enjoy taking charge, which makes you a natural leader.
  * You are decisive and can easily "take the ball and run with it."
  * You are task-oriented and can solve problems and get results quickly.
  * You are purposeful and to the point in all that you do.
  * Your forward momentum helps move others into action and feel encouraged along the way.

As a TYPE 3SM woman you may have a tendency towards these challenges:

  * You may come across as too pushy, too aggressive, too bossy or too abrupt for other Energy Types.
  * You may inadvertently be inconsiderate of other people's feelings when you're on a path to accomplish something and they get in your way.
  * You may move forward so quickly that you don't take enough time to get the details.
  * You may get so many things going that you burn yourself out.

TYPE 3SM BEAUTY PROFILE KEY WORDS

Active Outstanding

Adventurous Physical

Angled Powerful

Asymmetrical Practical

Big-hearted Purposeful

Captivating Quick

Daring Rich

Dashing Rough

Dazzling  Rugged

Determined Rustic

Dynamic Self-confident

Earthy  Sharp

Edgy Spicy

Energetic Spirited

Exciting Strong

Exotic Substantial

Fiery  Sultry

High-spirited Sure

Hot Swift

Independent Tenacious

Intense Textured

Inventive  To-the-point

Larger-than-life Uneven

Lustrous Vigorous

Magnetic Vivid

Mover & Shaker Voluptuous

No frills Warm

No fuss Wild

Outgoing Zesty
TYPE 4SM: THE BOLD, STRIKING WOMAN

Primary Movement: Constant, Still

Natural Gift:  Perfecting—"Here is how we can make it better, and here is how we can duplicate it."

Dominant Quality:  Serenely reflecting truth back to us and improving the quality of our lives.

Beauty Code Word:  Stunning!

The TYPE 4sm expression comes from the element of carbon/earth,  and its natural primary movement is constant and still. If you have a dominant TYPE 4SM movement, you express a constant, exact energy. You are reflective, concise and clear. The dominant shapes in your physical features are elongated ovals with straight sides, parallel lines in any direction, which are visible in the eyes, the nose, the cheeks, the hairline, and overall body and facial shape.

TYPE 4SM energy is typically perceived as an introverted expression. However, because TYPE 4SM energy often expresses itself in reflecting pairs of all or nothing, black or white, some TYPE 4SM women may be perceived as extroverted instead, because their energy is so bold. Introversion for a TYPE 4SM woman means that you step back to observe, and reflect on information inwardly before moving outward to express in the world, however boldly you may do so. As a TYPE 4SM woman, you express a low level to almost no movement. This keen, precise, still movement can be consistently observed through aspects of your human experience. This low movement is inner energy, not outward activity level.

Other key words that describe the movement of this energy in a dominant TYPE 4SM woman are: exact, reflective, logical, keen, bold, polished, striking, sleek, structured, clean, clear, simple, analytical, and grounding.

Due to your low-to-no-movement that expresses itself as solid and structured, you may have heard as a child things like, "You need to lower your expectations," or, "She's 6 going on 36," or, "You can't control everything." and even in your adult life, to "Lighten up!" or "Don't be so literal or critical!" or "You're always so serious." "Smile."

Your energy has the firm and statuesque presence of a noble fir tree or the reflective quality of a still lake mirroring perfection back to the world.

Keeping things simple, structured, or staying on track are primary motives for a TYPE 4SM woman. Creating quality and precision is a priority in how you approach life. The movement of TYPE 4SM Energy is the most structured of all the Energy Types. For this reason, I have noticed that, of all the Energy Types, TYPE 4SM women can often be the most misunderstood, the most misjudged and unappreciated. Others may perceive this energy as overly serious or structured. You may be seen as too introverted, quiet and reserved Or, on the other end of the spectrum, your bold energy may be perceived as too authoritative, critical, or opinionated. Understanding this movement gives us the opportunity to understand your TYPE 4SM nature with more respect and honor for the gift and talent you so beautifully bring to the whole.  
If you are a TYPE 4SM woman, you do not typically look to outside sources to help you understand yourself better. One of your tendencies is to be deeply reflective, and to pride yourself in just naturally knowing who you are. I can see why you would consider a system that does not recognize this as a waste of your time. I acknowledge your deep understanding of yourself and thank you for allowing this information to support you in that. My Beauty Profiling system truly recognizes you and honors who you are.

I recognize you to be the authority in your own world. I offer you this Beauty Profiling system as an opportunity to add to your already clear understanding of who you are and what is important to you.

I have learned that you generally don't like being told which Type of beauty you express, especially if you are a TYPE 4SM woman. I don't believe it is my role to tell you precisely which Energy Type you are. You will know it innately, after some guidance. No two people are exactly alike but I think you will agree with me that even you, as a TYPE 4SM woman, will find some uncanny similarities that you will recognize in yourself and others as you read through this section.

My hope for you is that you will allow yourself to use this information to add quality to your relationships and your life.

Let me illustrate that with a comment I heard from a TYPE 4SM woman. She came up to me after the end an event and shared with me, "I believe this information could have helped me turn my marriage around before we divorced."

TYPE 4SM energy is a bold expression. Before we go any further, I'd like to clarify how the word "bold" is used within the Beauty Profiling system. Bold describes the stance you take in life—the inner strength or inner clarity you experience. Bold is not a description of outward actions, though you may take bold actions at times. It is an inner state of being. You may or may not speak up boldly about what you think, but you are always bold in having an inner opinion about what you value and where you stand. When something matters to you (whether it's religion, politics, diet, exercise regimen, or even the proper way to organize your home) you have a strong opinion and a commitment to only do what aligns with the solid position you've taken. You may or may not voice your strong opinions on the topic, but the way you live your life is a bold or solid expression of your bold thoughts and feelings.

As I refer to the word bold throughout this section, please remember that it refers to a strong, inward expression of your bold values and opinions. Many TYPE 4SM women have found this liberating, as they have spent many years believing that they are too critical or opinionated. Your bold opinion is an expression of your natural movement and when you stop shaming it and start managing it, you feel more free to be your true self. I am grateful to offer this information to help women live their truth and express their bold, striking nature!

JEAN'S STORY

Learning her Type of beauty has resulted in profound changes in Jean's life. Her profile revealed that she was exactly what she thought she wasn't, and she had a hard time accepting it as she had strong judgments on herself and her way of being.

"I was living primarily in my secondary Type," Jean confesses, "always wanting to be something completely different—hiding out and not feeling authentic. I could never put my finger on why."

Learning her Energy Type brought clarity to her gifts and had such a grounding effect on her. She finally felt comfortable being quiet and contemplative in the company of others, finally appreciated her ability to see things with a critical eye as a gift, not a fault. She has also become more willing to say things directly, rather than beating around the bush to be "nice" out of fear of judgment.

This shift for her has created shifts in many of her relationships— some ending, some new ones forming, some deepening—but in all of them, she feels more true to herself and a deeper and better appreciation of others, especially her family. Her new knowledge has been a springboard for new possibilities in her life—reigniting a fresh spirit within her.

"I feel strong and hopeful, and blessed to have been so validated by learning this information!"

NATURAL GIFTS AND TALENTS

TYPE 4SM energy completes our cycle of wholeness. To recap, TYPE 1SM energy starts the cycle by initiating an idea with the hope it can be done; TYPE 2SM energy gathers the details to make the plan; TYPE 3SM energy pushes us into action to create a result; and TYPE 4SM energy brings a keen awareness to step back and analyze the whole process and consider what has been created to see how it can be improved.

If you were to put your natural gift into a phrase, your phrase would be, "Here is how we can make it better, and here is how we can duplicate it."

You truly see the world through a perfecting eye with a desire for improving everything around you. Because of your reflective quality, you not only want to perfect the world, you want to share what you think or believe, which brings quality to our lives by repeating it.

TYPE 4SM women tend to step back from a situation rather than (or at least before) jumping into it. You need to take in the bigger picture in order to understand and see what is going on. Your keen eye and gift of precision help you see all the pieces and how they fit together to create a perfect whole, which means you may be able to see the big picture in just a glance.

You have the gift of being able to make anything more perfect and systemize a process to a desired, repeatable and predictable outcome. You take things to their final perfected form. This often look like naturally recognizing inefficiencies in your workplace, your home, or your routine, and then restructuring those inefficiencies to create a streamlined, repeatable process.

Your primary shapes are rectangles, squares, perfect ovals, and parallel lines in any direction. You can see the straight line in your movement from point A to point B. You tend to move through life by taking the most direct, straightforward route, once you have determined the exact goal. One of your dominant shapes in your facial features (such as the bridge of your nose) is parallel lines moving in any direction—horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal line.

You have a naturally keen view of your world. When you feel inspired, you tend to share your awareness in a well-though-out manner. This may look like a concise expression, as you are capable of being efficient in your words. Or you may express yourself in a thorough manner, laying out all the information you have observed and analyzed. Which manner of expression you use will depend both on your personal preference and your level of trust and respect with the person you are interacting with.

Important: It is important as a TYPE 4SM woman that you acknowledge yourself to be precise and structured. If you try to lighten up your movement and become more random and animated than you actually are, your bold, TYPE 4SM energy will bleed through and that can shock people!

When you do not allow your Dominant Energy Type to lead in your expressive self, you lose your connection with who you are. You will be out of balance from your constant, still energy if you try to force yourself to lighten up and animate yourself. You are not able to fake how you feel.

Another amazing gift you share with humanity is your energetic gift of reflecting truth back to others. When you are living in harmony with your true nature, you naturally reflect the truth of others back to them. You are an energetic mirror for others, sending the silent message, "Be true to yourself and believe in yourself." Others' thoughts may become clearer to them when in your presence. There is nothing you actually have to do—just being present offers this gift.

The same natural tendencies that are your gifts and talents can also be a challenge in your life, causing temporary imbalance and disharmony. While you always lead with your Dominant Energy Type, when your dominant movement is taking over your life and is not balanced with the other three Types (which are also a part of your being), it can be a challenge being you!

Challenge: Because you have a tendency to see imbalance or inefficiency first, you can come across as critical, negative, judgmental, or critical. You may have even tried to become less judgmental, less critical, and less negative because you have been told too often that these are purely negative attributes. However, it is impossible to eliminate your gifts of discernment because you cannot change your inner nature. It is your blueprint. Knowing that you will always be able to pinpoint inefficiencies and flaws, you can manage your gift with more awareness and choose how you express your insights in a manner that others receive as respectful and wise.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

You are your own authority. You do not give that authority to others but will look to others you perceive as an authority—in their expertise in life—to guide you in your interests. If you perceive their authority as trustworthy, you will follow their guidance and rules; if you do not trust their authority, you may abide by their rules for a time only to get to someplace else you want to go. If someone tries to be an uninvited authority over you, you think in your mind, "I didn't ask you to tell me what to do or how to do it." You would especially not welcome to this kind of authority if it comes from someone you viewed to have no more authority over a topic or situation than you.

As a TYPE 4SM woman, you like to play by the rules—but only as long as you can trust the source of those rules or the logic of the rules themselves. Once you respect and accept the authority of another person or an organization, the rules they lay down are easier for you to accept and keep, even if you do not fully agree with those rules. In addition to following rules, a TYPE 4SM woman also likes to create rules for others to follow because of the structure it offers to others and their environment. Because your priority is to be your own authority, you will resist living by rules made by people you don't respect and prefer making your own.

You look at what has been created with a critical eye, then evaluate and determine what could be done better. TYPE 4SM women have a keen focus, so you tend to stay on course easily. You also demand perfection and want things to be the best they can be. With your TYPE 4SM nature, you expect the best from others and hold a high standard, especially for yourself. You naturally see better ways for things to be done, and when you are in a role to create those improvements, you move forward with crystal-clear, focused determination to make them.

Your native element is carbon/earth. Phrases used to describe your personality are: "You are such a pillar of strength." Or when it becomes a judgment, "You're too serious" or, "You take things too literally!"

You generally do not like being put in the limelight spontaneously or without your permission. For example, on my son Mark's (TYPE 4SM) birthday one year, he came home from school saying, "It was the worst day of my life!" I asked him why and he shared, "I walked into the lunch room and all my friends started singing 'Happy Birthday' to me in front of everyone! I turned around and walked out because it was so uncomfortable for me."

Even though you do not prefer spontaneous attention, you can still powerfully hold the spotlight (and may enjoy it) when you choose to. Some women who express TYPE 4SM energy excel on stage, in sports, or other activities that they have practiced and have a structure in which to experience the limelight. No matter what level of attention you tend to prefer, you will only want it to be attention that comes to you when you feel prepared.

Something that surprises some of the TYPE 4SM women who discover their Type of beauty and move through the Dressing Your Truth course is that they can be some of the most striking people in the room. If you grew up with negative labels drawing attention to your bold energy, you may not have noticed how noticeable your energy actually is. You need to recognize that even though you may not want a lot of attention drawn to you, your stunning looks naturally get the attention of others and your TYPE 4SM energy is so striking that you can't help but stand out. You will find that the kind of attention you get by applying information in the Dressing Your Truth course will be respectful, the kind of attention you enjoy.

Challenge: Your unspoken presence of authority can unknowingly come across as intimidating to others. (If you haven't stepped into your bold presence, you may not even realize this is happening.) You may have been trying to lighten or soften yourself. An easier way to deal with this quality is to realize that others are giving you unspoken authority to initiate interaction with them. You would actually prefer it this way, as you are not fond of random interactions at the whim of others. You prefer to choose who you would like to interact with and whom you invite into your personal space.

Challenge: You can get stuck by wanting every little part and piece perfect. You may demand too much of yourself and others, and you don't want to get off track. You need to learn to say, "It's good enough" and move on. Rather than try to perfect everything, channel your gift into what truly is important to you and adds quality to your life and to the lives of those you love. Then let those things that aren't that important to you just be good enough.

Challenge: More than any other Energy Type, you can find it harder to change your direction when things are not working out, especially if they were well planned in the first place. As a TYPE 4SM woman, you may even find it hard to stop reading a book that you started, even if you don't like it!

You tend to be private, disciplined, influential and uncompromising in your approach to life. It will suit you to have an agreed-upon starting time and finishing time for your leisure time. Within this structure, you can really let your focus go, knowing there will be a time you will get back on track with the non-leisure time activities in your life.

Challenge: Due to your gift of perfecting things, you have a tendency to set standards that neither you nor anyone else can meet. This can set you up to feel that you can never fulfill your desired expectations, and always fall short of the mark. If you turn your keen, perfecting eye inward, you can become painfully self-critical, creating low self-esteem and pessimism in your view of yourself, others, or life in general.

Challenge: Because of your tendency for high expectations, you may steer away from things that you cannot easily master or be perfect in. You can place a great demand on yourself, and you may be limiting your interests and opportunity to try new things due to your perfecting nature.

THOUGHT AND FEELING PROCESSES

Your thoughts and feelings are deep and reflective, far reaching and penetrating. You are not satisfied with the superficial. You search for the cause and correlation of things, seeking to understand the laws that affect human life. You are a clear thinker and a thorough and efficient organizer of your thoughts.

It is important for you to mentally organize your thoughts so you can move forward within a framework of structure. You are not at ease until this state has been achieved. You take in a lot of information and can quickly figure out what has value to you and what does not.  
I have observed some TYPE 4SM women interpret this process as questioning and mistakenly assess themselves as expressing TYPE 2SM energy. The key here is considering the motive and the movement behind any questions you ask. A TYPE 2SM woman asks questions in order to connect, to make things comfortable for others, or to make a plan; she continues questioning constantly, even when a decision has been reached. If you are a TYPE 4SM woman, you ask questions to gain clarification when you are trying to figure out what you really think—in other words, which bold stance you are ready to commit to. You want to line up all the thoughts in your head, and once you are clear on what you think, the questions stop and you can stand boldly in your decision. You might think you are questioning when you are really in an attitude of critique, looking at a concept or thought from every angle so you can deeply analyze and understand it.

Of all the Energy Types, when TYPE 4SM women become interested in this profiling system, they have a tendency to obsess over the information, trying to get everything lined up in their mind so they can move forward, being incredibly thorough in the process.

Your TYPE 4SM thoroughness differs in movement from TYPE 2SM attention to detail. Women who express fluid TYPE 2SM energy move from one detail to the next, making connections one after another as they go over details and the steps between details in their mind. Women who express TYPE 4SM energy step back and take in the whole picture of information at once and then pinpoint parts that are inefficient or not coming together properly in their mind. For example, when you enter a space and observe it, you can take in the big picture of what is happening without missing much.

Your ability to see and understand things clearly gives your thinking a grounded, level-headed quality. Because you are analytically minded, you may have a non-emotional approach to certain situations, or others may perceive you as non-emotional, logical, or straightforward. However, that does not mean you are less emotional.

You really have a deep and caring disposition. You are simply selective about whom you share those deep feelings with. You reveal your deepest, innermost thoughts and feelings with reserve and only to those whom you trust. Your feelings are deep and loyal. You have the ability to see the other side of things, which makes it possible for you to empathize with others.

Challenge: In your tendency to think in black and white terms, you can be an all-or-nothing thinker. This is useful in situations that require this kind of thinking, but you can experience a challenge if you insist on an extreme when a middle-ground approach is needed.

Challenge: You can become tense when asked to give attention to many things at once. Focusing solely on one project or activity can help you relax.

Challenge: When you are emotionally triggered, your energy can be read as icy or cool, just like an icicle or an iceberg—cold and immovable. As you express an either-or sort of energy, it may also come across as blunt and forceful. The expression may depend on the situation and the person you are interacting with.

Challenge: You can be labeled a "know it all." This is an accurate description of you, however, because your keenness and concise way of thinking does offer you the gift of knowing better than most about a lot of things!

COMMUNICATION

You value respect, loyalty, reliability, professionalism, appropriate humor, and timeliness in your communication with others.

You do not like being put on the spot spontaneously but are eager to express yourself before a group if you have a solid opinion or purpose in view. You have a gift of being concise in your communication, and are able to share a lot of information clearly and in a few words. You tend to be brief but comprehensive.

You tend to remain quiet about your thoughts until you are clear about how you feel. When you are clear, you form strong opinions about what is right or wrong, having a black-and-white opinion, with no gray areas. When you have thought things through, you feel certain that you know the best way to do things. You may not always share your keen insight and strong opinions. It depends on context and how worthy you think your listening audience is.

When you engage in a conversation with another person, you tend to give them your full attention and expect to be given the same when sharing your thoughts and feelings. You do not like being interrupted in the middle of sharing your stream of thought. It is especially irritating when someone interrupts you to talk with you while you are intensely focused on a project or activity.

When asked a question, you expect the person who asked the question to pay attention to your answer. If the person doesn't pay close attention to your answer, and asks the question again, the question seems redundant and superficial to you because you don't like to repeat yourself. You give your full attention to others and expect them to respond in kind when engaging in conversation with you.

Challenge: Because you think in bold terms, you may sound critical or overly negative to others. You like to get to the root of ideas and determine perfect solutions, and you can come across as blunt and too straightforward in expressing your opinions.

Challenge: When you have a strong opinion, your structured energy can come across as too authoritative, bossy or condescending. On the other hand, when you think you don't know enough to contribute to a conversation, or may not have enough interest in the conversation, your energy may come across as silent or aloof.

Challenge: You may build walls around yourself so others cannot approach you, and they won't know how to talk to you. It's okay for you to be selective about who you allow your walls to come down with.

BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES

You express yourself in a straightforward manner. You like to get to the root of an issue as soon as you can. You tend to stay on track, even when you move between tracks, or from one activity to another. TYPE 4SM energy often expresses itself in reflecting pairs of all or nothing, black or white, which can show up in your behavior.

Relationships—You tend to be a loyal and faithful friend, true to your word. If you make a promise, you keep it. It is your tendency to be self-sacrificing for the people with whom you are the closest. The more you feel you are being honored, the more easily you make yourself available to others. You only make commitments that you can truly keep and your loyalty runs deep. Your ability to see things clearly makes you a great friend to seek advice and support from.

Challenge: You may be cold and distant, content to live in your own world as this mode feels less painful to you if you have felt misunderstood.

Social—Your social experience can be all or nothing, due to your black-and-white nature. You may choose to be engaged in many social experiences, or you may be more solitary. Either way, the movement is the same: you tend toward a more structured experience, rather than a spontaneous one. You are not the one who will be chatting with the person next to you in the grocery line; in fact, you probably think it does not make sense to do so when you don't even know the person! You tend to prefer a narrow range of friends to whom you are close and loyal, and with whom your friendship and conversation runs deep.

Timeliness—True to your all-or-nothing nature, you tend to always be on time or always be late, depending on whether or not timeliness is a priority for you. Of the four Energy Types, you have the greatest tendency for timeliness. You tend to take things literally and so when someone says I will meet you at 4 o'clock, 4 o'clock means 4 o'clock.

If timeliness matters to you, you take it personally and feel dishonored when the people you are closest to are consistently late. For example, not long after my daughter Jenny (TYPE 1SM) and Tony (TYPE 4SM) were newly married, Tony started medical school. Tony was taking the bus and Jenny was picking him up at the agreed upon time of 5:00 PM. In Jenny's words, "I would consistently get there late every day. I was thinking that it was no big deal to be a little late. I really believed my timing was close enough." This happened for several weeks. One day she was 45 minutes late and things were getting tense. Tony finally had to talk about it. Tony shared with Jenny that it would mean a lot to him for her to be on time. "When we agreed on 5 o'clock, I expect you to be here at 5 o'clock." The bottom line for Tony was Jenny wasn't keeping her word, and it was personally offensive to Tony. Jenny admitted she was embarrassed and didn't want to admit that she had dropped the ball so many times. "Once I realized how important it was for Tony and how important exactness and keeping your word was to him, I committed to always be on time," which she has done. This also demonstrates one valid motivation for conforming to the needs of others: the intent to honor another's Energy Type.

Work—You will thrive the most in a position that allows you to be your own authority. You have a natural tendency to stay on track with your work and to mentally organize yourself in such a way that you do not need an authority watching over you or micro-managing you. You quickly see what needs to be done and how to do it better than most.

When my son Mark (TYPE 4SM) was 17 years old, he started a successful eBay business selling used mountain bikes. I helped him learn how to set up and run an eBay business. He quickly learned what he needed to do to make it successful. He thoroughly enjoyed being his own boss.

One afternoon, I asked him if he was keeping accounting records of his sales and tracking his profits. He looked at me somewhat irritated and said, "No, mom, I am stupid. I am not doing any of that!" Of course, he was. He expresses TYPE 4SM energy! He definitely was blunt with me, yet understanding his TYPE 4SM tendencies in his response, I did not take it personally. I simply responded, "Okay, that was blunt! My intention was to support you and see if you needed any help with that. I apologize if how I asked made you feel like I assumed you didn't know what you were doing. Let me rephrase that: 'Is there anything I can help you with in your business, Mark?'" I also encouraged him to work on his tendency to be overly blunt and speak more respectfully, which he agreed to do. We both learned more about how to communicate effectively in honoring our very different natural tendencies.

Money—You tend to be thorough in how you plan your spending. You tend to think things through before you spend your money. You can zoom out and see the big picture, so you tend to prefer saving your money so you can invest in the best of what you want. You prefer to own less, but what you own needs to be of good quality and of value to you.

Physical activity—You enjoy activities that require your ability to focus intensely and perfect your physical talents. You tend to enjoy single sports and recreational pursuits. You are naturally drawn to repetition, which is supportive to you in your physical activities, as you can do the same routine or activity over and over to maintain your health.

You can be all or nothing in your physical activity. If you find yourself being completely sedentary, you likely don't have a structure in place to support your physical activity.

You do not like to be touched unless you invite someone to do so. And with your still and reflective nature, you do not like to be rubbed or patted on your body in the same place over and over. You prefer a firm, strong hug from a loved one over being continually stroked or patted.

A physical activity that you have a unique tendency with is your experience of driving. You tend to think you are the best driver on the road. It bothers you that others don't understand and follow the rules of driving as well as you do. Your TYPE 4SM tendencies can really manifest when you are driving because you notice what you perceive as the weaknesses of other drivers. You are not shy about sharing how you feel about such weaknesses, in a blunt, opinionated way.

BODY LANGUAGE

Not all of your body language and physical features will express themselves in a TYPE 4SM movement. Most women are blended in their physical features, so you won't see yourself in all these expressions, but you will notice that you have many expressions of TYPE 4SM body language and physical features if you are a dominant TYPE 4SM woman.

Walking—You walk with little movement of your limbs and body in an upright, still, stately manner.

Sitting/Standing—You tend to sit upright, with straight posture, both feet on the ground, hands folded, hanging on sides, or resting on either leg. Your sitting and standing could be called proper with a formal look. You may not think of yourself as sitting up particularly straight. Because of your structured energy, this erect, poised posture is just a natural expression.

Voice/Language—A TYPE 4SM voice is a lower pitch, with a clear, clean, smooth sound. People who do voiceover work tend to be dominant TYPE 4SM energy, as their voices are clear, precise, bold voices.

You speak little but with a clear intent, using bold language. Favorite words that you use frequently in your verbal expressions are: exactly, definitely, precisely, or perfect. You tend to use the word "stupid" when you refer to something doesn't meet your high standard, or when you express frustration for a person or situation where you do not experience respect. Your word choice can also tend to focus on the literal, such as, "The meeting started at 11 o'clock, not 11:02."

Doodling—You do not have a tendency to doodle—it's just too much movement. However, rather than doodling, you do tend to edit writing, noticing when things are misspelled or grammatically incorrect.

Personal Space—You like your space to be clean, clear and orderly. Your reality, however, will tend toward one of two extremes. Either you will keep things put away and out of sight, creating empty or negative space with no movement. Or your space may look like a disaster. With your perfecting, all-or-nothing nature, if you can't get something perfect, you may not spend your time on it. Some TYPE 4SM women who prefer a clean, minimal space have struggled because they just can't get it perfect due to the messy influence of other people in their home. So they become perfect at having a messy house.

Interior design—TYPE 4SM movement in interior design is what we call modern and contemporary. The design is simple and sleek with bold structures and décor.

KALISTA'S STORY

Throughout her life, Kalista has not enjoyed social situations. She always felt like she had to force herself to be outgoing, chatty, bubbly, or make conversation. Her parents tried to help her overcome this problem with even more social activities. She would try to be fun, but it felt fake and gave her anxiety.

"Your Profiling system made me face my true self," Kalista admits. "I cried myself to sleep that first night after learning my Type. I felt like all those feelings and labels of 'too picky, cold, unsocial, shy, quiet, critical' were confirmed."

Her husband felt at first like she was being put in a box. It was only after a few days of reflecting and facing her "stuff" before she began to see the beauty and complex nature of TYPE 4SM energy. It was not just okay to be still, it was perfect for her! This gift has allowed her to love herself, the part of herself that is constant, still, bold, precise.

Kalista now reports that her interactions with others are more enjoyable, now that she is not trying to be what she thought others wanted out of her. "I live an authentic expression now," she says. "Others see that and get me for who I am. Understanding my truth lets others experience me in a way that is harmonious, honest and honoring."

PHYSICAL FEATURES

If you are a TYPE 4SM woman, many of the features listed below will show up in your face. (But not all of them—remember, you are a mix of all four Energy Types.) Your features express a dominant overall quality of your dominant Energy Type.

TYPE 4SM women in particular have a tendency to overanalyze their features or fixate on the one feature that does not perfectly express TYPE 4SM energy, and therefore become confused about which Type of beauty they express. My recommendation is to read through all the physical feature explanations, look at your features and body movement and self as a whole person. If you express TYPE 4SM energy, zooming out to see the big picture will be a natural experience for you!

If you are a TYPE 4SM woman, the overall quality of your expression is sculpted, striking and symmetrical. Your bone structure creates parallel lines and elongated ovals.

Skin and Skin texture—TYPE 4SM skin is clear and reflective which gives it a porcelain, striking quality, with minimal lines and small pores. This is due to the stillness in their being, which expresses itself as small pores in their skin. Many models featured in skin care product commercials have TYPE 4SM skin. However, it is not the skincare product that is creating their porcelain skin: it is their stillness that expresses itself as small pores.

When you're not Dressing Your Truth, the porcelain quality of your skin may not be readily seen. However, TYPE 4SM skin is consistent in its texture and behavior, even if that behavior is consistent breakouts. The more your TYPE 4SM skin is supported in its natural energy, the more its still quality of being is able to express.

Face shape—Elongated oval, or rectangular with parallel lines on sides of face and across hairline. A broad forehead. A widow's peak is a TYPE 4SM feature, as it creates a point that divides the face into a mirror image of itself. You generally can take one side of a TYPE 4SM face, and it would mirror perfectly the exact same features on the other side of the face.

Cheeks—high cheek bones that create structure and linear movement, oval shaped.

Nose—Two straight lines on side of nose bridge, sideways oval between nostrils, oval nostrils, and straight nose bridge.

Eyebrows—Straight lines, or half of elongated oval. Clean, clear bold arch, or bold in size.

Eyes—Oval, bold, reflective, straight line along the bottom of the eyelid.

Hands—Smooth, porcelain skin on top of the palm; parallel lines on sides of fingers; parallel lines on sides of nail beds, long fingers, often the same width all the way down the finger, creating parallel lines.

HOW YOUR ENERGY AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

Your energy creates an ambience of clearness and stability. Your constant, still energy quiets the people around you and tends to inspire respect. When you are living in balance with your true nature, you are naturally a stabilizing force to the rest of us.

You may find that others open up to you and share personal, private things. When this happens, they see you as a pillar of strength to offer support and clarity. Your reflective nature draws people to you and you help them see themselves for who they truly are, just by being present.

When you find that other people are cool to you, what is really occurring is their demeanor is showing respect for the reflective qualities you emanate. Because others may feel that you are unapproachable, it would be smart for you to know that it works well for you to initiate interaction with others. When you are uncomfortable or disturbed, you move into a state of more stillness and your constant still energy can come across to other Energy Types as cool and distant.

As you are conscious of your natural movement and are more aware of others, you will be able to manage yourself in a way that supports them in being in rapport with you. As you stay conscious of and love who you are, rather than judge your natural movement, you will be consistently aligned with your core true nature. Others will be more likely to enjoy being around you.

Now I'll explore some specifics around fashion and a TYPE 4SM woman.

SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE: HOW YOUR APPEARANCE AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE

What you wear sends a message to others, which influences their perception of your naturally bold energy. When you dress true to your TYPE 4SM nature, people know what to expect from you: a bold, structured, analytical person. But when you don't dress your truth, you send a message that conflicts with who you truly are. Your nature is to be bold and authoritative. When you wear clothes that make you appear soft and subtle, your nature will be disguised to most others, and you can often be judged as too severe and even rigid. TYPE 4SM women often think, "If I dress more bold and striking, I will come across intimidating." This is not the case! When you dress your truth, your inner truth is in harmony with your outer appearance, and you will be taken seriously for who you are: a bold, striking woman.

What you are wearing sends a message to other people, which influences their first impression of you. If you don't dress your truth, you may be judged in a negative light because your true nature is not being honored by your appearance. You have a gift of bringing exactness and order to any situation. Set the mood everywhere you go by dressing your truth and letting your gift of strength and confidence be expressed in your outer appearance.

MOST COMMON FASHION MISTAKES

It is common for a TYPE 4SM woman to try and subdue her bold nature or not draw attention to herself by wearing soft colors and flowing clothes. Softened fabrication only conflicts with who you are. When your bold, blunt, clear expression comes out naturally, you will be perceived as too blunt, too serious or too overbearing. Softened fabrications also make you appear frumpy. I have seen many TYPE 4SM women turn from frumpy to stunning. It is quite a sight to behold!

SHOPPING TENDENCIES

Your exact nature lends itself to your clothes and the way they fit. More than any Type of woman, you are keenly aware of the fit of a garment. You prioritize perfection in the way your clothes fit on your body. In the world of a TYPE 4SM woman, perfect fit is the aspect of your clothing that makes you feel comfortable. You may even prioritize fit so highly that you take your clothes to a tailor to get the exact fit that feels right to you. You may be perceived as "too picky," but that's not the case. Being particular is just your tendency: you look for perfection and don't like to settle for less. If you are a TYPE 4SM woman who consistently feels uncomfortable in her clothing, you may have just been wearing ill-fitting clothes and haven't known how important that factor is for you.

You prefer to find one-of-a-kind clothes that make your look unique. You stay away from the trendiest clothing and styles, not wanting to look like every other woman. (True to your all-or-nothing nature, you may have also ignored creating a unique style, swearing off style altogether and wearing only the clothes you have to wear. Ultimately, it's supportive to your selective nature to create a style that's an outward expression of your distinct self.)

You are so against over-worked trends that if Dressing Your Truth becomes a "trend" you may hesitate to join the club. You seek to keep your unique, individual style. You can learn the basic components of Dressing Your Truth and make them your own, which I'm confident you will love, as it speaks to your true nature. Your keen instincts may already be present in your shopping traits. Dressing Your Truth will just make recognizing what is right for you more clear and exact in your mind.

Tamara shares this about her shopping tendencies as a TYPE 4SM woman: "You know us so well, Carol. I love tailored clothes that feel as though they are hugging me. I also know (and feel) as soon as I put something on whether it is right for me (it has to be a perfect fit, especially shoes). And when they do fit, I feel they were made just for me! I am also guilty of wanting one-of-a-kind clothes. I don't like having the same clothes everybody else has or shopping where everyone else does. I like one-of-a-kind clothes because I am one of a kind and why not dress to support that?"

You tend to prefer shopping alone, and you may find that you make yourself rules to shop by. You actually make a lot of rules for yourself that you live by unconsciously.

THE TYPE 4SM WOMAN BEAUTY CODE WORD

Every woman is remarkably beautiful, no matter what Type of beauty she expresses. Your natural feminine expression lends itself for you to have a certain kind of beauty that depicts what Type of woman you are. When Dressing Your Truth and honoring your truest beauty, a TYPE 4SM woman will be told often, "You are stunning!" Stunning is the beauty code word for the TYPE 4SM woman.

You truly are a stunning beauty that others have a hard time not staring at in awe. TYPE 4SM beauty is the beauty of the fashion world. It has become the standard of beauty that too many women compare themselves to. Nearly every fashion model is a dominant TYPE 4SM woman, or has a very strong secondary TYPE 4SM in their physical features. When these stunning women become the standard of what beauty is, only other TYPE 4SM women have a chance at achieving this stunning beauty! And even then, some TYPE 4SM women do not think of themselves as women who can express this striking beauty. Not until they start dressing their truth do they see that stunning quality of expression in themselves.

Take it upon yourself to bring out your bold, striking, stunning beauty and to honor yourself and share with others. Even though you do not like being the center of attention, you will enjoy standing out in a crowd in a way that you are perceived as a unique woman who truly knows who she is and where she is going in life.

YOUR BEAUTY SIXTH SENSE   
DRESSING YOUR TRUTH TIP

You have a natural gift for structure and order in your life. Your exact nature needs to be honored in how you dress and accessorize. You are keenly aware of how a garment fits on your body and prefer to have an exact fit. If what you are putting on your body does not fit you exactly according to your specifications, you will not be drawn to wearing it. If you have compromised on this, these are the garments that hang ignored in your closet. You will always choose to wear the clothes that fit you more perfectly. Honor your beauty sixth sense and make sure what you buy fits you exactly how you want it to, or make sure you can take it to a tailor to get that fit!

FAMOUS TYPE 4SM WOMEN

Jennifer Lawrence, P!nk, Katy Perry, Halle Berry, Victoria Beckham, Courteney Cox, Megan Fox, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Hepburn, Heidi Klum, Keira Knightley, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore, Jackie Onassis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Natalie Portman, Zoe Saldana, Gwen Stefani, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Liv Tyler, Megyn Kelly, and Twiggy (Lesley Hornby).

SHERYL'S STORY

Another TYPE 4SM story is Sheryl's. It's fascinating. I'll let her tell it to you herself.

"As a woman and the CEO of an international company, I was extremely frustrated by the treatment I often received, not just from men but also from women I met in association with our business. Rather than talking with me, they so often requested that they please talk with my husband, who was my partner. They couldn't imagine that I was actually the CEO. My talented husband and I had divided our duties, but I really did oversee everything. However, I was often ignored or insulted by associates in our industry, and I admit that sometimes I chose to return an abrasive chain of words. That reaction certainly didn't help! Here I was, a sweet, mousy, frumpy person telling them bluntly how I felt, and they didn't expect it out of me nor did they like it.

"When situations like that happened, I was so mad at myself for not being more flexible and kind. I hated the part of me that was so head-strong. Why couldn't I just be nice all of the time? So I tried the other path and when people insulted me or treated me poorly, I bit my tongue and stuffed my opinions and my anger. That caused havoc with my health, my marriage, and my happiness.

"When I met Carol, I was trying to be perfect at being everything TYPE 2SM energy is. Problem was, I absolutely could not do it. I felt like a failure. After I studied each Type and understood more fully what TYPE 2SM energy was, I knew without a doubt that it wasn't me. That was actually a huge relief. I was now on an adventure to find out who I really was.

"I didn't even consider TYPE 4SM energy—it was perfectionist and judgmental and I thought that must be bad. But the more I studied what TYPE 4SM energy was, the more I began to see it in myself—the perfect way to load a dishwasher, the way I lined up my socks into columns and colors in my drawer, seeing the big picture, seeing people's potential, judgments that I placed on others, and, most especially, on myself, plus the way I liked to be alone sometimes. The way I sat completely straight. And, okay, my stubbornness.

"And the stillness I had, even as a child. When I was two years old, I sat on the bottom shelf in a store right among the life-sized dolls, wearing my fashionable winter coat and hat. A lady shopper was examining all of the dolls carefully, deciding which to buy. I sat there very still, but when she got close enough to touch me, I jumped up and ran away. She screamed!

"After contemplating all of this, I was hit by the brightest and most wonderful light! I had a dominant TYPE 4SM energy! It was the most freeing, amazing, lifting feeling I had ever known.

"I love knowing who I am! Now I understand why I think, walk, talk and act the way I do. And guess what? It's okay! It's fabulous! Now I can enter a room or stand at a trade show and I receive respect. Why? I think it's because I am living more closely to the way I was made to be. People seem to be aware that I know what I want and I am rarely ignored or insulted. That frees me up and allows me to actually be more kind.

"I'm not turning cartwheels to try to get my way. I don't have to be abrasive because I have learned to use my energy without even speaking. Somehow, others know who I am—my energy conveys it. Now that I have learned about my weaknesses, I've worked diligently to not be so hard on others and on myself. And I don't have to be right. I now know how to better approach my children and husband. I am also better at communicating with our customers. And I have strengths! My opinions are strong, and that's great! I have an incredible sense of direction or gut feeling when it comes to making business decisions. I've helped improve our products and that brings me great joy! I feel and think deeply.

"I went from loathing myself for not being what I thought I should be, to accepting and loving myself for what I am and what I have to offer. Basically, I've learned that I'm okay, and that's made a world of difference. Thanks, Carol Tuttle! You have completely changed my life. I'll be forever grateful to you."

SUMMARY OF THE TYPE 4SM   
BOLD, STRIKING WOMAN

Carbon/earth is TYPE 4SM energy. A TYPE 4SM woman expresses a constant and exact movement. You are reflective and thorough, with an unerring eye for perfecting things. Your dominant shape in physical features is straight parallel lines, visible in the parallel lines on the side of your face, straight hairline, and your typically erect posture.

As a TYPE 4SM woman you may have a tendency toward these strengths:

  * You move in a straightforward line from Point A to Point B and you accomplish many tasks in this manner.
  * You can step back and thoroughly observe the big picture, without missing anything. 
  * You naturally see how systems, organizations, and people can improve.
  * You are poised, with an inner stillness.
  * You are clear and precise in your language and manner.
  * You have a laser-like mental focus.
  * You have a serenity about you that speaks volumes.
  * You are stable and consistent in your commitment to things that matter to you. People trust you.
  * You easily follow and obey rules—but only if you trust the source of those rules or if you feel that following them will lead you to a greater end.
  * You have a keen eye that sees clearly what needs to be done to improve, perfect and streamline things and make it so others can reproduce it in a cost-effective manner.
  * You are contemplative and seek more knowledge and wisdom.
  * You are a pillar of strength and can anchor all those who surround you.
  * You are captivating and mesmerizing and reflect to others an air of sophistication.
  * You stay on track when you start something, and it's important to finish what you start.

As a TYPE 4SM woman, you may have a tendency toward these challenges:

  * You may become cold and distant, content to live in your own world, building emotional walls around you so others do not approach you or know how to talk to you.
  * You can be seen as bossy, overbearing, or condescending.
  * You may appear overly reserved or reclusive.
  * You may appear harsh, judgmental or too opinionated—often being most critical toward yourself.
  * Your perfecting nature may be perceived by others as critical or demanding.
  * You can get stuck in perfecting things, making projects difficult to even get started, or bringing your forward movement to a stand still.
  * Your black-and-white thinking can create a challenge in seeing yourself in one of the 4 Energy Types. Remember: you are unique and will not express all the characteristics for one specific Energy Type 100%.

TYPE 4SM BEAUTY PROFILE KEY WORDS

Alluring Mesmerizing

Astute Mysterious

Black and white Neat

Bold Notable

Captivating Noble

Chic Opulent

Classic Poised

Clean Polished

Clear Precise

Commanding Professional

Concise Proper

Contemporary Queenly

Contrasting Refined

Cool Reflective

Cultured Regal

Defined Serene

Dignified Serious

Diplomatic Sleek

Discreet Smooth

Distinctive Sophisticated

Distinguished Stark

Dramatic  Statuesque

Elite Still

Enticing Striking

Exact Strong

Extreme Stunning

Formal Tailored

Impressive Thorough

Independent Tranquil

Lavish Vivid

Modern Vogue

Majestic Well-structured
Part 4

  * It's Time to Know Which Type of Woman You Are

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Now that you have read through the four Types of women, it is time for you to determine which Type of beauty is your dominant expression. If you already recognized your Type of beauty in the previous pages, congratulations! As you read the following sections, you will gain even greater clarity on how to support your Type of beauty in your everyday life.

If you still feel uncertain about your Type of beauty, that's perfectly normal. Your process of discovery is perfect for you. As I previously said, I believe you know in your heart who you truly are. However, we can be at odds with our true nature, due to different life experiences that have caused us to feel ashamed, embarrassed and in judgment of ourselves. If you are uncertain of your Type of beauty or how to proceed, I offer you the following suggestions and support to help you recognize and embrace your true nature.

HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR TYPE OF BEAUTY

  1. Finish reading this book. You've already taken an important first step by getting this far. Make sure you've read the sections for all four Types of beauty. Some women jump around, or skip the sections for certain Energy Types because they think that could never be them—which can actually be a clue to which Type of beauty you express! 
  2. Visit dressingyourtruth.com. At the Dressing Your Truth website, you will find access to free video and visual resources to support you in discovering your Type of beauty. These resources include Beauty Profiling videos and Confirm Your Type video sessions in which I walk you through my process of assessing a woman's Type of beauty. 
  3. Invest in the Dressing Your Truth Online Course. I have created a rich variety of free resources to help women assess their Type of beauty, but some more in-depth resources are only available to Dressing Your Truth Club Members When you become a Club Member, you gain access to the full Dressing Your Truth program, which supports you in knowing and loving your Type of beauty, and gives you tools to create a personal style that reflects the truth of who you are.

The following sections will give you insight into some of your most telling tendencies, the common myths about your Type of beauty, what your childhood tells you about your Type of beauty, and the power of your Energy Type's feminine truth.

YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS BOOK

How you respond to the information in this book, and how you read this book says a lot about who you are. The following tendencies for each Energy Type tend to be accurate in classifying your response and reading of this book by Types:

TYPE 1SM Energy: Because of your tendencies to not want to eliminate possibilities, you believe it is possible to be all four Energy Types. Many TYPE 1SM women have this response: "I see all four types in me!" Because you have the most adaptable energy, you are the chameleons of the Energy Types. You have an ability to adapt to the other three expressions that are not dominant in you—depending on the situation or the person you're with. You may have also not bothered to read the entire book, but bounced around through the sections and found one that sounded good and decided, "Oh, that's me!"

TYPE 2SM Energy: Because you have a questioning nature, you will question yourself and second-guess yourself about who you are. You tend to read and re-read the information over and over more than any other Energy Type, and take a long time to come to a conclusion. You will be likely to ask a friend or associate what they think about the ideas in this book. You will likely seek a second opinion before drawing a conclusion yourself. Though discovering your Type of beauty can be an emotional experience for every woman, you are the most likely to have a tearful experience when you recognize yourself in the your Type of beauty's description.

TYPE 3SM Energy: It may have been hard for you to read from the front of the book to the back. You like to get to the point, fast, and pass by anything that appears to be too much detail. You may have even gone to the back of the book first, to see where this is going and what the end result is. You like to finish things quickly and get on to the next thing. You may have even read the book in this manner and are telling yourself, "Oh, I am TYPE 2SM!" which you are not because a TYPE 2SM woman would never read this book that way! You want this information to be practical, so you may feel an urgency or even impatience to know your Energy Type already.

TYPE 4SM Energy: If you are invested in this information, you are probably already thinking deeply about it. You are deeply analytical and it's possible that you may over-analyze yourself, going over and over this information in your mind. Your mind can't let it go until you believe that you have it all figured out, including where you best fit in this system.

On the other hand, if you're still skeptical, you may be thinking, "Carol Tuttle is full of it!" and, "I am not going to Dress My Truth just because too many women are into this, and I don't want to be part of a fad!" You may even be skeptical about the Dressing Your Truth system having legitimacy and accuracy. I agree nobody knows you like you know yourself. You are the ultimate authority in your life and you can allow supportive information to come into your life, to help you live as boldly and fully and beautifully as you are designed to live.

HOW DO YOU MOVE THROUGH LIFE?

Another way to understand a lot about yourself and to discover who you truly are is by observing how you move through life. The little, unedited movements of daily life will help you see the expression of your Type of beauty. How do you get your daily chores done? How do you move through the grocery store or the mall? How do you pack for a vacation?

TYPE 1SM Energy: Unstructured and more carefree, finding delight in simple pleasures. You express a hopeful brightness in your movements and your approach to life.

TYPE 2SM Energy: Steadily and calmly enjoying what brings you and others comfort. You have a peaceful presence that moves through life focused on the details.

TYPE 3SM Energy: Swiftly focusing on the end results with determination. You express an encouraging push as you move yourself and others forward.

TYPE 4SM Energy: Straight forwardly, concisely, and precisely knowing where you stand with yourself and others. You have a structured energy that creates order and inspires respect.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR MOST COMMON EXPRESSIONS AND PHRASES?

Another way to understand more about yourself and to discover who you truly are is by observing the things you say and which words you choose. Here are some of the most common phrases and words used by people who express each Energy Type:

TYPE 1SM Energy: You might light-mindedly make fun of someone or something and then quickly say, "Just kidding." When you like something, you say, "That is so fun!" It is common for you to giggle while you talk, though you may not even notice that you're laughing. When expressing approval, you tend to say in a bright voice the word, "Fun!"

TYPE 2SM Energy: Due to your sensitive nature, you may find yourself apologizing more than necessary. Before you ask a question, you tend to preface it by saying, "I have a question." When expressing approval, you tend to use an understated word, such as "Cool."

TYPE 3SM Energy: You can speak abruptly and in a direct manner. You say out loud (or at least in your mind) the following when you feel someone is taking too long to explain something: "Get to the point." When you're pleased with results, you tend to use words that express passion and drive, such as, "Awesome!"

TYPE 4SM Energy: When agreeing with others, your favorite exclamation is "Exactly!" When something does not meet your standard, you may judge it as, "stupid." When something has turned out to your liking, you tend to use the word, "Perfect."

YOUR CHILDHOOD

Look back to your childhood–way back! I mean when you were 2, 3, and 4 years old. What was your natural expression? What were you known for as a little girl? What were you praised for and even disciplined for? Were you buoyant and bouncy, or were you quiet and calm? You have expressed your true Energy Type ever since childhood. If you look back to those days, you may more clearly notice what your movement was like as a child.

Here is a quick summary of some of the positive and negative things you may have been told as a little girl—the negatives quite possibly shut down your true nature:

TYPE 1SM Energy: You were likely the friendly Type of little girl who lived in her imagination and loved surprises and newness. Negative judgments: Stop moving. You talk too much; stop talking. You are too hyper. You are too bouncy. You live in a dream world. Settle down. On the positive side: You are so much fun to be around. You make friends so easily. You're so cheerful. You dance and sing so well.

TYPE 2SM Energy: You may have been the Type of little girl who felt uncomfortable your first day of school, or hated it when you were left with a baby-sitter you did not know. Negative judgments: You are shy. You are too sensitive. Hurry up, you take too long. You ask too many questions. On the positive side: You are so kind. You are sweet. You are so easy to get along with. You're so thoughtful.

TYPE 3SM Energy: You were probably the Type of little girl who loved projects or the outdoors—anything you could get your hands into. Negative judgments: You are too pushy. You are such a tomboy. You are too rough. Calm down, relax. On the positive side: You're so determined. You get things done so quickly. You're a natural leader. You always know just what you want and go for it!

TYPE 4SM Energy: You were the Type of little girl who tended to be more serious and you likely got frustrated with adults who talked to you like a child. Negative judgments: You need to be more social. You are such a loner. You need to make more friends and be more outgoing. You are so picky. You're such a know-it-all. You are too serious. You need to smile more. You're so rude. On the positive side: You act so grown up. Everybody knows where you stand on an issue. You are so independent. You take such good care of your things. You are trustworthy. You think things through.

If you continue to feel uncertain about your Energy Type, your true nature may have been shut down during childhood in big ways. On some level, you may not believe it's safe to be your true self! Many women have told me they recognized their true self in my parenting book, The Child Whisperer, which teaches about the four Types of children. You may find that book supportive to you. You can find more information in the reference section at the back of this book.

GUESSING OR AVOIDING YOUR TRUTH

You may have the experience of trying to guess which Type of woman you are. That is an avoidance technique, so go deeper and ask yourself what are you afraid of.

Are some uncomfortable feelings coming up?

Over my years of observing and working with thousands of women worldwide, I have seen women avoid their Type of beauty because of some sort of shame they feel about it. When you experience shame about your true nature, you tend to live as a wounded version of yourself, or you live contrary to your nature because you believe you are inherently flawed.

If you feel uncertain about your Type of beauty, consider the possibility that you know deep down, but that you are avoiding it. Here are some common reasons for each Type of woman:

TYPE 1SM Energy: You might resist embracing your nature because you have judged your bright, random nature as unreliable, flighty, or disorganized. You want to be seen as dependable. Rest assured that balanced TYPE 1SM women do follow through on the things that matter most to them and are an incredible force for good and hope in this world.

TYPE 2SM Energy: You may resist embracing your Type of beauty because you judge your own energy as weak. You may feel afraid that being a TYPE 2SM woman dooms you to be invisible for the rest of your life, blending into the background. The more you live in balance with your subtle energy, the greater likelihood you have of being seen.

TYPE 3SM Energy: You don't want to be seen as pushy, loud, or aggressive—it hurts to be called those things. In an effort to avoid that judgment, you may not want to see who you are. I can speak from personal experience that when you own your true nature and manage your tendencies, your forward-pushing energy can be a great gift.

TYPE 4SM Energy: If you are resisting your TYPE 4SM energy, you may have had a bad experience with someone in your life who expresses TYPE 4SM energy. You may have been personally wounded or affected by a TYPE 4SM mother, father, or other person who did damage in your life. In your all-or-nothing approach to life, you don't see a way to step into your TYPE 4SM energy without being hurtful to other people. You don't want to be opinionated or unkind. In your effort to not identify with anything that's hurtful, you may mistype yourself. You may also fade into the background because you've been told you're rude or a know-it-all. Because you don't want to come across that way, you may be withholding your boldness.

Another clue to knowing which Type of woman you are is noticing which Energy Type pushes your emotional buttons the most. You may have been so severely judged and shamed as a little girl, and you may have carried that shame and judgment into your adult life. These feelings lead to an aversion and disgust for who you are, but you are only aware of them through your judgment of other women of your Energy Type.

Life is a mirror reflecting back to us how we deeply feel about ourselves. These deeper feelings of judgment have been hidden from you, and, after coming in contact with this material, you are now getting in touch with them.

You will not be the first woman to have acquired an illusionary hate for yourself!

In fact it is too common. We just have to look at the statistics of women who are overweight and depressed. That could be a result of not living true to your nature. I used to be one of those statistics. I am convinced the chronic depression I have dealt with throughout my life was directly related to my inability to know myself and live my truth!

Believe me, it is way more uncomfortable to live a lie than to finally, once and for all, own your true self and clear out all the lies and illusions you have been carrying around.

Let whatever feelings come up, come up! Only if you face those feelings can you overcome them. Unless you face them, they will hold you back and keep you hiding from yourself. Don't be afraid of who you really are. When you discover and accept the truth about yourself, it will set you free.

Isn't that what you really want?

KEEPING YOURSELF STUCK

Along the same lines as guessing, you could be putting off taking the next steps because you are avoiding taking full responsibility for your life.

Playing the victim is a popular way to experience life. When we think the power is outside of us and that we don't have a choice, it excuses us from action and we don't have to take responsibility for our lives.

(If you are in this place, I highly recommend my best-selling book Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century. It will guide you through a complete process to overcoming victim thinking once and for all.)

Here are the most common tendencies that each Type of woman uses to keep herself stuck and in avoidance:

TYPE 1SM Energy: Telling yourself stories and making excuses that convince you that you don't have the right or the power to choose something better for yourself. I have heard a lot of TYPE 1SM women say things like, "I can't learn how to dress my truth because my husband wouldn't allow it."

TYPE 2SM Energy: Telling yourself you need more information, more questions answered. Hesitant to take the next step, you procrastinate taking the steps necessary to move forward.

TYPE 3SM Energy: Moving so swiftly through life and having your head buried in so many projects and to-do lists, you entirely miss feeling and experiencing your true nature and the true nature of others.

TYPE 4SM Energy: Finding fault with the resources and support you have attracted into your life that are meant to help you move forward. Your gift of critiquing has turned into a pattern of criticizing.

MYTHS OF EACH TYPE OF WOMAN

You will be able to feel confident that you've assessed yourself accurately when you let go of any myths surrounding your Type of beauty. Here are the most common myths for each Energy Type that can keep you from recognizing your true nature:

TYPE 1SM Energy: You may not recognize your TYPE 1SM energy because you don't see yourself as the life of the party or wanting to be social and friendly all the time. You do bring a lightness to experiences, but you won't want to be the center of attention all the time. Consider the overall quality of freshness, newness, and hope that you bring to the world, rather than individual social situations.

TYPE 2SM Energy: You may not recognize your TYPE 2SM energy because you think that TYPE 2SM women aren't ambitious—and you are! TYPE 2SM women can get a lot done. They are just more supported when they pursue their goals in a planned-out way that feels comfortable to them.

TYPE 3SMEnergy: I have heard TYPE 3SM women say they can't express TYPE 3SM energy because they aren't entreprenial or athletic. You have a natural gift for practicality and common sense. In many cases, owning your own business is a natural result of those gifts and qualities. But that doesn't mean all TYPE 3SM women use their practical, determined nature to start a business or compete in sports. Don't dismiss your nature if you're not doing those activities. You have a drive and a push forward and it can show up in different ways.

TYPE 4SM Energy: You may mistake the TYPE 4SM idea of stillness as just sitting around, but many TYPE 4SM women lead busy, active lives. Stillness is an inner quality of balance that is honored when you allow yourself moments of solitude.

You may also mistake the idea of "bold" as aggressive posturing or behavior. Everything in Energy Profiling is movement, rather than a personality trait. A bold movement is an inner quality of strength, with a capacity of being present. When you have spent time thinking and analyzing something, you hold a bold position that you stand for, whether or not you express it outwardly.

Remember that not every single description of your dominant Energy Type will fit you completely. We are each individuals, who are unique blends of all four Energy Types. You can expect that most descriptions of your dominant Energy Type will be true for you.

YOUR RESPONSE TO THE   
DIFFERENT STYLES OF EACH TYPE

You may think that a good way to know which Type of woman you are is to notice your response to the different styles of the four Types of beauty in the Dressing Your Truth images you have seen. For example, you may be thinking, "Oh, I am a TYPE 4SM woman because I love that style." Or, "I am a TYPE 2SM woman because I love the softer styles." In many instances, women have misled themselves using this reference as an assessment tool.

The fashion world has taught us to look at an outfit and then to have an opinion on whether we like it or not, but has not considered if the outfit itself would actually look good on different Types of women. In other words, the focus is on the outfit, not the women. Realistically, we can say that, yes, the outfit is beautiful, but we can't say it would look great on everyone!

You may be a TYPE 1SM woman who is drawn to a TYPE 4SM look because you are overly sensitive about coming across as silly if you dress true to your TYPE 1SM nature. Or, you may be a TYPE 2SM woman who is drawn to a TYPE 1SM look, thinking you need to lighten up your appearance, that you would feel too drab in the TYPE 2SM style. You may be a TYPE 3SM woman who has attempted to soften your more dynamic nature for most of your life and so you think TYPE 2SM clothes are best for you—therefore you are drawn to them. Or you may be a TYPE 3SM woman and you think you are a Type 4SM woman and look good in black! You may also be a TYPE 4SM woman who is in conflict with your straightforward, bold nature that is drawn to a different Type's style in an effort to counter what you may deem a weakness in yourself.

Whatever the reason, using this approach as an assessment tool will most likely mislead you rather than help you know what Type of woman you are. Too many women have been trained to believe that they look good in certain styles because they want to look hip or trendy or fashionable, when actually that does not work so well when it comes to honoring their Type of beauty.

I am drawn to each of the four Types of beauty, and I love all the styles when they are on the right woman. Yes, I love them all! But I know that, as a TYPE 3SM woman, I am going to look my very best when I dress true to my TYPE 3SM nature (and believe me, I've seen myself in all of them before). You will be drawn to styles that match your true nature, but be aware that, if you have some unresolved feelings about your nature, you may be attracted to styles that aren't a good match for your inner beauty.

THE POWER OF YOUR FEMININE TRUTH

Depending on the culture and family you grew up in, you may have believed that femininity needs to look a certain way. But as you've learned in this book, femininity doesn't look the same for every woman. You have a powerful, creative capacity to change and shape your world, true to your unique feminine nature. You can be intuitive, nurturing and feminine in a way that is true to you.

We all express nurturing energy that offers love to others, and as women, we often play roles in which we are expected to nurture. Each Type of woman nurtures and expresses her feminine truth best in alignment with her true energy.

TYPE 1SM Energy: Your feminine energy is brilliant and optimistic bringing a playful feeling to your relationships. You nurture others with your bright optimism. You bring a smile to others' faces and show them that even in their darkest moments, there are reasons to be hopeful.

TYPE 2SM Energy: Your feminine energy is powerfully peaceful, which brings a calming, connected quality to you and others. You nurture others with a quiet, heartfelt peace. Of all the Energy Types, your expression is the most stereotypically feminine—naturally soft and gentle. Recognize this to be a strength, rather than trying to deny it.

TYPE 3SM Energy:  Your feminine energy is dynamic and passionate, giving people in your world forward momentum. You nurture others with your big heart and big actions. You see the needs of the people you love, and you help them or inspire them to get them done. What a powerful gift!

TYPE 4SM Energy:  Your feminine energy is reflective and wise, creating clarity and stability in your world. You nurture others when you offer your authentic respect or deep loyalty. Because you cannot feign emotion, the people you love can always know where they stand with you.

WHO ARE YOU REALLY?

As you nurture others, be certain that you also nurture yourself! The energetic and cultural pattern for generations of women has been an expectation of always putting others first and putting ourselves last. The old cultural script gave women an "either/or" choice: you either care for others or you care for yourself. The role was set for women to give up needs and identity for the sake of the family or society, and many women are only seen by others in terms of the roles they fill.

Many women continue to see their roles as their identity. They describe themselves only in terms of whose mother or wife or daughter they are. Do you ever do that? You're not alone.

Consider the possibility that you may fulfill your meaningful roles even better when you recognize and honor the truth of yourself first. Let go of the way certain roles were modeled to you. Let go of the shoulds. Let go of the expectations that keep you stuck and all the flaws you have found in yourself. Step into the truth of who you are as the unique, inspiring, interesting woman that you are.

One of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself is, "Who am I?" I can promise you that the answer is powerful, beautiful, and true.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS  
WHEN DETERMINING YOUR TYPE OF BEAUTY

Over the years, I have received many of the same questions. I would like to clarify them here so that you can more easily understand your Type of beauty and experience joy stepping into the truth of who you are.

Q: Does your Energy Type ever change?

A: In my observation of thousands of children and adults for many years now, I can say that in my experience, no, Energy Type does not change. We each come into this life with a dominant quality of expression. We might judge that expression, or try to hide it, or live contrary to it. We might even manage to alter our personality, but we never change the inner movement that guides the way we naturally move through life. If you believe your Energy Type has changed, consider the possibility that you did not feel safe to be completely yourself as a child and are currently living contrary to your true nature. What were you like as a young child?

Q: Can I be more than one Energy Type?

A: We are all a unique blend of all four Energy Types and we express those varying energies to varying degrees. However, you will lead with one dominant Energy Type. If you believe that two particular Energy Types express equally in you, consider that you may have overdeveloped your secondary Energy Type in order to compensate for what you believed were weaknesses in your dominant expression.

Q: Is there a quiz I can take that will tell me my Energy Type?

A: I do not offer a quiz to tell you your Energy Type for a variety of reasons. First, Energy Profiling is an intuitive system that allows you to recognize the truth of yourself from within. If I just tell you who you are, you can dismiss it. But if you recognize who you are, you have a freeing experience that can change your life. Second, Energy Profiling is based on movement and energy, not only personality. You will recognize your natural energy more clearly in observing how you move through life than your answers to a quiz. Third, quizzes can be deceiving. You can often tell where an assessment is going and answer the questions according to who you think you should be, not who you actually are. I'm committed to supporting you in living true to your nature, not someone else's expectation.

Q: What if I narrow down my Energy Type down to two options, but then I get stuck?

A: Then you're making progress in your journey! Many women narrow down their Type of beauty to two options that they resonate with. This can be a helpful way to begin. TYPE 1SM and TYPE 3SM energies are higher movements, while TYPE 2SM and TYPE 4SM are lower movements.

Q: What is the difference between the TYPE 1SM and TYPE 3SM higher movements?

A: Both energies move outward into the world with what we might call an extrovert energy, but with a different quality of movement. TYPE 1SM energy has an upward lightness of being. The keyword is light. TYPE 3SM energy pushes forward with a more intense energy. The keyword to consider is push.

Q: What is the difference between the TYPE 2SM and TYPE 4SM lower movements?

A: TYPE 2SM energy has a subtle quality, while TYPE 4SM energy is still. In my experience, TYPE 4SM women who mistype themselves generally tend to think they express TYPE 2SM beauty. First, they see themselves as detailed, when TYPE 4SM women are thorough. They can step back and take in the big picture all at once, rather than connect from one detail to the next. Second, TYPE 4SM women sometimes assume that they value comfort in their clothing, when what they prefer most is proper fit. Fitted clothing feels most comfortable for a TYPE 4SM woman. If you are going back and forth between TYPE 2SM and TYPE 4SM energy, these distinctions may help you think that through.

(In my experience, TYPE 2SM women who accurately recognize their Type of beauty tend to question their Energy Type endlessly at first—even if they're not sure which other Energy Type they could be. Let me reassure you TYPE 2SM women in your questions—you got it right.)

Q: Can I be a TYPE 1SM or TYPE 3SM woman and be introverted? Can I be a TYPE 2SM or TYPE 4SM woman and be extroverted?

A: Yes, in a way. Our culture tends to talk about introversion and extroversion in terms of personality. But I believe a more whole way to view these energies as two different expressions of movement. Introvert energy moves inward first, before moving outward into the world. Extrovert energy moves outward, before returning inward.

TYPE 1SM and TYPE 3SM energy generally move outward first. That does not always mean that they are social or the center of attention. They just act outwardly before needing to take in more details. TYPE 2SM and TYPE 4SM need a moment to observe and process information inwardly before moving forward, but they can reach out to others in a way that does not look stereotypically introverted or shy.

Q: What if my features don't match my personality?

A: Personality can be changed, but physical features and body language don't lie. Throughout the years that I've worked with this information, I've seen so few people who fully live from the true authentic expression of who they are. We make so many adjustments and adaptations for other people. If you can see your Type of beauty clearly in your features but it doesn't match your personality, consider the possibility that your personality has adapted and that you can relax into the Type of beauty that your features show.

Q: What if my features show all the Energy Types? Or two Energy Types equally?

A: Your features will express a blend of Energy Types, so not every feature will express your dominant Energy Type. However, you will express a dominant overall quality of movement in your features and in your body language. For visual and video examples, visit dressingyourtruth.com.

Q: Is there a physical feature that trumps all other features in determining Energy Type?

A: No. The key to assessing your Type of beauty accurately is looking at yourself as a whole woman. After all, that's who you are! You are not just a collection of features. Consider your overall energetic expression.

Q: Can I still see my facial features when I'm overweight?

A: Yes. Your dominant Energy Type will express in you at any weight or in any shape. Again, you're looking at the overall quality of your movement, and that will express in your face, body language, thoughts, and feelings, no matter your size.

Q: How can I be a TYPE 4SM woman when I don't have porcelain skin?

A: This is one feature that TYPE 4SM women tend to focus on when they are uncertain about their Type of beauty. As we are a blend of all four Energy Types, not all TYPE 4SM women have perfectly TYPE 4SM skin. However, if you express TYPE 4SM energy, your skin may have more of a porcelain quality than you recognize. It may also need the proper skin care support to achieve stillness and balance. Or, with your keen, perfecting eye, you may be seeing imperfections in your skin, which others perceive as smooth and flawless.

Q: What if my friends or family are telling me I am a different Energy Type than I think I am?

A: It is common to look to other people for feedback about what they see in you. But this process can keep you from connecting with your intuition and hearing your own inner voice. Other people learn to see us in the way we want them to see us, so their assessment may not be accurate.

Q: What if I don't like my Type of beauty?

A: Consider the possibility that what you really don't like are the negative judgments you heard about your true nature as you grew up. You may fear that those negative judgments are true. Step into the truth of who you are with the intent to recognize your natural strengths. Visit dressingyourtruth.com for more support to honor your Type of beauty.
Part 5

  * Take The Next Step: Learn How   
to Dress Your Truth
  * What Dressing Your Truth Is Not
  * Don't Wait Until You Lose Weight!
  * You're Never Too Old to Dress Your Truth

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At this point, you have become acquainted with each of the four Energy Types. You know the difference between the:

  * TYPE 1SM: The Bright, Animated Woman
  * TYPE 2SM: The Subtle, Soft Woman
  * TYPE 3SM: The Rich, Dynamic Woman
  * TYPE 4SM: The Bold, Striking Woman

You may now have a clear idea of who you are from the inside out and what Type of woman you are. If you are like most women, you may not accept this instantly. In fact, you may need time to process and accept it. But slowly, the truth will win you over. The realization that innate qualities have been unacknowledged or suppressed often brings women to tears. But when you recognize the truth of who you are and accept it, it will bring you great joy and peace of mind.

As I mentioned in the beginning, this book is the first step in a two-part process to first, discover your Type of beauty, and second, to express it outwardly with a personal style that expresses who you truly are. I have more information to share in that second step than I could ever cover in a single book. That's why I created an interactive, online experience that can change your life in a profound way.

HOW TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP:  
DRESSING YOUR TRUTH

Dressing Your Truth is your next step in taking full ownership of your beauty and your truth. Having the tools to adorn yourself with the clothes, jewelry, accessories and makeup and the best color, cut and style for your hair that harmonize with your true inner nature, is an incredibly rewarding and deeply affirming experience for a woman. It is incredibly validating and freeing for women to finally have the skills and expertise necessary to take charge of their beauty, especially when most of us have grown up at odds with the way we think we look.

The most common practice women use in wardrobing themselves is to look at a fashionable outfit and then try to copy it. This practice does not hone your own beauty sixth sense. Dressing Your Truth specializes in giving you hands-on tools that speak to and honor your Type of beauty as a woman, so you have the skills to choose clothes and put together outfits, no matter your level of dress or activity. Whether you're a stay-at-home mom who dresses casually, or a high-powered business woman who dresses professionally, you will have the skills you need to create your unique personal style for any level of dress. You will learn how to put together casual, athletic, professional, and even formal looks as well. As you have already heard me say, Dressing Your Truth makes you your own beauty expert!

I invite you to take the important next step in living your truth fully as a woman, to learn the tools to dress your truth and then to take that information and create your own personal style that honors the Type of woman you are!

Take this exciting next step by visiting www.dressingyourtruth.com, becoming a Dressing Your Truth Club Member and beginning the online experience.

There, you will find an interactive, online experience, with a course specific to your Type of beauty, to teach you how to dress your truth and create a personal style that expresses your true self.

It is important to remember that dressing true to your dominant Type of beauty is the best choice to make. After years of research in developing Dressing Your Truth, I know how to support you in bringing out your greatest beauty so that you dress true to you.

What you will learn in the Dressing Your Truth online course and experience is how to dress true to your nature by learning the five elements of Dressing Your Truth for your Type of beauty. Those five elements that are a feature in every article of clothing you buy include:

  * Design Lines
  * Texture
  * Fabrication
  * Pattern
  * Color/Chroma

When you purchase the Dressing Your Truth online course, which you will own for life, you will also learn:

  * Which jewelry and accessories best highlight your features.
  * Which makeup is best and how to apply it to honor your facial features.
  * Which color, cut and style of hair is best for you, along with the proper terms to use when you go to your stylist so you speak their language and get what you want. We feature short, medium and long hairstyles for your Type of beauty that you can print and take to your stylist.
  * Hair tutorials that may change your life. If you have curly hair and you spend a lot of time straightening it, you will love our curly hair tutorial that will make your hairstyle easier to maintain with far better results. Because of this tutorial, women who thought they only had wavy hair have actually discovered they have more curl in their hair than they thought.
  * Ongoing learning in your Dressing Your Truth Club Member account and through Club Member events that are broadcast live online. We continue to teach you how to create your personal style by focusing on topics Dressing Your Truth Club Members want to hear more about to build their unique look. 
  * And much, much more!

Every day of your life, you send a message to the world and to the people you interact with—a silent but powerful message of who you are. Every day that you put on clothes, makeup, jewelry and accessories that are hiding your true self, you are sending the opposite message of who you are to others. When you dress your truth, you affirm the truth of yourself and help others recognize your true nature.

By offering this material, we also have created a community of beauty-conscious women who love and support each other through our community forums and live, online broadcasts where we continue to teach and support you.

In the Dressing Your Truth community, I marvel at how incredibly supportive and loving women are when they know their inner truth and feel confident and secure in their appearance. All the earlier feelings of being less than adequate and beautiful—which set us up to feel threatened and even jealous of attractive women—start to disappear when we dress our truth, and the camaraderie of the true feminine nature emerges to show love and support for one another in being our most beautiful selves.
WHAT DRESSING YOUR TRUTH IS NOT

Women who come into the Dressing Your Truth world have obviously been exposed to other beauty and fashion makeover systems. I can honestly say that Dressing Your Truth is new and unique and cannot be compared to the other systems that have preceded it. Dressing Your Truth is not:

  * A color-only typing system
  * A body shape or body type system, such as rectangular, pear-shapes, hourglass and so forth
  * A system where your skin tone and hair color determines what looks good on you
  * A system that classifies you in one of four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter
  * A system specific to an age group or that imposes any age limits
  * A fashion system that suggests wearing certain clothing during only specific seasons of the year
  * A system that only works for some women

Dressing Your Truth is unlike any other fashion and beauty system out there. It is a system that honors the inner nature and personality of you, and the outer expression of your physical features. Once you know your Beauty Profile, what Type of woman you are, Dressing Your Truth is a simple to learn formula that honors your own personal instinct and intuition of what looks best and feels best on you.

Most clothing systems out there emphasize one thing: color. What I have learned from creating Dressing Your Truth is there is a lot more to a garment than just color. In fact, I have made it easy for you. The four other elements that create a garment either align with our natural beauty or conflict with it. The five elements of Dressing Your Truth are design line, texture, fabrication, pattern, and of course, chroma/color.

These five elements are expressed in clothing, jewelry, accessories, makeup color and application, and even your hair color, cut and style. You are ready to learn how to Dress Your Truth using the five elements as your guide for your specific Type of beauty. Learning those five elements in the Dressing Your Truth online course will give you the insight and practical tools to know how to create a personal style that expresses the true you.

HOW YOU MIGHT KEEP YOURSELF STUCK:  
MONEY & MEN

Before we get to the biggest fashion myths and other fun information about the four Types of beauty, I'd like to point out some common excuses women use to avoid creating the experience they want.

The most common pattern that women use to stay in avoidance is to use money as an excuse. "I don't have enough money" is an easy cop-out these days. Maybe it appears in your bank account that you don't have enough money. I believe, and have taught tens of thousands of women and men through my wealth mastery teachings, that when you passionately want something and it is right and timely for you, all you have to do is desire it and the money will come from wherever it is right now.

The second most common reason, and it could be a tie with the first, is, "My husband!" Quite honestly, I hear women defaulting to their husbands too often and making them the reason they can't experience the fullness of who they are.

Some of the most common husband excuses are: "My husband will get upset if I spend the money!" "My husband doesn't want me to cut my hair!" "My husband doesn't believe in all this beauty stuff." "My husband likes me the way I am."

Why do you think husbands hold back? It is because of you! If you have an equal standing and partnership with your husband, as you should, why do you let him be the reason why you don't express your true self?

If you have allowed a man to be your excuse for not doing what's correct for you, say: "My husband is my excuse—I own it!—and he's an easy cop-out for me to use, because deep down I am scared of really knowing myself and living as big as I can as a woman!"

If it's not your husband who is playing this role for you, consider who else might be holding you back from experiencing your true nature. Is it your mother, a sister, a friend, a co-worker, or your hair stylist?

Ladies, stop hiding behind the husband or boyfriend or whoever it might be—step up, own your life and live it!
DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU LOSE WEIGHT!

Okay, let's take on this issue, because it's a big one for women! You may be thinking, "I will learn to dress my truth just as soon as I lose some weight!" Stop right there!

No matter your shape or size, Dressing Your Truth is a custom fit. This system is all about energy and movement, which you express at any weight. When you dress your truth, you honor your body's natural energy, which supports you in being able to create more healthy balance in your life.

Waiting until you lose weight will only delay your body's ability to take unnecessary weight off naturally and effortlessly. "How is that possible?" you may be asking yourself. Let me explain. In your current mind-set of thinking you have to lose weight first, you are creating a severe negative judgment towards your body. You are actually reinforcing the belief your body is not good enough. When you are in that judgment, it is actually harder for your body to shed the pounds.

I didn't quite expect to see what I have seen with our Dressing Your Truth clients who weighed more than they wanted to. First of all, they instantly looked slimmer when dressing true to their Type of beauty. Secondly, once they started to dress their truth, many of them started to effortlessly lose weight. As I pondered this, it began to totally make sense. It was happening for these primary reasons:

  * They no longer were hating their bodies. In fact, they were beginning to feel good about themselves again, and to love themselves again. In my work as an energy healing therapist over the years, I learned that love was a more powerful influence than hate in allowing the body to heal.
  * They changed their focus from being preoccupied with losing weight to now loving and adorning their body just the way it was. Whatever we focus on persists. And the simple act of these women changing their focus allowed their bodies to start releasing the weight with more ease.

Many women have gained extra weight due to the deeper belief that who they are is inadequate. The weight represents a form of hiding your true self from the world, an outer layer of protection created by your inner view of yourself. Also, when you are emotionally focused on the discomfort of being overweight, you may be distracting yourself from deeper feelings of inadequacy and hurt you are now ready to heal.

Michelle recently posted the following comment on my Facebook page: "Every time I walked in to my closet I used to feel doom and gloom! I thought I didn't feel good in my clothes because I was not my ideal weight. I am still not my ideal weight, but since learning how to dress my truth I feel like I look good. I haven't felt that way for years. And all thanks to this remarkable new way of seeing myself."

ROCHELLE'S STORY

Rochelle wrote to me, sharing her story of how she believes Dressing Your Truth helped her lose weight and reclaim her health back. She shares her life-changing story here.

"Dressing Your Truth has impacted my life in a positive way. For the first time in many years, I look in the mirror and see someone who is attractive. My weight has been an issue for many years and has affected my health, physically and mentally. I believe taking the Dressing Your Truth online course has resulted in a 10-pound weight loss. I feel better about me and who I am. I want to sing the song from West Side Story, "I Feel Pretty." Feeling pretty is something I have not felt in many years.

"I used to weigh 300 pounds and was able to take off 70. I have struggled with taking off the rest of the weight for the last three years. Within a three-week period I lost 10 pounds. When I am tempted to eat something that will keep the weight on, my mood changes to positive self talk as I tell myself, 'No, let's see what else I can eat to satisfy my hunger, and keep me healthy, happy and looking good.'

"Thank you for sharing Dressing Your Truth. You are saving my life emotionally and physically. I am excited to get dressed each day and my emotional life is improving. I am looking forward to each new day in a positive manner expecting the best."

Start loving your body exactly where it is right now by learning to dress your truth. Your body will thank you by letting go of the weight it does not want to carry around for you anymore and naturally respond to your new focus of loving yourself just the way you are!

DOES THIS MAKE MY BUTT LOOK BIG?

You've heard yourself say it. You've gone shopping with your girlfriends and you've heard them ask it. Growing up, you probably heard your mom say it, too! "Does this make my butt look big?" My mom said it a lot when I was a kid. In fact, I can remember being somewhere in public with my mom, who pointed to another woman's behind and whispered to me, "Is my butt as big as hers?" Being the loving, dutiful daughter that I am, of course I said no!

Women have struggled with negative body images for decades. Our mothers taught us to be self-conscious about our bodies with their negative image of theirs. The media has taught us that unless we are super slim, we are not acceptable.

The average women's dress in the United States is a size 12, not a size 6! However, the average mannequin is a size 6. Is it any surprise that 44 percent of women of average weight think that they are overweight?

I remember when I weighed in at 150 pounds when I was 15 years old, and I thought I was as fat as a pig! When compared to 91-pound Twiggy, any 150-pound teen girl would perceive herself as fat. I can't even remember weighing 91 pounds! I possibly weighed that much in the third grade, but I wasn't concerned about my weight and body image when I was 10 years old, so I am sure I never even weighed myself! I carried the impression of being extremely overweight for the next three decades. Every time I weighed myself, I shamed myself. Negative body image is a chronic problem that women are culturally conditioned to experience.

Have you ever considered that the clothes you are wearing are adding to your negative body image by making your body appear bigger than it is? Isn't it a reasonable concern that we may be adding pounds and inches to our behinds just by wearing clothes that don't align with our true beauty? It is!

But how do we know what's going to make our butts look bigger than they really are? Dressing Your Truth is the formula for dressing that not only makes sure your butt never looks bigger than it is, and may in fact it make it look smaller, and this formula gives you the skill set to look like a "10" every day of your life.

If you are not wearing the right design line, texture, fabrication or pattern that honors the natural movement and beauty of you, I don't care what color your pants are, your butt is going to look bigger than it really is.

It is really simple. Knowing the five elements of dressing that are right for your Type of beauty makes shopping and wardrobing a no-brainer. I have taught this formula to thousands of women and I want to teach it to you, so you never have to ask the question again, "Does this make my butt look big?"

And just so you know, since I have been dressing my truth in my five elements, I can't remember the last time I asked that question, because I know my butt looks great in the clothes that are a "10" for me!
YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO DRESS YOUR TRUTH

If you think you are too old to Dress Your Truth, just stop it! You are never too old to improve yourself and to develop the woman that you are. We have Dressing Your Truth Club Members from as young as 9 to as old as 82. Are you ever too old to look gorgeous? No!

Alice comes to mind, a tender, loving woman who learned about Dressing Your Truth at the age of 82. She was so excited to discover her true nature and expressed, "I am so glad to know who I am before I die! And to start showing to the world how beautiful I am."

So, if your belief is, "I am too old to dress my truth," it is going to be a short conversation. All I have to say is, "Don't deny yourself. Get going. It's time to take some action, to start dressing your truth now!"
Part 6

  * The Biggest Fashion Myths
  * Fashion Myth #1: Black, Black, Black—  
What's With All the Black?
  * Fashion Myth #2: Every Woman Needs a Little Black Dress
  * Fashion Myth #3: You Lose Your Beauty When You Age!
  * Fashion Myth #4: You Have to Spend Lots Of Money to Be Beautiful
  * Fashion Myth #5: You Have to Be Skinny to Be Beautiful

THE BIGGEST FASHION MYTHS

I want to help you let go of some of the biggest fashion myths that have been confusing women for decades. A myth is just a story we all tell ourselves, a belief that we hold that isn't even true. These fashion myths are based on the belief that we are flawed. They perpetuate the shame that we women experience about our bodies.

When we recognize a myth for exactly what it is (just a belief or a story), then we can reconsider it and even let it go. I promise that as you consider these myths and let them go, you will be happier and more able to step into the truth of who you are.

FASHION MYTH #1: BLACK, BLACK, BLACK — WHAT'S WITH ALL THE BLACK?

In the Dressing Your Truth online experience, you will learn that a huge variety of colors highlight your natural beauty. But for some Types of women, the color black makes them look silly, heavy, or older than they are. Black is not recommended for those women.

I have helped thousands of women worldwide learn to dress their truth. I have experienced expressions of surprise from some when they learn that in order to fully dress their truth they have to give up their black clothes.

Think about how amazing this is! If I told them they can't wear yellow, or blue, or maybe even a beautiful version of purple, they might not think anything of it. But BLACK is a color that women seem to hold tightly to, which is surprising, as this color has no movement, just stillness. And on most women, it's deadly. Black hides the truth about a woman, rather than highlight it. Here are some of the most famous misconceptions about black that are not true:

  * Black makes you look thinner. This is not true. Black actually inflates you and makes you look bigger since the color black is so still. And consider this: on a regular basis, women are wearing a color on their body with the intent to hide part of themselves. I used to wear black all the time out of shame for my body too, rather than love!
  * Everyone looks good in black. As you have learned, three of the four Types of beauty have a different movement in their personality, body language and physical features than the movement of exact and still! When you put black on a TYPE 1SM, 2SM, or 3SM woman, this is in conflict with her true movement and natural beauty. For that reason, only women with a dominant TYPE 4SM energy look stunning in black. TYPE 1SM women look childish, TYPE 2SM women look overpowered, and TYPE 3SM women just look old. And if you are not a TYPE 4SM woman, the darkness of black will pick up in your face, accentuating the lines and movement of your face that will then look like imperfections and flaws in your skin.
  * Black frames your silhouette. Well, if that is the case, I don't want it on my body! It would only make me look bigger than I really am. Black is a saturated, bold color and will look heavy on anyone who is not a bold woman.
  * Black is the color that goes with everything. You have been convinced the color black is a neutral color. It is not. It really only looks great with other saturated colors or pure stark white—on a TYPE 4SM!
  * I won't know what to wear if I can't wear my black. This is one more challenging and shaming aspect of the myth of black. You DO know what to wear; your body knows what it's drawn to wear. I call this knowledge your beauty sixth sense, and some of the shaming myths of fashion have told you to ignore it. Please let me help you listen to your beauty sixth sense again. I guarantee you will feel more confident in your own preferences and feel happy as you outwardly express your true self.

What do you believe about wearing black? Are you convinced you can't give it up?

Join the thousands of women worldwide who are getting rid of their black and bringing vitality and true beauty back to their lives!

Here are the reasons each Type is drawn to black:

TYPE 1SM Energy: A TYPE 1SM woman may feel a need to be taken more seriously, but she winds up looking silly because the contrast is so severe. When a TYPE 1SM woman dresses her truth—leaving black out of her wardrobe—the atmosphere around her is lightened, she is better understood and more readily accepted for who she is.

TYPE 2SM Energy: The color is so widely accepted and everyone says it works, so a TYPE 2SM woman doesn't question it as she might otherwise. Black on a TYPE 2SM woman will make her look washed out and faded away. If she learns to dress her truth (without the black) she will stand out in subtle confidence.

TYPE 3SM Energy: A TYPE 3SM woman might think that black is a power color and she will be attracted to that, but it will look harsh on her. She will look older, more textured and overweight. However, her Dressing Your Truth look—without black—will give her a confident, sure, dynamic and exotic look.

TYPE 4SM Energy: A TYPE 4SM woman can actually wear black! However, she will sometimes grow tired of it and look for more variety. Dressing Your Truth will show you how to add variety without all the frumpiness.

In conclusion, if you think you look good in black, but you are not a TYPE 4SM woman, you are settling for mediocrity. Let Dressing Your Truth help you see and feel the difference. You will love it!

SUBSTITUTES FOR BLACK   
FOR EACH TYPE OF WOMAN

I understand it can seem stressful to let go of your black clothes, especially if you have a lot of them. I don't think it's because you particularly love and adore your black clothes. It most likely is because it seemed like an easy solution in your effort to look your best. In a world of fashion that gives you little guidance, we all had hoped that black was the answer to not knowing what color to buy.

Now are you hanging in a state of, "If I have to give up my black, I am not sure I can get into this Dressing Your Truth thing—it seems overwhelming!"? No worries. I will give you a great alternate color that is just one of your (many) black replacements in the Dressing Your Truth world. I show you these and several other choices in our Dressing Your Truth online courses, where it is extremely helpful to see the visual examples of these alternatives.

TYPE 1SM Energy: Dark chocolate brown is a great substitute for black for your bright/animated nature. Think of a dark chocolate candy bar, and you've got the right brown for you. It will look fresh, crisp and alive on you.

TYPE 2SM Energy: Soft, muted brown is a great substitute for black for your subtle/soft nature. Think of a milk chocolate candy bar, and that is your color of brown. It will look elegant and comfortable on you.

TYPE 3SM Energy: Rich, golden brown is a great substitute for black for you. Think of a rich, golden dirt and that is the brown for you. It will look dynamic and substantial on you.

TYPE 4SM Energy: Good news for you, black is a signature color for you because it is so still and exact. But I still have a tip for you! Make sure it is a deep, saturated black, with no fading and no washing out. If the black is softened, it will look frumpy on you. The right black will look clean, simple and stunning on you.
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Coco Chanel was a pioneering French designer whose modernist philosophy made her an important influence in the early 20th century. She had an extraordinary influence on fashion in the beginning years of the fashion industry which dramatically set the industry into motion in the 1920s. She did a lot of good with her ideas and insights that helped women to dress more simply and to diversify the fashion world. Before Coco, women were still living in the discomfort of corsets, heavy, long dresses with long sleeves, and a lot of lace.

True to her TYPE 4SM nature, she took on the fashion world in a bold way and made it better. In fact, some might even say she created the fashion world!

Along with the value she contributed, true again to her TYPE 4SM nature, she created some fashion rules that are still operating, rules that are misleading and outdated.

One of the most outdated, cliché fashion rules that I am very excited to blow out of the water is the "little black dress" theory which came from Coco. "The 'little black dress' is considered essential to a complete wardrobe by many women who believe it a basic rule that every woman should own a simple, elegant black dress that can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion: for example, worn with a jacket and pumps for daytime business wear or with more ornate jewelry and accessories for evening. A wardrobe staple for a number of years, the style of the little black dress ideally should be as simple as possible: a short black dress that is too clearly part of a trend would not qualify because it would soon appear dated." ("Little Black Dress." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 23 Feb 2015. Web.)

First of all, we know that black is not a color that honors all four Types of women. Second of all, if you are not a little woman, you are not going to look good in a little black dress. And, if you are not a TYPE 4SM woman, the simple, classic design line of the little black dress is not the right movement for you! If I wore a little black dress I would look like a very large, old lady—and most importantly, I wouldn't accurately express the swift, dynamic woman I know I am inside. The color black is death to most women's natural beauty!

I am grateful to Coco for what she did for women's fashion and how she overturned the status quo. It is time for us to overturn our own status quo of the little black dress and step into the truth of our unique beauty!
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In my research, I have discovered that the younger you are, the more you can pull off trends and styles and still look pretty good. But, the older you get, the more having a hairstyle and clothes that are not right for your Type of beauty ages you—fast!

When you are wearing a hair color and style that is in conflict with your Type of beauty, the more accentuated are the features you have deemed as flaws. Every Type of woman can have long, medium, and short hairstyles: it's when the color, cut and style is not right for her Type of beauty—at any hair length—that it becomes an aging factor. Look at these examples of how the wrong hairstyle can age women ages 35 and up:

  * If a TYPE 1SM woman has let her hair grow below her shoulder blades and has a lot of ash highlights, it will pull her energy downward, which pulls her face down, thus aging her, and adding weight to her jaw line.
  * If a TYPE 2SM woman is sporting a bob haircut with gold highlights, which puts her hairline right at her jaw, it will make her face look fat due to accentuating her fuller, blended cheek and jaw line.
  * If a TYPE 3SM woman is wearing a saturated, dark hair color parted down the middle, and it flows down below her chin with no layers, it will accentuate her deeper facial lines and more substantial nose, thus making her appear a good 10 to15 years older than she really is.
  * If a TYPE 4SM woman is wearing her hair in a soft, flowing style, it will make her appear old and frumpy as it conflicts with her more structured bone structure, making her appear more manly.

If you add clothing and jewelry that is in conflict with a woman's Type of beauty, you are adding the appearance of unnecessary and inaccurate pounds and years to her.

I love the example of confidence that Marsha (TYPE 3SM energy) sets for all us when it comes to the fear of aging and losing our youthful looks. She recently posted the following on my Facebook page:

"I'm 47 and in the past, I've been terrified of getting old and looking old. I had an interesting moment a couple of days ago. I realized that since starting to dress my truth in the last two months, I've had no fearful thoughts regarding getting or looking old. I feel like I can be my most beautiful self for the rest of my life. That is huge for me. It's like, 'Hey, bring it on, baby, 'cause I'm ready!'"

I read an article in a fashion magazine that reported that 10.2 million people had cosmetic or non-surgical procedures in the United States in 2008. Four of the top five procedures performed were: Botox injections, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and abdominoplasty. I am not against these procedures. In fact, I think these numbers indicate that people do want to look and feel their best. But because the narrative around women's beauty is so focused on being flawed, the motive that many people have for these surgeries comes from a place of shame.

When we know the truth about who we are, we may opt out of some of these procedures, or we will use them with a different motive and much more favorable results! I believe that the decision to make use of the resources available is best made when it comes from a place of self-love and support for your natural movement, rather than from a place of shame or trying to fix a flaw. When you know your Type of beauty, you can consciously make choices to use the many health and beauty resources aligned with who you truly are, helping you to look more like your true, beautiful self, and possibly look even younger than you thought possible as you age.

One of the best anti-aging interventions I know of is actually the least invasive: the anti-aging hairstyle! What you are doing with the color, cut and style of your hair is the most influential aging or anti-aging influence in your life.

I have taught women the world over how to choose the perfect color, cut and style for their face shape and bone structure that naturally takes years off their appearance. I have taught thousands of women from all over the world how to discover what is right for them. I have many before and after pictures of these women and the pictures alone prove my point, some of which appear in the color section of this book. When you have a color, cut and style of hair contrary to your Type of beauty it will:

  * Make your nose appear bigger
  * Make your wrinkles appear deeper
  * Make your chin appear fuller
  * Make your teeth appear duller
  * Make your eyes appear saggy

Overall, it will conflict with your natural energy and fail to express the truth of who you are

I have seen it too many times to doubt it. Get a color, cut and style to honor your natural features and recognize your beauty didn't go anywhere in the last several years. It's still there. What can this anti-aging hairstyle do for you? It will put the focus on you and your face. It will:

  * Make your nose appear more balanced
  * Make your wrinkles fade away, disappear
  * Make your chin tighten up, become more well blended
  * Make your teeth appear whiter
  * Make your eyes appear brighter

You do not lose your beauty as you age. It may be a little easier to cover up as you get older, but it stays within you at all times of life. 
[FASHION MYTH #4:   
YOU HAVE TO SPEND LOTS OF MONEY   
TO BE BEAUTIFUL](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-34.xhtml#_idTextAnchor043)

As a result of not knowing what looks best on us, and thus not knowing what to buy, we waste an overwhelming amount of money on clothes, jewelry, accessories and makeup that we really don't love.

If you are like most women, you go into your closet, look at a rack full of clothes, and have to admit that there is very little in there that you can honestly say you love. Women often say that they do not love anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of their current wardrobe. That is why you stand in front of your closet and say, "I have nothing to wear!" Then your husband looks at you wondering why you can say such a thing when you have a closet chock full of clothes, shoes, handbags and accessories!

Most women have a limited budget when it comes to creating a great wardrobe. You may believe that it takes a lot of money to create one. You can't create a great wardrobe no matter how much money you have when you don't know how to buy what honors your true beauty best! As a result, you have a closet full of items you don't love and you end up wasting your money time and time again. You had good intentions when you bought them, but if you are honest with yourself, you have to admit you don't love them.

In a recent survey we conducted, we discovered the following tendencies were common for women. The average woman has between $7,000 and $10,000 worth of clothing, shoes and other items in her closet. That is based on the average outfit (including a top, bottom, shoes, hose and a piece of jewelry) costing $175 to $225. If you consider that on average you don't like 60 percent of what is in your closet, you have about $4,000 to $6,000 worth of items that you have wasted money on!

It's possible that you acquire your wardrobe in $40 to $80 increments. This pattern is driven by the dilemma of not knowing what to buy and what looks best on you. As a result of your not feeling great about what you have purchased, you keep wearing the same-old-same-old day after day, feeling safe in a conservative wardrobe that is boring and uninspiring to you. You also have likely made purchases that are wrong for you, but which you don't feel you can return or wear. This makes you feel guilty and stuck.

There are many reasons why we end up with a closet full of clothes of different colors and styles that we don't love, most of them related to shame about our appearance. It is common for you to choose clothes to hide as much of your body as possible, or at least any body parts you feel embarrassed or ashamed of. You may have been told that you have a big butt, arms, stomach or ankles. You feel very self-conscious about drawing attention to this part of your body, and attempt to cover it, hoping no one will notice this part of you. This may be your biggest incentive to purchase more and more clothes, once again wasting money on items that are not the best for your Type of beauty. It is quite possible that what you think is concealing your body is actually drawing more attention to what you don't want others to notice.

Another reason why your closet seems full of things you don't like is because you may feel like an item looked good at the store—and because the saleswoman influenced you—and then you get home and realize you don't like it. There is a lot of confusion over so many different trends you could be following. Maybe you bought an outfit one day because you wanted to try out a trend, then you got home and decided that it wasn't for you.

You may be wasting money on clothes you don't love because you believe you have to conform to the standards you see around you. Because a job, a mother, a spouse, where you live or your culture often dictates what you wear, you may have taken on the idea that you have to squelch your own style and sense of beauty and conform to an outdated or uncomfortable standard. You fear you won't be accepted unless you conform to that obsolete standard, and you are afraid if you change your appearance, you may cause conflict with those close to you.

Looking professional is a good example of what many women conform to. Most women think a professional look is one consisting of a dark business suit with a white blouse and with little or no jewelry. When Dressing Your Truth, you learn how much fun and variety you can bring to your professional style and even come across as more confident and professional than in your previous conservative look.

We recently did a survey of our Dressing Your Truth Club Members in which they answered the question, "Now that you are Dressing Your Truth, how much of what is in your closet do you love and feel great in?" We had an overwhelmingly positive response! Over 90 percent of the women could honestly say that they loved 90 to 100 percent of what they owned.

These are just a few of the comments women shared with us in the survey: "Now everything goes together. I don't need separate shoes for this outfit and a bag for that one. I love it! And I look at my closet now and love everything in it." (Karen, TYPE 1SM energy). "Prior to Dressing Your Truth, I had about 60 percent of my clothing that I didn't wear. I love clothing so I had lots of stuff, but nothing I loved. Since I learned how to dress my truth, I love and wear everything in my closet now and spend a lot less money on clothing than I used to." (Susie, TYPE 3SM energy).

My goal is for you to love and wear every article of clothing in your closet, to have zero frustration when shopping, and for every part of you to look good and feel good in everything you have to wear—all this while spending far less money than you have spent in the past.
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YOU HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE BEAUTIFUL!](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-35.xhtml#_idTextAnchor045)

This belief is the number one body image issue that women unknowingly acquire at a very early age, and it continues to defeat us through most of our lives. As women, we take this belief on very early in our teen years, probably between ages 10 and 13, because as young girls we look outside of ourselves to consider what the world considers beautiful. With a fashion system that constantly shows us thin, skinny women as the epitome of beauty, we default to believing skinny is more beautiful than not skinny. We unknowingly move in to our adult years with this limiting belief intact, always present to berate us and our bodies with it.

As I have mentioned elsewhere in this book, in a fashion world that shows skinny women as the model for beauty and also shows us mannequins that are a size 6, it is easy to believe, "I have to be skinny to be beautiful." And that if you are not skinny, you should be ashamed and not allowed to feel beautiful or appreciate your body.

When you go into a dressing room to try on fashionable looking clothes (which most likely are not right for your Type of beauty), and the clothes don't feel good or look good on you, you immediately conclude that the reason they don't look good is because you are too fat! You probably do a real number on yourself then, looking into the mirror and telling yourself, "I am too fat," and then continuing to shame specific parts of your body that you blame for not being attractive or thin enough.

You may have never considered that the real reason you don't feel good or look good in those clothes has more to do with the fact that they are not the right design lines, patterns, colors, etc. for your Type of beauty, and that their fit and feel have a lot less to do with the size of your body than with not matching your Energy Type.

As I close this section on the biggest fashion myths, I invite you to take this myth and all the others I have noted and throw them out. It may take you a little longer to get rid of the "every woman can wear black" myth, but please release yourself from the "I have to be skinny to be beautiful" myth once and for all. This is the most damaging of the myths to your psyche and self-esteem.

Stop shaming your body and the size of it. Start loving yourself exactly as you are now! Start with this: commit to no longer saying "I am too fat!" I don't even care if you are overweight. What you tell your body, your body believes. Your beauty is not in the size of your body. Your beauty starts within you and continues as an outer expression of you! As you start to dress your truth and start loving your body, as a result, your body starts to get healthier and fitter due to the fact that you are now loving yourself just the way you are. Many women have told me that they have lost weight just by joyfully accepting and embracing their Type. It is just one of the miraculous results of changing your outlook on yourself and your beauty.
Part 7

  * Loving Your New Look
  * Pay It Forward
  * A Message to Teen Girls
  * Top Celebs Dressing Their Truth
  * My Parting Thoughts

LOVING YOUR NEW LOOK

When you take the Dressing Your Truth online course, there may be some things that are new to you or you may even think, "I would never wear that!" Believe me, I have heard it hundreds of times, yes, hundreds. Too many women are not living their truth and when they put truth on their body it can feel very different.

When you learn to Dress Your Truth, don't compare it with what you have been doing. Dressing Your Truth is revolutionary and there is no other system like it out there.

When you fully understand the Dressing Your Truth system, you won't ever be saying things like: "I hate silver jewelry!" or "I will never look good in that." Instead, you will be saying: "I know what jewelry is exactly right for me!" and "I always look good in that color." And, "Shopping is always so much fun. I can't wait to go!"

I encourage you to try a 30-day transformation. Once you have gone through the online experience (and you can do that right now!), commit to Dress Your Truth for the next 30 days.

I am a TYPE 3SM woman and it is my nature to push you to dive right in and do it full on. You will never know the difference if you are still holding back or holding a lie on your body.

During those 30 days, you'll experience more confidence, happiness and freedom than ever before. And we're here to support you through every step of the way.

This new world of Dressing Your Truth will soon make so much sense to you that when you begin to shop for new pieces, whether at a consignment shop, secondhand thrift shop (which we love and recommend!) or name brand stores—it gets really easy to shop.

You will soon discover that the reason that the clothes you thought you liked don't flatter you, don't feel good on you, or actually make you appear heavier, is not because your body has a problem: it is the truth about what clothes look good on you!

Dressing Your Truth reveals that beauty is not about body type, it's not your age or race—it's about truth.

Many of our clients report they have lost weight when dressing their truth because it's no longer a struggle to hold a lie on their body.

As you move forward, you'll see that you aren't as preoccupied with how you feel, you won't be as self-conscious about your body and you definitely will be turning a few heads your way. Rightfully so! God created you to be beautiful!

You are designed to be beautiful—so be that way. If someone wonders what you are doing or why you have changed your appearance, encourage them by saying, "I have made a decision to be true to myself and it feels great!" Be yourself, be happy and be confident—live your truth, fully you!

CAMILLE'S STORY

Camille's story teaches us a good lesson: when we own our lives and stop making excuses and take charge of who we are, others align and support us more fully in living our truth.

Camille discovered the Dressing Your Truth program in 2007. She thought it was wonderful. But her husband was not the supportive, excited fan she had hoped for. It was hard for her to dress and do her makeup and hair due to the incredible resistance she felt from him.

She thought about it every day (how can you not think about it when you get dressed every day?) After about 10 months, she tried not to think about the Dressing Your Truth program. She told herself that it just didn't matter.

Nevertheless, try as she may, she still thought about it every day! Another year went by, and Camille and her husband were constantly fighting about her weight, how she looked, or didn't look. It was crazy and frustrating.

Finally, one day she woke up and realized that if she were to live her truth, she needed to take better care of herself. She realized that the extra weight she was carrying was holding her back in her relationship with her husband and keeping her from pursuing her personal goals and dreams.

Camille started exercising consistently and eating nutritious foods in proper amounts. She went back to her closet and put together outfits that were true to her Type of beauty.

"Recently," she reports, "I purchased your online experience for my Type of beauty. It was a fantastic refresher course. I also learned how to fix my TYPE 3SM curly hair. This is the first time in many, many years that I love my hair. I now have a smile on my face when I get dressed. I love how I look. And guess what? My husband is dating me again!"

MARY'S STORY

Mary's story is a great example of how the current system of fashion has failed us. Mary's struggle is all too familiar to many women. Read her story and see how big the transformation has been in her life once she learned how to dress her truth.

"I was asked how my life was different after I participated in Dressing Your Truth, after I changed how I wear my hair, makeup and clothes.... One thing I noticed right away is that shopping is no longer my nightmare. I used to dread shopping. It took hours of trying on things to find even one item I could tolerate.

"Now, I don't try on anything that isn't in my five elements from Dressing Your Truth! It takes me only a few minutes to sort through a rack and see if there's even anything worth trying on. And when I do try something on, it's almost always a keeper. No more frustrating two-hour dressing room sessions where everything I put on looks terrible and makes me feel terrible about myself.

"Now shopping is easy and fast. And I love my new clothes. That benefit alone would have made the Dressing Your Truth training totally worth it. But there's so much more. I had a very positive reaction from my family and coworkers about my new look, but the important part of this transformation has been internal, not external. I wish I could articulate this better—but the difference is in how I feel and how I approach people and situations. I am more confident, more able to function in my workplace and home environment because I feel better, lighter and more energetic. It is as if a weight has been lifted.

"I never realized how all the black and the harsh, stark lines I wore made me feel. It doesn't seem rational that this material or that material or this color or that color could make a difference about how I feel and present myself, but it does. When I am in clothes that are dynamic and rich in color and texture, I feel happier.

"When I feel happier, I make better presentations, I interact with clients and students more positively, and others who don't know me more quickly accept me. I work in the education sector where, among other things, I work with teachers to produce materials, negotiate contracts, and work out difficulties with students and parents. I used to have to take five or ten minutes talking to a new faculty member or student or parent to convince them that I both knew what I was talking about and was truly concerned for their well-being and able to do the job at hand. Now I have noticed that the acceptance happens much more quickly. It is as if the fact that how I look and the energy I carry harmonize and set others at ease even before I attempt to help them feel at ease with my words. And that has made all the difference in the world. The results have been incredible. Thank you for this training."

ONE LAST PERSONAL STORY

The following story will ring true to many women. It was given anonymously by a TYPE 2SM woman.

"I am 34 years old, and I live in a small ski town in Idaho. Most people who live here dress in outdoor clothing, which can sometimes be drab and shapeless. I have lived here for 10 years and have gone through a few wardrobe changes, mostly from one outdoor clothing company to the next.

"I have to say that the latest change with Dressing Your Truth has been the most fun by far! I am constantly getting compliments about how well put together I look, which is so new for me and quite a change from my past. Now when I go out, I stand out from the jeans and fleeces everyone else is wearing. I get noticed, which is so fun for me as a TYPE 2SM woman because I often feel blended into the background.

In my late teens, I decided that I had no idea how to dress fashionably, and so I began to dress like a boy. I wore baggy boy's shirts and jeans and felt a new kind of freedom that I wore what was comfortable and felt good in, and I didn't care about the fashion trends anymore. This philosophy carried into most of my 20s. I desired to look pretty and sexy, but I thought it just wasn't one of my talents to know what to wear.

"Then I turned 30. I wanted freedom from the boring clothes I had been wearing! I started to experiment with skirts and dresses and color, but quickly found that I didn't know how to match the right colors together, so I just started wearing mostly black and white! I began wearing a little makeup but was still unsure about how to apply and what colors were best.

"I wish I had this information long ago!

"This course has really taught me how to bring out my beauty. I now love accessorizing! And I can't believe the comfort and confidence I feel now. I used to feel so unsure, especially when I dressed up, but now I feel beautiful and sophisticated. I feel so good about myself and who I am when I am dressing my truth, and, yes, shopping is more fun, too! What I love the best though, is looking in my closet and seeing all the colors harmonize, and knowing that everything in there is comfortable and looks good on me!

"You've made dressing fun (finally). Thank you Carol for all you do. I've read all your books and listened to most of your audio content. You are an important spiritual teacher in my life."

Move forward now in Dressing Your Truth and you will discover an amazing world of natural, easy-to-achieve beauty that awaits you!

God bless you! You were created to be beautiful!
PAY IT FORWARD

You are truly amazing! You bring light, joy and excitement to the world! Keep moving forward in this new-found you! It will only get better as the weeks go on.

Dressing Your Truth brings the true you out! When you are Dressing Your Truth, you are literally wearing you on your clothes. You are a beautiful woman and that is what your outer appearance will be saying about you to the world! You are a gift of light and joy to the world—so let that be known!

Living your truth and Dressing Your Truth is a gift to the world. I am sure that other women will notice the change in you!

Some may ask you, "What are you doing? You look fantastic!" Others may not have said anything, but believe me, they are noticing.

Women have been taught to settle for mediocrity when it comes to their bodies and their beauty, having been taught superficial methods by the fashion industry that actually camouflage most women's beauty.

Think for a moment about a woman you know, even a teen girl you know who would love to know about Dressing Your Truth. Maybe it's your sister, your neighbor, your mom, maybe even your own daughter.

Take the time to introduce them to the Beauty Profiling system and Dressing Your Truth. What a gift you are giving them. Especially a teen girl—wow, think of the years saved from shameful dressing room experiences and negative views of herself and body.

My greatest hope is that, if you are a mother, you will guide your daughters to this information so they can become their own beauty experts early their life, before they fall victim to the whims, styles and trends of the fashion industry. And if your daughters are between the ages of 12–18, and you teach them the truth about their beauty and support them in learning how to dress their truth, quite possibly we could revolutionize the fashion industry within a couple of generations!

Dressing Your Truth is a priceless gift. If you share this revolutionary system with the women you know, they will bless you and thank you.
A MESSAGE TO TEEN GIRLS

The Dove Self-esteem Fund commissioned a study entitled Real Girls, Real Pressure: A National Report on the State of Self-Esteem that addressed the self-esteem crisis in the United States that encompasses nearly every aspect of a girl's life, including her perception of her looks, her academic performance, and her relationships with family and friends. Participants in the study were girls aged 8 through 17.

The study offers some key findings that are very telling about what is going on in a young girl's head. For example, an astounding 70 percent of girls believe they are not good enough and don't measure up in some way. Of girls with low self-esteem, 75 percent said they participated in negative activities such as eating disorders, bullying and cutting themselves.

It's clear to me that we can do a lot more than we are doing to stem the tide of low self-esteem among teen girls in our midst.

Here's a case in point. A short time ago, I encountered a young woman who was dressed in a distractingly low-cut shirt. From our interaction and the way she carried herself, it was clear that she had not made this decision from a place of self-confidence. As many girls do, she may have believed that the way to be seen as valuable or important or attractive in this culture was to show a lot of skin.

Girls, listen to me on this one. The media and fashion world has sexualized beauty to make you think looking sexy is what feminine beauty is. Looking sexy and pretty is not about showing your cleavage and other parts of your body.

When I was your age, the only women I knew that wore push-up bras were Zsa-Zsa and Eva Gabor! (You probably don't know who they are—ask your mom.) Nowadays, almost all teenage girls own a push-up bra. My point is, there is way too much attention put on a woman's breasts as being the most attractive part of her, when there is so much more to her as a whole and complete woman.

Your mom may want you to dress modestly for a variety of reasons—personal values or to not turn guys' heads. As a mom, that is a good reason, but my reason for telling you to cover your breasts and tummy is not to keep you from attracting the wrong kind of guy, it is to tell you that it's just not your best look! If you want to be incredibly beautiful, think again about how much skin you are willing to reveal, and why you want to reveal it. Wear what feels correct for you, coming from a place of confidence that you are truly beautiful inside and out.

I believe that your greatest beauty is in your smile and your eyes. Your smile radiates what is in your heart—your personality and who you truly are. Your eyes are the window to your soul, and they shine forth your light and beauty from within. Your face holds your greatest beauty. Why? Because it reveals who you really are like nothing else can.

You can't put on self-confidence or self-love. You "wear" what you believe about yourself, no matter what kind of clothes you have on. That's what tells your true story, and that's why you need to learn the truth. Learn to Dress Your Truth as early as you can in life, and avoid the painful experiences too many of us older woman have lived with for many unhappy years.

Another thing: stop telling yourself you are not beautiful or that you are fat. You will only create what you don't want when you hold that belief! Stop shaming yourself when you look in the mirror. Stop comparing yourself to other girls and deeming yourself less adequate. Stop thinking you will never be pretty or thin enough. When you learn to fully accept yourself, none of these phrases will make any sense to you anymore.

Don't look to celebrities and fashion magazines to decide which fashions are right for you. I am sure you are aware that all the images of girls and women in fashion magazines are doctored by photo manipulation and airbrushing.

I have the good fortune to be the mother of two amazing daughters, Jennifer (TYPE 1SM energy) and Anne (TYPE 2SM energy). At the time of this writing, Jenny is 33, and Anne is 29. Both my girls learned to dress their truth early in life. I don't think either one of them has ever had the thought that they were not pretty enough. My daughters-in-law, Sarah, (TYPE 3SM energy), and Jaleah (a TYPE 1SM energy, are both fine examples of very beautiful young women. Anne, Sarah, Jaleah and Kalista are our Dressing Your Truth Beauty Experts and play a big role in teaching teen girls how to live their truth and love themselves. Be an example to your peers and lead the way in claiming your truth by learning what Type of young woman you are, and then choosing to live your truth on the inside and out! When you understand the truth about the real source of your own beauty, it will show in your smile, your eyes and in every aspect of your being. And people will notice you like never before, for your real beauty—the real you!

I invite you, your friends, and your mother to share this journey with me. You'll be so happy that you did!
TOP CELEBS DRESSING THEIR TRUTH

I've listed here a number of celebrities who are naturally dressing their truth. Although they may not always be right on target, they seem to be following their intuitive beauty sixth sense and are making consistent choices that are right for their Type of beauty.

CELEBS DRESSING THEIR TRUTH

These women are successful at dressing their truth, although their look is not always completely in integrity with their Type of beauty:

  * Ellen Degeneres, TYPE 1SM beauty—Ellen has a clean, crisp, fresh look that is true to her buoyant, upbeat nature. Her hair always looks great for her Type of beauty as well.
  * Meryl Streep, TYPE 1SM beauty—Meryl regularly honors the youthful quality of her Type of beauty in gold jewelry, bright clothing, and light hairstyles that she often pulls up. 
  * Jennifer Aniston, TYPE 2SM beauty—Jennifer has flowing, layered hair, and uses soft tones which honor her natural softness.
  * Lauren Conrad, TYPE 2SM beauty—Lauren wears her long hair in wavy S-curves and her Lauren Conrad clothing line often reflects design elements consistent with TYPE 2SM energy.
  * Barbra Streisand, TYPE 2SM beauty—Barbara wears flowing, soft garments. Her hair is soft and flows inward, true to her TYPE 2SM nature.
  * Joan Rivers, TYPE 3SM beauty—Joan wore a lot of edgy styles, put angles around her face, had a great TYPE 3SM hairstyle, and wore substantial jewelry.
  * Anne Hathaway, TYPE 4SM beauty—Anne wears bold colors, including lip color. She has dark hair, and dresses her truth in a simple, sleek way.
  * Cher, TYPE 4SM beauty —True to her Type, Cher has been making bold statements with her attire for many years!
  * Gwen Stefani, TYPE 4SM beauty—Gwen is a platinum blonde. She displays high contrast, has bold lips and a bold style.
  * Ivanka Trump, TYPE 4SM beauty—Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has a sleek, stylized look, and dresses in a simple yet classic manner.

MY PARTING THOUGHTS

There is one last thought I want to leave you with.  Don't feel guilty for giving this to yourself! Did you hear that? Do I need to be more clear? Do not, I repeat, do not feel guilty for giving this to yourself!

You may be one of too many women who have feelings of guilt come up when you start to give attention to yourself, and especially your looks. Investing in your appearance can cause guilt due to the belief that doing so is vain and worldly.

Think about it: I feel you would agree that this is an archaic, outdated, backwards belief that is no longer serving women. As women continue to evolve, to know their truth and live it, having the belief that I am incredibly beautiful inside and out can no longer be considered a vain, conceited way to view yourself. Every mother wants her daughter to know and believe this!

Remember: a mom cannot teach a daughter what she does not believe herself. At a deep level you have always believed you are beautiful inside and out. You just temporarily bought into the lie that you were not beautiful, and I know that because if it were true, you would not have been lead to this information to once again unveil that truth to yourself. All along, you felt uncomfortable with the shame you felt about your appearance.

This is a no-brainer to me. If a woman loves herself, feels good about herself and once and for all puts to rest the inner and outer battle with her body and appearance, you are going to see some pretty far-reaching effects. Women who love themselves are better moms, wives, employers, employees, friends, leaders and neighbors. I guarantee that this world needs a lot more women living and dressing their truth, and when that change happens, we will see generations change. I truly believe that.

Women are the heartbeat of humanity and when a woman knows and lives her truth, she has a far-reaching, even vast effect.

You are not being selfish, vain, worldly or self-centered by taking an interest in your appearance and beauty. You are simply loving yourself and showing other women how to more fully love themselves.

In her book Return to Love, Marianne Williamson said, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

If that fear comes up for you, stand up to that limiting belief and tell yourself that it is a belief that has never served women. Replace it with your new belief, "I am loving myself and living my truest self. I love how I look and feel and honor my God-given beauty."

Go for it! I love you and thank you for letting me help you along your journey. As we continue to awaken to our feminine truth and live it, God will enable us to bless the lives of many more women.

It is the time of a feminine awakening. As a spiritual and metaphysical teacher, I have known this for years. Who knew that the feminine awakening would also include beauty and fashion?

It makes great sense! Creating consciousness in the beauty and fashion world is a role I am happy to play. Thanks for supporting me.

I love you,

Part 8

  * Resources
  * About the Author

RESOURCES

The following resources have been mentioned throughout this book. Here is a handy recap for easy reference.

DRESSING YOUR TRUTH

During your Dressing Your Truth online experience, you learn the best clothes, jewelry, accessories, makeup, skin care and hairstyles to honor your unique Type of beauty!

By purchasing the Dressing Your Truth online course, you become a Dressing Your Truth Club Member and become eligible for the support we consistently provide at our exclusive monthly Club Nights either live or online. You also have access to our Club Night Video Vault where you continue your learning on how to create your own personal style for your Type of beauty.

Your online experience includes access to our hair image gallery and our constantly growing gallery of different looks and outfits where you will find help on how to Dress Your Truth in any setting, from stay-at-home mom to the professional woman. And for all the women who have been spending hours straightening your curly hair, we help you fall in love with your curly hair and bring our your best look with our special Perfect Curly Hair module for every Type of woman. You'll enjoy interaction with other women who are dressing their truth through our community forums, where you can support each other in this one-of-a-kind, fun and empowering experience. We are continuing to develop resources to enable you to become your own beauty expert.

Take the next step and start your Dressing Your Truth online experience now at www.dressingyourtruth.com.

IT'S JUST MY NATURE!

For a more detailed study of Carol's Energy Profiling system—the origin of her Beauty Profiling system—we recommend Carol's book, It's Just My Nature! Carol teaches in her typical entertaining and practical style the principles of Energy Profiling and provides additional information that will help you use this assessment tool to better understand your family and friends. We encourage you to introduce Energy Profiling to your spouse, companion, children, other loved ones and friends. Thousands of Energy Profiling users have expressed how understanding each other's Type has dramatically improved the quality of their relationships.

THE CHILD WHISPERER

The Child Whisperer is a parenting book based on Carol's Energy Profiling model. Her intuitive parenting approach makes parenting more cooperative, fun, and most importantly—customized to your individual child.

Carol also supports parents live on her weekly call-in parenting podcast, helping parents recognize the messages in their children's behavior to create more cooperation and joy. More information can be found about both The Child Whisperer book and podcast at thechildwhisperer.com.

THE CAROL BLOG

The Carol Blog offers a fun and entertaining resource for continuing to learn about topics including Dressing Your Truth, Energy Profiling, and Living Your Truth. Carol's engaging and candid style is captured in her written and video blog posts. Visit The Carol Blog at www.thecarolblog.com.

CAROL TUTTLE HEALING RESOURCES

As a 20-year pioneer in the personal development and alternative health field, Carol Tuttle has created a wide array of resources to support you in healing your life. At The Carol Tuttle Healing Center, you will find online video and audio sessions with Carol to help you heal from low self-esteem, relationship issues, weight and body issues, abuse and other life challenges. Carol also offers some of the best multi-media home study courses, CDs, DVDs to help you create more abundance and joy in areas of self, health, money and relationships. We highly recommend Carol's best-selling book, Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century, that has helped tens of thousands of people live their divine truth and create lives of joy and prosperity.

WEBSITES REFERENCED IN THIS BOOK

Dressing Your Truth:   
www.dressingyourtruth.com

Carol's blog:

www.thecarolblog.com

The Child Whisperer

www.thechildwhisperer.com

Energy Profiling:

www.myenergyprofile.com

Carol's home site:

www.caroltuttle.com

The Carol Tuttle Healing Center:

www.youremotionalhealing.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Best-selling author and acclaimed alternative psychotherapist Carol Tuttle has turned her attention to the beauty and fashion world. As a result of Carol's research on the how the current fashion system defeats women and adds to issues of low self-esteem and negative body image, Carol designed a revolutionary do-it-yourself beauty makeover system called Dressing Your Truth® that is changing the fashion and beauty industries. Dressing Your Truth is empowering women to make fashion and beauty choices, not just according to trends, but in harmony with their personal Beauty Profile—their inner truth.

Dressing Your Truth provides women with simple beauty and fashion assessments, quickly helping them tap into their natural beauty and way of being.

They learn to express the true nature of who they are—their purpose and passions, and even their physical features—in perfect harmony with their clothing, jewelry, hair color and style.

Carol has appeared on over 150 radio and television talk shows, providing pioneering insights on weight, fashion/beauty, sex, intimacy and relationships, depression, self-esteem, parenting, physical health and spiritual health. Her media appearances include features in national print, TV and radio.

As a bestselling author, Carol is a personal development pioneer and motivator. For the last 20 years, she has devoted her life to helping people rise out of deprivation to living lives of abundance.

Carol is the best selling author of 5 highly acclaimed self-help books, including Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century and The Child Whisperer.

Carol is the Founder of Live Your Truth, LLC in Lehi, Utah. Carol and her husband Jonathan reside in Utah and are the parents of five children and grandparents of 7. Carol's entire family lives their truth and dresses it, even their TYPE 2SM dog, Jocco!
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xiii

Part 1 1

It Started With Twiggy—My Personal Beauty Nightmare 3

How the Fashion World Has Failed Women 9

It's Time to Take Back your Beauty 15

What This Book Is—And What It Is Not 19

Part 2 21

[The First Step in Dressing Your Truth:   
Discover your Personal Beauty Profile 23](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-12.xhtml#_idTextAnchor019)

Your Beauty is More Than Skin Deep 25

Your Beauty Sixth Sense 29

Part 3 31

There Is More Than One Type Of Woman—Which Type Are You? 33

Type 1SM: The Bright, Animated Woman 47

Type 2SM: The Subtle, Soft Woman 73

Type 3SM: The Rich, Dynamic Woman 101

Type 4SM: The Bold, Striking Woman 127

Part 4 159

It's Time to Know Which Type of Woman You Are 161

Part 5 181

Take the Next Step: Learn How to Dress Your Truth 183

What Dressing Your Truth is Not 189

Don't Wait Until You Lose Weight! 193

You're Never Too Old to Dress Your Truth 199

Part 6 201

The Biggest Fashion Myths 203

[Fashion Myth #1: Black, Black, Black—   
What's With All the Black? 203](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-31.xhtml#_idTextAnchor038)

[Fashion Myth #2:   
Every Woman Needs a Little Black Dress 209](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-32.xhtml#_idTextAnchor039)

[Fashion Myth #3:   
You Lose Your Beauty When You Age! 211](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-33.xhtml#_idTextAnchor041)

[Fashion Myth #4:   
You Have To Spend Lots Of Money   
To Be Beautiful 215](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-34.xhtml#_idTextAnchor043)

[Fashion Myth #5:   
You Have To Be Skinny To Be Beautiful! 219](DYT-Interior_Feb2015-ebook-35.xhtml#_idTextAnchor045)

Part 7 221

Loving Your New Look 223

Pay it Forward 229

A Message to Teen Girls 231

Top Celebs Dressing Their Truth 235

My Parting Thoughts 237

Part 8 241

Resources 243

About the Author 247
