Turning 40 and Learning How to Tune Into - and Trust - Your Inner Voice

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In her early 40s, Sarah Gale realized she often felt anxious in her clothes, despite a long career in the fashion industry and knowing how to put an outfit together. She looked great but felt insecure in many situations because she was allowing the situation or event she was dressing for, or the person she was going to meet, to dictate what she wore. She was dressing for others and how she thought they would react to her versus dressing to embody her true self. She realized that, in her wardrobe, she was still catering to external authorities, which left her on shaky ground.

Guest Bio

Former Project Runway Australia judge turned spirit activist, Sarah Gale migrated from the competitive fashion-industry pioneering the journey into the aesthetics of the soul. She is an Accredited Coach and Founder of Wearing Your Worth®, a revolutionary program created to enable women to gain greater insight into their psychological relationship with their clothes and use their wardrobe as an embodiment tool that is congruent with their sovereign self. A mother of two, Sarah is passionate about living an authentic life and continually honing her willingness to live a life that embodies love, courage, and pleasure. She writes from experience and shares from her heart.

Turning 40 and Learning How to Tune Into - and Trust - Your Inner Voice

Sarah Gale had an out of body experience when she was six years old that has stayed with her for her entire life. A voice said to her “there is more to life than this.” Even at such a young age, Sarah interpreted that as more to life than what we can all see - more than just the external.

Life went on pretty normally until she was in her late 20s. She woke up one day and that voice was back; it said, “it’s time.” For the next 10 years she went on a deep dive into who she really is, which included separating from her then-husband. But she felt like she was leading a double life. There was her career in the fashion industry and there was her personal development pursuit, which she kept separate from each other.

In her early career in the fashion industry, Sarah found that there were things she just knew without being told or taught. They just came to her. But she didn’t trust herself to rely on that inner knowing. She explained it away as a skill or a talent, essentially discrediting that the knowledge was her inner wisdom.

Between a job that had her traveling all over the world and single motherhood when she was home, Sarah ran her body down. Her adrenals were shot; she had chronic fatigue. And she was feeling more and more like she had to reclaim who she really was. Then, at age 42, she had a near death experience, which really brought home the fact that she needed to slow down. Things lined up for her to be able to take 6 months off and reconfigure her life to fit who she really was - and that’s when synchronicities started showing up in her life.

The producers of Project Runway Australia asked her to audition to be a judge on the show, which she got and did for two seasons. This raised her profile in the industry and allowed her to start connecting her profession and her personal development pursuit.

Sarah calls the forties a “fertile time” both internally and externally. We build self trust and we rebirth or reclaim the feminine energy within us. We move from trusting the external reference points and other people to trusting our own knowledge and experience. We become the authority of our own lives.

Despite all this growth and exploration, Sarah realized that she still felt anxious in her clothes, despite a background in fashion and knowing how to put an outfit together. She looked great but she felt insecure in many situations. She realized it was because she was allowing the situation or event she was dressing for, or the person she was going to meet, to dictate what she wore. She felt like she was creating a new identity every time she got dressed. She was dressing for others and how she thought they would interpret her versus dressing to embody her true self. She realized that, in her wardrobe, she was still catering to external authorities, which left her on shaky ground.

She decided to stand in front of her closet and simply listen. She tuned into what was going through her head when she chose what to wear. She listened to the self-judgment and self-hatred. She started to realize there was something bigger than just what clothes she was putting on her body. She experimented with her girlfriends’ closets and she started honing her thesis. She developed a concept of “style essences.” And as she honed her process, she started hearing from her early clients - with some consistency - “I’ve never felt more alive in my life.” This journey led Sarah to launch her business Wearing Your Worth. Today, Sarah helps people find congruence between the clothes we wear and who we are.

“Anything that we interact with in this life has the capacity to either connect us to who we are or disconnect us from who we are.” When we find the connection between our true self and our clothes, we find that joy and ease in getting dressed.

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Additional Resources

Sarah’s Website Wearing Your Worth

Sarah’s Free Course - Reclaim Your True Beauty

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