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Category Archives: Wellbeing

Embrace Your Body For a Better Life

Beauty, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 25, 20164 Comments

I’m really excited to be sharing details about a new documentary all about body image. Apparently 90% of women dislike their bodies. They find them lacking. Not good enough. Not right. I have experience this many times when talking to my clients in my image consulting/personal styling business.  Many find it difficult to even look…

Why do you wear: I only wear it at home

But I Only Wear it At Home Clothes

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportMay 26, 201613 Comments

Do you have a bunch of “But I only wear it at home” clothes? Are these clothes that you wouldn’t want to be caught in by friends, colleagues or an ex-lover? Do you sometimes wear them  out of the house? On that quick trip to the supermarket (though you’d hate to see someone you know whilst…

running in middle age

How and Why I Started Running at the Age of 46

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportMay 10, 201619 Comments

Call Me Crazy But I’ve Taken Up Running in my Mid-Late 40s I just participated in the Mother’s Day Classic 8km Fun Run.  In the pouring rain. And I came middle of the pack and I’m happy with that.  I competed last year too and managed to shave about 5  minutes off my time which…

Jawbone Up 2 always on my wrist as it's one of my favourite health apps

My Favourite Health Apps 2016

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportMarch 18, 20165 Comments

There aren’t too many people who have a mobile phone that is just for making telephone calls (or texting) anymore (my kids laugh can’t believe you could ever have a phone that is just for – well calling people!).  These days they are mini-computers in your pocket or handbag and have a life far beyond…

Do You Feel That Everyone Is Noticing Your Flaws?

Beauty, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportMarch 1, 20168 Comments

OK, first up, I’m just going to say that I don’t believe in the concept of flaws. I believe our bodies are beautiful just as they are, that everything is an asset. Now sometimes we may want to hide some of our assets, but they are all assets none-the-less. But, I see comments here and…

what do you love in your wardrobe? Taking these 3 steps will help you discover more about your personal style

What Are You Holding Onto in Your Wardrobe and Why?

Personal Style, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJanuary 28, 20168 Comments

Some of my clients are serious ‘cullers’ they empty their wardrobe each season of clothes they no longer wear. They keep nothing in their house that they don’t love and cherish and use regularly.  They have mastered the art of ‘Kondoing‘ their surroundings. But then there are the clients who are sentimentally attached for some…

2016 resolutions - find a word for the year to guide you

My New Years Resolution Word of 2016

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJanuary 4, 201627 Comments

If you’ve been reading Inside Out Style for some time you may have discovered that rather than make a bunch of New Years Resolutions that I end up not keeping. Instead I choose a word of the year, a word that I use as my focus for the year. A word that will influence all…

Season’s Greetings and a Heartfelt Thank You

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportDecember 25, 2015Leave a comment

The years slip by so quickly and again it’s Christmas in Australia, for us this year it means 34C/93F heat, a bbq with salads and a chocolate “buche de noel” plus home made icecream (raspberry and macadamia nut) for desert. Swimming in the pool, trying to stay cool in the shade. To me, if it’s…

Be generous with your compliments as November 13 is world kindness day

Be Generous With Your Compliments as it’s World Kindness Day

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportNovember 13, 20152 Comments

We are always quick to believe any criticism aimed at us, yet many find a compliment unbelievable.  I’ve written before about how hard it is for many to take a compliment graciously, but considering that today is World Kindness Day I thought that I’d encourage you all to be generous with compliments today and be…

Gain a better body image by being careful with your self-talk

Why You Must Be So Careful About Your Self-Talk

Beauty, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportOctober 20, 201511 Comments

How do you talk to your body? What you don’t think you talk to it? I can bet that you do. We have conversations with ourselves all the time and sadly, most women have negative conversations with their body the majority of the time.    What are the common things your body hears you say?…

Why do we fear getting compliments over our appearance?

Why Are We So Worried About Dressing Up and Getting Compliments?

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportAugust 24, 201513 Comments

Why Are We So Worried about Dressing Up? Are you worried that if you change your style or dress more stylishly you will get ‘the look’ or comments from friends family and co-workers? Even if these comments are complimentary? Many people fear change.  And sometimes those around us are surprised and don’t quite know how…

How Being Others Focused May Ruin Your Style

Others Focus and Your Wardrobe and Why It May Suffer

Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportAugust 17, 20153 Comments

If you are Others Focused you are the most likely to suffer from a less than desirable wardrobe. Why so? Well you focus on others first and tend to put your own needs last. You go shopping, but bring home clothes for the kids or your husband, but not you. You want to shop, but…

Necessity or Possibility metaprogram

Do You Only Buy Clothes When You Really Really Have to?

capsule wardrobes, Wardrobe, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportAugust 10, 20156 Comments

  These are two interesting meta-programs and you may find that you work with one in some aspects of your life, and the other in a different part. I know for sure that I’m wired that way. For instance, whenever I buy a car, I buy it out of necessity. I buy a car that…

Communication

ABCs – Match or Mismatch

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportAugust 3, 20158 Comments

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and all they seemed to do was to point out the differences between your point of view and theirs? That if you said you were alike in some way, they would disagree and tell you that in fact no, you are completely opposite? Or maybe you’ve had…

ABCs – Do You Like Options or Prefer Procedures?

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 20, 201529 Comments

Options and Procedures is one of the NLP meta programs – which in a way can be described as habits of thought – the way we think and act habitually. This operational style plays a big influence on the size of wardrobe you’re happy with.  It will mean that you may love only owning a…

Canberra Youth Orchestra 1985

It Was 30 Years Ago Today

More, travel, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 18, 20156 Comments

Today I’m off to Canberra for the 30th Anniversary of the Canberra Youth Orchestra’s win of the World Youth Orchestra Championships in Vienna (Austria) 1985.  I can’t wait to catch up with so many who went on this amazing journey with me, the majority of who I haven’t seen in around 28 years! I took…

Communication Styles – Are You Visual, Auditory, Cognitive or Kinasthetic?

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 14, 20154 Comments

Have you ever had that experience when you’re having a conversation with someone and it just feels like neither of you are really getting each other? I remember once having a heated discussion with my now ex-husband about something (which I can’t remember the topic anymore) and what I realised some way into this, what…

ABCs – Communication and Frame of Reference

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 6, 20156 Comments

When I was a teenager my parents wanted me to be a musician or an architect.  They were the two professions my parents had decided were right for me (without asking my opinion).  Instead I went and did a degree in communications (even though they tried to talk me into their desired professions).   I…

Why we all need creative outlets in our lives

Why We All Need Creative Outlets

More, Personal Style, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJuly 1, 20157 Comments

Do you have a creative outlet in your life? You may be lucky and work in a creative field so get to exercise your creative muscle (that’s your brain) all the time. For many in jobs that don’t ask for much creativity discovering how you can express your innate creativity may be something that is…

The ABCs of Image – Behaviour – Self and Others

More, WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJune 25, 201525 Comments

When I wrote about my mini-meltdown moment I mentioned that I work in an “others” based job, where my focus is on helping other people. Which I love and find very satisfying, but I thought that I should write some more about the psychological aspect of  Self and Others to also give you more of an…

introversion and extroversion communication

The ABCs of Image – Communication -Introversion and Others Focus

WellbeingBy Imogen LamportJune 15, 201550 Comments

The other night I lost it while I was cooking dinner. My version of losing it isn’t particularly scary, I just banged some pots and pans around in the kitchen and did some noisy washing up, but lost it for me, and I couldn’t at the time really figure out why. I knew I was…

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