Ever Asked Yourself One Of These Questions?

These questions keep us hustling for worthiness.
Afraid of “doing it wrong.”
HUNGRY to FIT IN.

But there’s another kind of hunger.

WHAT IF, instead of feeding the hunger of other-people’s-approval, we fed the hunger of SELF ACTUALIZATION and SOVEREIGNTY? The hunger of being loved and being seen? The hunger of what Clarissa Pinkola Estés calls THE WILD FEMININE?

Despite what you’ve been taught, your worthiness is not dependent on your pant size. It’s not dependent on your gender choice, your skin color, your budget, your ability, or your age.

WORTHINESS IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT.

The SIMPLE ACT of getting dressed BY YOUR OWN RULES, and reveling in YOUR ONE AND ONLY BODY, is a way to FEED THAT HUNGER, and KNOW YOUR WORTHINESS.

Your SOUL FIRE deserves to be seen.
Your BODY deserves to be celebrated.

Don’t waste another minute asking questions with dead-end, made-up, ever-changing answers. It’s a ruse. To keep you preoccupied and confused. To keep you feeling fearful of doing it wrong.

There's a reason why everyone says Style School is

THE BEST INVESTMENT THEY'VE EVER MADE IN THEMSELVES! 

Hi, I’m Stasia!

I didn't start healing my relationship with my body until I was in my early 40's.

I had no choice. My kiddo was born with craniofacial differences and limb differences. How could I tell her she was PERFECT, when I hated my ordinary body? 

I had to figure this out. So I did what I knew how to do. I collected data. (My background is in science.) For weeks I combed through my local thrift store, trying on EVERYTHING. Some things made me feel like my body was the perfect body. Other things made me hate my body. And I realized... MY BODY IS NOT THE PROBLEM. I just didn't know how to dress my one and only body! So I learned everything I could about balance and proportion (how come nobody teaches us this stuff?) and learned HOW TO DRESS MY TODAY-BODY. 

I finally had pants that didn't make my crotch burn when I sat down. Hallelujah! I just needed a higher rise! 

But then when summer rolled around, and I wasn't wearing any pants, things fell apart. I was back where I started. Hating my body. 

I WANTED MORE. I wanted to feel good in shorts. In a cropped top. In a swimsuit!! So I tried loving my body. I tried so hard. And I just.couldn't.do.it. (Insert womp womp sounds.)

Then I read All About Love by bell hooks, and learned the difference between loving, and SHOWING LOVE.

So I practiced SHOWING LOVE to my body. And something happened. When I showed love, I experienced love. So I started SHOWING LOVE to the parts of me that felt shame, the parts that felt ugly, that parts that felt unworthy. And I experienced even more love. And slowly but surely, my capacity for LOVE grew, and I actually started LOVING MY BODY. 

WHAT?! You don't get there through discipline, dieting and punishment? You get there through... LOVING?!?! 

In Style School, I will teach you about balance and proportion. But that's not enough. I will also teach you how to SHOW LOVE to your body, so you, too, can EXPERIENCE LOVE.  

I remember crying on a the steps of the post office when I turned 40, wondering if I needed to see a doctor for a personality disorder. I was learning how to dress my body, but I didn't know if my style was sporty, outdoorsy, bohemian, classic, preppy, or eclectic? Every time I tried stuff on in a fitting room, I had an identity crisis. 

So I turned to blogs and books for the answer. SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME... WHAT'S MY STYLE! 

You see the irony here, right? I was looking outside of me to figure out MY personal style. 

And then my kiddo had this whole I WANNA DRESS ON THE OUTSIDE THE WAY I FEEL ON THE INSIDE experience, and it totally rocked my world. (I did a TEDx talk about it. It's been seen close to 700K times. Check it out!)

So I started collecting more data, and asking myself some questions. 

Who am I? And how do I want to SHOW UP in the world.

Underneath the worry and shame and fear of being "too much," I am loud, scrappy, wild, raw, gritty, bold, brave, and tender. I want my style to reflect THAT!!

I don't see THAT in any of those categorical "style boxes."

So I started trying on EVERYTHING. Noticing how each piece made me feel. If something didn’t FEEL GOOD, I took it off, and tried something else.

I didn’t need any rules to tell me how to dress. I just needed to be BRAVE ENOUGH TO TRY SOMETHING NEW. Which was tricky, because mostly I was a chicken! That's where all that SHOWING LOVE came in handy! When I SHOWED LOVE to my fear, heck if it didn't start to melt right away. 

And that, my friends, is INSIDE OUT CONGRUENCY, and it's the foundation of Style School. 

 What you will be learning during our 6 weeks together.

Week 1. Inside Out Congruency

_{May 12 - May 18}

You will begin the course by noticing all the BEAUTY + POWER + WISDOM that is ALIVE inside of you.

You will settle into the PEACE and POWER of authenticity and self expression. 

And you will learn how to EXPRESS on the outside (through STYLE!) what you're feeling on the inside. 

It's called Inside Out Congruency, and it is the foundation of this course.

Week 2. Balance and Proportion

_{May 19 - May 25}

During Week 2 of Style School, I will teach you the basic principles of balance and proportion. In other words, I will teach you how to dress the body you have now, not the body you wish you had.

This lesson alone has the potential to change the way you relate to your body.

Once you learn how to HIGHLIGHT what you love, instead of HIDE what you hate, you will shake your fist in the air and scream... WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY EVER TEACH ME THIS?

Week 3. Showing Love To Your Today-Body

_{May 26 - June 1}

This week I will teach you how to SHOW LOVE to your today-body. (I will NOT teach you how to "love" your body. THAT is a natural consequence of a body that feels loved.)

You will learn how to SHOW LOVE to your body when things feel easy. And when your brain is telling you that your body is disgusting and ugly and fat and bad and wrong and unworthy of being seen. 

This is revelYOUtionary work that will transform the relationship you have with your body.  

Week 4. Healing Through Hue

_{June 2 - June 8}

Scared of experimenting with colors because you're not sure which colors are YOUR colors!? I get it. When you're told there's a "right way" to wear color, it means there's also a "wrong way" to wear color.

And it's a lie. You cannot wear color wrong. If a color makes you FEEL GOOD, wear it. If it doesn't make you feel good, don't wear it. 

Easier said than done for us rule followers! 

Which is why this week's practice is around FINDING SAFETY inside our bodies, so we can move from fear to freedom! 

Week 5. Building Capacity (for allllll the accessories)

_{June 9  - June 15}

Are you afraid that accessorizing will make it look like you tried too hard or like you're just too much?

Great! That gives us something to work with this week! 

This week, you will practice FINDING SAFETY inside your body so you can express what's alive inside of you, without getting sidelined by those voices inside your head that tell you you're too much! 

No better place to practice EXPRESSION than with accessories! 

Week 6. Closet Curation

_{June 16 - June 22}

Do you know the #1 thing most women have in their closets? GUILT + SHAME. 

Those pants that used to fit, in the before times. Before the pandemic. Before you had babies. Before your marriage fell apart. Gals, it's time to get that stuff outta your closet!

During Week 6 of Style School, you will take everything out of your closet, and only PUT BACK what you love so your closet will become a guilt-free, shame-free, obligation-free sanctuary of TRUTH + SELF LOVE. 

Heart Beating Fast? GOOD.

That's your body's way of saying YES PLEASE! 

• Live Class Calls

Every Monday for the duration of the course I will be teaching lecture-style LIVE class calls. Most online courses offer pre-recorded-from-four-years-ago content. I've chosen NOT TO DO THAT for this course because I want to keep the content fresh and applicable so I can integrate what's happening in the group––and in the world––INTO the course content. So whether you show up live, or watch the recording, you are guaranteed fresh content. The recording will be posted Tuesday evening. 

• Live Q+A Calls

Every Thursday throughout Style School, I’ll hop on Zoom for a juicy 1.5 hour Q+A call. This is hands-down my favorite part Style School because it's a space we CO-CREATE together. I take all of your questions, and weave them together in an answer that awakens something inside of us that is so raw––and so beautiful––the call almost always ends in tears. If you can't make the call live, no problem. You can submit your Q's ahead of time, and I'll answer them, even though you're not there. The recording will be posted Thursday evening. 

• Nourishing Movement Class

Smack dab in the middle of Week 2, Style School alum Susan McCulley will lead us in a virtual nourishing movement practice. We'll sway, we'll move, we'll laugh, we'll listen to our one-and-only bodies. You will focus on what your body CAN DO. And how GOOD IT FEELS to move WITH your body, not against it. All bodies and abilities are welcome. The call will be recorded.  

• An ACTIVE Style School Community

Style School is a HIGH TOUCH program. You will not be tossed into a large online community of women and be forgotten or ignored. You will each be placed into a small (no more than 40 women) "Sister Squad", which honestly, is why Style School is so special. You will get to know these women better than you know your own best friends. That's what happens when a group of brilliant women come together who are ready to live WILD, BOLD, COURAGEOUS lives!

Your Sister Squad is where you will post outfit pics, ask Q's, celebrate bravery, and support your sisters as you travel the path to discovering YOU, and your own personal style. It is a sisterhood of LOVE, SUPPORT and AWESOMENESS. You will laugh and cry. Stretch and grow. And you’ll do it together. 

• Your Daily aWEARness (YDA) Style Invitations

The YDA Style Invitations––delivered to your inbox every single morning for 6 weeks––are style prompts designed to gently nudge you out of your comfort zone, into more courage, confidence and congruency than you ever thought possible with your current wardrobe. You might THINK you've got nothing to wear. These daily prompts will show you otherwise! 

• Lots of Support

Each Sister Squad will receive abundant support 7 days a week from me, Jodi, and a team of Big Sister Style School mentors. Jodi will be assisting on the calls, posting content in our community, and providing admin and tech support. The Big Sisters will be there to cheer you on, celebrate your wins, encourage you when things feel tricky, and show you how to DO Style School. They're all Style School alum, so they've been BEGINNERS, just like you. Style School changed their lives. Now, they're here to watch it change yours.  

Change your pants. Change your life.  

It's as true now as the day those words first came outta my mouth.

A's to your Q's