Often times it is discouraging for me to find the style that fits my plus size body and shape, so I am building a collection to these video stashes as a reminder to build up my own closet in 2023.

Plus Size Dressing Made Easy

The first recommendation in this video is to get a fine knitted sweater skirt sets. Personal note:I get the idea of getting a stretchy skirts, but I would like to avoid figure hugging sets because I am wearing hijab, but I am down to the idea of wearing a crop sweater over a long dress. I specifically choose this picture to remind me the color combination I could try (soft turquoise shade and latte).

Sweater Skirt Sets

Monochrome dressing is very flattering in a way that is on trend, and when you just think of it in tones of the same color you will end up with a seamless outfit which always looks great.Personal note:I have learned that the best colors for my warm skin tones often include colors like green, brown, mustard yellow and warm reds. Other warm skin tone colors that I can work with are peach, coral, amber and gold. Olive, orchid, violet-red and moss work too.

Monochrome dressing (one color head to toe

Find a wrap dress that really cinches you in just under your bust. This gives you an illusion of a leaner smaller waist so it kind of gives you that hourglass look. The v-neck of the wrap also gives you a little bit of breathing space there. Even better with accents on the shoulders.A perfect pair of ankle boots. But pay attention to the color of the ankle boots.

Wrap Dresses for Curvy Body Shape

Takeaway from the video: Rather than thinking about what shape we're trying to pigeonhole ourselves in, we can reframe it by seeing different areas we can enhance, and some other areas we want to disguise to create the balance and proportion we are looking for.B

Disguising a Lower Abdomen/Apron Stomach

Balance in the shoulder. Use shoulder pad for the long outer you are wearing to avoid sloping shoulder. Tuck in the top, but leave the sides hanging down. Creating an elongated frame. Long necklace creating dimension tot he outfit.

Creating an Hourglass Shape

Cowlneck Sweater

I am thinking of making it a personal project for 2023; building my wardrobe.

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Plus Size Dressing Made Easy - 2022 Fashion Trends
Today I’m sharing some on-trend outfit ideas and simple styling tips and tricks for curvy girls. I regularly get asked for curvy girl content so decided to focus on some of the top trends that work really well for my curvy clients. While the fashion industry still has a long way to go in terms of size inclusivity each week I'm discovering more and more brands extending their range of sizes which is great.  I'm also thinking about filming a video sharing all of my fave plus size / curvy girl brands so please let me know if you'd be keen to watch this one. Oh and I'd also love to hear which brands/labels you'd like to see offering extended sizing in the comments below. 

Anyway thanks so much for watching and I'll see you real soon,
Leonie
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3. Navy Blue wrap dress: https://rstyle.me/+HSFL8bq28DEAwyo96jsSJQ

4. Ruched green body con: https://rstyle.me/+A5OmCVnmLuouNgihRi0H9w

5. Wine coloured body con: https://rstyle.me/+S767veHk1WHT2-cnxFHang

6. Oatmeal sweater dress: https://rstyle.me/+_JR0B_uPqV42X5hxr2RCow

7. Striped skirt: https://rstyle.me/+IW81FLQKXrtc6Qd2PnTPKQ

8. Black pencil skirt: https://rstyle.me/+fNZMkkQ31PE7cfzemqBLAQ

9. Black asymmetric pencil skirt: https://11honore.com/collections/plus-size-skirts/products/jada-skirt

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Executive function and self ergulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks succesfully. Just as an air traffic control system at a busy airport safely manages the arrivals and departures of many aircraft on multiple runways, the brain needs this skill set to filter distractions, prioritize tasks, set and achieve goals, and control impulses.

Executive Function & Self-Regulation

When children have opportunities to develop executive function and self-regulation skills, individuals and society experience lifelong benefits. These skills are crucial for learning and development. They also enable positive behavior and allow us to make healthy choices for ourselves and our families.

The lifelong benefits of Executive Function and Self-Regulation

Executive function and self-regulating skills depend on three types of brain function: <ul><li>Working memory governs our ability to retain and mainpulate distinct pieces of information over short periods of time.</li><li>Mental flexibility helps us to sustain or shift attention in response to different demands or to apply different rules in different settings.</li><li>Self-contol enables us to set priorities and resist impulsive actions or responses.</li></ul>These functions are highly interrelated, and the successful application of executive function skills requires them to operate in coordination with each other.

Three types of brain functions

Children aren't born with these skills--they are born with the potential to develop them. Some may need more support than others to develop these skills. In other situations, if children do not get what they need from their relationships with adults and the conditions in their environments--or (worse) if those influences are sources of toxic stress--their skill development can be delayed or impaired. Adverse environments resulting from neglect, abuse, and/or violence may expose children to toxic stress, which can disrupt brain architecture and impair the development of executive function.

Children are born with the potential to develop these skills

Providing the support that children need to build these skills at home, in early care and education programs, and in other settings they experience regularly is one of society's most important responsibilities. Growth-promoting environments provide childern with "scaffolding" that helps them practice necessary skills before they must perform them alone. Adults can facilitiate the development of a child's executive function skills by establishing routines, modelling social behavior, and creating and maintaining supportive, reliable relationships.

Society's responsibilities in the development of these skills

It is also important for children to exercise their developing skills through activities that foster creative play and social connection, teach them how to compe with stress, involve vigorous exercise, and over time, provide opportunities for directing their own actions with decreasing adult supervision.

Children aren’t born with these skills—they are born with the potential to develop them. Some children may need more support than others to develop these skills. In other situations, if children do not get what they need from their relationships with adults and the conditions in their environments—or (worse) if those influences are sources of <a href="https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/toxic-stress/">toxic stress </a>—their skill development can be seriously delayed or impaired. Adverse environments resulting from <a href="https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/inbrief-the-science-of-neglect/">neglect </a>, abuse, and/or violence may expose children to toxic stress, which can disrupt <a href="https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/brain-architecture/">brain architecture </a>and impair the development of execut<warningtag>ive function.</warningtag>

When children are being exposed to develop their executive function skills since early stages, these skills set help them to remember and follow multi-step instructions, avoid distractions, control rash responses, adjust when rules change, persist at problem solving, and manage long-term assignments.

Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember, and juggle multiple tasks.

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Executive function can be thought of as the command central of our cognitive skills. These are the skills we use to get things done, plan and organize, not procrastinate (task initiation), not do things we shouldn't do (Inhibition), respond to changing situations (shift) and monitor our own performance. Executive function can be divided into hot and cold.

8 Key Executive Functions

Hot Executive Function Skills is how we function when emotions are high. Under emotional pressure our executive function skills can be quite different. Generally they will deteriorate as the amygdala heightens activity in the sympathetic nervous system and shuttles resources to the parts of our body needed for fight or flight.

Hot Executive Function Skills

Our executive function skills when we are not under duress or other heightened emotional states. In this state our cognitive skills operate optimally

Cool Executive Function Skills

Almost all children who struggle in academics are under constant stress. They are almost always in fight or flight mode. Their executive functioning skills are inhibited. This is why emotional control may be the most important of all of the executive functions for these kids. The other functions will always be inhibited until emotional control is gained. Starting with the body and learning mind-body techniques is often the most effective strategy. All other techniques, such as cognitive behavior therapy, will work better once the emotions are brought under control with physiology.

Executive Function Skills and Academically Struggling Students

The ability to modulate or deal with feelings. In most cases rationalizing is inneffective. It can be used to understand them after the fact but you cannot rationalize away an emotion. This can cause talk therapies to be inneffective until some measure of emotional understanding is gained. Emotions can be repressed or not felt leaving the person with no access to them. Access can be gained through developing the mind body connection

Executive Function Skill #1: Emotional Control

This is the ability to control ones own thoughts and actions. In individuals with ADHD actions can come before or without access to the thought that produced the action. The impulsive action seemingly comes out of nowhere. This is why mind-body techniques can be so effective for those with ADHD or those with inhibitory problems. Mind-body techniques develop access to the underlying thoughts and the ability to control them. Additionally, techniques to control sensory input are very helpful.

Executive Function Skill #2: Inhibition

This is comprised of several forms of memory that all work together. Visual memory, visual memory manipulation, auditory memory, and spatial memory. These are all connected through spatial awareness.

Executive Function Skill #3: Working Memory

The ability to start a task. Initiation can be difficult for many because of perfectionism. Anxiety caused by perfectionism will generally inhibit intiation. In other words, it causes procrastination.

Executive Function Skill #4: Initiation

This relies heavily on visual memory and visual memory manipulation. The ability to use imagination to see oneself carrying out tasks or seeing what will be needed during the process of carrying out tasks. For most people these processes ussually operate below the level of consciousness. For those lacking these skills they must be developed at the conscious level before they can become automatic.

Executive Function Skill #5: Planning and Prioritization

The ability to "Go with the flow". Being able to think and adjust as situations change. In the Eastern Arts this is a fundamental teaching. Individuals who have developed certainty as a top level emotional need will be lacking here. This is is due to attempting to control their environment to ease anxiety.

Executive Function Skill #6: Shift

Also heavily reliant on visual memory and visual memory manipulation. Using visual memory manipulation one can visualize efficient ways of organizing objects.

Executive Function Skill #7: Organization

Also heavily reliant on visual memory and visual memory manipulation. Using visual memory manipulation one can visualize efficient ways of organizing objects

Executive Function Skill #8: Organization

Executive Functions Skills are the mental processes that allow us to properly organize, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Our brain requires this collection of abilities to filter distractions, prioritize work, set and attain goals, and control impulses.

Understanding how executive function works can help you understand your child. Learn more in this infographic

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