CARINA’S OWN STORY
CARINA’S OWN STORY
As the only child of a single parent (something which has become much more normalised now than it was back then) who suffered bouts of bullying throughout her teens, growing up with a parent who was often unwell or in hospital, who then experienced a sudden parental bereavement, as a young person Carina lacked a lot of confidence and self-belief.
Despite any childhood traumas, Carina grew up to be independent and determined. As a result of this, she adopted a forced sense of confidence the way many of us do in our 20s, yet she’d never actually dealt the insecurities she’d developed from her younger years.
Carina went on to build a successful corporate career spanning sales, talent, project and leadership roles. She studied later in life for her Masters’ degree and became a chartered professional in people development and a trained, certified coach.
Yet during her 30s, Carina experienced monumental life changes including redundancy, divorce, an overseas relocation and stress-related illness. Everything she knew had changed or disappeared and she found herself feeling a complete loss of identity. It was here that she realised her old forms of coping mechanisms were no longer serving her and she needed to change her approach. Over a seven-year journey, Carina has learnt to prioritise mind-set and has realised just how much this can impact our confidence levels around our image, physical appearance, how we project ourselves and how we can learn to be comfortable as our true and authentic selves.
From first-hand experience of the benefits of coaching both in her own delivery and as a recipient, Carina understands the success a structured coaching programme can have. As someone who has always been passionate about fashion and styling ever since she was a child, helping others through identification of their own personal style seemed such an obvious choice to explore and she began retraining in the world of fashion styling, with both Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design and the Style Coaching Institute®, and working as a personal stylist.
Carina’s unique understanding of people from her many years of corporate development, fused together with her learnings from her personal styling, led her to an important discovery. A loss of personal style or any lack of direction in style and confidence is most often connected to negative mind-set, low confidence and self-esteem. Educating someone on what suits them aesthetically is often not enough for the individual to feel a true sense of self-worth and confidence, and to be inspired to wear the clothes and styles as guided.
As a result, Carina has formed a coaching programme designed to re-build mind-set and self-belief, whilst providing styling tools and understanding, giving her clients back the control to re-invent their own wardrobe whilst having a new found confidence to wear what’s inside it.
CARINA’S OWN STORY
CARINA’S OWN STORY
As the only child of a single parent (something which has become much more normalised now than it was back then) who suffered bouts of bullying throughout her teens, growing up with a parent who was often unwell or in hospital, who then experienced a sudden parental bereavement, as a young person Carina lacked a lot of confidence and self-belief.
Despite any childhood traumas, Carina grew up to be independent and determined. As a result of this, she adopted a forced sense of confidence the way many of us do in our 20s, yet she’d never actually dealt the insecurities she’d developed from her younger years.
Carina went on to build a successful corporate career spanning sales, talent, project and leadership roles. She studied later in life for her Masters’ degree and became a chartered professional in people development and a trained, certified coach.
Yet during her 30s, Carina experienced monumental life changes including redundancy, divorce, an overseas relocation and stress-related illness. Everything she knew had changed or disappeared and she found herself feeling a complete loss of identity. It was here that she realised her old forms of coping mechanisms were no longer serving her and she needed to change her approach. Over a seven-year journey, Carina has learnt to prioritise mind-set and has realised just how much this can impact our confidence levels around our image, physical appearance, how we project ourselves and how we can learn to be comfortable as our true and authentic selves.
From first-hand experience of the benefits of coaching both in her own delivery and as a recipient, Carina understands the success a structured coaching programme can have. As someone who has always been passionate about fashion and styling ever since she was a child, helping others through identification of their own personal style seemed such an obvious choice to explore and she began retraining in the world of fashion styling, with both Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design and the Style Coaching Institute®, and working as a personal stylist.
Carina’s unique understanding of people from her many years of corporate development, fused together with her learnings from her personal styling, led her to an important discovery. A loss of personal style or any lack of direction in style and confidence is most often connected to negative mind-set, low confidence and self-esteem. Educating someone on what suits them aesthetically is often not enough for the individual to feel a true sense of self-worth and confidence, and to be inspired to wear the clothes and styles as guided.
As a result, Carina has formed a coaching programme designed to re-build mind-set and self-belief, whilst providing styling tools and understanding, giving her clients back the control to re-invent their own wardrobe whilst having a new found confidence to wear what’s inside it.
PERSONAL IDENTITY COACHING: THE CONCEPT
THE CONCEPT
Anyone can experience a loss of identity at any varying juncture of our lives. It could be a career change, promotion or entering motherhood; a change in weight, a divorce or entering peri-menopausal. There are many reasons a person may feel at a loss of their sense of style, confidence and general spark.
Carina Harvey Style & Identity Coaching is a unique blend of coaching sessions to help you to explore and address any root cause of confidence issues, or a lack of self-belief. Focusing on mind-set, whilst teaching you how to dress for your body shape, style goals and providing you with styling techniques to suit you and your lifestyle.
Having worked with people for so long, Carina recognises we all have insecurities and self-limiting beliefs. She has also seen that these can hold you back in areas where you may feel least confident, such as image.
Combining coaching techniques and understanding where these confidence issues come from is paramount to supporting you through your style transformation.
Carina is a firm believer that “you can transform a person’s wardrobe to suit them, whilst ensuring they feel comfortable and have the confidence to wear it.”
Working together, Carina will support you in unravelling some of the core issues and to work through these blocks. During this journey, you can rediscover true self and learn to be creative and have fun with style again once more. Leaving you feeling in control of your wardrobe having found an authentically assured and harmonious style – to you both inside and out.
As women, we can experience a loss of identity at any varying juncture of our lives. It could be a career change, promotion or entering motherhood; a change in weight, a divorce or entering peri-menopausal. There are many reasons a woman may feel at a loss of their sense of style, confidence and general spark.
Carina Harvey Style & Identity Coaching is a unique blend of coaching sessions to help you to explore and address any root cause of confidence issues, or a lack of self-belief. Focusing on mind-set, whilst teaching you how to dress for your body shape, style goals and providing you with styling techniques to suit you and your lifestyle.
Having worked with people for so long, Carina has recognised that women often have insecurities and self-limiting beliefs which can often hold you back in areas where you feel least confident, such as image.
Combining coaching techniques and understanding where these confidence issues come from is paramount to supporting you through your style transformation.
Carina is a firm believer that “you can transform a person’s wardrobe to suit them, whilst ensuring they feel comfortable and have the confidence to wear it.”
Working together, Carina will support you in unravelling some of the core issues and to work through these blocks. During this journey, you can rediscover true self and learn to be creative and have fun with style again once more. Leaving you feeling in control of your wardrobe having found an authentically assured and harmonious style – to you both inside and out.
