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Fashion Therapy
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Fashion Therapy

Completely different from retail therapy, fashion therapy involves dressing to express your personality and most authentic self. Find out how fashion therapy helped my friend Amy and how it can help you, too!

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Fashion and Depression
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Fashion and Depression

Why do people wear what they do when depressed? How can we use fashion to decrease our depressive symptoms?

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Why I Buy Fast Fashion
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Why I Buy Fast Fashion

What happened to buying clothing, investing in fashion, and wearing things for more than a hot minute? Our society has become obsessed with wearing a new outfit every time we go out, never wearing the same thing twice, and not posting photos in whenever it is that we might wear again.

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Fitspiration Fashion
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Fitspiration Fashion

The fitspiration movement continues to grow within the fashion industry, promoting a healthy lifestyle that can take you through your everyday activities and bring you to your workout classes at the gym.

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Fashion of Dating
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Fashion of Dating

Fashion gives individuality in the world of dating, and helps people to seek partners who’s overall style might attract them.

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Little Black Dress
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Little Black Dress

No matter what trends are in or decade it may be, the color black is always the chicest to the world of fashion and never goes out of style. So, why is this the case?

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Fashion and Poor Health I
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

Fashion and Poor Health I

In this blog series, split into two, I plan to discuss the issue of how fashion has and continues to cause body dissatisfaction and eating disorders, and in the second blog, “Women’s Brain Health at Risk,” I plan to discuss the resulting long-term health consequences for women.

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The Psychology of Fashion
Rachel Bernhard Rachel Bernhard

The Psychology of Fashion

I started wondering how fashion influences mood, emotions, and wellbeing, why people spend so much on luxury designer brands, how fashion is related to confidence, self-esteem, self-identity, depression, and anxiety, what retail therapy entails, and so much more.

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