Speaking to Yourself Differently: The Gentle Revolution of Inner Dialogue

What if kindness towards yourself changed everything?

There’s something I often hear from my clients, from women in general.
It’s not their fashion choices that strike me the most.
But the words they use to talk about themselves.
Harsh words. Sharp. Sometimes even humiliating.

About their belly.
Their arms.
Their skin.
Their way of being.

And every time, one question comes to me:
Who taught you to speak to yourself like that?

Was it your mother?

Your circle?

A partner?

A teacher?

Or was it the whole world, little by little, making you believe your body needed fixing, controlling, changing?

I used to speak to myself like that, too.

For a long time.
Sometimes without even realizing it.
Every morning, I looked in the mirror for what was wrong.
I didn’t see what was alive, vibrant, capable.
I saw what had to be erased.
And that inner dialogue, I realized much later, was not neutral.
It shaped my posture. My energy. My way of loving.
It diminished me inside, before I could bloom outside.

Then I changed the way I talked to myself.

Not overnight.
But one day, I decided to make peace with my body.
To cherish it, even if it didn’t match what I’d been taught to admire.
To listen to it. To thank it.
I didn’t become a fixed ideal.
I became my fluid version.
And my body thanked me.
With more tenderness. Vitality. Confidence.
And above all: a deep sense of harmony with myself.

Celeste was created for that.

To envelop.
Not to hide.
To reveal.
Not to correct.

You are enough.
And sometimes, it just takes starting to say it quietly to yourself,
until it becomes a truth that rings loud.

Creating with awareness: Clothes as a form of care

This path toward inner kindness changed something fundamental:
my way of creating.
I no longer design clothes to “fix” bodies or flatter a norm.
I create to accompany, to envelop, to honor.
Non-standard sizes, because women are not meant to fit into a grid.
Soft fabrics, because skin deserves to be caressed, not squeezed.
Vibrant colors, because clothing can reflect our light, not camouflage it.
I want every Celeste piece to be an invitation to speak gently to yourself, to look upon yourself with kindness, to give yourself compliments.
And then to let others’ compliments touch us—not to exist through them,
but to receive them in resonance with what we already know of ourselves.

Today, I invite you to this gentle revolution:

Replace every inner critique with a word of compassion.
Honor your body as a sacred place, not a problem to solve.
Observe how you speak to yourself, like you would an old habit to unlearn.
And choose a new voice.
A loving voice.
Present.
Alive.

With all my heart

Maeva