Do you use your dressing as therapy?

Cindy,

Not sure that i would say that i use it as a form of stress relief and there are times when even dressing is very stressful.  However, as you say since i feel more at ease and natural dressed en femme i do find that i am much more relaxed and feel more myself when dressed and even for a bit afterwards having had some time to be my authentic self.

hugs,

suzette

Hello Cindy

I do agree with Suzette, I am definitely 100% more relaxed when dressed, but there again, when I'm out and about En femme, there are elements of stress in that too...so it's a bit of a mix really. ( fighting for the last bargain on the sale rail with two other girls can be a smidge stressful... especially if you don't get it..haha)  ❤️ grace xx

I guess getting to see me complete externally provides some therapy , I'm feminine inside so adding the makeover gives me as close to full female as I can get.

It's certainly relaxing & soul filling 🌹🌹😊😊

Yes, that's a big part of my reasons for dressing.

The feeling of the last finishes to the look is so de-stressing that I feel joyful to step outside and get on with living, freed from my day to day worries - it's like a holiday from myself, except that I am being myself, only in a more authentic, happy and relaxed way.

Small things become sources of wonder and enjoyment, nothing seems to be a problem with no solution - I dream up solutions to all kinds of things that seem minor road blocks in my male life, most of which seem to work.

One issue I do face from this is that prolonged periods in drab make me question whether I'm imagining this phenomena... My male side can get so negative without a regular dose of Laura!

Love Laura

Absolutely! Something to look forward to at the end of a long day of work/errands

Absolutely, it has been that way for years. Besides relieving stress it allows me to be my true self and that is a form of therapy.

For me,it is magical.

I chose yes. When I put on makeup, a wig and clothes I feel like my true self. There is a feeling of being congruent and complete.

Besides dressing being therapy, my therapy resulted in dressing. The more I worked on myself, the result was Kay stepping out from the shadows. Kind of a two way street.

I agree with Suzette...I do not necessarily use it as stress relief, It is more like I'm incomplete and scattered when I'm not Mary Ann. She makes me whole and then the world makes sense when I am completely her. I just feel more in my element so therefore the stress of my living my life as my male self seems to melt away.

I hope that somehow make a little bit of sense.

Hugs, Mary Ann

I prefer enjoying both worlds equally. I love the transformation which allows me to be myself

Interesting question and one I've been thinking on recently. I am currently quite rundown and stressed and haven't dressed in some time. In the past, a good dressing routine has helped me alleviate that. I answered "yes" but as another poster as Mary Ann says, I think its more a case of feeling whole. Not dressing, feeling slightly scared almost of re-engaging with the femme side, is part of the reason I'm not relaxed. So, it would be a therapy to dress, but not because it is therapy, but because I am lacking it in my life at the moment.

Definitely, I find it very relaxing to dress as it lets me express the real me. No ugly clothes, some pretty stuff and Heather just shines on through. I used to commute 45 minutes to work and used to love wearing a nice pair of heeled boots in the fall and winter, if I had a bad day put my boots on for the drive home and felt much better by the time I got home.

I have been working on my physical and mental health due to the time I have related to the pandemic. I had always wondered about this and finally acted out on my impulses. I honestly felt that how I have been conditioned by society that when I do something, I'd just be like I'm glad I tried it but it isn't for me; I honestly kept thinking that I might feel a little bit sick about it or something. To my surprise, every time I try on something new I feel good about myself. I feel confident and sexy. I feel like it is doing wonders for me, I just feel like if I revealed what I am doing to others in my life that they wouldn't be so understanding. So while I feel that what I am doing is therapeutic, I'm doing it privately.

Yes, my crossdressing is definitely a form of stress relied. However it's much much more than a stress reliever to me! It's absolutely essential to my happiness and mental well-being and that's why my wife is so supportive of my thrill of crossdressing!

XOXOXO Scarlett