• Don't Be Frumpy: My 3 Anti-Frump Rules

    Don’t Be Frumpy: My 3 Anti-Frump Rules

    Mes belles, to live a chic life, don’t be frumpy. What do I mean by frumpy? The proper question is: what do you mean by frumpy? Being chic is about… Read More

  • 12 Ways To Live A Chic Life Series

    12 Ways To Live A Chic Life | New 12-Week Series

    Each Friday I’ll post a new topic with ideas for adding a touch of style, simplicity, and self-care to your chic life. And each week there’ll be a Chic Life… Read More

  • Cheer Up: 3 Lists To Make You Feel Better Right Now

    Cheer Up: 3 Lists To Make You Feel Better Right Now

    Lists help you live a chic life. They guide you to choose and curate – important for expressing your style. They offer a semblance of control in an unpredictable world… Read More

  • CHIC AT HOME – 6 Ways To Have More Style

    CHIC AT HOME: 6 Ways To Have More Style

    Welcome to my new Chic At Home series – ideas and inspiration to help you have more style, embrace simplicity, and practice self-care as we stay home in lockdown, isolation, quarantine,… Read More

  • Keep Calm: 9 Ways To Deal With Anxiety In Scary Times

    Keep Calm: 10 Ways To Deal With Anxiety In Scary Times

    So how do we keep calm and navigate these stresses with grace and wisdom? Here is what I’m doing – perhaps these ideas can help you too. 10 Ways To… Read More

  • Inner Peace:  5 Steps To Start Your Self-Care Plan

    Inner Peace: 5 Steps To Start Your Self-Care Plan

    We’ll cover many aspects of inner peace at A Chic Life, but now let’s address one piece of a calmer life: a simple self-care plan. Here are 5 steps to get you… Read More

  • Personal Values: 2 Questions To Avoid Defensiveness

    Personal Values: 2 Questions To Avoid Defensiveness

    Does this sound familiar? You’re heading home from a dinner party or work or family thing and something niggles at you. An offhand comment somebody made to you. The expression… Read More

  • Phone Addiction: 4 Ways To Break Up With Your Phone

    Phone Addiction: 4 Ways To Break Up With Your Phone

    Ignore who we’re with and what we’re doing as soon as they summon us Constantly check in – has something new happened? Chase their attention Act insecure and desperate –… Read More

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The ‘Chic Life’ Philosophy

To live by conscious choice and not convention or habit. To have less, but better quality. To do more of what matters and less of everything else. To live with grace, elegance, style. To show love, kindness, compassion. To experience inner peace and joy…  Read More

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C’est Moi, Michele

Salut, I'm Michele. For me, 'chic' is more than how you look - it's how you do everything. A chic life is personal style, an organized home, elegance, confidence, living well, self-care, minimalism, joyful work, and happy relationships. And it all starts with knowing who you are. Thank you for joining me! Read More

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