Carried Away
Apr 11 2009 by Katharine Capocci,
The Journal
Whether it be stylish accessory or more ‘mobile skip’, your
handbag and its contents can be surprisingly revealing. Katharine
Capocci speaks to a handbag therapist who tells all.
WHO would have thought your handbag - or man-bag, come to that -
could say so much about your character.
To you it may simply be a fashion accessory that pulls an outfit
together or a practical lugabout, but to handbag therapist Debbie
Percy our bags, or rather their contents, are very much an extension
of our personality.
And she reckons she can tell a lot about you and your life just
from a poke about in your bag.
“Handbag therapy is a light-hearted look at how you and your bag
might be a pretty good barometer on what’s going on in your life
right now,” explains Debbie.
“It is both compelling and fun. I have been long fascinated by
women and their relationship with their handbags.
“Why is the handbag so often off limits to our partners and
children? Why do we laden ourselves down with our bags, or worse,
scurry off with nothing useful inside them? And why do we rarely
step outside of our homes without one?”
Well, if anybody has the answers to all those questions, it’s
Debbie, 44, who is thought to be the only handbag therapist in the
country.
Debbie is flavour of the moment, having appeared on Chris Evans’s
Radio 2 show a few weeks ago talking about her work.
She lives in Berkshire, but is coming to the North East on July
13 as special guest at a women’s’ lunch at Jesmond Dene House in
Newcastle with Pilates expert Rachael Faulkner.
So how do you become a handbag therapist, I wonder. Debbie says:
“I have spent my life in corporate human resources for 22 years,
where I developed my interest in people and what makes them tick.
“I am not a shrink. I am trained as a coach – both business and
life coaching is my bag, and handbag therapy is a wonderfully
light-touch introduction to life coaching.
“I market handbag therapy as ‘light-hearted’, but frankly most
people find it quite revealing and therefore it opens up serious
aspects.”
Debbie runs her own life coaching company called Acamar Coaching
and specialises in working with people who want to make life
changes.
Katharine Capocci writes for Journal Live (
www.journallive.co.uk )
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