Just When You're Comfortable in Your Own Skin, It Starts to Sag by Amy Nobile

Author:Amy Nobile [Nobile, Amy and Ashworth, Trisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

“I’m all about moving forward now. Do I wish I was twenty-one again? Of course! But then I’d miss out on all the good stuff happening now!”

Valerie, 55

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

REFRAMING AND RECLAIMING OUR OWN BEAUTY

As with so many other matters of midlife, this is an opportunity for us to shift our mindset. If we were able to look at midlife as not about losing but about transitioning, blossoming, and perhaps even getting better, we might be able to remove some of the societal stigma. We love what one woman told us: “The key I’ve found is to not resist midlife. Before I was trying to break it like a rock.”

“I hope we are reinventing fifty for our kids. The sheer virtue of how old I am with young kids—there is a part of me that keeps me younger.”

Beth, 49

KATY, TX

We have such a clear—and unappealing—picture of what “midlife” is supposed to look like, what we are supposed to feel, and even how we are meant to deteriorate. The generations before us have passed on their wisdom about how we’re supposed to experience this phase, emotionally and physically.

But so what?

We are ready to do it differently, to reframe the conversation and put a different filter on our perspective of ourselves. We have a unique way to embrace this new chapter with a new mindset, a new way of looking at living.

It all starts with accepting and redefining what beauty means to us, reframing our attitudes about ourselves, becoming more generous, and seeing everything we’ve done as a worthy and beautiful part of our personal narrative.

Questions to consider:

What if you thought of aging as an opportunity instead of a problem?

What would it look like if you thought of aging as an experience?

Could you reframe your “flaws” in a new way (i.e., those stretch marks = wonderful children)

What would it mean to you to “disrupt” your own aging?

Could you imagine “experience” being the new youth currency?

What if our society applauded and rewarded battle scars?

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