I loved this article in the Feb '12 issue of More magazine...
"How to Let Go of Wanting to Look Young" by Emily Listfield, who featured Vivian Diller, Phd., the author of Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change. I'd like to think that I'm not vain, but I am only human.
A few choice bits from the article include: There's an uh-oh moment in every woman's life, whether at the first gray hair or the first fine line, when we realize that the first blush of youth is gone...
*Why are the most confident women--even those who never cared much about their appearance--thrown when they start to see changes in their looks? We have an attachment to the image we see in the mirror, and barring illness or major weight fluctuations, that image remains much the same in your twenties and thirties.
Who doesn't want to look in the mirror and see Snow White instead of being shocked when the Evil Queen stares back? It would seem that I'm really hung up about aging. I want to believe that I'm not.
I confess that my son's upcoming wedding and my not wanting to look old and frumpy has a lot to do with it! That's why I liked this article; reading it was like getting a gentle just-get-over-it slap in the face. Youth. No roads back.
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