Age Is Just A Number, Right?

Picture this… your HYPED about your own life.

You’re doing work that brings you meaning and adds value to others. You go to bed every night, believing that you are enough. You’re well moisturized, rested, and unstoppable magic fills your bones.
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Because Age Is Just A Number!!
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And then you walk out the door… hear something… read something & something’s SHIFTS. Because everything’s chanced… all that’s good down to the bone feeling is gone.
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The messages we internalize about age.
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Should I be wearing this? Can anyone see my strong, healthy legs’ knees are saggy?

“The question is not size, or shape, or years, or even having two of everything, (for some do not). The issues of the body should solely be… does it FEEL.”
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Even with all our knowing … We STILL CAN fall into the trap of obsession over the SIGNS of aging. As I was reminded by my friend @
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The messages of losing worth and value are bombarding us on every level. And if we’ve always had a soft palette for other people’ opinions, it can leave us feeling we will still never be enough.
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Does anyone see those sagging areas or wrinkles? Have I convinced you, I am worthy of your attention? And if I have at least for a little while, maybe I can be happy.
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I know because I have been there. An endless cycle of trying to improve… to lift & hold it up, concealing, hoping that no one will notice the dreadful signs of my Age.
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The truth is that it’s never been necessary. And this may be our last beautiful opportunity to get that through our skulls. And like so many things throughout our lives … this world can rob you of the joy of the right where you are if you let it. And body/youth image is only one of them.
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Have you been seduced over the years? It’s a bad habit that can start at birth.
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Being Ageless we’ve finally learned that the old “Age-Rule-Book” just another way to lure us into doing something… NOT doing something … or buying something. And as a byproduct… Wasting your valuable time & cultivating HATE.
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“Your BODY is perfect if it…
has the right connection to pleasure? To your heart. To your soul? Does it have happiness, joy? Can it in its own way move, dance, jiggle, sway, thrust?  Because that’s where sustainable joy in life is… & nothing else matters.”
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Paraphrased from another piece of Magic…Women Who Run With Wolves  by Dr. Estes

Your body has not failed you if you were able to take one more breath in this wonderful life.

…  Believe It 🙂 

Kathy Camp is cultivating her brand of Ageless Living & Next Chapters as a “midlife” strategist based in Madrid, Spain, where she coaches International Clients and hosts Transformational Retreats for Women in Europe.   “No More Aimless Wandering Toward Happiness! It’s time to get obsessively specific about what you want & start filling your life with it.”