Yes, change is coming and there isn’t much you can do about it – fight it or accept it? Most people will say let’s accept it and move on. However, when it comes to your body, and as we age and change, the best defense is a bit of both fight and acceptance! Accept you are aging - nobody can stop that, and fight for the best body you can be! Referring to your face, the basics: Clean your face morning and night, moisturize always as fluids are evaporating from your body with each minute that passes! Change can be good. As we age, we change how we treat our skin, what foods we consume, and how much exercise we force ourselves to do. As each decade moves through our lives, instead of making New Years resolutions, we need to adopt changes that our bodies need to be healthy and strong. As an example: How and what you ate and how you exercised before age 20 will be different from when you are in your 30s and 40s, different again for 50, 60, and 70. An excellent book called "Passages" by Gail Sheehy was published in 1976. It intended to help people understand and accept changes that occur during their lifetimes. As she writes in her original book – there will be ‘predictable Crises’ in our adult lives! Her new book called "New Passages" is excellent. I had to chuckle at the title of one of the Chapters referring to menopause, ‘I have no estrogen and I have a gun’, I couldn’t stop laughing! The frustrations that women feel during the ‘changes’ are real, but luckily we have not become mass murderers!
Change always brings a level of fear and uncertainty. It’s not comfortable, but most will say after the change, it wasn’t that bad after all. Embrace it! Do something about it! Change is good for you, it challenges you as you grow and when you grow, it's healthy for you. We were raised to provide for the future but what was not included was to value our bodies. Honestly this will be the only body you'll have in this lifetime. Take care of it - listen, respect, and honor it!
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