Your Aging Body
Aging. Ahhh, the word that seems to impact each of us somehow.

My usual approach to this topic has been embrace it, accept it, honor it, be one with it, but sometimes it isn’t that easy.

Feeling Older.
I work with many clients who have concerns around aging. I have been in the health and wellness industry for over 35 years and for most of my career my clients have been older than me and were blazing the trail ahead for me. The topic of aging was one that came up daily.

I was often told, ‘Oh, you just wait. One day you will understand.’

So, I waited and thought I would one day understand. And then POW! Menopause hit at 41 due to the sudden loss of my mother. Sometimes menopause can be brought on by traumatic incidents and boy was that one.

“We are all here for a certain amount of time and while we are here I personally believe we should honor the body we have been given.”
—Dove

Some Call It Aging. I Call It Living!
The next few years were intense!

I got a crash course on everything that the body can feel, and it was not fun at all. But, and this is a big But, it was a phase; it wasn’t my forever story. And, it wasn’t even really about aging so much as it was simply about something my body went through and would have gone through at a later date if not then.

I feel that we, as a society, place so much energy on the word aging and what it means to us, what it looks like, what we can do to fight it, reverse it, hide it, slow it down, and so much more! I don’t feel that approach is healthy, wise or, quite honestly, even possible.

How Do We Get Over Getting Older?
We are all here for a certain amount of time and while we are here I personally believe we should honor the body we have been given and treat it with the utmost of care, respect, tend and befriend it in every way possible. Yes, things will happen along the way and yes, some might call that aging but I call it living; being alive, being here, being present for what is occurring in the now.

Embrace It.
We have a choice people.

We always have a choice as to how we want to walk through this life. How do you want to walk through yours? I choose to walk through mindfully, kindly, honestly, and most importantly, patiently. If that is called aging, then fine.

How To Love and Accept Your Aging Body
3 Tips To Start Getting Over Getting Older
Helpful tips to practice to be with our bodies wherever we are in our journey of life: