Entering Midlife with eyes wide open. For some it’s a crisis for others it’s a battle. Aging has never been a big deal for me…. until now. Midlife, in crisis, realizing now that forward is not a choice, it’s a demand. The things that I did not make time for in my youth will be what conquers me in my next stage. I see the start of wrinkles and lines and I feel a sucker punch to the stomach. It’s not so much that they are there, but that I wasn’t given the choice, no one asked me if I wanted to be painted with time. I had taken for granted so much in the first stages of life. I would swear to you that skinny models in magazines did not affect my perspective on a woman’s body. I was confident… but I was also fortunate to have a metabolism that kept me from really having to dive deep into this social issue. However, for the first time in my life, I had to buy the next size up. I wasn’t just spilling over my jeans, I couldn’t even do up the button. At first I blamed the pandemic and […]

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