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During menopause and always, you are beautiful. You are enough. Just as you are.

Ageing is Beautiful and something we should not fear or dread. We are enough exactly as we are.

During menopause, beyond menopause, whenever- we are enough.

This is our era of joy & our time to sing.  We each deserve to find the solutions that work for us.

How is it that even in the 21st century we are still not absorbing the message that we are beautiful as we are into the DNA of our soul?

I recently watched a 2020 Hallmark Christmas movie with one of the original Charlie’s Angels tv series Angels in the cast. 

It was so sweet of my hubby to choose this movie for us to watch.  He remembered that waaaaayyyyyy back in the day I adored Kate Jackson in her role as Sabrina in Charlie’s Angels. Because of Kate Jackson’s character Sabrina I wanted to grow up to help people, protect people and be just like her.

Back to the present and this 2020 Hallmark Christmas movie we watched starring another former Charlie’s Angels…. in her first scene I didn’t even recognise her. But what was recognisable were the multiple layers of cosmetic surgery.

It broke my heart.

I am not against plastic surgery. I am aware of how invaluable our reconstruction surgeons are. I am thankful for how the technology for skin grafts has improved exponentially in recent years.  I know it can be life altering.

However, when Hollywood stars with decades of success and strong lead roles still internalise the messages that they aren’t good enough, they aren’t beautiful enough, they aren’t young enough… my shoulders slump and my bottom lip protrudes into a massive saddened frown.

Looking beyond the sexism of the ‘70s, Charlie’s Angels were kick-arse women. 

As girls growing up in the seventies, Charlie’s Angels made us believe we could do anything and be anything. As a young girl I certainly believed it.  And for me personally, it wasn’t tied to their beauty or body image.

I obviously wasn’t the only one who felt that way as this article from People Magazine recounts:

“Cheryl Ladd believed the TV series was inspirational to women despite the critics calling it a jiggle show. She noted, ‘there hadn’t been a show like this on the air [with] three powerful women. We were very inspirational to a lot of young women. Young women would write us and say, ‘I want to be like you. I want to be a cop when I grow up.’ They were taking chances to be something else ….”

If you need a nip & tuck to get your groove back during menopause, no worries. I’ll be your biggest personal cheerleader.  But I’ll still be a bit growly at the society that has pecked away at our confidence and self-acceptance.  In a perfect world happiness is the best diet.

Age is beautiful. 

Every single wrinkle has been earned. Every smile line contains a thousand irreplaceable memories. Shame on the judgemental world that has led us to think we need to erase our canvas.

I love Sunshine Coast based Jan Wild & her inspiring Instagram posts @retiring_not_shy  Like me, she believes we should embrace and love ourselves as we are.  Be comfortable in your skin.   Let Jan inspire us all.

How ever you are right now in this very moment— you are enough. 

You were enough when you came into this world as your mama birthed you.

You were enough in your glorious twenties. 

You were still enough in your thirties and forties.

You’re more than enough today, as you are.