Step Into Your Wise Woman

For us women, growing older certainly has its challenges. There's a whole lot of things to deal with. Being bombarded by the media from every angle doesn't make it any easier. Ignore it. Life goes on, we fall in love, we fall out of love, some of us have children, have careers go travelling, play sport.... or not then before you know it, it happens.

Those few cute little 'laugh lines' have turned into deep ruts, your crinkles have become wrinkles, there's saggy bums or worse still, a dinner plate arse from years of sitting down in a 'job'. Then there's the floppy boobs whose nipples now point to the ground and then there is the definite thickening of our bodies in weird places. That's just the stuff we can see, on the outside of our bodies! There's another mine field happening in our heads as we attempt to go through the hormone horror stretch.

It all seems to happen so quickly, doesn't it? One day we're skipping down the road with our little playmates and then bang, it's grey hair. Just recently I caught a reflection of an older woman and wondered who she was. It was me! I'm an older woman. Did I miss a section of my life? The transition from youthful to "middle aged" can be a little traumatic, a little confusing and definitely takes time for the adjustment. Suddenly it's not even okay to wear the same clothes, anymore, like that weeny mini you used to love to flit around in.

And even if you still went ahead and wore it, someone, somewhere would have a coronary.The upside to all of this is that getting older can be absolutely, the most freeing time of your life. It's the time that you can really get to know who you are. It's the chapter of your life when you become courageous enough to finally say goodbye to yourself as the girl and step into true powerful womanhood. It's the time that you can be outrageous as you like and most likely not worry about what anyone else thinks... They just think that you're an eccentric old dear! I love it!

Growing older has a whole 'other' wonderful side to it that is not often written about or acknowledged. It's the side that allows us, the possibility of developing into a more gentle soul, a wise matriarch, bringing out our loving, mellow nature and helps us to know that we have the potential to blossom with vibrancy till the day we die. If we allow it, we are, like the older vine which grows upon the trellis. It may look a little woody but it still has the ability to produce an abundance of spectacular flowers. Our colors need not diminish and like the flowers on the vine, our delicate scent need not fade.

Now is the time to cultivate these unique aspects of ourselves and understand that with age comes a wisdom that is born of many years on Earth. Now is the time to step into that wisdom and loving oneself, body, mind and spirit is the key to eternal youthfulness. A very special, youthful glow prevails in women who make a decision to grow old gracefully and courageously. So go ahead, take the time to really get to know yourself and above all, be how you want to be. Live YOUR life.

Rensina van den Heuvel lives on a remote property in North Queensland Australia. She travels as much as she can and writes articles when at home. Rensina has written and just published her first book. Russian Documents... Mongolian Dust is a non fiction travel adventure about a 21,000 klm overland journey from Australia to Switzerland in a Land Rover. Rensina and her partner run expeditions in Mongolia and Outback Australia.

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