Amazing Grays - A Woman's Guide to Making the Next 50 the Best 50 (Regardless of your hair color!)
Synopsis:
When an epiphany in the hair salon convinced Maggie Rose Crane to try life without hair dye, she found herself face to face with the fears and questions that unsettle many maturing women living in a culture obsessed with youth and manufactured beauty.
Balanced somewhere between a memoir and a how-to, Maggie uses her personal journey as a springboard to shatter stereotypes about aging. She shares her most poignant insights and experiences on what it means to be a woman "of a certain age," and offers suggestions on how to mindfully chart a graceful course through the physical changes, emotional challenges and mental gauntlet of aging. With honesty, humor and plenty of research, Maggie lights the way for women who want to live the next 50 years with vibrancy and joy.
She shares how redirecting her focus from her packaging to her essence gave her the perspective to age mindfully and joyfully (accompanied, she admits, by a bit of kicking and screaming).
Hers is not an anti-aging message. It’s about accepting and celebrating the choice to become an Amazing Gray (regardless of your hair color), appreciating what we have been given, and not wasting time and energy trying to hang on to the past. It’s about embracing a fresh start as a maturing woman who is vibrant, healthy, wise, engaged with life, sexually active, spiritually connected, physically fit and alive well past 100!
Book Excerpt:
Like so many women who have spent a lifetime marinating in our culture of youth and manufactured beauty and it's negative stereotypes about aging, I secretly feared that I would eventually become a feeble, lonely, prune-faced, housebound, forgetful old woman with her boobs in her lap...and I was nothing less than horrified at the prospect.
As I worked through my fears, it suddenly dawned on me - this was not the end of my life but a new beginning! ... It was a chance to reclaim the authentic me and design the life I want to live from here on out. By keeping the aspects of myself that reflect who I really am, and changing, transforming or dropping those that don't, I could create the identity and life that I chose. Thus, I joined the ranks of the Amazing Grays, women of a certain age who understand that we are in charge of our experience of the aging process - not society, not the media and certainly not our programming about what it means to "get old." ...
By taking the focus off our packaging and redirecting it to our essence, we can see an aging body with new clarity. While this body helps me function in the world, it certainly is not the essence of who I am.
Topics/Categories:
Aging, gray hair, Midlife, Spirituality
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General Women's Studies - Interest
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Original Publish Date:
2008-04-01
ISBNs:
978-0-09660874-99
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