Non Fiction Middle Aged Woman Medical
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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our aging bodies are aging selves. I love my body. I feel like my body is my old friend who stayed with me all these years. I love this comment from Edna Age 83 who delivered it during her interview with a little smile. Nearly all the 30 women I interviewed who ranged in age from 48 to 91 told me that their lives had gotten better in many ways as they got older despite their fears of all the unknowns of aging. I feel a lot more freedom to acknowledge how I feel and move on. It Said Addy age 63, I can call the shots. I don't care anymore if I'm really thin and totally fit these things, just don't matter so much. I want to go into nature, said Lisa Age 71, I feel more related to my body than when I was younger. Said Suzanne, age 58. My body is less of a thing outside me and more me. No one of course expressed delight about the wrinkling and the sagging of their flesh, but more than half did say they'd come to some kind of it is what it is acceptance and many even said that they felt grateful to their bodies for carrying them this far. It was also striking to me that every single person I interviewed mentioned feeling less anxious and almost all reported something in the realm of feeling more like myself, less anxious, more like myself. These are huge changes which profoundly transform our experience of living. The fact is much as we dislike the descending of the flesh. It is the aging of the body that sets the stage for and ushers in our ultimate stage of life, A distinct new phase, with its own advantages, challenges and surprising revelations. It is the aging of the body that spurs surprising new psychological development in later life.