This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking about AGEING. Let’s face it: We live in a culture obsessed with youth and beauty (and conflating the two). For so many of us, the message is, “If you’re over 40, you might as well get used to the slow, slippery slide into obscurity.” Well, we won’t go quietly into that night and neither should you, Dear Listener. We have the choice to reprogram our brains—to flip our stories to make creating in every decade better than the last.

References:

• Girls5Eva - TV Show on Peacock
• “The Rite of Legacy” - art by Kinsey Aleksi
• We Can Do Hard Things - podcast by Glennon Doyle

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - When did looking good feel effortless?
3:06 - Aesthetic range
7:11 - Our beauty backgrounds
9:21 - How we look is the least interesting part about me
10:17 - Attraction and sex
20:08 - Drop the game, make the art
22:53 - Female archetypes
25:51 - Insecurity and culture
26:22 - You can’t be old
27:02 - Reprogramming ourselves
31:50 - Fear of aged women
38:39 - We can choose the stories we tell ourselves
41:16 - “I want to be more curious about where my face is headed.”
42:49 - Our bodies are tools to make art, not the art itself

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