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Growing Old Gracefully - Everything you Need to Know...
Fans of natural beauty may be interested to hear about a new book called Face It. Written by two models-turned-psychotherapists who argue in “Face It,” their new guide for women, that struggling with changing looks can be no less daunting than dealing with a financial loss, a demotion at work or a divorce.
After decades of counselling patients, Dr. Vivian Diller and Dr. Jill Muir-Sukenick say that dread about growing older can spur an existential crisis of sorts. Such dread isn’t about vanity per se, but has more to do with a loss of potential and questioning one’s place in the world. It can lead to depression, alcohol abuse or sleep disorders, they say. Yet, therapy isn’t usually on the short list of solutions for those bothered by an aesthetic “problem.” A lunchtime laser treatment or an expensive face cream is.
At a time when cosmetic surgery is increasingly seen as a casual endeavour, and anti-ageing injections as inevitable, “Face It” gives women practical steps to parse how they feel about this beauty paradox. “Should women simply grow old naturally, since their looks don’t define them, or should they fight the signs of ageing, since beauty and youth are their currency and power?” the authors ask in their book.
Posted by Sarah Smith
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