Studies have found that maintaining a positive attitude towards ageing and a youthful frame of mind helps us to feel younger, to be more psychologically resilient and typically healthier
You’re only as old as you feel, they say, and research backs it up. . A, for example, scanned the brains of 68 healthy older adults and found that those who felt younger than their age had thicker brain matter and had endured less age-related deterioration.
By the time I was 34 I was married with three young children and living in debt with an unemployed partner. Determined to have my own income, I took matters into my own hands and applied for a job as an exotic dancer, even though I was at a life stage when many females would feel they were too old or uncomfortable in their “mum body”.
A few years later my children found out from the kids at school that I was a stripper and they didn’t mind it at all. As for my post-marriage partners, while initially they liked the idea of being with an exotic dancer, sooner or later they’d become insecure. I went through five boyfriends before deciding I was better off staying single.
Anne Miles: “I’m continually looking at how I can be better, rather than resigning myself to slowing down, or to fate.” My ex-husband was brought up in a traditional patriarchal family and believed that it was the wife’s role to do everything associated with the house and children. The only way to achieve my own goals and successes in my career was if I did everything around the house plus build a career on top of that. I’ll be honest, it nearly killed me to carry the weight of it all.
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