This Summer I very much enjoyed using Eric Maisel & Lynda Monk’s book ” Affirmations for self-love” – a motivational Journal with Prompts for Self-Worth, Self-Acceptance, & Positive Self-Talk – for some introspection and it was an insightful journey. I very much recommend it to all!

I just randomly opened the book at at page and got to it.

Quote: ” You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be  your soul’s own doing” – Marie Stopes
Affirmation: ” I am beautiful inside and out”
Writing Prompt: To me, beauty means….

My take on this:
Light and radiance. Smiles and laughter.
A certain charisma, that of a wise woman.
Beauty at 57 (my age), means accepting oneself with gratitude. The whole self without focusing on the wrinkles, the saggy skin, the extra kilos, the bat wings… Sitting at the beach here today I struggle not to, yet I wish to stop.
To focus instead on my energy and life spirit, my twinkly eyes, my quick smile and outbursts of laughter.

Beauty is love and that includes self-love, self-acceptance. The deep gratitude for all that I still am and can do.

Beauty means fully being, self-expression, true embodiment in all our glory, including our imperfections.

It means the absence of judgement, of comparison, be it with others or with our younger self.

Beauty is fully releasing our inner light, unashamedly ourself.
August 2024

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Julie Kennedy Projector

Originally British, brought up in France and currently living in the Netherlands after having worked and lived in various countries around the world, I am passionate about helping my clients be heard. I call myself a 'Projector' as I enhance and boost their message, to themselves via coaching and to others via also improvements to their English content via writing, editing and translating (from Dutch and French into English). I host " Fabulous after Fifty" a podcast and YouTube channel dedicated to helping my listeners make the most of these years ahead, changing what needs to be changed and embracing the rest. If not now, when? The world is ours, time to shine, live to our full capacity while making the world a better place, one person at a time.