297: Embracing Your Age as You Become Older

What is your story around becoming older, growing in a different way, looking different when you look in the mirror?   Betsy shares her thoughts about how we perceive ourselves as we change and become older. She acknowledges that it is an act of courage to be able to step into this new version of you. And shares experiences from her own journey of embracing who she is becoming. >>>Vegan TikTok Intuitive Eater: https://www.tiktok.com/@floralfrosting >>> Connect with Betsy on IG @betsypake TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy pake. I’m an author, a speaker, and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hello, hi, welcome to the show today. Hi falu adventures. So, all right, so I have a story today, I have a story, something that I want to talk about. And I’m going to, I’m going to just guess that if you’re listening, this is something that you’ve been through, or you’re going through currently, or you’re about to go through. And it is about how we perceive ourselves as we change and become older. So here’s how this kind of started for me, like the last few years, I think, have felt a little what I would call wobbly to me. And, you know, you may have that where you’re like, I’m not totally who I used to be. Yet, I’m not quite sure who I am becoming. And so I’m in this bit of in between. And I think that in our and I say are like in the United States, and I’m gonna guess it’s like this in other places too. But in the United States, like there is a huge marketing message, and a huge push towards being young. And that being young is really, really important. And even to go so far as to say being old is not just neutral, being old is unimportant. And being old is a negative thing. And that people that are older are often like disregarded or not looked at for perhaps like the wisdom and life experience that they have. And so and so I have struggled a little bit as I have seen signs in my own self of getting older. So back when COVID started. I you know, I heard a lot of people weren’t dyeing their hair anymore, right? So they were like, I’m not gonna dye my hair, nobody’s gonna see me. And for me, I was like, I’m still dyeing my hair. Like, as soon as I can get in and get an appointment, I’m gonna dye my hair, I have died. I’m gonna say dyed my hair blonde my whole life. I feel like I’ve gotten highlights since I was in high school. And I used to always joke that I was gonna be a blonde. As long as I lived, no matter how much it cost, I was gonna be a natural blonde. I used to say, I’m gonna be a natural blonde, as long as I live, no matter how much it costs. But what I realized was it was starting to really cost me time and emotional. Emotionally, it was costing me, you know, so when COVID hit, and everybody was saying that they were going to, like stop dyeing their hair, and a lot of people stopped, I continued, as soon as I could get an appointment, I went. So that was 2020. Right when COVID started will by probably October, November of that year, I had gone and gotten my hair colored. And it was like two weeks and you could see the gray on my temples. And the weird thing was, if it what had been a man, I felt like we talk about how men get so distinguished when they get the gray on their temples. But I didn’t feel distinguished at all. I felt like oh my god,