Mid-Age Grace... Life In Your 40's Ladies/Rashea@LLO2 Academy

I promised to periodically devote inspiration to my KU ladies who are in their 40's, and I intend to keep my promise. Life in your 40's is different than your 20's and 30's just like life in your 30's is different than your adolescent years.

Are we old? Heck no. But we must admit that we are getting older.😉

There are normal stages and cycles of life and getting older that requires more meticulous care and attention. The carelessness of how we treated ourselves becomes more keen to the nature of the current of getting older. We can stay young and, with God's help age with grace in spirit, soul and body, but it will require us caring about ourselves more than we did in our younger years.

Women in their 20's and 30's can read this for knowledge purposes, but this is really geared toward KU ladies who are actually doing life in their 40's and can relate to what I am communicating. We are young, but getting older. Life is evolving, and so are we.

Parenting. Work. School. Chores. Homework.

Ministry. Pick up. Drop off. Making lunches. 

Power naps. Sleep or the lack of it.😂 Fitness. Meetings.

And then there's you. There's beauty you did not see in your 20's and 30's. Your stride is still there, but it requires a little more intentional stretching and probiotics to maintain that stride.

Pay attention to the changes. Don't ignore them. Stay on top of staying healthy long-term. 

Do your part. It's okay to do what we should have been doing consistently in our much younger years. Now life demands you to take care of yourself. Never worry about the criticisms of the younger generations. 

They are not where you are as a woman in your 40's. They cannot relate quite yet. But, one day they, too, will be in their 40's, and life will require them to take better care of themselves.

Is it just me🙄💭, or have you noticed that you don't need as much sugar and salt in your diet anymore? Too much actually is too much.🤣 It's quite fascinating, I do say.😂

I have seen some of the struggles with health and fitness in my own family. I was introduced to exercising in my adolescent years. Something we did not do in my childhood home, beyond PE.😂🤣

Being introduced to exercise in my early 20's really prepared me for life's forever evolving changes and challenges. Like I said, I saw some of my love one's struggles with health in my own family, and wanted to avoid some of those health struggles I saw them live with. I wanted my life to be different. 

Enjoying a healthy lifestyle and intentional wellness and fitness is a personal decision. It's something that was quite foreign in my childhood home and family, but a way of life to some degree and familiarity for me as an adult. I wanted a different lifestyle concerning health and fitness for me and my own children.

Just because you did not practice a lifestyle of healthy decisions concerning your physical health growing up, doesn't mean that you cannot cultivate it for yourself and your household as you get older and become an adult. There is always room for improvement. Stay knowledgeable ladies. 

You can be young and maintain your youthfulness in your 40's, but the fragility of aging gracefully will require you being more intentional and mindful about your health and life within. The natural vigor of your cells, immunity, your joints, muscles, metabolism and women's productive life and organs will require a boost of daily vitamins, as your bodies natural reproductive vigor slows down. It's a natural stage of life that can be kept strong, up to speed and well balanced, when you take the time to boost your body with what it needs to stay healthy.

Ladies. What your body will need to stay healthy in your 40's and beyond will be very different than what you did and did not need in your much younger years. Mid-age is really a time of life in transition. You are in the middle of youthfulness and getting older.

How do you maintain such evolving changes? You take care of yourself. Do it for you. Do it for the sake of life you have yet to live. Do it for your generations.

Don't waddle in self pity. Beautify your truth with grace to live in your 40's. Age with grace. Seek God for a wellness plan that fits your life as it is now not what it was or what it will be 10 years from now. 

Live in the here and now. Stay healthy. Stay consistent. Stay knowledgeable. STAY BEAUTIFUL!🥰💕

Rashea@LLO2