The Glow Code: A Cheat Sheet for Feeling, Looking, and Being Your Best at Any Age - Softcover

McIvor, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538180723 ISBN 13: 9781538180723

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024

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All Glown Up is an entertaining and engaging lifestyle manual offering concrete, actionable advice from women experts across many fields to help women aged 35–50 navigate midlife, feel great, and age well.

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Michelle McIvor is a journalist on a mission to age gratefully. A former columnist with the Calgary Herald, she has written for Maclean's, Chatelaine, and Best Health, among others, and ghostwrote the #1 Canadian bestseller Forever Terry: A Legacy in Letters. Michelle lives in Calgary with her husband and kids.

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Excerpt from the Introduction

I found my first gray eyebrow hair a few months ago. Correction: My first gray eyebrow hair proudly announced itself a few months ago. Seemingly overnight, it had sprouted from my face as if to say, “Hello, world, I’m heeeere!”

I was less enthused.

Of course, I saw this hair when I could do nothing, zilch, nada about it. I’d just dropped my kids off at daycare and was stopped at a red light, glancing at my reflection in the rear-view mirror. And there it was—a long, coarse, gray hair jutting out at an odd angle from the inner corner of my left eyebrow, glimmering in the sunlight. Couldn’t it at least get in line with the rest of my brow? The audacity of this hair!

That’s when two things really hit me: (1) Despite my best attempts to stay youthful, I am aging—and there’s no hiding it. And (2) Why don’t I always keep a set of tweezers in my car?!

For the rest of the day, I was sure everyone I met with was staring at my errant eyebrow hair. I couldn’t wait to get home to pluck the damn thing. When I eventually did later that night— and by eventually, I mean the minute I walked through the door—I was so relieved.

A few weeks passed. I didn’t think about it again.

And then the second gray hair popped up.

That’s when I started to Google things like “Does plucking gray hair make more grow?” and “Can you dye eyebrows?” and “Am I having more or less sex with my husband than the national average?”

That last question was unrelated, but it had been on my mind. And if you’re curious, the answers were no, yes, and more. Yay us.

Why am I telling you all this? Because if you’re a woman—or you just care about how you’re aging!—and, like me, you’re brushing up against midlife, chances are we share the same types of concerns, questions, and Google searches. Have you wanted to drink less alcohol but not give it up? Me too. Wondering if you really need to take a multivitamin, a handful of supplements, and that pricey collagen powder? Great question. Interested in switching your decades-old makeup routine because you’re now a woman in your forties with crow’s feet and puffy eyes? Same, girl. Same.

But where do we even begin? And more importantly, who has the time to sort through all the information and products at our disposal? I feel overwhelmed with my life at the best of times, let alone when I’m perusing the aisles in Sephora.

That’s because navigating life as a woman between the ages of 35 and 50 is no joke. We have less time to ourselves but more concerns to deal with, ranging from the big to the small. When I turned 40, lines dug in around my eyes and mouth. My body fat percentage crept up even though I had lost weight. I had a hard time sleeping through the night. My lower back started to hurt more. So did some of my friendships.

Worst of all, I couldn’t escape the sneaky suspicion that I should have learned how to deal with these matters by now. I was a grown woman, after all, and not getting any younger. What had I been doing with my life? I should have prepared for this! I should have known better!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1538180723
• ISBN 13: 9781538180723
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland