Single Women in Mid-Life and Their Self-Esteem

Single women in mid-life are struggling with their self-esteem. With a society that glorifies youth, beauty and thinness a single woman in midlife can lose her self-esteem abruptly. Teenagers are getting boob jobs as high school graduation gifts and twenty-four year old women are having up to ten surgeries at a time to change their physical appearance. This puts the single woman in midlife in a very insecure position. This can easily destroy any semblance of the woman's confidence.

As a woman goes from her forty's to her fifty's she struggles with her loss of youth. She questions her identity, her purpose in life, the choices she has made and where will go from here. Mood swings and depression are common during this time. If the woman is experiencing menopause, there are hormonal changes that are contributing to these feelings. This cocktail of issues warmly welcomes on a mid-life crisis.

While for men midlife crisis is more exemplified in their questioning their future and dissatisfaction with career or lack of meeting their financial goals, women are more concerned with loss of youthfulness. Men will begin dating much younger women. Turning in the old and bringing in the new. Woman's concerns in mid-crisis lay heavily on their physical appearance and trying to hang on to their youth. They begin to feel less attractive while they compete with younger women in every area. Therefore, in order to keep up with the completion they turn to plastic surgery. They want to hold on to their youthfulness at all cost. Aging gracefully and beautifully needs to be acceptable. Women should embrace their graceful beauty and take pride in it. Self-acceptance and self-validation is of utmost importance.

The fact is that women in their 40's and 50's will begin to lose their youthfulness. They will gray and they will take on a more mature look. This does not mean that they should become anxious and turn to plastic surgery and alter their appearance. It is very possible to age elegantly. In order to maintain a sophisticated fresh and vibrant appearance women need consider other options such as; concentrating on eating healthy, exercising, thinking positive, avoiding unnecessary stress and seek a spiritual relationship. Understand that women are special there are inner qualities that will surface when she focuses on cultivating the "queen in you".

There is a Queen in every woman! Walk in your royalty and pursue dignity. There is greatness and strength in each woman. There is power in the way you think, believe and in the words you speak. Women in mid-life are the sum their experience and this personifies their true beauty. In spite of life's challenges, hold on to the inner Queen in you. Be grateful for where you have become. It took years of overcoming challenges that brought you to this place. Embrace and love yourself. Quit trying to mold yourself to society's false views on what a mid-life woman should look like. In spite of life's challenges stay focused on keeping your self esteem intact during mid-life and hold to that Queen in you.

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