Esther Kane on: Celebrating our authentic bodies

I want to cover a topic that I’ve wanted to speak to for a long time – plastic surgery. I must confess that this is an area I gave little attention to in the past as I have been in my ‘prime’ for a good number of years being young with good skin and a curvaceous body. However, I have just turned 38 and with the increase of years have also come some things I hate to admit have shocked me to the core.

Act your age not your shoe size: It’s ok to grow up

Prince may have said it best, but it’s a sentiment many of us can relate to. And lately, in the rush to proclaim 40 as the new 30 – or even 25 – we’ve noticed a trend of 40 year old women who seem, frankly, afraid to grow up.

I’m Fabulous, Right?

Today Women at Forty introduces Registered Clinical Counselor and fellow blogger Esther Kane. She is a practicing psychotherapist in Courtenay, Canada and has over a decade of experience counseling women and their loved ones. Today in her post “I’m fabulous, right?” Esther tackles the issue of the self-esteem roller coaster we sometimes find ourselves on…

Fat to fit at forty…

Yesterday I “revealed” that I was still fat at forty and sick of it. Today, my partner in crime – and in triumph – weighs in (I couldn’t resist) on the subject.  Here’s Rachel on going from fat to fit at forty… The end of 2009 found me feeling happy and fulfilled in so many [...]