Is Ageing Gracefully Something To Fear or Embrace?

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
Body of Hope
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4 min readMar 4, 2021

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The life that we have left undone.

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I thought getting older was about your body ageing. The grey hair, the eyesight, the hormonal shifts. I embraced all of that, I felt like a woman moving into her prime. I was passing the peak of the ‘nurturing everyone else phase’ and moving into the liberated wild woman!

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ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
Body of Hope

Writing on the female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at The Green Parent magazine. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.