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Exclusive: Yasmin Le Bon shares refreshing approach to ageing and best midlife beauty tips

Exclusive: Yasmin Le Bon shares refreshing approach to ageing and best midlife beauty tips

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Rising to prominence as one of the leading supermodels of the 1980s, Yasmin Le Bon continues to enjoy a high-profile modelling career, with her youthful looks and natural radiance still in demand by leading fashion brands across the world.  And now she is celebrating a new role and the concept of ageless beauty as the face of Gold Collagen’s latest supplement Forte Ageless, for which none of the campaign imagery has been retouched. Created using a pioneering new collagen formula to optimise wellbeing in midlife and beyond, Yasmin, 59, is the perfect choice. Yasmin shares her exciting new career move Take our poll: Yasmin will mark 40 years in her relationship with Simon Le Bon, lead singer of Duran Duran, this year. She is a proud mother to daughters Amber, Tallulah and Saffron, and a grandmother to Skye and Taro who call her “Zsa Zsa, like Gabor”. She continues to turn heads with her striking brown eyes, glossy shoulder-length hair and fresh-faced beauty. When questioned on what it means to be ageless, Yasmin replies “Growing …

6 Relatively Painless Ways Men Can Prevent A Mid-Life Crisis | Greg Boudle

6 Relatively Painless Ways Men Can Prevent A Mid-Life Crisis | Greg Boudle

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Imagine if you came into the physical world with all the preconditioning you have today. Many of us would probably still be crawling around and messing our pants after a few failed attempts to walk to the potty. This world sometimes makes it easier to quit than to keep trying and growing. Letting go and retraining your subconscious mind requires the determination you use when you first learn to walk, and there’s no better time to do this than when you hit midlife — especially if you are a man.  You’ll fall and get back up many times, but once you’re finally up, you’re in for the time of your life. And then you hit midlife. This is the best time of life if you live it right. Or you can do what I did and mess everything up with self-destructive habits. I want to help you avoid that, if possible!  RELATED: My Mid-Life Crisis Lasted 30 Years 6 Relatively Easy Ways Men Can Prevent A Destructive Midlife Crisis 1. Develop a meditation practice This …

What A Happy Marriage Looks Like In Midlife, According To A Clinical Psychologist

What A Happy Marriage Looks Like In Midlife, According To A Clinical Psychologist

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I frequently discuss the way that different comparison groups can change how you view yourself and your circumstances. One major way that people sabotage their happiness within intimate relationships is by comparing themselves to couples at different ages and stages. In this post, I hope to help level-set expectations for what a happy and healthy relationship looks like in your 40s and 50s, as opposed to your 20s and 30s. As I discuss all the time, marriage changes after the hormonally-driven 1.5–3-year honeymoon stage. But, as people used to understand more than they do now, age is a hugely impactful variable in terms of mindset, physical strength, and emotionality. It is not “just a number”! First, let’s think about the media that we are exposed to throughout our lives. TV, books, songs, and most popular media that are focused on love and romance tend to be about younger couples. Happy couples in midlife are not going to be the protagonists of most romantic shows or movies, because their lives are stable and centered around career …

How I beat a midlife confidence crisis at 49

How I beat a midlife confidence crisis at 49

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Self-confidence. Noun. A feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgement.  Pre forties I had an embarrassment of it. Then came the violent loss of someone close to me, a shattering life event and a divorce that was not of my choosing.  The latter made me question everything I thought about myself. The pain of rejection shot to my very core and made me feel like I wasn’t good enough for anybody or anything.  © InstagramHow do we regain our sense of self worth, asks Rosie Green The thing is I’m not unusual in suffering a crisis of confidence. In fact, unless you are extremely fortunate, I’m sure you are nodding as you are reading this, thinking of the time that triggered yours. Redundancy, relationship breakdown, infertility, motherhood, loss. But how do we stop it from paralysing us? Stopping us asking for that job, or going on that date or making leap into new challenges? How do we regain our sense of self worth? And find the contentment that that goes with it? At …

Mid-Life Conspiracy Theorists Are Indeed Lonely Weirdos

Mid-Life Conspiracy Theorists Are Indeed Lonely Weirdos

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Image by Getty / Futurism It’s a commonly-held assumption that most people who believe in conspiracy theories are loners — and new research backs it up. There are also classic questions of what’s causing what. In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, a group of Norwegian psychology researchers found that when they looked over long-term life trajectory data, those who were lonely as teens seemed more likely to ascribe to conspiratorial beliefs later in life than those who had stronger social ties in their youth. With COVID-19 misinformation running rampant over the past four years, there has been, as the University of Oslo researchers note, plenty of research in recent years about the mental states of people who ascribe to such beliefs. Far fewer, however, look into what emotional experiences in their pasts might have led them there. “Existing studies capture only short periods of time, complicating the identification of early antecedents,” the Norwegian psychologists expound. “Developmental perspectives examining how people’s life trajectories are associated with conspiracy mindsets are therefore missing due to …

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a gentle gem about mid-life love and loneliness | Film

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a gentle gem about mid-life love and loneliness | Film

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Here is a marvellously tender story of loneliness and love which starts with a bigger bang than most thrillers. Etero, played by Eka Chavleishvili, is a middle-aged single woman in a remote Georgian village who is out walking near a steep ravine, collecting blackberries for the cakes she likes to bake. She looks up, transfixed by the beauty of a blackbird – having been, we are perhaps invited to assume, only waiting for this moment to arrive – when she loses her footing and disappears from the frame; film-maker Elene Naveriani switches the viewpoint to something terrifying and vertiginous: straight down to a near death experience. Etero sees her own corpse in a parallel universe of her own stricken imagining, but this heartstopping near-miss, together with the unwelcome new symptoms of what appear to be menopause, coincide with what could be a whole new lease of life. While listlessly minding the family shop, Etero receives some stock from flirtatious new delivery driver Murman, played by Temiko Chichinadze, and soon she is having a gloriously passionate, …

Are ‘ageless’ celebrities like JLo, Salma Hayek and Demi Moore damaging women in midlife?

Are ‘ageless’ celebrities like JLo, Salma Hayek and Demi Moore damaging women in midlife?

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‘Reduce hips,’ ‘Remove blemish,’ ‘Fill in hair here.’ I was a 21-year-old intern at a glossy magazine when I saw an A3 print of supermodel Helena Christensen with these instructions dotted around her image. Arrows helpfully connected them to her ‘flaws’.  It made no sense and total sense. No sense in that here was one of the world’s most beautiful women and yet even she wasn’t deemed perfect enough for public consumption. And total sense in that I had mentally wrestled, since the purchase of my first magazine with how these models could be literally flawless. That was the mid-90s and my first experience of retouching. Back then it was done by hand and only available to 0.001% of the genetically privileged to make them look even more so.  Rosie Green first encountered photo editing into the 90s Now we can all improve our God given looks so easily, be it using filters on Instagram, fiddling with Photoshop on our computers and even Facetuning for the really advanced. Plus, thanks to the evolution of digital …

Lessons on Midlife From a Jungian Perspective

Lessons on Midlife From a Jungian Perspective

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Many of us experience difficulties around midlife that are unique and distinct from the challenges of the beginning half of our life. Knowing what the challenges are and ways to manage and cope are essential for setting the stage for a healthy and purposeful late life. Some of the best writing and insights on the midlife crisis is the Jungian author James Hollis. In his book, The Middle Passage, Hollis lays out some important frameworks for understanding what is happening to us at this stage of life and why it is developmentally and existentially necessary to experience such pain and growth at this phase of life. Below are a series of highlights from his book that may be useful if you are navigating such challenges yourself. The First Phase of Life Is About Learning What Others Want From You Hollis distinguishes between the first and second half of life. In the first part, we are ruled by the formation and expectations of others. We grow up in a family with particular values, behaviors and expectations …

Alzheimer’s risk associated with stressful life events during childhood and midlife, study finds

Alzheimer’s risk associated with stressful life events during childhood and midlife, study finds

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Alzheimer’s disease, a major cause of dementia, currently affects approximately 50 million people worldwide, a number expected to triple by 2050. A recent study published in the Annals of Neurology explores the relationship between stressful life events and the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, focusing on how the timing and nature of these stressors might influence disease onset. The study finds that not all stressful events are equally impactful, with midlife or childhood stressors showing a stronger association with Alzheimer’s disease risk factors compared to stress accumulated over a lifetime. Prior research has identified various psychological factors such as depression, anxiety, and chronic stress as potential risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. These factors can activate biological responses that may predispose individuals to the disease. The new study aimed to expand on this understanding by specifically focusing on the role of stressful life events and their impact on Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, brain inflammation, and brain structure. This was particularly relevant as previous studies have primarily concentrated on neuropsychiatric symptoms rather than the broader category of life …

Will the Olympics Save Nike From Its Midlife Crisis?

Will the Olympics Save Nike From Its Midlife Crisis?

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It’s hard to imagine how the city will fare during the Olympics. Paris’ very charm—its narrow streets and exquisite small shops—means that even on a normal Tuesday, automotive traffic is pretty bad. (Hence the flood of electric bikes that nearly mowed me down every time I crossed a street.) The Seine is beautiful, but the open water swim will probably be canceled due to E. coli. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has already fielded criticism over how she has handled the chaos (or not handled, as the case may be) preceding the games. For Nike, the Olympics similarly represent either an incipient crisis or an opportunity to turn it all around. The company is struggling through a difficult few years, beset by low sales numbers, and is on its longest losing streak since it went public in the 1980s. In February, Nike CEO John Donahoe announced that the company would lay off around 2 percent of its workforce, with the second wave of layoffs happening within a few weeks of employees returning home from this event. …