Face It - A Great New Book about Coming to Terms with Skin Aging your Way
What is that saying about how time is no respecter of persons? You could be someone who grew up really feeling the power you had to turn heads wherever you went, or you could have, in keeping with the feminist thinking of the time, not cared less about anything but sheer competence and your talent. Whether you're completely acquainted with all the artistry involved in the use of makeup foundation or couldn't tell why you should care when you could express yourselgf with your talent, there surely will come a time in everyone's life, when they just happen to look at the bathroom mirror in the morning and wonder why they look puffy and droopy like they have a hangover when they could not be more sober. Skin aging is going to catch up with all of us; you could either pretend to be far above such petty concerns in a world that hasn't solved its hunger crisis, or, as two new psychotherapists (who used to be models) say, you could just Face It.
It's a new book on how people who have grown up hoping that somehow, age would not catch up with them, can find a way to accept what life is. In a book report in the New York Times, the two psychotherapist authors, Dr. Diller and Dr.Muir-Sukenick speak about how decades of experience understanding patients, has given them a certain insight into how absolute fear grips people as they are inexorably made to face all the symptoms of growing old - skin aging until skin wrinkles and droops, aging hair that doesn't stay in place anymore, and so many other painfully familiar signs. They say that the fear of aging isn't really about being looks obsessed. It is about wondering how something we treasure so much can just be taken away without our permission; it is about trying to find one's bearings on what life means. If you have had a great and accomplished career, and you still worry about seeing your skin aging, the authors tell you that this is not only normal, it is desirable; and it is certainly not shallow.
Face It, the book, encourages readers to really think about why they would rather sometimes, just pay for a super expensive skin aging cream, than learn to age gracefully. Should you do as the feminists say, and ignore aging for the wonderful person inside that you are , or should you accept that as a woman, your looks are simply undeniably important. The book gives you some important ways to tackle these questions, and the best part is, you get to read about the dozens of patient interactions the authors remember from their time practicing medicine.
The book looks closely at how in America, making fun of celebrities who use too much cosmetic surgery is such great fodder for the media. And at the same time, how the media can't get enough of women who make a certain amount of a regular cosmetic surgery use. The media makes a big deal of actresses like Meryl Streep who firmly and somewhat self righteously, rejects cosmetic surgery; and at the same time, when an actress like Helen Mirren speaks in favor of it, with understanding for women who choose it, they treat her with contempt. There are dozens of examples of how women who have achieved major success in the sciences or in law, still can't stop worrying about how they would look in a swimsuit at 55 with their skin aging and drooping all over. The book helps you look into the minds of other women in your position, and it helps you come to terms.