Hi! I’m Lea!  Welcome to my blog- Aging Naturalea

I  am a 52-year-old woman curating a community of other women who wish to cultivate what aging in a meaningful way means to them with the desire to fully embrace this  part of life. With the support of each other, we can commit to what we want aging to look like, on our terms, without any judgment, and with the freedom to change our minds as we continue on this journey together.

I’ll be honest, it hasn’t been easy to come to a place where I feel convicted enough in my desire to age naturally that I am willing to share this commitment with everyone I know (and all of you!). I was headed down a path for a while that just didn’t feel authentically me, but I always had my reasons. First, the “mommy makeover” at 44. I told myself I deserved it- I gave birth to a single and triplets all in under three years, so, of course, I needed this surgery, but it was rough and expensive. Botox has been sprinkled in along the way- I’ve dabbled in it since my late thirties at least twice a year (one time freezing my face so I could not smile for months, leaving my young kids confused at how I did not like Disney World!). And then came the eyelid surgery. By my mid-forties, the family droopy eyelid had kicked in, and I couldn’t stand the way it looked. Almost all the women on my dad’s side had had a blepharoplasty, so naturally, I would need one. And I did- and it made a big difference. But after that, I started to think about….. what am I getting myself into?  My mother is a gorgeous 76-year-old, who started with her first facelift in her fifties. And while she’s always looked like my sister (everywhere we go people are shocked she’s my mom), now she’s starting to look like my younger sister! Which means, soon enough, I’d need to be following in her footsteps just to keep looking like her daughter!  So over a year ago, I took a pause to give myself some time to think about this path I was on, and if there was a better way for me. Some time has gone by while I’ve gotten more wrinkles without any Botox and friends  have kept up. But I’ve learned a few things along the way that can make a huge difference, from sleep to beautiful skincare products to limiting certain things that age us, it collectively matters. So, for now,  I am committing to ditching the needles and knives and continuing to see where this takes me. Because honestly, I need other women, like you, to help me with this commitment.  A support group of sorts.  I can see how easy it would be to just pick up right where I left off, but my true self tells me that that is not how I want to do this thing called aging.  I want to set an example to my triplet girls that beauty doesn’t have to equal looking as young as you can, and that I am confident enough to go at this a bit differently, naturally.  It’s how I’ve always lived my life, and now its time to put it to the test.