Self-acceptance is key to avoiding that mid-life crisis

Self-acceptance is the key to beating our midlife blues and forging a more positive future as we get older, Katherine Forsythe tells Margaret Jennings

AT the age of 57, Katherine Forsythe faced herself full-on in front of the mirror — and although she thought of herself as a “vibrant, zesty, sexy lady”, she hated what she saw.

“Staring back at me was someone I didn’t like,” she says. “There was regret, displeasure and resentment in my eyes and I thought ‘Look at that belly! And those drooping eyes!’. And I began to cry. I was ageing and I didn’t know what to do about it.”