Boost Your Self-Esteem - Martha Beck on Body Image

The Self-Esteem Repair Kit

Of course you can feel wretched about wrinkles, jowls, thinning hair—all the slings and arrows of time and mortality. You can try to fight back—giving new meaning to the words in vain. Or you can rise—serenely, even happily—above i

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O, The Oprah Magazine's life coach, Martha Beck, gives her advice on self-esteem and aging.

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