This is a YouTube video titled "What I would tell my younger self" featuring a conversation between Natalie Jill and another speaker. The discussion centers on life lessons, self-acceptance, and reflections on aging, with Natalie Jill sharing advice she would give her younger self and insights about embracing midlife challenges and focusing on connection and community.
At 51, there's some definite things I wish I can go back and.
Tell my younger self.
Like, hey, young Natalie, don't worry about grades and what teachers compare you to.
Because it's ultimately.
Not your grades and conformity that's gonna make you successful in life. It's your endless curiosity and your creativity that's gonna make you successful. And teenage Natalie, just know beauty standards come and go and they change. And stop chasing that ridiculous horizon because you're gonna really regret those tanning beds one day and what they do to your skin when you're older. And those breast implants, don't even get me started there. One of the biggest mistakes you'll ever make, all those heartaches you're crying about, you'll get over all of them. And the loss of a parent, one of the worst things that you're going through. I promise you, one day all that deep, dark pain will get replaced with really happy memories. Deciding to be a mom, Natalie, that will be one of the biggest blessings of your entire life. Focus on.
Making memories, because one day, that's all we're going to have, our memories. Something I've really committed to shifting in my 50s is focusing a lot on connection, community, and learning from others in midlife that have already navigated places that we haven't been yet, like how to navigate aging parents, becoming an empty nester, the things that are changing on our bodies, all of those things. I've learned to look for experts that know that and have been there as sort of a cheerleader for ourselves versus trying to figure it all out ourselves, the way that I did my whole life, leading up until 50.
