Many women view ageing as negative. through ageing gratefully, i challenge this perception and offer solutions to empower women to be grateful for their age. professionally, i am an internationally qualified dermal therapist, advanced grief recovery specialist and life coach. my mission is to encourage and empower women to live fully regardless of age and to embrace getting older. we live in a youth-focused culture and this attitude is detrimental to all generations. the power of our midlife is that we sit in a position where we realise that we are a product of our past experiences but we are also in a place of choice. we can choose what we now create in our lives. it is never too late nor too early to begin creating our legacy; what we want our contribution to be. we must first deal with the emotional burdens we unwittingly carry from our past in order to use them to live fully in the present and begin creating our legacy for the future.