Going Gray: How to Embrace Your Authentic Self with Grace and Style

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0316166626 ISBN13: 9780316166621 Release Date: January 2009 Publisher: Little Brown and Company Length: 240 Pages Weight: 0.50 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0" Anne Kreamer considered herself a youthful 49 until a photo of herself with her teenage daughter stopped her in her tracks. In one unguarded moment she saw herself for what she really was -- a middle-aged woman with her hair dyed much too harshly. In that one moment Kreamer realized that she wasn't fooling anyone about her age and decided it was time to get real and embrace a more authentic life. She set out for herself a program to let her hair become its true color, and along the way discovered her true self. Going Gray is Kreamer's exploration of that experience, and a frank, warm and funny investigation of aging as a female obsession. Through interviews, field experiments, and her own everywoman's chronicle, Kreamer probes the issues behind two of the biggest