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Astrid Longhurst is the Founder of the Institute for Body Confidence Coaching, Author, Energy Fitness & Body Confidence Expert. Astrid’s signature Body Confidence programmes help women to fall in love with their bodies. Her vision is to shape a new global body culture and community of love, health and wellbeing.

Latest Posts By Astrid Longhurst

1 year ago

8 Gorgeous Energy Exercises to Love Your Face at 60 Plus! (VIDEO)

At the age of 61, I find myself peering into my face with a kind of wonder. I know this face and yet it is constantly changing. I trace the lines around my eyes gently and with respect. These eyes have beheld so much beauty and also so much pain…

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2 years ago

4 “Goddess Moves” to Boost Your Body Confidence at 60 Plus

When I was 40, I began to develop Arthritis. It began slowly, at first in my fingers, however by the time I was in my late 50s, I was really suffering with pain, joint stiffness and swelling in my feet, knees, hands and ankles. I knew that I needed to find a way…

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2 years ago

How to Grow Older with Passion and Purpose

A friend of mine recently exclaimed, “Goodness, you are amazing, taking on more work when most people I know are looking at doing less!” Her comments stopped me in my tracks. I hadn’t thought of the new project that I had taken on as work…

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2 years ago

Feel Fabulous with This Lovely Chair Workout for the Upper Body

As a body confidence coach and fitness presenter, one thing that I know for sure is that we have to find ways to do and enjoy the things that we love doing. For me, this is movement. I trained as a dancer and fitness presenter in my early life…

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2 years ago

How to Romance Your Body This Summer

Summer kisses come one at a time. First, the warm breezes that puff around my shoulders and warm my heart. Next is the sweetest fragrance of wild honeysuckle that hides in the hedgerows. Then come the buzzing of bees as they search…

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2 years ago

How to Activate Your Inner Goddess at 60 and Beyond

I never really thought of myself as a Goddess! That would have seemed far too high an aspiration for me. A Goddess, who me? Surely not! However, something has changed within me since I entered my 60th year. I don’t quite know what it is, but it is a shift…

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2 years ago

4 Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves About Ageing

I love being 64, and I’m looking forward to being 74, 84 and hopefully 94 and beyond. However, maybe I am unusual in this. In today’s society, ageing is often touted as something negative and that we should avoid at all costs. And yet, ageing is just living…

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2 years ago

How to Rock Your Own Fabulous Authentic Style at 60 and Beyond

I am not a pear, an apple, a triangle, a square, a peach, a carrot or any other vegetable, fruit or shape used to describe my body! I am a 64-year-old woman with a passion for clothes, a wild heart and a desire to live out loud and feel fabulous!

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2 years ago

How to Embrace Your Age to Find Creativity and Joy After 60

Having just had my 64th birthday, I found myself pondering on what ageing really means for me. As a life, body confidence and joyful ageing coach and writer, I knew that it was something more than simply feeling positive about growing older…

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2 years ago

How to Embody These 7 Goddess Archetypes for Radiant Ageing!

There’s a feeling you get when you begin to tap into your own wisdom, your power, beauty, self-belief and confidence. It is a feeling unlike any other I have ever experienced. It’s a feeling of being fully ALIVE and totally present in your body…

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