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Mia Kowsor

@justbeingmia_

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50 | Mum of four 🤎
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Had an amazing appointment with @jade_parker_aesthetics recently! I opened up about my insecurities around aging in my lower face, and Jade was as always incredible in helping me find the right treatment plan. Here’s what we’re doing to refresh and rejuvenate:

✨ Nefertiti Neck Lift: A non-surgical way to lift and define the neck, jaw, and lower face using Botox.

✨ Downward Smile Lift: Targeting the muscles that pull down the corners of my mouth, giving a natural lift and a softer, happier look.

✨ Three Areas Botox: For a smooth, refreshed look on my forehead, crow’s feet, and frown lines.

✨ Salmon DNA Skin Booster: A next-level skin rejuvenation treatment using polynucleotide for deep hydration, collagen boost, cell repair, and sun protection.

Aging gracefully and feeling confident in my skin!
#AntiAging #Forties #SkinConfidence #NefertitiLift #BotoxBeauty #SkinRejuvenation #WomenOver40 #ad #perimenopause #skincare by @justbeingmia_

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Such a lovely treat today running down to the spa for a much needed massage. The spa uses hot bamboo and hot stone alongside traditional Balinese techniques which honestly were all unreal. Duya was amazing and I left feeling a whole lot better than when I arrived ☺️

If you’re in the area……I highly recommend 🫶🏽

#baliwithkids #mybalilife #travellingwithkids #canggu taken in Canggu, Bali by @justbeingmia_

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a year ago

I think one of the loveliest things about getting older is realising that you don’t have to keep waiting to become some improved version of yourself before you’re allowed to really like who you are.

We spend so much of our lives thinking we’ll feel differently when we’ve lost the weight, earned the money, found the person or sorted our lives out, and I’m not sure I want to do that anymore.

I’m 50 and of course there are things I’d still like to change and plenty I still want to do, but I’m also much more aware of how quickly the years go and I don’t want to waste any more of them picking myself apart.

I think I’d rather just enjoy being me. As I am, right now. 🤍

#nofcksforfifty #nofcks #empoweredwomenempowerwomen #midliferebel by @justbeingmia_

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21 days ago

Autumn is my absolute favourite and I’m delighted it’s back. 🍂 The only slight flaw in the plan is that I’d quite like to meet my person, while simultaneously having absolutely no intention of leaving the house once it’s dark. 😂

I’m sure it’ll work itself out 🥴😂

#midlifeblogger #fifties #autumniscoming #falliscoming by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

Hopefully I’ve got another 50 years. 🤞🏽

But I’m not waiting for them to start living the life I actually want. ❤️

Maybe it’s time for some big decisions… 🇫🇷👀

#midlifeblogger #travelwithkids #fifties #singlemumlife by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

Since her passing this week, my feed has been full of Dolly-isms and I am so here for it. 🤍

I’ve always loved Dolly, but listening to all her nuggets of wisdom this week has reminded me you can be smart, independent, ambitious, have lived a whole lot of life and still remain completely open to love, romance and the possibility of something wonderful just like Dolly! ✨

So apparently that’s what we’re doing now 💁🏼‍♀️😂

Remaining open, being curious and definitely not deciding something won’t work before it’s even had the opportunity to go spectacularly wrong. 😂

My recent Hinge adventures suggest this may require outrageous amounts of optimism, considerably lowered expectations and a MASSIVE sense of humour, but I’m trying 🥴 (oh and to live in Paris because the men are 👌🏽).

I’ve spent enough years being very good at spotting all the reasons something might not work so maybe now is the time to shut the fuck up and just see what happens. 😂

And if in doubt, ask yourself - what would Dolly say? Then just don’t argue with her. 😂🤍

#dollyparton #midlife #datingover40 #singlelifeproblems by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

And just like that, we’re heading for Le Shuttle and the last stretch home 🇫🇷🤍

I genuinely came to France thinking we’d have a lovely little road trip, make some memories, eat far too many pastries and head home. Instead I seem to have spent ten days becoming increasingly convinced that perhaps I’m supposed to live here 😂

I arrived for the slow life, good food, sunshine and perhaps a charming little house somewhere in France. I’m leaving apparently requiring a beautiful Parisian apartment, a country house with shutters, enough money to fly the entire family over whenever I fancy and, judging by this reel, some form of yacht. So that’s gone well 🤪

There is, of course, the very minor issue of having absolutely no idea how I’d make any of that work, but considering the house is already on the market and I’m currently in limbo between one chapter and deciding what the hell the next one looks like, I’m not completely dismissing it either.

This trip has been beautiful, hilarious, exhausting, occasionally really fucking hard and probably one of my favourite things I’ve done with the boys. We’ve winged most of it, changed plans constantly, spent more than intended, discovered some incredible places and somehow made it all the way through France and back again 🇫🇷🥳

So now we’re heading home with a car that smells like French cheese, French sticks wedged in every space 😂, an unnecessary amount of wine and my dating apps set firmly to Francais! Make of that what you will 🤪😂🇫🇷🥖🍷

Anyway, back to reality…

Although when the hell have I ever been realistic? 😂🇫🇷🤍

#watchthisspace #midlifeblogger #travelwithkids #singlemumlife taken in Paris, France by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

My guy Barney Bops giving you the full 101 on our final night apartment in Calais 😂 Apparently we have ourselves a new travel correspondent.

Consider this Barney’s review. Mum’s slightly more comprehensive version is incoming. 😂

Sensible mum bit 👇🏽

Our final night in France was kindly gifted and this was such a great little find for breaking up the journey home. A gorgeous apartment, loads of space for us, brilliantly located in Calais and absolutely perfect for a comfortable final night before heading back across the Channel.

If you’re doing a similar France road trip and want the details, drop me a DM and I’ll happily send them over. 🤍🇫🇷

#gifted by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

Let me start by saying that this place was recommended to me by the loveliest woman I met in a queue at Disney, who told me the area was beautiful, the facilities were amazing and it was perfect for dipping in and out of Paris with the boys, and she was completely right because it really is exquisite here.

Unfortunately, I have also discovered that campsite “lodge” life and I may have some fundamental compatibility issues. 😂

Before camping gets unfairly dragged into this, I actually LOVE camping, but when I camp I know I’m camping and arrive prepared with my own bedding, pillows and enough paraphernalia to establish a small civilisation.

The “lodge”, however, lulled me into a false sense of security and I was not prepared for paper thin polyester bedding over a waterproof mattress, meaning every time I turn over there’s a tiny squeak squeak beneath me and another piece of my soul leaves my body.

Then there are the insects, who are absolutely fucking feral and have apparently interpreted me as an all inclusive buffet, including, in a targeted final act of aggression, my actual arse cheek. 🍑🦟

The funny thing is I still adore authentic travel. Give me a cute Airbnb in a beautiful town, a local bakery, a supermarket where I can’t identify half the products and no idea what we’re doing tomorrow and I’m completely in my element. I don’t need five star hotels and I’ll happily camp when camping is what I’ve signed up for.

Apparently what I cannot do is the strange hinterland between the two, where my brain has heard “lodge” but my body is sleeping on wipe clean furnishings. 😂

So should “lodge” life and I ever meet again, I’ll be bringing my own bedding, a mattress protector and enough insect repellent to create an exclusion zone around my arse.

Turns out I don’t need luxury, but I do need thread count. 😂🤍

#midlifeadventures #travelwithkids #mumlife #femaletravelbloggers taken in Maisons-Laffitte by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

This morning I was fucking done. 😂

I’d reached that point in the holiday where I felt claustrophobic, irritated by everything, irritated with the boys, irritated with myself for being irritated with the boys and, more than anything, I just didn’t feel like me.

I cried on the way to the train and genuinely wanted to turn around, pack everything up and go home.

But we got on the train.

And then we had the most glorious day in Paris.

We walked for miles, cruised along the Seine, looked at art, ate crêpes, laughed, explored and somehow, somewhere along the way, I felt myself coming back.

It also made me realise something.

I think I spend quite a lot of time trying to make us the kind of family I think we should be. I want us to be outdoorsy, wholesome people whose children leap out of bed in the morning desperate to explore nature, while mine would quite happily remain inside attached to a laptop until somebody physically removes it from their hands. 😂

And I get frustrated by that.

But today reminded me that perhaps I need to stop trying so hard to make us enjoy life the way I think we should and pay more attention to how we actually enjoy it.

Give us somewhere to go, things to see, streets to wander, food to find, culture, conversation, a little chaos and the occasional wrong turn and apparently we come alive.

Maybe we’re just more city sometimes, and that’s ok.

This morning I wanted to abandon the whole bloody thing. Tonight I feel completely different and ready for the final little chapter of our adventure.

Turns out, this was exactly the reset I needed. 🤍🇫🇷

#sundayreset #justbeingmia #pariswithkids #familytravel by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

This poem is just insanely beautiful and stopped me mid scroll this morning while I took a few quiet moments in the Paris sunshine.

Reflecting is so important, and there are so many lines in this that resonate with me, particularly the one about keeping a soft heart in a locked box. I’m trying so hard not to do that, to keep myself open and allow myself to experience whatever the world might have in store for me rather than protecting myself from it.

I also love what he says about steadying our busy minds when everything feels overwhelming. For me, that often means putting in my AirPods, finding a guided meditation and completely switching off for a while, with @drjoedispenza always being my go-to.

There’s something remarkable about the way James McCrae puts words around feelings and thoughts that can be so difficult to articulate, and this one really got me.

We scroll far too quickly through life, so if you can find a few minutes today, stop, listen and actually absorb this wonderful poem right to the end.

You won’t regret it. 🤍

@wordsarevibrations

@jamesmccrae taken in Paris, France by @justbeingmia_

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2 months ago

If you’ve been watching my summer and thinking I’ve got my life together, I should probably tell you something…

I absolutely fucking don’t. 😂

I’m 50, my house is on the market, my next career move is still taking shape, the boys’ schools for September aren’t sorted and financially, things are considerably less chic than they might appear. Let’s call it chic broqué and move swiftly on. 😂

After taking a year out to finish my MBA, I rented out my house for the summer and used the income to pack the boys into a car and head to France rather than sit at home worrying about everything I haven’t figured out yet.

I arrived thinking my next chapter involved the Cotswolds, yet somewhere between Disney, tiny French villages, ridiculous quantities of coffee and wondering where the hell we’re sleeping next, I started thinking…what if I moved to France? 😂

I believe in creating the life you want without limiting what it’s allowed to look like, and I refuse to decide something is impossible simply because I can’t yet see how I’ll get there.

I don’t think manifestation is sitting next to a crystal, wishing hard enough and waiting for DHL to deliver the dream life. 😂 I think it’s belief followed by action, putting yourself in places that expand your thinking, making choices towards the life you’re creating and allowing yourself to live a little of it before you’ve worked out how to build the rest. Living the life you’re striving for is part of the process.

There’s so much uncertainty behind the bits you see, but I know what I want: a beautiful home, work that excites me, something of my own that becomes bigger than I can currently imagine, travel, freedom and peace, while raising children who believe their lives don’t have to follow somebody else’s template.

And despite all available evidence 😂, I still believe in ridiculous, can’t-believe-I-found-you love.

I’m not lowering the ceiling on any of it just because I’m 50.

Perhaps that’s what NO F⚡CKS FOR FIFTY™ is really becoming: not having everything figured out, just refusing to wait until my life is perfect before I start living it. 🤎⚡️

#mi taken in Paris, France by @justbeingmia_

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