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    Joanna Gaines is getting real about aging at 46

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    • Joanna Gaines talked about aging and letting go in a new interview with Drew Barrymore.
    • “I’ve learned, especially as I’ve gotten older, it’s a lot more fun to quit,” she said.
    • The life lesson he shared is a powerful one.

    On a recent episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Joanna Gainesher husband Chip and even Barrymore gathered around the talk show cafe table to discuss aging. Joanna, in particular, detailed how she learned to “let go” of all the things that hold her back as she got older.

    Barrymore began: “I think the pressure is so self-imposed and I’m starting to let up a little bit. And I didn’t know how to let go. I am like a monkey’s claw with a white finger – nothing will escape from this grip.

    Joanna laughed and agreed that she too is a planner and a perfectionist. “I feel like my whole life has been, ‘How do I predict? How do I control? I don’t want surprises,” she explained, which could apply to anything from one of her many renovation and design projects to the random surprises that aging brings, like fine lines or energy changes or corporeal. “I’ve learned, especially as I’ve gotten older, it’s a lot more fun to quit,” she shared.

    The Magnolia Network host added that, yes, her drive to control has been helpful for her organization and success — but that, she’s learned, isn’t what matters most. “At the end of the day, when I look back, I want to remember the moments,” she said. “I want to remember that I liked them. Like back in the day I wouldn’t take a step forward unless everything lined up and was perfect…but what I’ve learned along the way is that you move forward. Then I feel like I could do anything.”

    With years of experience under his belt and Chip’s backing, he’s not as afraid of the unexpected as he once was. “If I fail, guess what? i will learn I will do better next time,” she said. “So for me, it’s just that I like the idea: we have to move forward. Leave the comparison aside. Let go of fear and anxiety—all things. Because these are real things, but if you start moving forward — I always picture it as falling off your back… that’s power. That takes you to the next place.”

    It’s advice that seems simple, but it takes many of us a lifetime to learn, which is why Joanna wrote a children’s book about it called The world needs who you were made to be. In 2020, he shared a childhood photo and reflected on how far he had come.

    “The older I get, the more I realize how much time I spent believing the lie that who I was wasn’t good enough. I find myself struggling to recover all this time,” she wrote. “I hope you find the courage to embrace all that you are—all your quirks, all your beauty, all your brilliance—because the world needs you.”

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