This is one of my favourite expressions- it means“to be (feel) good in one’s skin”

We know we say it in English-Somehow in French it has deeper meaning especially if you smooth your hands over your body as you say it with a strong accent

I think of how real beauty is so linked to feeling good in one’s skin. There is a sense that that skin fits just right and that being you is smooth and silky and yours-just like that skin.

The beauty of aging is that if you do it right- you feel bien dans sa peau.  Women in their 40s and onwards seem to get this right (unless they don’t) as they move gracefully into that skin.

(Children who are loved seem to be this too- up until 10 or 11 and then it gets knocked out of them too often)

Every couple of months I get an email with a photo- above is the one from last week- from my best friend. She is in her seat on a Friday night. Waiting with excitement  for a concert to begin.

She loves music. She loves to dance. She loves to sing along loudly without any sense/care that anyone is looking.

So if it is not enough to go to a concert and stand on your seat and sway your hips, arms above head singing at the top of your lungs-here is the clincher-

SHE GOES BY HERSELF

(also perhaps more  important to note – she does not drink)

She loves music so much and finds most of her people dont quite love it the same way. So that does not stop her from doing what she loves.

My best friend est bien dans sa peau

words for wednesday – on bribery and parenting- by clicking here