Show Your Spark’s Fierce After Forty Project celebrates the beauty, strength, and wisdom of women over the age of forty.   Why celebrate women over the age of forty?  We’ll tell you why! Reaching the age of forty comes with a wide variety of experiences full of challenges and victories that create plenty of personal insights. […]

Have you ever thought it’s too late to start over? As you read this post about one of Show Your Spark’s recent clients, you will discover an example of how to find fierceness after forty. Many women in midlife find themselves at a crossroads – a journey of self-discovery fueled by failed narratives that no […]

Time changes everything– our bodies and our perspective. For this Fierce After Forty Participant, the act of showing up to her photography session took her on a journey of profound introspection and toward self-acceptance. Once a self-inflicted victim of ageism, this Spark Alumni is learning to overcome ageism in her thought patterns to participate in […]

Have you learned to prioritize self-care?   Today’s Show Your Spark Fierce After Forty participant has! But it hasn’t always been easy.   Learning to prioritize self-care has been a predominant message we’ve heard from our Fierce After Forty Participants. For many of these women, they spent their youth and 20s and 30s placating and serving others, […]

Spark Alumni Dawn isn’t just a participant in our Fierce After Forty Project – she’s the embodiment of it. Pushing herself out of her comfort zone to be vulnerable in the Show Yoru Spark Studio, she sat down with us to discuss what it means to be a woman over 40 and the wisdom she […]

What does it mean to be fierce after forty?   According to our recent Spark Alumni Nancy, it takes equal parts ferocity and vulnerability. There’s a movement sweeping national dialogues– that of bringing conversation and awareness to the second puberty that women’s bodies experience – menopause. Women are learning to embrace the changes in their bodies […]

“It takes time to become a woman over forty.” This quote, from one of our recent Fierce After Forty Alumni, is such a simple yet profound statement.   Sometimes when we pause to reflect on our lives and the lessons learned, we can be tempted to look back with regret, thinking that we could have acted […]

Can a photography session aid one’s search for acceptance and change the way one looks at themselves?  For this Fierce After Forty Spark Alumni, the answer is a resounding, “Yes!” Self-described as unique, evolving, and worthy, when Show Your Spark’s Fierce After Forty Project was announced, Spark Alumni Tiffany decided now was her time to […]

It used to be said that forty was over the hill. But what if we learned how to make forty a fresh start instead of the beginning of the end? That’s the question many of our Fierce After Forty clients asked themselves as they entered their fifth decade.  If we are lucky, as women we […]

Is confidence after forty possible? At Show Your Spark, we say YES!   Not only is it possible, but as we’ve recently discovered during our Fierce After Forty Project, that many women don’t even begin to find their confidence until their forties or later! The self-acceptance that each participant developed within themselves enables them to find […]