Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week, Bronwyn talks to Sacred Conversationalist Ronna Detrick. We talk about the miraculous, ordinary lives of women, midlife resurrections, and what it means to leave a legacy. Listen in here on the […]
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Vivid Conversations: Catherine Just
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week, Bronwyn talks to conceptual photographer Catherine Just. In this juicy, deep conversation we talk about cracking open, trusting our intuition, rewriting our roles at midlife, body wisdom, and the creative ache. […]
Vivid Full Moon Circle – Illumination and Release
It’s Full Moon again! Full Moons bring fruition and revelation. What seeds did you sow at the last New Moon? How have they taken root? Now is the time to look at those New Moon intentions and decide what to do next. Time to consider what needs to be released. Time to slow down a […]
Vivid Conversations – An Interview With Lynette of The Menopause Goddess
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week Annagrace chats with Lynette Sheppard, creator of The Menopause Goddess Blog and author of the book Becoming a Menopause Goddess. Lynette began her blog after feeling blindsided by The Change. She […]
Our Fearful Hearts Yearn for the Wild
Who did you expect to be at fifty? How did you expect to live? Did you expect to be wild, or tame? I thought fifty would feel so settled. I would be accomplished and self-satisfied, probably rich, definitely calm. I didn’t consider what the state of my dreams and yearnings would be. Through my thirties […]
Vivid Conversations Podcast Episode 11 – Take Heart
Vivid Conversations is our weekly podcast, featuring Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye on issues of interest to women at midlife. We talk about our vivid lives, the menopausal journey, stepping into elderhood with power, and many other beautiful things. We interview creative vivid women, and we talk to each other about the deep currents in […]
Menopause Wisdom Wednesday – Wear Your Wisdom With Pride
As we age in this culture, we can get the message from our society that we are becoming less useful, less productive, less beautiful, less valuable. In fact, the opposite is true. If we are aging in an empowered way, if we are embracing our passage into elderhood, we discover along the way that we […]
Vivid New Moon Circle – Lunar Soul Care
To honour today’s beautiful New Moon in Aquarius, I thought we could consider lunar rhythms and how we can work with them symbolically. All through our reproductive years, the cycles of our bodies are mirrored by the cycles of the moon. Sometimes our cycles even align with the moon cycles. I know that I have […]
Vivid Conversations – Take Heart – An Interview with Anne Ortelee
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week is a rebroadcast of Bronwyn’s 2014 interview with wise, witty, and wonderful astrologer Anne Ortelee. We talk about the practical and the esoteric in astrology, working deeply with the moon cycles, […]
Wisdom Wednesday – Wisdom for Menopause and Midlife – Imbolc
Today is a special day – called variously Candlemas, Imbolc, Brigid, it is a “cross quarter day” in the solar calendar – half way between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox. The cross quarter days are magical, they are the liminal days, the days when the energy goes through a subtle but profound shift. […]
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