The Tantra of Menopause

The Tantra of Menopause

“That which is not in the body is not in the universe.” ~N.N. Bhattacarya, History of the Tantric Religion. I can’t say that I’ve ever felt completely at home in my body and sexuality, not fully at home in the way that I yearn for. But I will say that I am close, very close […]

Daily Wisdom: Mindfulness Meditation for Menopause

Daily Wisdom: Mindfulness Meditation for Menopause

The journey of menopause can disturb our equilibrium. We may find ourselves subject to new fears and anxieties that seem to arise from nowhere. We are changing and growing, our lives are changing, our bodies and psyches are changing ~ what are the best tools for coping with this change with equanimity? Mindfulness meditation is […]

Daily Wisdom: Celebrating Menopause

Daily Wisdom: Celebrating Menopause

In our culture, menopause is a private business, not something to be celebrated. We devote very little energy as a society towards celebrating the feminine passages – and menopause especially is often ignored or denigrated. I don’t just want to change this a little. I don’t just want to make menopause into something a little […]

Orcas and Pearls – Diving Deep

Orcas and Pearls – Diving Deep

For your listening pleasure, as we contemplate women’s wisdom and diving deep – this is a CBC documentary from 2007: The Sea Women (Oct. 2007 Encore) South Korea’s “sea women” have been harvesting commercial treasures from the ocean floor since the 4th century. With only a few tools and fishing baskets slung over their shoulders, […]

Honouring our Bodies at Midlife

Honouring our Bodies at Midlife

How Do You Love and Honour your Body? Loving our natural women’s bodies is a challenge in our culture, where women’s bodies are pornified, objectified, and commodified as a matter of course. Throughout are lives we are challenged in our attempts to love and honour our physical selves. As we age, this challenge takes on […]

More Rivers and Tides

More Rivers and Tides

When Annagrace and I dream up our weekly themes, we pull inspiration from all over. We talk and share our own deep stories around the theme. We read poetry and sent it to each other, we daydream and seed night-time dreams too. And we collect images. We create shared Pinterest boards in secret, compiling bits […]

All Week: Rivers and Tides

All Week: Rivers and Tides

I grew up in a severe and drafty 19th Century farm house with high ceilings and a wood-burning furnace. My dormered room faced out over the tangled old orchard, and beyond that, the grey green sea. That sea was the Bay of Fundy, site of the world’s most extreme tides. Every day the green sea […]

Desire: Sexuality at Midlife

Desire: Sexuality at Midlife

Do I have your attention? What do you think about older women being passionate and sexy? In a culture where sexually explicit images are everywhere, older sexuality is invisible. Why? As an older woman and a sexual being, how does this make you feel? As a younger woman and a sexual being, how does this […]