During the menopausal years it can feel like EVERYTHING in your life is changing. This time of rebirth can be really tumultuous. Self-care becomes very important. Your emotional and physical needs are changing, and your self-care needs change too. Have you prioritized self-care? You may be dealing with children leaving the nest, changes in your […]
Category Archives: Daily Wisdom
Mother of Reinvention
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ~ Anais Nin It’s a fresh new week and a brand new month. August has arrived fast on the […]
Dancing In the Dark
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. ~Pina Bausch Change is a terrifying word. Especially arbitrary change—change we feel we have no control over. It’s no wonder that the word menopause is not nearly as scary for most of us as the term The Change. “You’re going through The Change.” “She’s experiencing The Change.” It positively […]
Ordinary Celebrations and Tiny Revolutions
In my mailbox this week was a beautiful note. Handmade, with watercolors on simple paper, the cursive words were an invitation to come and celebrate the full moon with dinner. “We have realized,” it read, “that our life needs more celebrations.” It went on to say that their plans were simple, that children were welcome. […]
Listening to Our Bodies
When this year began I made one giant promise. Not the sort written at midnight on New Year’s Eve, fueled by holiday indulgences and anxiety at the year ahead and not the kind written in shame-scrawl on the back of an envelope which also happened to contain notes from a recent doctor’s visit. No, this […]
Daily Menopause Wisdom: An Autonomous Woman
ARE YOU AN AUTONOMOUS WOMAN? What does it mean to be an autonomous woman? Sometimes we think of autonomy as complete independence – – the idea that we don’t need or depend on anyone else in our lives. This take on autonomy has always seemed a bit cold to me – not to mention unattainable. […]
Full Moon Wisdom
How are you feeling? We are just coming out of the intense energies of yesterday’s Capricorn Full Moon… have you noticed, as we enter the Wisdom Years, that although our bodies no longer cycle so obviously with the moon, that we are still profoundly tuned to and aligned with the lunar cycles? If you are […]
Daily Wisdom: Sovereignty
SOVEREIGNTY To stand in my own power. To be the supreme ruler of my body and life. To set my own boundary markers. To own my story and my truth. To make no apologies for my experience and knowledge. To live my own wisdom. To decide whom and what are worthy of my time and […]
Hot Flashes: Dancing in the Fire
Sacred Fire I’ve been waking up in the night with my skin on fire. I try to explain this to my tender and supportive husband: “I feel like I’m bathing in sheet lightning. It’s electrical. It’s hot.” He says “You ARE hot!” But it feels like – I’m on fire. Don’t touch me. I wake […]
Daily Menopause Wisdom: Midlife Sexuality
Let’s talk about midlife sexuality. Since I’ve been doing this work, I have had many young women approach me and say “thank you, you’ve made me less afraid of aging” or “thanks for what you do, I don’t dread menopause as much now.” It’s wonderful to hear this, of course, and on the surface these […]
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