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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 […]
During menopause we often experience a calling up of our past selves and old stories. Our hearts are looking to resolve and make peace with old wounds, while also assimilating our varied selves and personas into a whole. While it’s hard to not wince and turn away from reminders of pain and failure, we are […]
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 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, […]
A Vivid Menopause February Playlist: If your heart is beating, alive, and your own, then I’m positive that it’s also complex and one of a kind. In other words, it craves love and understanding and it does so in its own unique way. In lieu of a February playlist full of cookie-cutter radio romance, here […]
Homeopathy is a gentle energy based medicine. It works on symptoms rather than diagnosed “conditions” or “diseases” and as such is perfectly placed to gently ease the symptoms of menopause that can be uncomfortable. Homeopathy unlike herbalism works with substances that are not just from the plant kingdom but from the animal and mineral kingdom […]
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. […]
Welcome to February. Can we start the New Year now? I know I’m not the only one who watched January come and go, waiting patiently for that fresh bright New feeling that never came. I think it’s finally here. This morning clear sunlight spilled into the house, illuminating the dusty corners and brightening the translucent […]
A brand new year, fresh and clean and largely blank usually inspires in me a rush of happiness, the excitement of all unbroken things. I am prone to wake on the first day of a brand new year with relief at whatever happened in December being done. I am used to feeling rather like Anne […]
In today’s podcast we talk about the lessons of 2015, our words and themes for 2016, and what’s coming in the New Year for Vivid!
Bronwyn brings light, love and beauty with her presence and her leadership. Her insights, support, experience and wisdom have enriched me in just the one week I was blessed to spend with her in Mexico. This was not my first experience in women’s retreats and I hold it up as an example of what is possible at their highest level. I was inspired and given practical tools to grow in my creativity, body, heart, and spiritual life. This will not be my last retreat with her and I look forward to an ongoing journey with her!
- Laura Flanders-Roush, 2014 Retreat Participant
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