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The fog has rolled in and the ground is splattered with vivid colour as the leaves fall. My japanese maple is a furnace of red against the grey sky. I have honoured my ancestors these last few days, and I am ready to face into the winter. If we lived in a traditional subsistence culture, […]
Here in the North the season of dying back is upon us – the leaves are falling away and the trees and plants are going deep within, sending energy to their roots for the long winter’s process of repair and new growth beneath the surface. The rains are coming to nourish those roots, the low […]
A Nourished Menopause: Cherish, nurse, and flow. As women, we give a lot of superficial thought to nourishment. We are often the ones responsible for the nourishment of our families. We shop for and prepare the food, we make decisions about the health of our families and our elders,and even our pets. we often know […]
This week we are talking about how to nourish ourselves, what it feels like when our well has run dry, and the importance of the deep rest and a return to natural cycles.
Just for you: music and beauty to carry you through the weekend, as we continue the theme A Nourished Menopause. We have a new playlist up on Spotify. These songs sound like telling your truth and asking for what you need. They sound like the stories we carry inside and a growing restlessness with pretending […]
I love this time of year. Even though it adds minutes to my already busy morning commute, there’s something so magical about having to thaw frost from car windows and seeing the shimmer of icy on shadowy lawns. Rain is finally showing up in the forecast. There are manic squirrels everywhere, barreling across quiet roads […]
This week we asked some of our Menopause Mentors to share their thoughts on our theme of sustain. Here are their words of wisdom, and a couple of beautiful book recommendations: “In this week’s theme of what sustains us in life and in menopause, I want to share with you one of mine. Bread! Baking […]
This week at Vivid, our theme is sustain. We ask the question, what sustains you? Reflecting on sustenance, I am drawn to consider what changes for us energetically at midlife. When choosing an image to symbolize this week’s theme, this hearth with its glowing coals spoke deeply to me. Have you learned how to build, […]
Today we are so proud to begin a new feature on the blog. As our beautiful Vivid network grows, we will be featuring our Menopause Mentors from around the world on these pages. Kim is our first featured Menopause Mentor and we are so happy to introduce her! Hello Beautiful VIVID Women, I am Kim […]
Patience by Mary Oliver What is the good life now? Why, look here, consider the moon’s white crescent rounding, slowly, over the half month to still another perfect circle – the shining eye that lightens the hills, that lays down the shadows of the branches of the trees, the summons the flowers to open their […]
Love, Love, Loved the Course! It was a coming home for me as I was guided gently in connecting with myself as an elder woman. The wonderful language used in the course around menopause was positive, empowering, hopeful, insightful, spiritual and freeing. The creative focus in its experiential processes really opened opportunities to explore deeply the true essence of being a menopausal woman. Importantly, the online support was an integral part of the process for me. The feedback from the other wise women gave insightful gifts of understanding that moved me into new places of being in my menopausal understanding. At times it was difficult to explore deeply the aspects of the changing body, soul and spirit of my aging self and the other women gently held me on my journey.
- Peta Greenough, Vivid Menopause Journey 2015 Participant
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