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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) On my walk this morning I saw the most wonderful sight: the tiny, pale green points of baby leaves hatching from winter’s buds. There were crocus […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
As we enter our late 30’s and early 40’s (the decade of time which typically precedes natural menopause) something happens to our emotions. It can look like depression or apathy. Even things we normally love can lose their gleam and we can find ourselves struggling with a lack of energy. It can look like anger—a […]
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, […]
What I loved most about the Vivid Menopause Journey was the connection, support, sharing of stories, and feeling excited about a new way to approach menopause. I benefited in so many ways from the Online Journey: in learning about the importance of sleep, nourishment on many levels, self-acceptance at this time, new ideas for managing symptoms and even better ways to think/feel about them. I felt supported in my personal life. The other women were so brave, beautiful, raw, real.
- Lee Robin, Vivid Menopause Journey 2015 Participant
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