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 talks to Menstrual Activist Lana Friesen. During Lana’s studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, she started her own company teaching dance and producing dance shows. Over the course of […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Vivid Conversations – Maria Allyn
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week, Bronwyn talks to Midlife Coach Maria Allyn about living a life of Pleasure, Passion, and Purpose at midlife. Maria is a life coach who works with midlife women (45 – 60) […]
Sensory Weekend: Breathe
Each month we put together a playlist and Pinterest board which matches our feelings and thoughts around that month’s theme. We find that it’s a fun and interactive way to move our words and ideas from brain to body and heart. Matching the look and feel of the images and music to our monthly Vivid […]
New Moon Circle – The Ocean of Release
Each month, nature in her wisdom and beauty offers us an opportunity, a clean slate, a shining outward and visible sign of the grace we are always given to move beyond our own shadow and start again. In the night sky, the dark Moon begins to clear her shadow and reveals a tiny sliver of […]
Learning to Breathe
Early every Monday morning, I drive along the edge of the sea, straight into the sunrise, which comes either as a soft mist or as a breathtaking quicksilver glisten on the horizon. Leaving my car at the edge of a rutted lane, I pass though a rustic wooden gate, then an allée of young fig […]
Vivd Conversations – Ronna Detrick
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week, Bronwyn talks to Sacred Conversationalist Ronna Detrick. We talk about the miraculous, ordinary lives of women, midlife resurrections, and what it means to leave a legacy. Listen in here on the […]
Introducing Vivid Reads
Something we hear all the time from women is how rare it is to see ourselves accurately depicted in word and film. Maybe this is because juicy, powerful, and sovereign (or fill in your favorite menopausal experience) can look and feel so different to each one of us. Maybe this is another reflection of how […]
Breathe
In like a lion, out like a lamb. So goes the old saying about March. It’s blustery, changeable, wind-swept, and suddenly, in the very middle, it’s spring (or autumn, depending on where you live). March for me is the month of gigantic, fluffy clouds and unexpected sunshine. It’s the month of new life hatching and […]
Vivid Conversations: Catherine Just
Vivid Conversations is a weekly podcast for women at midlife hosted by Bronwyn Simons and Annagrace Kaye of Vivid: The New Menopause. This week, Bronwyn talks to conceptual photographer Catherine Just. In this juicy, deep conversation we talk about cracking open, trusting our intuition, rewriting our roles at midlife, body wisdom, and the creative ache. […]
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