Hello Beautiful VIVID Women,

I am Kim Gillespie, I live on the Sunshine Coast, in beautiful Queensland Australia.

I have been coaching Women for the last 8 years, mainly in Self Love, Body Love, Sensuality, Sexuality and Life Purpose and I am thrilled to be now working with Bronwyn and Annagrace as one of their Vivid Menopause Mentors!

My passion is to help Midlife Women to live their life with Passion, Purpose, Pleasure and Confidence.

The last ten years have been a time of deep change, tears and growth for me. Seven years ago I was divorced, alone, broke and severely depressed. There were many times I felt like giving up, but I now know those difficult times (my dark night of the soul) were the start of my awakening and my journey to wholeness!

At 53, I am still on my Menopause journey. This time 14 months ago, I had not bled for nine months and was told by my Doctor that a blood test indicated that I was post-menopausal. I thought,well this is it, I have gone through menopause and only experienced a few hot flushes. One month after talking with my doctor, I experienced a deeply upsetting time and I started bleeding heavily – it actually felt like my Womb was crying and releasing the un-shed tears and traumas from my divorce. After that I bled every month for another nine months. As we speak, I have not bled for four months. I consider it so symbolic that my journey during this time has been in cycles of nine months – we grow and birth our babies over nine months and I feel that I have been releasing, growing, gestating and birthing the NEW ME in that time.

Menopause and midlife mark the end of a cycle… and the start of a newone, if we are open to change and are willing to grow into the life that is seeking to come into being. At menopause, we stop bleeding, we cannot birth babies any more, but this is the harvest time in out life, this is when our fruit is ripe and we can harvest and share our wisdom with others.

Midlife has been a time of journeying inwards for me, a time of questioning and redefining who I am and also a time of deep releasing. I am enjoying taking time to just BE, to express my creativity through art projects, painting and journaling. I feel more juicy and alive as I let go of worrying about what others are thinking of me. I have embraced my spirituality, sensuality and sexuality and am stepping fully into my Life Purpose.

I believe Women in Midlife are powerful creators ~ WE are the change-makers our world is needing. We are the teacher, the crone, the wise elder, the Warrior Woman.

I am so excited to join Bronwyn and Annagrace as one of their Vivid Menopause Mentors and am looking forward to sharing Vivid Menopause Circles here in Australia.

It is a time of Awakening for all of us and my advice to you would be:

Seek out the women who know the path and are unafraid of it.
Release what no longer serves you
Listen to the Wisdom of your Body
Be Open for the new
Don’t hold back,
Play, have fun, be eccentric
Follow your heart
Embrace opportunities
Transform relationships.
Be willing to say yes to the journey.

xo

Kim

To learn more about Kim and her work, visit her at Midlife Warrior Woman, and on the Midlife Warrior Woman Facebook Page. 

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