Cultivating a Magnificent Midlife

Midlife is one of the most transformational rites of passage we have as humans. For people in female bodies it is often experienced alongside the menopause transition which is the end of our fertility.

Midlife and Menopause are two transitions that often occur at the same time, although they are separate, they are also inextricably linked. Many of us fear this time in life because we have been told stories about all the terrible things that go wrong. What if you learned that it is the most transformational time in our lives as women; and that tending to ourselves and learning to listen to and trust the innate wisdom of our bodies, will support us to move through this time in life with grace and more ease. 

In the western world we have been told that Menopause is an unavoidable horror. Menopause has not been talked about and has been shrouded in shame. These cultural stories have created fear, uncertainty and doubt for many people, all they do is further disempower women. For many people it is challenging, but one of the reasons it is so hard is that we know so little about it or the changes that happen in our endocrine system and to our brain. Why would nature leave us to unravel, feeling lost and diminished, when we are in the prime of our lives? We tend to think of ourselves as the same person throughout our lives but we know that we change and grow through different stages and it is our hormones that facilitate and enable this growth; in a very real sense our hormones change us into a different person at each juncture or rite of passage in our life.

Don’t believe the stories you have been told, midlife is a huge opportunity to come home to the truth of who you really are. To be your real self and grow toward emotional adulthood and your wise woman power.

In cultures where the ageing women experience an increase in social status and there is no negative connotation of menopause, women do not experience what we think as menopausal symptoms to the same degree that we do in the western world. This tells us that our body, mind and belief systems are one.

Midlife is the call to explore you. It is the time to slow down.

It is the Autumn season of our lives where we have time to slow down, review, reflect and work out what we can let go of, what we can keep and where we need to focus our attention so that we can thrive in our second half of life. Midlife is the perfect time for this complex transition because we have the wisdom and perspective to really differentiate what is going on for us, with our deep life experience, we can begin to work out where we need to focus to thrive in our life.

If you would like to explore the depth of midlife and menopause and learn how to set yourself up to live well in the second half, come join us.

When - Tuesday 13th May 2025, 6-730pm,

Where - Tree of Life Integral Centre, 3 Denmark St, Kew, Vic, 3101