Feelings of worthlessness, depression, anxiety, fear, panic, frustration. Experiencing weight gain, sleeplessness, and body pains. The deep desire to be left alone.
The deeply embedded desire (sometimes unconscious) to remain youthful, driven by the societal measure of women’s worth in their reproductive years and, therefore, youthful beauty, keeps us at midlife in a hamster wheel of pain. When we learn the truth of this powerful time and how to embrace it, it becomes one of our most exquisite rites of passage and makes our women, one of the most valuable assets to our community, sadly misplaced for far too long.