Reclaiming Midlife as a sacred passage

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. 

What if midlife is not a crisis but a threshold?

Not a slow unraveling, but a deep becoming. A time to return to your core essence—not the self built to survive, but the one born to belong. To your body. To your truth. To the rhythms of a life lived from the inside out.

Menopause Is not a disease, it is a ripening Into your wise woman self and community stewardship

Somewhere along the way, the story got confused.

Menopause—this sacred threshold in a woman’s life—has been reduced in the dominant narrative to a list of symptoms to manage, a decline to delay, a hormonal malfunction to correct. It’s treated as pathology. As though something is wrong with you. As though you are breaking down.

In my work with women moving through midlife, I see something astonishing. When the noise of cultural conditioning is quieted—when we slow down enough to listen to our bodies and our deeper rhythms—what emerges is not depletion. It’s ripening. Something ancient and wise begins to move through. The psyche softens. The soul speaks louder. A different kind of power shows up.

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.

Join us for an evening of soul-nourishing conversation as we explore a different story about midlife—one rooted in the body, in nature’s wisdom, and in the sacred art of ripening. Together we’ll talk about what it means to soften, to slow down, and to trust the deep intelligence within. This is a space to exhale, to be real, and to remember: this chapter is not about decline. It’s about becoming.

Come as you are. No preparation needed—just curiosity, a willing heart, and an openness to hear a different story.

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

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