During menopause women will experience a wide range of emotions. You may feel scared and apprehensive, or you might feel happy and relieved. Menopause is often associated with negatives: the loss of fertility, the loss of inner vitality, the loss of youth, and changing bodies. Menopause has been seen as a terrible “curse” to bear. It comes with many different uncomfortable symptoms, including mood swings, hot flashes, weight gain, osteoporosis, heart palpitations and many more. Women are not happy that they have reached “that age” where “everything seems to go downhill.” Popular belief for men that “women after 40 are just going downhill” is very much alive.

Menopause hasn’t always been perceived as such bad experience. To the contrary of popular belief, menopause is a time of spiritual beginnings and exciting change. In the past, menopause was seen as a powerful time in a woman’s life. It is a rite of passage which every woman must face. Those belief systems come from ancient matriarchal times.

Menopause is viewed as a “disease” or as “the end.” Nowadays we look at menopause in clinical terms. We go to the doctor to treat it. It is no longer given a special status that it once was and most of the women don’t even try to use natural remedies to bring relief to their symptoms. We think of menopause in terms of disease. When we go to the doctor, we are assured that we are in physical decline, we can’t bear children anymore, that we are old, experiencing mental deterioration, that we are close to ending of our life or seen as having a lack of social worth.

Menopause is a time of significant changes for women physiologically, emotionally, and spiritually. Our energy is now being focused on the next phase of life.

As women, we give away tremendous amounts of energy to raise families, working and living. Menopause is time to slow down. It is not the end but time of new beginnings, a new start, a time in life when we are wiser and can approach life from one’s unique perspective rather than having to approach life from set roles.

Our bodies are changing; our experiences are changing; we feel more vulnerable, uncertain, and sometimes confused and overwhelmed. It is a significant change – our biological functions change and eventually diminish, and the role we have experienced and lived through for so many years is changing. Our service, ability, needs, and purpose are changing as well. We need a new way to express ourselves and recognize that. The children are gone, divorce happens, and women can find themselves alone – sometimes for the first time in their life.

It’s unfamiliar and unknown territory. It can be really hard for some women, and for others can be a liberating experience. It is a time of transition – a time when we can take a break and have an opportunity to acknowledge our power, freedom, choices, and passion because we don’t have to be pressured to the outside world.

Menopause is a beautiful time and offers the opportunity to be who we are.

Menopause is a time of rebirth, birthing the real you and discovering your real potential. Women physically birth babies. In this society, birthing our true/spiritual self is not popular, but it is no less miraculous and mysterious.

It is a true miracle and an amazing gift that we should be enjoying! Menopause can offer you a new relationship with your body and provide an opportunity to birth your Divine Inner Child.

Menopause is a time of letting go of people and circumstances that no longer serve us and no longer hold any purpose. It is time to heal our wounds – heal and release, preparing for a new future. It is time to follow our dreams, passions, and do things we put off for a long time.

In Health

Angie