01/04/2026
I turned 50… and something unexpected happened.
I didn’t feel like I was losing myself.
I felt like I was meeting myself… in a way I never had before.
There’s a story we’ve been given about this age.
That the body starts to fail.
That hormones turn against us.
That we slowly fade… become less, not more.
And I can feel how deeply that story lives in women’s bodies.
The bracing.
The fear.
The quiet preparing for something to go wrong.
But standing here now…
My body feels more alive than it did in my 30s.
There is more energy here. More presence.
More juice.
My mind is calmer than it has ever been.
Not because life is easier…
but because I am no longer fighting myself within it.
There is a softness in me now…
but it’s not weakness.
It’s a deep, rooted steadiness.
And no…
I haven’t experienced the hormonal chaos
or perimenopausal suffering I was told to expect.
Because over the years… something changed.
I stopped overriding my body.
Stopped pushing through.
Stopped abandoning myself in the name of keeping up.
Through Ayurveda…
through breath, energy work, and deep listening…
I began to understand how to be with my body.
To support it.
To regulate it.
To trust it.
And this is what I see so clearly now:
This phase of life is not a decline.
It is an initiation.
A threshold into wisdom.
But we no longer have the structures that hold women through this.
The elders.
The rites of passage.
The spaces where a woman is seen, honoured, and guided as she crosses over.
So instead…
she moves through it alone.
Or medicated.
Or believing something is wrong with her.
We have lost this generation of women into silence and survival.
And it’s time to change that.
Time to change the story we’ve been told.
Time to walk a different path than the one we’ve been handed.
This August, I’ll be opening a small, intimate rite of passage
for women entering — or already within — their wisdom years.
A space to lay down what you’ve been carrying…
to be witnessed in this transition…
and to consciously step into what this next chapter holds.
Whether you are approaching 50…
or have already crossed it and never marked it…
this space is for you.