Imagine what would be different if instead of fighting emotional swings, and the inevitable physical changes of midlife, you embraced all of it as a gift?
What if you celebrated aging as a privilege; a period of time where the hard won experience of your younger years becomes the prized wisdom of your second act?
What if wrinkles and a few sags meant you had been places, and you know things, and therefore you are a source of this beautifully gathered knowledge? What if big emotions were signposts and road markers for things in your life that need to be changed, or adjusted, because they’re no longer a fit?
What if instead of midlife being a dreaded crisis that’s happening TO YOU, it’s actually a prized gift happening FOR YOU?
Disruption is the purpose
Mid-life is designed to be disruptive!
For women, midlife marks a drop in estrogen, which means you have less ability or desire to multi-task. You have less ability to tolerate demands and inconsistencies from those around you.
That’s because you are moving out of the “super woman” years, when you were a professional multi-tasker, holding up so many aspects of your life.
Until, one day, you felt unwilling or unable to do it the same way. This season of biological change is designed for simplification. You’re not meant to fight this change. You’re meant to let go of your former ways and step into a new season of more freedom and discernment, where you employ the wisdom you’ve earned.
Awakening is the reason
When you stop trying to maintain the younger version of yourself, then the beloved mature version emerges. A woman who knows what she wants and how to get it. You become someone you like, and want to be around. You become someone you want to love better, and care for in ways that nurture your body and soul.
When this season is embraced, midlife changes are redefined as markers of your evolution. It shifts from being an inconvenience, or something that needs to be fixed, into a time of unleashing the power that has been honed and crafted through decades of living.
Imagine that the best years are still ahead, with less distraction, and more focus on simplicity, purpose, and pleasure.
You do not need to be fixed. Midlife is not a crisis. It’s a beautiful gift happening for you, nurturing the new woman awakening within.
There is no one on this earth without a holy and divinely granted purpose. There is a deeper and more meaningful truth that runs a thread through your life, and it is calling to you all of the time. It is in the Ambrosial Hours that you craft and co-create the next version of yourself in the precious days you have left.
Your spirit has met a body, not by chance, but by choice. The Ambrosial Hours is the time to listen for what is calling your name. Sometimes, it comes in the whisper of a falling feather. Other times, as a booming in the darkness as the earth quakes in desire for you to step out boldly.
These hours can feel, at times, like something is dying. Yes, my darling, let that thing die. It is not you, it is what has grown too heavy now to be carried anymore. Let it down. Shake it off. Shutter to your bones until it loosens its grip on you. These hours before the light are made for this sacred death.
Take note of the fallow garden, the falling leaves, the discarded skin of the lizard, and the shriveled chrysalis of the butterfly. Change comes in the seasons. This season of shedding is here for you, too.
The next time they come to visit, relax into the bosom of the Ambrosial Hours. Allow the earth to cradle you into her rhythm. Allow the divine to open the top of your head and pour in the purpose of your existence.
And at the crack of first light, the path will rise to meet you, and the day will dawn anew, just like you.