Embrace the Midlife Burn

The thing people get most wrong about midlife is this:

Midlife is a chance to become the person you really are, the one you were called to be before the world decided it for you, but most people think it's just a pain-in-the-ass phase to be survived and medicated.

The first half of our lives are spent figuring out where we fit, where our container sits, what it looks like, and so forth.

The second half is about what's inside that container.

Midlife smashes the container in ways that are slow and difficult, or painful and dramatic and we humans run from pain.

But when we turn and face it…. It still burns like hell.

Sometimes slow and low, sometimes like lightning, but when we don’t run, when we let it burn, bravely watching the container dissolve into ash, all the while proclaiming:

EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR ME

that's when beauty comes.

That’s when the phoenix can rise, but not one second before the container is burnt to ash.

Are you ready for that? Are you ready to see what lives on the other side of all the things you think you can’t live without?

This is the art and magic of midlife and a handful of brave and wild women are doing it together.

Sound interesting? Reach out to me and we’ll talk.