Why Middle Years Monday?
Online Membership Community and In-Person Retreats
It can be difficult finding the language to describe the myriad ways in which these middle years may feel disorienting. We don’t often see ourselves and our realities reflected in the online world or in mainstream media. And when it comes to the particular issues we face, it’s hard work finding the rich mine of information we need.
And there’s much to navigate.
Some of it is deeply uncomfortable. Our bodies are changing; sleep seems to be an ever-more reluctant visitor; brain fog, anxiety and bone-deep fatigue may have become our companions. Frequent visitations by a hormonal storm. Watching our parents move deeper into old age and ill health. Encountering loss and grief with more regularity. Uncertainty about our changed role when our children start to need us less or in different ways. Coming to terms with the final loss of our fertility - or the reality of unintended childlessness. And feeling we no longer understand who we are or why we’re here. We may fear that opportunity has passed us by, that life from here gets only smaller – and that perhaps it’s all just too late. If you are a woman in or around your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond it is likely that some of these words will speak to you.
BUT… there is so much more to your story than this.
Because this life stage brings us gains as well as losses. With support we can find an opening up of time, opportunity, confidence and creativity. We can befriend and harness that pull to do something meaningful with the rest of our lives. We can attend to the whisper that’s nudging us to revisit the dreams we’ve pushed aside. We can act on the urge to shake things up and stake a claim in this life.
Because this is the reality of being a middle years woman. All of this beautiful, messy nuance.
And that’s what Middle Years Monday is about. It’s not about pretending that the fears and challenges don’t exist. Middle Years Monday is a BS-free zone where all feelings, concerns and questions are welcome. And it’s also a place where you can find practical tools and resources that can actually make a difference to how you feel inside, how you move through your week, how you face the stuff that comes your way.
Attending our in-person Retreats or becoming a Middle Years Monday Member are the most nourishing and rewarding ways of being part of MYM. You can read about our upcoming Retreats here and full information about Membership is below.
We are passionate about supporting all middle years women. Do sign up to receive our Letters of Love (our newsletter) as it’s here that we’ll let you know about upcoming free community events such as our monthly Deep Relaxation sessions and our annual live Vision Board evening.
However you choose to engage with us, we hope that you’ll find hope, wisdom and connection.
Now is our time to create new beginnings, nurture a new kind of freedom and grow into the more authentic way of living that awaits us - so that we may better understand Anne Lamott’s words: