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Sharon Blackie is a psychologist whose work focuses on reimagining women’s stories. Throughout her extraordinary career, she’s drawn connections between myths and fairy tales, and the most pressing personal and cultural issues we face today. She’s written several books, including Hagitude, which is about reimagining the second half of women’s lives, and the powerful transformation and rebirth that can happen at menopause. We get into that today, as well as themes from another one of Sharon’s books, called Wise Women: Myths and Stories for Midlife and Beyond.
I think Sharon’s wise perspective is so needed, and for me, it’s really the spiritual and emotional thread that is missing from today’s conversations on growing older. As Sharon says, she wasn’t interested in trying to hold onto—at all costs—a youth that she had already shed. What she wanted was something more—to continue to change, to transform….And to clearly see, as former parts of her identity were burned away…what was really the core of herself…what mattered most to her…and what she could make of all that was left in the next chapter of her life.
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