For many women the transition from child-bearing age to not can last two to ten years.

We function in silence for fear of being misunderstood by those who have not yet or will never experience this long and continuously evolving transformation. It can be lonely and singular with many highs and lows.

While perimenopause to menopause has been physically turbulent at the same time success, love, joy, adventure, and poetry, goes on. Menopause has marked me like a scar that signifies the pain and fragility of my changing body. But it is only that. I am beginning to discover the “awakening” that comes on the other side of this journey.