The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause: The Spiritual Journey to the Wise-Woman Years - Softcover

Meisenbach Boylan, Kristi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891661132 ISBN 13: 9781891661136

Publisher: Santa Monica Press, 2000

Synopsis

At this very moment over fifty million women are going through menopause. Pharmaceutical companies are mass marketing hormones as fast as doctors can prescribe them, and menopausal seminars sponsored by these companies are crisscrossing the country in an effort to educate women on easing the physical pains of hormone deficiencies.

Books like The Silent Passage, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Menopause, and Listening To Your Hormones are flying off the shelves because women are desperate to learn even more. And yet, these doctors, seminars, and books still haven't addressed what every transitional woman instinctively knows: Menopause is much more than just a list of physical ailments, menopause is a spiritual journey.

The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause: The Spiritual Journey to the Wise-Woman Years is a groundbreaking work that will usher in a new way for women to cope with the emotional and physical challenges of menopause.
Venturing into uncharted territory, Kristi Meisenbach Boylan takes an intriguing and original look at the seven rituals that menopausal women move through on their voyage to the wise-woman years. Author Meisenbach Boylan believes that these seven ceremonial milestones should be viewed as celebrations—not as symptoms of an illness—and that the menopausal life passage isn't just about a woman's body fighting to correct hormonal imbalances, but is really about the soul trying to find its spiritual balance.

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About the Author

Kristi Meisenbach Boylan, author of both The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause and The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche is the former publisher of The Parent Track magazine. She began writing about women's issues and the relationship between spiritual growth and fluctuating hormones after her own menopausal transformation, resulting in the widely praised The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause. For The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche, Meisenbach Boylan drew upon her experiences as the mother of a twelve-year-old girl. She lives in Richardson, Texas.

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One of the most enduring lessons I learned was that the menopausal life passage isn't about a woman's body fighting to right itself of hormone imbalances; it is really about the soul trying to right itself of spiritual imbalances. It is about a woman's spirit fighting to regain a sense of symmetry in a distorted, asymmetrical world.

Though unbalanced hormones are certainly a symptom of the passage, it is the heart's cry to once again be absolute, and the spirit's desire to return to the place where it can exist in its natural state of strength and courage that defines the real journey through menopause.

And I learned that the menopausal pilgrimage was about returning to that place, that sacred land at the core of the soul, called home. And in returning to that home, that inner sanctum, a woman would again find that sense of spiritual strength and wholeness that she craved, and she would once again be filled with the zest and self-reliance that she had before puberty and children and her husband lured her away.

About this edition

• Publisher: Santa Monica Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1891661132
• ISBN 13: 9781891661136
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160