I’ve been feeling a bit low the past couple of weeks. There doesn’t seem to be any specific reason for this ‘downness,’ yet here I am. And it’s not the same texture of ‘down’ as dealing with world events, family or financial issues, the weather, or any of the outer events that affect all of us.
You may remember that the first few months of the year I explored The In-Between, that place where women midlife and beyond find themselves when they realize they’re no longer who they used to be but are not yet who they are becoming.
The In-Between journey was in my face, a bit anxiety-producing, irritating, and confounding. This feels more internal, transformative, shadowy, initiatory.
I gratefully got myself through The In-Between. That evolution led me here, and it has deepened - I’m in the process of crossing the threshold from Previous Me to Imminent Me. I now find myself in The Pause.
This has a similar texture to The In-Between, but The Pause feels deeper, richer, more challenging, yet with more potential.
Having made it through 20’ish years of perimenopause and menopause, I’m almost completely postmenopausal.
And is it a coincidence that ‘pause’ makes up a portion of each of those words?
This postmenopausal Pause is different than anything I’ve experienced so far. And I’m going to take some time delving into it, researching it, exploring it, communicating with it, learning from it.
I invite you to join me on this new passage.
With love,
Betz
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