Welcome to the wisdom years.
The role of the wise-woman has been understood throughout history but has been recently eliminated through clever marketing that prizes youthful beauty over knowledge and experience. Sex sells. Wisdom doesn’t.
Our experiences as women have been pathologised and medicated from menarche to menopause. Our childbirth experiences have been turned into a ritual of fear, disempowerment, abuse, and trauma. Our value seems to come from taking up less space, showcasing our youthful attributes, shutting up, and taking more pills.
As an elder, I companion with women who are expanding their perspectives, making sense of their rites-of-passage, and growing into who they are called to be. This centres on the childbearing experience and finding out what the science actually says and how they can make choices that are safer, gentler, and lead to growing wholeness and healing.
Let me know if you’d like to hear more about learning from an elder.
