Don't forget your Wise Power

... future you will thank you

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I just finished reading Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer’s new book Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging.

Written by the founders of Red School, a leadership training program to help people realize the power of their menstrual cycle, it’s a follow-up to their book on that subject, Wild Power.

There is, as far as I can tell, not one single reference to menopause hormone therapy in this book and I’m sure it’s by design. They don’t even like to use the term perimenopause, and if I could sum up that sentiment, it would probably be that while we need to know something is going on, we don’t need to be preoccupied by putting a negative label on it.

Their ethos is that by the time we get to this transition, the entire sum of our life experiences needs to be processed and reckoned with so we can move forward with purpose and peace. Those who have done work to understand and embody their Wild Power will h…