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Most of us were never given a map for what happens at midlife. We were given a symptom list, maybe a prescription, and a vague sense that something was ending.
But Luce Beaulieu found a different kind of map — and it’s 4,000 years old.
Luce is a menopause coach and former researcher who went through one of the most concentrated versions of the transition I’ve ever heard: menopause at 49, simultaneous with a traumatic breakup, a toxic work environment, and a spiritual awakening — all during COVID. She had every symptom, at what she describes as 25 times their normal intensity. And she came out the other side. Now she works with women who want to get unstuck in the transition and become, as she puts it, the leaders this world needs.
What makes her approach different isn’t that she rejects hormone therapy or somatic work or any single path. It’s that she can hold space for all of it — HRT, IFS, myth, spirituality, trauma science and anything else that might help.
I get pitched a lot of menopause coaches for the podcast – I am not sure I’ve ever interviewed any of them. Luce, who I think I found when she impressed me on social media, has both weight and depth to her expertise, and she literally embodies what this transition prepares us to do: turn out experiences into gold for others.
In a world of people telling us how poorly off we are, what danger we are in, I just loved – and yes, maybe needed – her vibe.
Here’s what we got into:
Why Luce calls menopause the most important, impactful event of her life — more than giving birth
The myth of Inanna, a 4,000-year-old story of female initiation, and how it maps exactly onto what we go through
How estradiol and progesterone got her to 80% — and why testosterone took her the rest of the way
Somatic practices for getting back into your body when everything feels like too much
The mage — the missing archetype between mother and crone that nobody talks about (but should)
QUOTABLE
“What we need is safety. We need groundedness, we need somebody to be a sounding board, an accompaniment. That's what we need — to be accompanied through this transition..” — Luce Beaulieu
If you’ve ever felt like you were on the meat hook — laid completely bare, with everything stripped away — this one’s for you. Don’t forget about the inevitable ascent on the other side. It’s real.
And you like what you hear in this podcast, you lucky duck! Luce has just opened the doors to Portals of Liberation, her 4-week guided deep dive into the four thresholds your body is already asking you to cross. Don’t wait! It starts June 22.
AMx
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