Birthday Musings-A Big Change This Year

This week is my birthday. Generally birthdays don't bother me to much. Although there have been a couple big ones that had me stand up and notice them a bit more than the others.

25 rocked my world. Suddenly, it was time to take stock of my life and recognize I couldn't stay on the path I was on and be able to imagine a good life ahead. Shortly after that is when I got sober and took the steps towards healing and recovery.

40 was another big one. I felt as if my world was opening up in a whole new way and somehow I began to recognize myself in brand new ways as well. My personal empowerment started to be realized more fully, I stepped into a confidence and certainty that wouldn't  tolerate a lot of the crap I had accepted in the past, and I began to actively create and manifest my life on my own terms.

This year is another big one. Not so much because it is my birthday, or because of the age I am turning this time. No, it's because this month, of this year, signifies a huge landmark in my life as a women. I have officially become "A Womyn Of Menopause"!! It has been a full year since I have had a monthly cycle.

This is BIG!! I keep thinking, how did I get here? It seems impossible that this could be true in my life already. I don't feel that old!

And I am not. I really believe that this time, while it signifies the end of one era in my life, it also denotes the incredible beginning of another. There is so much possibility and opportunity ahead of me! I am fully living life on my terms, I have an incredible partner who loves and adores me, I love my work, and I am the healthiest I have ever been. This is "Living Bliss" for sure!

What I love the most about being "A Womyn of Menopause", now, in this time, is how we can talk about it so much more freely and with no shame compared to the generations before us. This gives power to our innate feminine nature and allows us to carry on with our lives, knowing we are perfectly in alignment with natures course, that there is nothing wrong, and we are still powerful, beautiful, strong, desirable, and competent. Yay to that, I say!!

So, this week I not only honor this day that is the anniversary of my birth, but I greatly honor the womyn I am, the womyn I have been, and the womyn I am becoming.

(And yes, I mean to spell womyn that way. While I love men, I am all womyn, and want to claim that when-ever I speak about our gender, by removing the "men" in women. )

 Are you a Womyn of Menopause? Share with me your stories. What does this time mean for you? What new possibilities and opportunities do you see ahead? How does this transition change your life? And how can you take this time to create a "Living Bliss" life for yourself?