Menopause: The Secret They Don't Want You to Know
#Menopause #WomensWisdom #Transformation
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What if menopause isn't the end of something, but the beginning of your greatest transformation? This film explores menopause as a liminal space - a sacred threshold into unprecedented power and wisdom that society desperately tries to silence.
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Journey with me through the pagan wisdom of maiden, mother, and crone - but discover the forgotten fourth season: the maga, the magician. This is the autumn of our lives, where we shed old conditioning, release the toxic beliefs that kept us small, and step into a reality where we finally belong to ourselves.
I share my personal journey through grief for lost youth, while uncovering the historical trauma we carry in our cells from the women burned as witches - most of them menopausal women whose voices had become too dangerous. We explore how healing ourselves breaks cycles of oppression that have lasted centuries.
This film dives deep into menopause as a gateway to the void - initially a dark emptiness, but with time, a profound peace with ourselves. It's about reclaiming the joy we knew as children, accepting our shadow aspects, and witnessing intuition explode like floodgates opening, unleashing creativity that was buried beneath years of conditioning.
My blog about the practicalities of food and exercise during menopause: https://katherinebetteridge.com/my-me...
But ultimately, this is about recognising that post-menopausal women hold evolutionary wisdom our world desperately needs. We are living through the ultimate metamorphosis into our most liberated selves.
The witch they burned lives on in us. And now she's free to speak.
Thank you to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for several of the drone shots in the creativity section where I'm wielding fire with a crown, or walking around the Triskelion symbol and the shot where I am cloned in the forest.
Chapters:
0:00 Liminality
0:54 Maiden, Mother, Crone & Maga
2:03 Wisdom & grief
3:34 Rage: The burning of witches
6:00 The inner journey of the menopause and confronting the void
7:39 Some practical offerings
10:03 Individuation & integration
11:28 Intuition & creativity
12:53 Metamorphosis & transformation
Music mainly through Epidemic Sound (in order of tracks used):
Eden Avery "Ice Flow Over Me"
Jon Algar "Plastic Dragon"
Christian Anderson "The Underground Squad"
Lama House "Secrets of the Earth
Rotem Moav "Blood on the Snow" (Via Artlist, not Epidemic Sound)
Philip Ayers "Ivory Tower"
Drumming by me
Elm Lake "Purify"
Francis Wells "Like Leaves of a Lotus"
Victor Lundberg "Shattered Illusions"
Long strange drone note by me!
Sight of Wonders "A Winter's Tale"
Bonnie Grace "May You Have"
#Witches #WomensHealth #Magician #Crone #Wisdom #Midlife #paganwisdom