Radiant Wise Woman: Breaking Free from the Myths of Menopause and Aging

by Lee Sumner Irwin

Overview

A new map through the maze of menopause and beyond.

Whether you're preparing for menopause, you're feeling blindsided by it, or it's in the rearview mirror, this candid guidebook will lead you through the often confusing stages so you feel more vibrant and resilient than you thought was possible.

In Radiant Wise Woman you will find:

Secrets to feeling vibrant, healthy, and more attractive than ever

Natural relief for hot flashes, anxiety, and sleepless nights

Simple strategies for rejuvenating your sex life and enjoying more pleasure

Advice for men seeking to understand and support women in midlife and beyond

Three powerful allies every woman can call on for loving guidance

A handy reference guide to perimenopause, menopause, nutrition, and emotional health

The author unveils surprising truths about a woman's "second spring" and presents a dramatic new pro-age vision based on groundbreaking research and in-depth interviews with women age forty and better. Readers will get the tools they need to overcome fears about getting older so they feel a renewed sense of purpose and self-confidence. Includes simple daily practices and a handy resource guide on perimenopause, menopause, sexual health, nutrition, and emotional wellbeing for women seeking to take charge of aging well.

With this book, you may never act your age again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985046502
Publisher:	Wisdom Rising Productions
Publication date:	03/20/2022
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	317,339
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lee Sumner Irwin is on a mission to shatter outdated myths about menopause and aging. Founder of the worldwide Radiant Wise Woman movement, she is an award-winning teacher and international retreat leader with 30 years of experience in women's transformation. Known as a "midwife for midlife," Lee has empowered thousands of women to embrace a new era of conscious aging. She enjoys a vibrant life with her spouse in Birmingham, Alabama.

Editorial Reviews

05/16/2022

Irwin leverages her own experience working with vibrant older women to provide inspiration for women in their “second spring” “wise woman” phase of life to lean into their capacity for creativity, intuition, healing, and passion. Presenting the archetypes of Maiden, Queen, and Wise Woman not only as life stages, but as powerful inner allies with energies that can be accessed throughout life, she offers inspiration for readers to discard the myths of aging as decline and of the post-menopausal end of sexual energy. Exercises at the end of each chapter encourage readers to engage the ideas through personal contemplation and gentle action.

Irwin’s love and energy for her older peers comes through clearly and infectiously throughout the text. Her conversational tone is inviting, her advice easy to process, and the experiences that she shares, both her own and those of her group members and coaching clients, are relatable. Her conceptualization of the three female energies and how they manifest throughout life is a unique take on a well-worn female empowerment trope that readers should be able to put into action. The most powerful messages prioritize internal work and personal growth, doing internal work of healing old trauma and connecting to the untamed self via nature, and expanding embodied joy, an idea tightly entwined with encouragement to keep pursuing sexuality and sensuality. Advice to find an “angel posse” puts a spiritual spin on the importance of community during aging.

For all its inspirational power and welcome mythbusting, Radiant Wise Woman is less helpful on the physical aspects of the menopause transition, leaning on personal experience with bio-identical hormone replacement while skipping most of the biological background and blaming familiar feelings of exhaustion on spiritual disengagement. Still, the effect overall is an uplifting contrast to the negative cultural messages often pushed on older women.

Takeaway: Readers discouraged by our culture’s sidelining of older women will find empowerment and inspiration in this mythbusting guidebook.

Great for fans of: Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s Women Who Run With the Wolves, Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman.

Production grades Cover: A- Design and typography: A Illustrations: N/A Editing: A Marketing copy: A

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