My Manifesto for Midlife Women
Women are remembering something our culture tried to make us forget.
We spent decades being told our value was tied to how we looked. Be attractive. Be agreeable. Make yourself easy on the eyes and palatable to everyone in the room.
Then midlife arrived, and the message shifted. Now we're supposed to spend the next few decades erasing the evidence that we've lived at all.
I reject this. Completely. And I'm not alone.
What I Believe
✺ Anti-aging culture is not a beauty trend. It's a distraction designed to keep women from claiming their power.
✺ Our worth is inherent. It is not connected to our youth, our appearance, or how well we perform for the approval of others.
✺ Matriarchy and collective wisdom are more powerful forces than individual competition or extraction.
✺ Women gathering across generations to witness and support each other is not a trend either. It's a return to something ancient that we lost and are now reclaiming.
✺ When we weave the spirit of the women who came before us into the lives we're building now, we stop feeling shame about aging and start directing our energy toward what truly matters to us.
How I Do This Work
I help women reconnect to their power so completely that cultural noise about their bodies becomes irrelevant.
I create spaces where women gather with intention, centering practices that have sustained us for centuries.
I illuminate what's possible when we are discerning about where we direct our time and energy.
And I refuse to participate in systems designed to keep us fragmented and focused on appearance instead of purpose.
Every Elevation I create, every ceremony I design, serves this larger vision.
When you invest in this work, you're honoring yourself in a culture that profits from your self-doubt.
What’s Possible
When women stop pouring their energy into fighting aging, we get our attention back. We get our discernment back. And we start building lives based on what we actually want instead of what we've been told we should want.
When we honor life's transitions instead of fearing them, we tap into something this culture has forgotten: thresholds are where transformation lives.
And when we choose a pro-aging stance that lets us invest in who we're becoming instead of mourning who we were, we get to be the women we never had permission to be.
We become the elders our younger selves needed.
We model what it looks like to live with purpose at every age.
This isn’t my movement. It's ours.
It's a reclamation and a bones-deep remembering. Of everything we once were and all the things we can still be.
“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth.”
—Gloria Steinem