Rewriting the Midlife Narrative: Embracing the Sacred Pause and the Wild Becoming
- Jun 13
- 4 min read
Every month inside the Red Threads Collective, we open our virtual doors and welcome women from all walks of life to join us at the Open Table Gathering. This is a sacred space for soulful conversation, honest reflection, and sisterhood. This post is a recap of our June 12th circle, where we explored the theme Unapologetically Wild, Wise, and Whole: Rewriting the Midlife Narrative. What unfolded was a powerful exchange of wisdom, vulnerability, and deep remembering. This was a reminder that midlife is not a crisis, but a reclamation. If you missed the live gathering or want to revisit the magic, pour a cuppa, and keep reading…
“I am not unraveling. I am unleashing.”
This powerful mantra anchored this month's Open Table Gathering. This was a soul-nourishing circle where truth-telling, deep listening, and sacred remembering took center stage.
Guided by our theme, Unapologetically Wild, Wise, and Whole: Rewriting the Midlife Narrative, we opened the circle with breath, mantra, and intention. We gathered not to fix, but to feel. Not to perform, but to be.
This is what we know to be true:
Midlife isn’t a crisis.
It’s a portal.
A holy, hot, often disorienting threshold where we are called to let go of who we’ve been, and make space for the truth of who we’re becoming.
Welcoming the Wild Medicine Woman: Dr. Liz
We were honored to welcome Dr. Liz Dobbins, a modern-day medicine woman whose words opened a floodgate of resonance, remembrance, and revelation. With a background in neuroscience, somatic healing, and ancient wisdom traditions, Liz invited us to consider that every woman carries within her a wildly magnetic life force - her soul’s CEO. This sacred intelligence is not something we have to earn; it is something we are. It already lives within us.
“The body is the oracle,” Liz shared. “It tells us what’s real. And when we shift from living externally to tuning inward, our truth and our power rise.”
She illuminated the biological and spiritual transformations happening in midlife, both hormonally and at the levels of identity, intuition, and energy. When neural pathways that once prioritized caregiving and external validation start to quiet, something miraculous happens: we come home to ourselves.
Midlife Truth-Telling and Thresholds
The circle was alive with stories from women walking through their own becoming.
Laura shared her desire to sit by the river, not as an escape, but as a sacred reset. Once the one saying yes to everything, she’s now practicing a curated life.
“I don’t want to hold up the universe anymore. I’m learning to savor the flavor of me.”
Coni, stepping closer to 80 each day, reminded us that the journey doesn’t end... it deepens. After many beautiful years in Vegas, she’s preparing to leave her home that holds many core memories for her. Grief and excitement dance together as she opens to what’s next.
“I don’t know where I’m going, but I know it’ll be an adventure. Bring on the eighties.”
Christine spoke vulnerably about the internal war between the need to pause and the pressure to perform.
“I don’t want something new to come out of me. I just want to be who I am. And for once, not feel guilty about it.”
Her words became an echo in the circle... a mirror for so many of us navigating identity shifts, caregiving fatigue, and the call to slow down.
Liz responded with fierce tenderness:
“You’re not supposed to know. This is the pause. The rest before the rebirth. Your being is sacred.”
Unlearning, Unleashing, and Reclaiming Midlife
Throughout the gathering, threads emerged:
The need to unlearn inherited beliefs about productivity, beauty, and worth.
The power of sisterhood in bearing witness to one another’s grief and growth.
The longing for movement, ritual, and embodied expression — to feel instead of figure out.
The truth that we are not alone. Even in our mess, even in our pause, we are not alone.
We laughed. We cried. We reclaimed the sacredness of sitting still, of grieving what no longer fits, and of honoring what’s slowly and beautifully blooming.
Wisdom to Carry Forward
“The biggest crime committed against women is the moment we’re told to sit still.” ~Dr. Liz
“We’re not broken. We’re blooming.” ~Debra Trappen
“It looks like I’ve changed. But I’m more myself than I’ve ever been.” ~Jinnifer Murphy
What's Next: A Journey into Embodiment
Dr. Liz returns next week to lead us on a guided embodiment journey for our member-exclusive Collective Conversation on 6/19.
This is an opportunity to experience your life force not as a concept, but as a felt sense.
You are invited to return to your body… to the source of your truth… to your sacred wild.
Are you ready to join us at the table?
If your soul stirred while reading or watching this... if you felt seen, soothed, or sparked... we invite you to join us inside the Red Threads Collective.
This is more than a community or gathering.
It’s a sacred space where wild hearts are welcomed, truth is honored, and no woman walks alone.
Pull up a chair next week as we journey deeper into the body with Dr. Liz, exploring embodiment practices that awaken our intuition and reconnect us with our sacred life force. Whether you whisper or roar, your voice belongs here.
✨ Come sit with us. Your seat is waiting. ✨
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