Every woman who reaches this threshold arrives with questions. A few are asked aloud, in a doctor’s office or across a kitchen table. Most are asked silently.

The Purpose of Menopause is built from those questions, eight of them, in roughly the order we ask them:

1. What Is Menopause?
2. Why Were We Taught to Hide It?
3. Is It an Ending?
4. Who Showed Us Another Way?
5. What Happens to the Woman I Was?
6. What If Everything Changes at Once?
7. What Is Menopause For?
8. Who Gets to Define Her?

Each chapter answers one question, and ends with a question for you to ask yourself. The last pages are a quiet evening ritual: two candles, a page, and a definition of menopause written in your own hand.

“This book is not an argument against the definitions. It is an invitation to stop mistaking them for the whole truth.”

This is Volume I of The Becoming of the Mystic. New volumes are coming. It is a book of meaning, not medical advice. For anything your body needs, keep the doctors who listen well.

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