Hagitude, Sharon Blackie
Hagitude, Sharon Blackie
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Hagitude
Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Author: Sharon Blackie

Narrator: Sharon Blackie

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/01/2022


Synopsis

Unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring listeners to radically reimagine the last decades of their lives as the most dynamic of all

Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture's focus on youthfulness. In her exciting new book, mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie explores these archetypes, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples, women can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and their elder years as a path to dynamic power.

After menopause, women can expect to live another forty to fifty years, making this stage of life longer than childbearing years. As Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving our belief systems, exploring our calling, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for our accumulated wounds.


About Sharon Blackie

Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a psychologist who has specialized in neuroscience, narrative, mythology, and Celtic studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales, and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us for authentic and meaningful ways of being. Her work has been published extensively in professional journals and consumer media, and she offers workshops and seminars worldwide and online. She lives in Wales, UK.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 06, 2023

I am a longtime appreciator of Sharon’s work and have taken her classes and seminars. Until this book I would have said that I didn’t feel much of a divide; her ideas have excited and validated me. But I have to echo what is said in other reviews: her views on trans women are harmful. At one point she......more

Goodreads review by Tanya on November 18, 2022

This was a struggle to finish. I want to read and explore and understand what the back half of our lives is about. But this is too woo-woo, earth mother/goddess, mother of crows (or was it dragons? there were dragons, I'm sure). It's lovely to read about the author's friends who decided to chuck thei......more

Goodreads review by Rohase on January 02, 2024

What a wonderful book! The perfect antidote to all the current advice being doled out to menopausal and post-menopausal women - how to stay slim, how to stay hormonal, how to stay sexually active, how to stay focussed on work and career, etc etc ... nowadays we're basically being brainwashed into be......more