Journey Through Menopause: A Personal Rite of Passage

By Christine Downing

Book Overview

This intensely personal account of the little written-about sacred dimension of menopause combines religious studies with psychology to "understand menopause as soul-event . regarding its symptoms as symbols" and provides insight into what this transition can be like for those women who choose to embrace it as a meaningful part of their lives. Downing explores menopause as a rite of passage and reveals her own inner and outer journey through this process, using a trip she took to India when she turned 50 to mark the occasion. She shares with her sisters the lessons learned on the journey: "the discovery that I was done with the heroic quest, the acceptance of weakness and vulnerability, the recognition of my dependence on other women, the revelation that I am loved enough."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082450836X
• ISBN13: 9780824508364
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.