We learn early on to stuff or deflect anger, and the biochemical and emotional changes at midlife are meant to help us recognize that this nice-making is not healthy, truthful, or loving. “We cannot mature into to the second half of life without change, and sometimes we have to get angry enough to change things,” Johns writes. I found her chapter on the gift of anger very helpful as it helped me name some of what I experienced when I was in the thick of this transition in my life. She writes with insight and power about the gifts embedded in this crucible including recovery of our youthful passions and strengths, anger (yes, as a necessary gift!), an authentic self, a deeper understanding of time and our relationship with it, spiritual freedom, vision, and courage. “I was passing through a portal into a richer and fuller way of being in the world…I had found the crucible of my remaking.”
“(Menopause is) a special space wherein I could rewrite the story of my life,” she writes. Church and culture alike tend to treat menopause as the gateway to a woman’s diminished value and power.
Fisher Chair of Spiritual Renewal at Pentecostal Theological Seminary, contends that the physiological, emotional, and spiritual changes that accompany the arc of menopause in our lives can be assets.
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