Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

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And it is curious that that doesn’t seem to bear any relationship to my preferences, any more than the fact that I was born in the north east of England seems to make any difference to my preferences always for the West. And so it is very, they tend to be, not exclusively but tend to be very much about teaching the younger people skills for life.

And so for some stories, particularly from the Irish tradition, we can trace how they might have started as a saga or a proper myth, you know, with potentially spiritual overtones and passed down through the centuries as something slightly different. A presence throughout the book is the Cailleach, a mythological figure in the Scots and Irish tradition, a fierce and giant woman but one who also offers protection and inspiration for women as they enter the croning years. But I think until you have been through the testing pot of life over and over again, you don’t necessarily know exactly what it is that you are made of and what survives when everything else is stripped away. Particularly if you happen not to identify as a woman, your inner hag is going to be really different.The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

In the oldest known cosmology of my native lands, it wasn’t a sky-bound old man with a beard who made and shaped this world. Now you’re moving slowly into Elder Hood and what did that mean to me and what was I going to become? Sharon: I think I was asking myself not only what kind of an elder I was going to become, but where my work would be while I was an elder. And so she is kind of very much a product of her environment in the way that the Cailleach was associated, literally kind of almost immanent in it.I’m honestly amazed that someone who speaks out against the patriarchy and who values women’s spaces and who sees how truly marginalized women are cannot see the how her perceived threat - by THE most marginalized segment of society - mirrors the way men under patriarchy are threatened by the women they oppress. So the circumstances of the planet and the society and the culture in which it operates a kind of by the by, in a way. Sharon: I would say that it is easier to work in that context, particularly in psychotherapy, with fairy tales and folktales rather than myths. THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING IF WOMEN ROSE ROOTED , EMPOWERING WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE. Was that almost uniquely it seemed to me and again, I suspect my understanding and knowledge of folktales is deficient here.