Perimenopause Can Be Beautiful
Perimenopause Can Be Beautiful
Perimenopause can be disorienting. Confusing. A little scary, if you let yourself feel it. It can also be one of the most honest invitations you'll ever get.
Middle age is a built-in pause to reflect, recalibrate, and decide on purpose what you want your next chapter to look like.
I'm Edwige.
I'm in the middle of this myself, and this is where I'm keeping the running journal of what I'm learning.
Middle age is a built-in pause to reflect, recalibrate, and decide on purpose what you want your next chapter to look like.
I'm Edwige.
I'm in the middle of this myself, and this is where I'm keeping the running journal of what I'm learning.
A Different Way To Think About This Chapter of Your Life
A Different Way To Think About This Chapter of Your Life
Are You Like Me?
Are You Like Me?
Somewhere between raising little ones, watching my own parents age, dealing with burnout, and feeling my body change in ways I didn't ask for, I started asking a different question.
Not "how do I get back to normal," but instead I started asking, "who do I actually want to become now."
It turns out this chapter isn't really an ending.
It's more like a natural opening (albeit sometimes painful)
It's a chance to recalibrate instead of just gripping the wheel tighter and white knuckling it to the other side.
I'm not writing to you from the other side of it, having figured it out.
I'm writing from inside it, in real time.
Not "how do I get back to normal," but instead I started asking, "who do I actually want to become now."
It turns out this chapter isn't really an ending.
It's more like a natural opening (albeit sometimes painful)
It's a chance to recalibrate instead of just gripping the wheel tighter and white knuckling it to the other side.
I'm not writing to you from the other side of it, having figured it out.
I'm writing from inside it, in real time.
Where I Am Right Now
Where I Am Right Now
I'm 48 years old.
Married to Michael since 2015.
Raising Henry, who's almost 7, and Nia, who's 3.
Some days that's preschool drop-off and folding the same load of laundry twice.
Other days it's sitting with a client doing deep trauma work.
I trained as a therapist and became an EMDR specialist somewhere along the way.
I also, somewhat unexpectedly, fell in love with homemaking - decluttering a drawer, baking bread, the slow rhythm of a home that's actually tended to.
That's not a break from the career.
It turns out it's part of making my life as a mom and therapist more fulfilling.
This is where I write about all of it: the marriage, the parenting, the body changing underneath me, the home I'm building, and the bigger question of what "success" gets to mean for a woman in this particular chapter.
Not because I've arrived somewhere.
Because I'm still figuring it out — and I'd rather do that with company than alone.
My mission: to invite you to do the same. I find that healing happens in community and when you're not alone.
Sometimes you need to read about how someone else id doing things to inspire you to find and fulfill your own mission.
I hope that this space can be a source of inspiration, permission and collaboration for you, as you navigate your own mid-life journey.
“It's ok to slow down. You don't think you can, because you've spent so much of your life building this identity - but slowing down isn't losing it. It might be the only way to actually keep it.”
Married to Michael since 2015.
Raising Henry, who's almost 7, and Nia, who's 3.
Some days that's preschool drop-off and folding the same load of laundry twice.
Other days it's sitting with a client doing deep trauma work.
I trained as a therapist and became an EMDR specialist somewhere along the way.
I also, somewhat unexpectedly, fell in love with homemaking - decluttering a drawer, baking bread, the slow rhythm of a home that's actually tended to.
That's not a break from the career.
It turns out it's part of making my life as a mom and therapist more fulfilling.
This is where I write about all of it: the marriage, the parenting, the body changing underneath me, the home I'm building, and the bigger question of what "success" gets to mean for a woman in this particular chapter.
Not because I've arrived somewhere.
Because I'm still figuring it out — and I'd rather do that with company than alone.
My mission: to invite you to do the same. I find that healing happens in community and when you're not alone.
Sometimes you need to read about how someone else id doing things to inspire you to find and fulfill your own mission.
I hope that this space can be a source of inspiration, permission and collaboration for you, as you navigate your own mid-life journey.
“It's ok to slow down. You don't think you can, because you've spent so much of your life building this identity - but slowing down isn't losing it. It might be the only way to actually keep it.”
A Few Themes I Keep Focusing On During This Transition
A Few Themes I Keep Focusing On During This Transition
The Body Knows
My nervous system runs the show (more than my calendar ever will).The Quiet Revolution
Slowing down and tending to my home and family home isn't giving up on ambition. Some days it's the most radical thing I do.The Perimenopause Crossing
What's actually happening in my body, in my relationships, my work, my identity and my sense of self, as I live through it (not the textbook version).The Wealth She's Allowed to Want
The money stuff nobody wants to say out loud: the shame, the guilt, the wanting more anyway
The Invitation
The Invitation
Which Chapter Are You In?
A short, free quiz to help you name where you are right now - and get a gentle starting point, based on how you're actually wired, for moving through it.
Take the 3-Minute Quiz →
Check out my full manifesto here
A short, free quiz to help you name where you are right now - and get a gentle starting point, based on how you're actually wired, for moving through it.
Take the 3-Minute Quiz →
Check out my full manifesto here
A Few Ways To Connect
A Few Ways To Connect
Most of what's here is free - start wherever feels right:
The Journal - Blog, YouTube & Newsletter
Where I write and talk this out loud, most weeks, as it's happening.The North Star Quiz + Workbook
Free. A quiet starting point, and the best way to stay in the conversation by email.1:1 EMDR Therapy (New Jersey residents only)
For deeper trauma and nervous-system work, in session. If you're not in NJ, the journal and quiz are still built for you.The Aligned Life - Small Group Circle
A 6-week, intimate group for women rebuilding their rhythm together. Runs twice a year, a few spots only. Learn more →
Where Else I'm Around
Where Else I'm Around
YouTube: @alignedmotherhood — longer, unfiltered conversations.
Etsy: Aligned Motherhood shop — a few tools and printables I've made along the way.
Instagram: @aligned_motherhood — the day-to-day, in shorter pieces.
Etsy: Aligned Motherhood shop — a few tools and printables I've made along the way.
Instagram: @aligned_motherhood — the day-to-day, in shorter pieces.
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