For the women watching, where in your life have you been silencing your own voice to keep someone else comfortable?
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So many women reach their 50s and realize they no longer recognize themselves. Not because they failed, but because they spent decades adapting to everyone else.
In this clip from Know Thyself, the conversation explores a powerful truth about the female experience. When hormones come online in adolescence, the brain begins working from right to left, wiring women to be deeply relational. From that point on, so much of life becomes about adapting. Adapting to partners. To children. To the expectations of a patriarchal world. Always making sure everyone else is okay, often at the cost of their own voice.
Then menopause arrives. The hormones recede. And something extraordinary begins to happen. The noise of constant adaptation starts to quiet. And underneath it, a woman’s own voice, the one she may have not heard in decades, begins to return.
This is why menopause is not the end of something. It can be the beginning of the most authentic chapter of a woman’s life. A return home to herself. A chance to grieve the ways she abandoned herself and reclaim the parts she set aside to keep the peace. If she allows it, this season can be the most powerful homecoming of her life.
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