As a woman in her late fifties, I started to feel a shift in myself a few years ago. I felt the pressure of time. I pondered if my life looked and felt the way I wanted it to. I questioned my purpose. I wondered if I mattered. Turns out, I had let a couple of decades go without really paying attention to how I had gotten to where I was. I’d been reacting to change instead of creating it.

Then there’s the age thing. Older men are woodsy, full-bodied, aged, classic, refined, appreciated and dating younger women. Women are curdled, gravity-ridden, older, bitter, devalued and sex-less. Or are we?

I reinvented myself and chose a new path. Like you, I have more than one strength and more than one goal, but my purpose is to merge my creative, intuitive, and communicative sides to be as empowering and effective to the benefit of others as I possibly can.