stop enduring the overwhelm of menopause alone

Join Women Rising Rooted

Embrace the changes of midlife with dignity, grace and belonging

A soulful land based women’s circle where you can feel seen, supported and welcomed.

Open to all self-identifying women anticipating, going through, or crossing through this potent Rite of Passage

Is this you….

Do you feel unprepared or awash in the intensity of emotional waves you are riding…confused because what was working before to tend and manage your emotions is no longer cutting it?

Are you feeling alone, invisible or ignored as you navigate the arc of menopause?

Do you struggle to express the changes you are experiencing or to feel understood

Are you struggling to slow down and make room to be with this time of change

Do you feel overwhelmed and alone in this second puberty, tired of the messages from the over culture about how to “fix” menopause, as though it were a problem to be solved.

Come join

Women Rising Rooted

The truth is menopause is going to happen no matter what. 

And yes - it is HARD

What if it could also be meaningful, dignifying and dare I say beautiful.

What if you didn’t have to go it alone.

- Coming Soon -

Join the interest list below and I will let you know when registration opens for the next round

Imagine if…

  • you could come out of the solitude, off the screen, and gather with other women who live in your proverbial backyard

  • you could build community on the land, and talk about what this time of life is really like

  • you could have the full range of your experience witnessed and honored by other women who are swimming in the same waters

  • you could have a place that felt sacred to tend to midlife and all its changes with dignity and meaning


Here’s what you can expect from Women Rising Rooted

Feeling validated, understood, and not alone in the myriad of experiences you are having. Imagine feeling that this is all so very normal

Getting a taste of practices for self care, depthful reflection and ways to slow down in the midst of the big emotional waves.

Getting a glimpse of the gifts you hold that are rising up at this time and the ability to begin cultivating them.

Discovering that although menopause is hard, when we sit with others and ourselves, in presence with our experience, something shifts. We feel pain but we suffer a lot less.

Tapping into the potency of menopause as an initiation. Initiations aren’t always easy but they are significant and important times in our lives to be met with our full presence.

Hi, I’m Zoe

I am a stand for wild soul led women expressing themselves fully.

I work with women in midlife because I too am swimming in these waters.  I am exploring how to navigate with courage, grace, and honesty by being in full relationship with my self and my actual experience.  I am not perfect at this but I can offer support, guidance and deeply held space based on my full attention to this time in my own life. 

A couple of years ago I felt a stirring and a call. I felt something changing, and while I didn’t know fully what that was, I felt ready to take some space and explore. I decided to close my psychotherapy practice for a year and embarked on some internal deep diving.  I got curious about my work, my relationships, my patterns, my body, all of it! 

During this exploration, I journeyed inside and outside. In the fall of 2023, I traveled solo to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago for 34 days.  I also completed an intensive vision fast in the summer of 2024 which supported the emergence of my claiming my new name.  It has been the leaning into these changes that has helped me with the challenges of menopause and also to claim the potency of this Rite of Passage. 

Menopause, and all it brings with it, has been my playground, my place of exploration, and it is where my curiosity and heart are alive.  It is because of the ways I have embraced this time that I want to provide support and space for others.  To help you lean in and embrace this time in the ways that are just right for you.  This group is the first small step in those offerings and I would welcome you to begin the journey with me.

I am also a licensed clinical psychologist, with over 15 years of working with women.  I have a strong training in therapeutic practices that support a capacity for presence, witnessing and deep reflection including my training in Hakomi, IFS, and trauma informed practices. 

I look forward to welcoming you to our circle

The details

On the land

We will meet at a private location in Sebastopol that allows us to sit outdoors and also has a beautiful indoor space if needed

Seasonal

We will meet around the Solstice and Equinox to honor the cycles of nature

Join the interest list to be notified when registration opens

Solo Time

Dive into guided inquiry and exploration through solo walks, creative exploration and mindfulness.

Council Time

Sit in council as a community to share what arose in your solo time. Be deeply witnessed and mirrored

Themes

Each week we will explore a theme related to menopause in both solo and council time. I will support your exploration and make space for your full range of expression

Community

Come steep in a community of women who are also wanting to witness, speak, and say their truth. Open to all women in peri-menopause, at the threshold, or crossed over.

Themes to explore in circle may include

  • What have you learned about menopause, what feels true, what doesn’t, what needs to be shed, what needs to be claimed

  • What experiences have you had with initiation and Rites of Passage, what does that mean to you, what would it be like to begin standing in this time of life as a profound initiation

  • What are the gifts emerging in you at this time. Where are you feeling more powerful. What do you have to offer

I will be offering a longer container of this group in the future. This is a great opportunity to get a taste for how it is to be in circle together and if this is the right fit for you.

“Midlife years are often filled with uncertainty, as the old story disintegrates and we wait for a new story to emerge. The trick to navigating that time between stories is not to push too hard, but to let the new story emerge in its own good time - and to sit with, and perhaps even learn to cherish, the uncertainty of it all. Uncertainty is the apprentice of mystery. It’s an antidote to our desperate need to know, to predict, and so to control - and whether you’d like to or not, you’re not going to be able to manage your way out of your midlife transition. Uncertainty then, can be a very fine ally”
— Sharon Blackie

Details for Women Rising rooted

This offering is made available by sliding scale.

Fee range is $200 - $400 for the 3 weekend series

Group will meet again in early Summer

Please click below to join the interest list

I will reach out to let you know when registration opens

Women Rising Rooted is open to all self identified women who are in peri-menopause, standing at the threshold, or crossed over into menopause

This is for you if….

  • You are seeking to be in community and sisterhood around this ripe and potent time of change

  • You are anywhere along the menopause spectrum: perimenopause, at the threshold of menopause transition, or having crossed the threshold but feeling the potent embers of all that is still alive from this ongoing change

  • You recognize our culture is not attending to this in the deeper and more meaningful ways this transition deserves

  • You are wanting to be seen and offer witnessing to others who are in community with you during this time of change

  • You are wanting to give voice to the full depth and range of this expereince

  • You recognize, or have an inkling, that more is happening inside than just the cessation of your menses

  • You are ready to step out of the noise from the over culture about menopause and step into the power and potency that arises in this time

  • You are ready to make midlife a time of honoring, witnessing and respect

This is not for you if….

  • You are seeking specific help with the physical and medical aspects of menopause

  • You are seeking a place to kvetch and talk about what is wrong with menopause or how to make it go away

  • You don’t care about spirituality, sisterhood or deepening into your own soul and psyche

  • You are seeking therapy or needing more focused support - this is not a therapy or therapeutic group. I am available for individual therapy and you can find out more and contact me here: therapy with Zoe

Are you ready to speak your truth and be welcomed as you are during this potent time of change

Come join our circle

To join the interest list click below. I will reach out when registration opens.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me at: zoe@wildwomanjourneys.com