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Hagitude
Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life | Sharon Blackie
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RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish. from the book For any woman over fifty who has ever asked What now? Who do I want to be? comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation, a time to learn, flourish, and claim the desires and identities that are often limited during earlier life stages. This is a time for gaining new perspectives, challenging and evolving belief systems, exploring callings, uncovering meaning, and ultimately finding healing for accumulated wounds. Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our cultures focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples as well as modern mentors, you can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and your elder years as a path to feminine power.
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Happy International Women's Day 💖

IuliaC Happy Women's Day! 3w
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Balibee146 Love this! Stacked by this 54 year old! 3w
Cazxxx @Balibee146 Hope you enjoy! 3w
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Very good!

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I was all set to recommend this until about 70% through, as the discussion of elder female archetypes was great. Then the author suddenly veers into TERF territory in a chapter about trans people and how treating trans women as women negatively impacts “real” women‘s rights, then proceeds to lament the inability to have civil discourse about this topic and whine about online harassment for this opinion. No. You can‘t 2-side human rights.

RowReads1 That‘s too bad. I had this on my list. 1y
DGRachel @RowReads1 I was really disappointed. There‘s a lot about Jungian psychology that bogged sections down, and some other parts of the book that dragged, but I really loved the discussion of various wise woman archetypes. But with the TERF chapter, I just can‘t recommend the book to anyone. 😔 1y
Aimeesue Ugh. That's disappointing. 1y
Megabooks I‘ll be avoiding this! 1y
batsy Ugh. 1y
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“You don‘t mess with a witch, and women today are bone-tired of being messed with.”

💯 Bone. Tired.

Bookwormjillk For sure 1y
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“I have no intention of being invisible. But I‘m quite prepared to be inconvenient.”

I think I‘m going to love this book.