Journey Through Menopause: A Personal Rite of Passage

by Christine Downing

This intensely personal account of the little written-about sacred dimension of menopause combines religious studies with psychology to "understand menopause as soul-event…regarding its symptoms as symbols" and provides insight into what this transition can be like for those women who choose to embrace it as a meaningful part of their lives.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1987

Reviews

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Page 29 - Reflection on menopause seems to lead naturally into general reflections on the stages of a woman's life. Part of the task of this transition I would hazard is such looking back, acknowledging what is being left behind, discovering what is being newly given.

[Carol Shaw · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good start to the discussion

This is a book that starts many great and necessary conversations. It stimulates thought processes and urges one to go inward to look for answers and outward to gain more information and perspective.