Why has the time of menopause become a battle against nature? Nature will always win! So wouldn’t it be nice to simply work with nature to understand the process and enjoy a new and insightful cycle in our lives? Our moonpause may bring its issues and problems, but it also brings the stunning potential for a new and better version of ourselves. It can be a time of great progress spiritually as we move towards our Wise Woman or Spiritual Grandmother years. In Natural Spiritual Menopause and Beyond, author Colette Brown is open and vulnerable about her time of change. She not only will have you nodding along at her symptoms but will have you laughing along with her as she fights to keep sane as each wave of heat, mood swing, or new chin hair knocks her over. She explains how to use a simple plan of questions, meditations, and mantras to stand back up and move forward with determination and chutzpah! Colette moves through her menopause in a way that helps her evolve spiritually. She advocates for natural menopause but realizes that this isn’t possible for everyone. Her book offers a technique to explore and develope coping strategies for moonpause and beyond. Colette also tells of her personal choices after menopause up to her sixtieth birthday. She firmly believes that her method of working with, rather than against, menopause has led to the happy life she now lives. Colette is a retired pharmacist, clairvoyant, and author who lives in contentment with her loving husband Jim and her two dogs in Scotland. Praise for the 1st edition Dr Julie-Anne Sykley This book is a unique and beautiful GIFT! Simple yet effective, emotional yet practical, deep yet easy to read, written with exquisite sensitivity, it is empowering to the max. With reference to the most powerful symbols in history - moon, circles, blood, spirit, smoke, fire, plants, bees and more - this book reclaims modern society's tragic disconnection from nature and myth. The book invokes spiritual and feminine power to the point that you will experience the resurrection of the powerful Goddess within you while you're reading .... if you dare!!! If modern medicine were geared to the spiritual ways of thinking that Ms Colette Brown suggests, then there would be no negative views and experiences of menopause in our spiritually lost society. As a Psychologist with 20 years of professional experience, I assure you that if you want to be truly happy and healthy, then don't miss a book that acknowledges the empowering spiritual side of menopausal health, OK? Rachel Patterson Author of Moon Magic I downloaded it to my Kindle on Friday...and read it cover to cover in one sitting. I then ordered the paperback copy because I am going to work through it properly and I prefer to do that from a 'real' book. When I had finished reading, it was as if a light bulb had been switched on and was followed by a huge flood of relief that someone else had experienced what I was going through and had come out the other side relatively unscathed. This book is going to be my lifesaver, I just know it. Colette takes you through her very own personal journey and I found myself nodding the whole way through - "yep I have that, yep I feel that yep that's happening to me". But then she provides the reader with the framework and structure to deal with each symptom and issue from a spiritual perspective. I say framework because she shows you how she dealt with it from her shamanic perspective but encourages you to make it your own. There are meditation and mantra suggestions and the idea to find your own goddess to work through it all with. I cannot tell you how relieved and happy I am to have remembered about this little gem, I haven't even started working with it properly yet but already I am feeling better!