We’ve Been Sold a Lie About Menopause — And It’s Time to Burn It Down

Somewhere along the line, we started believing that menopause was the end.

The end of beauty.

The end of youth.

The end of value.

The end of relevance.

But that’s not the truth. It never was.

We’ve been sold a lie—a multi-billion-dollar lie—that was carefully crafted to keep women small, silent, and self-doubting. A lie that says when we begin to grey, soften, slow down, or heat up… we should be ashamed, medicated, and managed.

And while we’re busy worrying about our wrinkles, hiding our age, and obsessing over hormone levels, something far more powerful is being stolen from us:

🌀 Our connection to ancient wisdom.

🌀 Our intuitive knowing.

🌀 Our rightful place as the wise women of the world.

The Lie That Keeps Women in Their Heads and Out of Their Power

From the moment we begin to age, the world starts whispering: You’re not enough.

Not thin enough.

Not young enough.

Not fertile enough.

Not sexy enough.

Not enough, full stop.

And so we shrink. We dye our hair, count our calories, hide our hot flushes, and numb the deeper calling within. We internalise the narrative that our worth is tied to how youthful we appear—not to how wise we’ve become.

But this lie? It’s not accidental.

It’s systemic.

Entire industries—beauty, wellness, pharmaceuticals—profit off our disconnection from self. They keep us looking in the mirror, fearing the inevitable, instead of looking inward and reclaiming what has always been ours:

Our voice. Our power. Our wild, sacred knowing.

The Truth About Menopause: A Rite of Passage, Not a Death Sentence

Menopause isn’t something to be “fixed.”

It’s a rite of passage.

It’s the phoenix moment—the shedding of what no longer serves, and the rebirth into a truer, deeper version of ourselves.

It is in this stage that we come home to our bodies. To our boundaries. To our no-bullshit clarity. We stop people-pleasing. We stop apologising. We stop playing small. We start listening to our instincts. Our wisdom. Our womb (even if it no longer bleeds).

This is not the end.

This is the becoming.

The Return of the Wise Woman

In ancient cultures, post-menopausal women were the leaders, the healers, the visionaries, the medicine women. They were revered—not dismissed.

Why? Because they were grounded. Fierce. Free from the distractions of fertility and the social demands placed on younger women. They had lived. They had seen. And they had earned the right to speak from the depths of their knowing.

The patriarchy feared these women. Still does. Because you cannot control a woman who is fully embodied in her truth. You cannot manipulate a woman who has returned to herself.

So, these systems tried to erase her. And in her place, they sold us shame.

But no more.

We Are the Women Who Will Change the World

When women stop outsourcing their worth and start listening to their inner fire—the world shifts.

We become mothers of movements.

Keepers of truth.

Voices for the voiceless.

Bringers of the feminine Inna—the intuitive, nurturing, grounded energy that this world is so desperately craving.

We don’t lead from ego.

We lead from embodiment.

From experience.

From emotional intelligence.

From love.

And we lead by example—by refusing to play by rules that were never written for us.

So, to the woman reading this:

If you’ve been feeling the call… the rumble beneath the surface… the quiet knowing that you were made for more—listen to it.

If you’re in the thick of the change—physically, emotionally, spiritually—know this:

You are not broken.

You are breaking through.

Reclaim your power. Return to your body. Burn the damn rulebook.

It’s time to remember who you are.

Because it is the wise women who will change the world.

And sister—you are one of them.

JulieAnn