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Does the word menopause bring a moment of fear in your body, or does it give you a feeling of power and greater possibility? Joan Borysenko believes that if you knew the truth about menopause, you would look forward passionately to this adventurous stage of your life. Now, with Menopause, you have an unprecedented course to begin your initiation into power.

Physician and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen takes us to the horizon of our understanding about the special wisdom that comes to women after menopause in The Wise-Woman Archetype. Join the best-selling author of Goddesses in Everywoman as she plows ancient ground to uncover the roots of the sacred wise woman/crone archetype. Early societies, Bolen teaches, looked at menopause as a "withholding of the blood", not to make a child, as in youth, but to make wisdom.