stop enduring the overwhelm of Midlife alone
Join Women Rising Rooted
Embrace the changes of midlife with dignity, grace and belonging
A soulful land based women’s circle where you can feel seen, supported and welcomed.
Open to all self-identifying women anticipating, entering, or journeying through this potent Rite of Passage
Is this you….
Are you feeling alone or unseen as you navigate the shifting terrain of midlife?
Do you feel the stirrings of a wise, wild, or soulful part of you that’s asking for you to reclaim this time as sacred, powerful, and yours?
Are you struggling to slow down and make space for this unfolding - sensing it matters, even if the over culture tells you to keep pushing through?
Do you crave a space where your experience isn’t minimized or pathologized - but honored as the profound transformation it is?
Are you feeling called to step into a fuller, more authentic expression of your womanhood with intention, depth, and reverence?
Come join
Women Rising Rooted
The truth is you are going to traverse the changes of midlife - in body, heart and soul - no matter what.
And yes - it will be HARD
What if it could also be meaningful, dignifying and dare I say beautiful?
What if you didn’t have to go it alone?
A new circle is gathering this Fall on October 12th
1-5 pm - $75
Imagine if…
you could come out of the solitude, off the screen, and gather with other women who live in your proverbial backyard
you could build community on the land, and talk about what this time of life is really like
you could have the full range of your experience witnessed and honored by other women who are swimming in the same waters
you could have a place that felt sacred to tend to midlife and all its changes with dignity and meaning
Here’s what you can expect from Women Rising Rooted
Feel validated, understood, and not alone in the myriad of experiences that transpire in midlife. Imagine feeling that this is all so very normal
Tap into the potency of midlife, including (peri)menopause, as an initiation. Initiations aren’t always easy but they are significant and important times in our lives to be met with our full presence.
Get a taste of practices for self care, depthful reflection and ways to slow down in the midst of the big emotional waves.
Feel a glimpse of the gifts you hold that are rising up at this time and the ability to begin cultivating them.
Discover that although midlife, (peri)menopause is challenging, when we sit with others and ourselves, in presence with our experience, something shifts. We feel pain but we suffer a lot less.
Meet your guides
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Hi, I’m ZoeI am a stand for wild soul-led women expressing themselves fully.
I work with women in midlife because I too am swimming in these waters. I am exploring how to navigate with courage, grace, and honesty by being in full relationship with my self and my actual experience. I am not perfect at this but I can offer support, guidance and deeply held space based on my full attention to this time in my own life.
A couple of years ago I felt a stirring and a call. I felt something changing, and while I didn’t know fully what that was, I felt ready to take some space and explore. I decided to close my psychotherapy practice for a year and embarked on some internal deep diving. I got curious about my work, my relationships, my patterns, my body, all of it!
During this exploration, I journeyed inside and outside. In the fall of 2023, I traveled solo to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago for 34 days. I also completed an intensive vision fast in the summer of 2024 which supported the emergence of my claiming my new name. It has been the leaning into these changes that has helped me with the challenges of menopause and also to claim the potency of this Rite of Passage.
Menopause, and all it brings with it, has been my playground, my place of exploration, and it is where my curiosity and heart are alive. It is because of the ways I have embraced this time that I want to provide support and space for others. To help you lean in and embrace this time in the ways that are just right for you. This group is the first small step in those offerings and I would welcome you to begin the journey with me.
I am also a licensed clinical psychologist, with over 15 years of working with women. I have a strong training in therapeutic practices that support a capacity for presence, witnessing and deep reflection including my training in Hakomi, IFS, and trauma informed practices.
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Hi, I’m ZionneI am a woman - rooted, ready, remembering.
I’m a devotee of Mystery’s love-gravity, of wild erotic embodiment, and of soulful relationship with the spirit of the animate world. Through ritual, ceremony, deep listening, and depth practices, I create the conditions for what’s been hidden to emerge - for sacred rage to crack us open, for holy love to flood the body, for the imaginal wellspring to stir the soul’s original longing, and for long-buried parts of the self to return to the light.
I honor the cycles that spiral us through tension and surrender, through the fertile dark, and into the wild terrain of our undomesticated power. At this stage in my becoming, I live for what’s raw and real. I want the truth, in the body and between us. I turn toward wellness as fully felt presence, toward pleasure as reclamation, and toward radical mischief as a holy reimagining of how we live and relate in this middle-world life.
I am called to threshold places - where the veil thins, where the numinous whispers, where something ancient beckons to be remembered. I have four years of experience holding council circles - sanctuaries where truth finds its voice and what stirs in one body ripples through the whole. I long to be found - and to help others be found - by the deeper story dreaming us.
We look forward to welcoming you into circle
The details
On the land
We will gather on wild land in Berkeley Hills.
October 12th
1-5pm - $75
These are seasonal circles. Planting seeds for a longer arc of gathering in 2026. Join my email list to be notified of future offerings.
Solo Time
Dive into guided inquiry and exploration through solo walks, creative exploration and mindfulness.
Council Time
Sit in council as a community to share what arose in your solo time. Be deeply witnessed and mirrored
Themes
Together we will explore themes related to midlife, (peri)menopause in both solo and council time. As guides and a community we will support your exploration and make space for your full range of expression
Community
Come steep in a community of women who are also wanting to witness, speak, and say their truth. Open to all women in midlife, peri-menopause, at the threshold, or crossed over.
TESTIMONIALS
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Zoe and Zionne provided a safe space for community and for processing a far too often under-celebrated life phase.
Circle Participant
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This circle was a welcoming and creative way to feel support of myself and other women whom I was able to connect with despite being at different stages of experience. It really allowed me to speak freely about my own experience in a supportive and empowering way.
Circle Participant
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It was really a beautiful container for a conversation among (initially) strangers which allowed for the sharing of a variety of experiences, no matter where we each were on our individual paths - well done. I'm so grateful and appreciative for this experience and learning about what I want more of in my life.
Circle Participant
Themes to explore in circle may include
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What have you learned about menopause, what feels true, what doesn’t, what needs to be shed, what needs to be claimed
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What experiences have you had with initiation and Rites of Passage, what does that mean to you, what would it be like to begin standing in this time of life as a profound initiation
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What are the gifts emerging in you at this time. Where are you feeling more powerful. What do you have to offer
I will be offering a longer container of this group in the future. This is a great opportunity to get a taste for how it is to be in circle together and if this is the right fit for you.
“Midlife years are often filled with uncertainty, as the old story disintegrates and we wait for a new story to emerge. The trick to navigating that time between stories is not to push too hard, but to let the new story emerge in its own good time - and to sit with, and perhaps even learn to cherish, the uncertainty of it all. Uncertainty is the apprentice of mystery. It’s an antidote to our desperate need to know, to predict, and so to control - and whether you’d like to or not, you’re not going to be able to manage your way out of your midlife transition. Uncertainty then, can be a very fine ally”
Details for Women Rising rooted
October 12th - 1-5 pm - Berkeley Hills
$75
(Exact location given upon registration)
Women Rising Rooted is open to all self identified women who sense they are approaching, or are standing at the threshold, or are walking fully in the terrain of midlife. This is a group about the depths that emerge in this phase of life.
This is for you if….
You are seeking to be in community and sisterhood around this ripe and potent time of change
You are anywhere along the midlife spectrum: navigating shifts in body, identity, roles, or relationships, including (but not limited to) menopause.
You are ready to step out of the noise and minimization from the over-culture about midlife and menopause and step into the power and potency that arises in this time
You recognize our culture is not attending to this in the deeper and more meaningful ways this transition deserves
You want to be seen and offer witnessing to others who are in community with you during this time of change
You want to give voice to the full depth and range of this experience
You sense, or have an inkling, that more is happening inside - that this is a soulful initiation, not than just the cessation of your menses or simply “getting older”
You are ready to step out of the noise from the over culture about menopause and step into the power and potency that arises in this time
You are ready to make midlife a time of honoring, witnessing and respect
This is not for you if….
You are seeking specific help with the physical and medical aspects of menopause
You are seeking a place to kvetch and talk about what is wrong with midlife or menopause or how to make it go away
You don’t care about spirituality, sisterhood or deepening into your own soul and psyche
You are seeking therapy or needing more focused support - this is not a therapy or therapeutic group. I am available for individual therapy and you can find out more and contact me here: therapy with Zoe
Are you ready to speak your truth and be welcomed as you are during this potent time of change
Come join our circle
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at: zoe@wildwomanjourneys.com