Curiosity at the Threshold: The Stories That Help Us Make Meaning of Menopause

Session Description

What might change if we approached menopause with curiosity? When Kimberly Bady entered perimenopause, she found herself asking questions that extended far beyond symptoms: What is this season asking of me? How have women in other cultures experienced this passage? Where are the elders, stories, and rituals to help us make meaning of the change?

Those questions led Kimberly into conversations with women and elders, explorations of aging and menopause across cultures, and the work of West African teacher Sobonfu Somé of the Dagara people. Through Somé’s teachings about ritual, initiation, community, and elderhood, Kimberly began to understand menopause not only as a biological transition, but also as a threshold into a different way of knowing and becoming.

Weaving personal stories with cultural wisdom and reflection, Kimberly will explore how curiosity can help us question inherited beliefs about menopause and aging, listen more deeply to our own experiences, and discover the wisdom already taking shape within us. Participants will be invited to consider the stories they have been given about growing older—and the stories they now want to live, embody, and pass forward.

Kimberly Bady

Kimberly Bady is a storyteller, menopause mentor, certified integrative nutrition health coach, yoga and breathwork teacher, author, and TEDx speaker. She is the founder of Liberated Womanhood, a community devoted to honoring the seasons and stages of a woman’s life as powerful rites of passage.

As a former women’s ministry director, Kimberly spent years helping girls prepare for and celebrate their passage into womanhood. Yet when she entered perimenopause herself, she discovered that women were rarely offered the same preparation, stories, rituals, or community as they crossed into the wisdom years.

Curiosity became Kimberly’s guide. Her own journey inspired her to ask deeper questions about menopause, aging, elderhood, and how women and cultures around the world make meaning of life’s great transitions. Through storytelling, conversations with women and elders, holistic wellness practices, and the study of rites of passage and traditional wisdom, she began to understand menopause as more than a biological change—it could also be a profound threshold of becoming.

Today, Kimberly helps women approach menopause with greater curiosity, self-compassion, and reverence. Her work invites women to question inherited beliefs about aging, listen to the wisdom of their bodies, reclaim their voices, and recognize the stories they are now being called to live and pass forward.

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