Creating Cultural Change
& Menopause Empowerment
ABOUT
OUR MISSION
The Moon Passage is a menopause wisdom movement, creating a cultural shift from viewing the transition of perimenopause & menopause as a loss of youth & relevance to knowing this passage as a potent opportunity for initiation into psychological & spiritual maturity.
OUR INSPIRATION
Over 1 billion people will be in menopause globally by 2025. This is a physical and psycho-spiritual stage poorly understood by western medicine. Many find a lack of information and guidance about how to manage symptoms, and that’s broadly what the menopausal information that does exist is about - symptom management. Even more importantly, there is little or no support for our shift in identity at midlife and understanding who we are becoming as we go through this passage.
We have often met this time with fear, anxiety, shame, and silence, knowing that our youth-obsessed, ageist western culture associates this time with a loss of fertility, desirability, and value. There is a need not only for information about menopause as well as community support to navigate this rite of passage, but also a shift in our cultural narrative to value wise eldership and the work & knowledge of older women.
OUR VISION
The Moon Passage has been created as a trusted portal for menopausal wisdom, with virtual workshops, retreats, online community, a knowledge archive, and more. This project is vital to help us navigate this journey, relocating ourselves archetypally, and finding ourselves more alive in our vision of ourselves and the world. Our goals are to improve mental & emotional health, increase subjective levels of empowerment, increase access to knowledge about physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual wellness, and increase social support, with a butterfly effect transformation on our cultural narrative of menopause, aging, and the value of feminine wisdom.
The work of changing our cultural narrative about menopause and aging is a vital and important feminist frontier.
-Kerry McKee, LCSW
