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MISSION STATEMENT:
We encourage women to discover themselves again after years of service to others. In a fun, collaborative, and informative style we guide women to live a rich, full second half of life.
Are you experiencing Life Changing Events?
Asking What Now or What Next?
The Hourglass Workshops are the answer for anyone experiencing a life change on the mid-life journey. We all have change in the mid-life; whether it is empty nest, job loss, retirement, divorce, remarriage, elder care, illness, menopause, or the good old fashioned mid-life crisis. The question is how do you get through it and redefine the “Second Half” of life.
These fun and exciting workshops are designed to help you move forward in a positive way by getting in touch with old passions and reconnecting with self again, after years of putting others first. As we age we have lost much of our childlike ways, we don’t delight in play or daydreams as we once did. Those qualities are not lost, they have been forgotten and can be recovered to improve the rest of your life. The workshops help you identify and re-establish those happy qualities to enjoy life more now and in your future.
What is your dream? Remember, the one that everyone around you either tried to talk you out of, or ignored to the point of causing you to abandon it. It’s time to dust off that dream again. The Hourglass Workshops tools help you identify what brings you the deepest satisfaction, and what you truly desire. (click here to begin) You become reacquainted with the sensual side of life and identify what delights you. Your dreams are what light you up inside and make you beautiful. When you are in touch with them you are more motivated, attractive and radiant. Life is good.
I received a beautiful hourglass on my 21st birthday from my best friend and have loved it
ever since, it reminds me of her every time I look at it. One day while gazing at it I was remembering our single years, all the fun we had, and how carefree life was for us. As I looked at it and contemplated what had come since that time; moves away from each other, marriages, children, loss of parents, my divorce, her cancer, beginning my business as she retired, it became apparent the hourglass is like our lives. Life is slipping through our fingers like the sand in the hourglass and there is a time when we stand alone facing life’s challenges and ask “What’s next”?
The Hourglass is the symbol I chose to represent the message of my workshops. It can be looked at as the eternal representation of the feminine image. In a more concrete way it is the visual of the passage of time and how it slips away while we are watching. I view it as a beginning or the first half, a middle, and a second half. It’s the middle, your middle years, that we are working with in the workshops.
Our journey is not unlike the grain of sand traveling through the hourglass. We begin our life
with all the possibilities before us and no responsibilities. The sand begins its journey
unencumbered with plenty of space and nothing but time. As we get older life becomes
more complicated, more responsibilities as we are pushed and pulled by life. The
sand begins its descent toward its finial destination and the space becomes more crowded,
and the individual grain of sand is influenced by those around it, like us. The closer it gets to
the center the greater the pressure until it is squeezed into a position of standing on its own.
Alone it makes the passage, just like our own journey through midlife. This can be a time
when we feel overwhelmed, confused, and possibly very much alone, maybe for the very first time.
Pressures in our lives become greater and we are challenged by a major change or even a crisis; job loss, new career, empty nest, retirement, divorce, menopause, or death of those
close to us. This is the time we question everything that has come before and wonder what is
next? As the sand drops into the “second half” once again life is expanded and all the new possibilities exist again, just as life offers us a new way of being. How you define your next stage of our journey is up to you. Remember you are not alone. Click here for the first step on your journey and receive“Five Secrets to a Brilliant Second Half”
Is this for you?
Are you feeling that there must be something more?
The Hourglass Workshops are the answer for anyone experiencing a life change on the mid-life journey. We all have change in the mid-life; whether it is empty nest, job loss, retirement, divorce, remarriage, elder care, illness, menopause, or the good old fashioned mid-life crisis. The question is how do you get through it and redefine the “Second Half” of life.
