16/08/2025
One definition of productivity: “the measure of accomplishments by the quality of the work, the number of tasks finished or the amount of product created” . .
This definition applied to us personally is the glorification of doing as the measure of one’s worth, by what “products” one can produce, one’s value is measured by how much they do and how much money is earned.
There is no place for being in this assessment of productivity, of what one can offer simply by being.
If I were to compare my “productivity” to what I was doing and achieving at 40, my self esteem and self worth would be in the gutter. And sometimes it has.
Perimenopause and menopause alter a woman’s productivity radically. This physical journey has slammed the brakes on my commercial output. The consequence? I’ve had to sit with my own internal definition of value and self worth and how much of that is still rooted in the heavily conditioned idea of external achievement.
All of this has asked me to come into a deeper relationship with the Feminine, what the Feminine actually means. Dreaming, creating, pausing, stillness, germinating, waiting, accepting, transforming, and most importantly, Being.
My female body right now is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, it is expressing its Feminine nature.
But look around, we do not value anything natural about the Feminine. Unless, of course, there’s a product to be sold to control and regulate that nature . . That’s valuable.
Perimenopause and menopause are another birth process. And just like physical birth, we seek to regulate and control that process to find its value.
Just like giving birth, perimenopause and menopause will radically alter us as women.
Such changes have the potential to be metaphysical.
But how do we respond to this potential?
We shut it down.
After birth, Women should bounce back, recover quicker, go back to work, carry on, as if nothing of value has just happened. . Like our pelvic floors and identities weren’t just rearranged. .
The same approach applies to menopause.
I don’t want to bounce back, train harder, lift more, push through.
I no longer want to recover from being a woman.
What I’m doing from Being a Woman is enough.
Daughter. Mother. Wife. Friend.
Maiden. Mother. Crone.
These changes I’m going through (and every woman) are of service to us all.
To my marriage, to my family, and to my community.
But we, and I include women in this, no longer have reverence for these changes. We do not value them for what they are. We do not see that the real productivity is the goods produced on the mind, body, and soul level.
It is path of the Feminine, birth, death and rebirth which is the most productive path of them all. ❤️
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