Are you a baby boomer woman who wants to reignite your zest, your unique spark?
Do you ever wonder, Is this all there is?

Your nest is empty, or almost. You've stepped off the hormonal rollercoaster of monthly periods, or the end is in sight. Your job is just a paycheck, no longer a calling. Your step has lost its bounce, your marriage its zip. You're feeling discontented and bored with a lifestyle that's worked for years, maybe even decades.

How did I get here?

This isn't what you had planned! You’ve dreamed for years of delicious and meaningful freedom: A new vocation?  Salsa lessons? Volunteering for a favorite cause? Meeting your soul mate? The freedom of so many choices, but...

What to do with all that freedom? And who am I anyway after years of caretaking everyone but myself?

Yikes! You may feel like a teenager again: Who am I? What's my life about? So many choices are overwhelming when you're frayed to the nubbins from nurturing others. You yearn to flourish, but you don’t know how. You're confused about who you are, and where you're going. The approaching horizon of your own mortality raises the ante, too. You're not a teenager any more. You don't have endless decades to sort it out...So what do you do?

The solution isn't in the fridge or at the mall.

The answer isn't Out There-not in a new relationship, new job, home remodel, or the latest diet. These don't work if you’re desperate to quickly fill up that emptiness, that hunger for a life that lights you up. It's like the old saying about eating Chinese food-you'll feel full for a little while, and then hungry all over again.

Remember coloring books?

Much of our early and middle adulthood is spent either trying our best to color in the lines that someone else has drawn, or flaunting the rules and coloring outside the lines of those pictures someone else made. We comply or we rebel, but it’s their pictures, not yours.

This stage of your life is about chucking the coloring book.

Life offers you a big blank sheet of paper. Scary. Exhilarating. Yours.

You can be the artist genius of your own life and create a new picture, a fulfilling new story for yourself and your life that has heart, spirit, and authenticity. A delight-full story that will allow you to flourish, not sometime in the future, but now.

Are you ready to let go of a worn out way of living, and create a nourishing, inspired, deeply meaningful life?

Hi, I'm Melissa. For the past twenty years I've been a catalyst, coach, and spiritual guide for women in midlife and beyond. I've had the immense pleasure of being part compassionate guide, part cheering  squad, part wise woman, and part trickster for women who want to “come home” to  a life of delight, caring connection with self and others, and  soulful wellbeing.

I've personally experienced many of the challenges of midlife and beyond: empty nest, parents dying, divorce (and remarriage), menopause, and major illness. I've learned to work with these as wakeup calls to a more deeply meaningful--AND more deeply pleasureable!--life.

Being a boomer myself, I passionately believe that the wisdom, straightforwardness, caring, and creativity of lit-up boomer women could deeply impact our culture. How we are in the world--even the simple act of being kind to the grocery clerk--has widening circles of impact that we can never foresee. The winds of grace are blowing all the time, as an Indian saint used to say; I love helping boomer women raise their sails!

Whether you're just embarking on this journey, or have been on the road for a while, I can help you figure out, as the poet Mary Oliver says, what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.

So how can I help you? Here are a few simple ways to get started:

1. Sign up for my free e-newsletter, Pleasure and Soul.

You’ll receive monthly tips and insights on living your "one wild and precious" life.

2.     Contact me for a no cost initial 30 minute coaching session.

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Contact Melissa at Melissa@MelissaGayleWest.com or 206-427-1325