🌸 Awakening After 40: Embrace Your Next Chapter

By Allison Ockenden

Director of Today, Tomorrow and Always
🎙 Host of From The Heart Podcast – Talking Truths, Taboos, and Triumphs

“The greatest awakening comes when you realize you have the courage to rewrite your own story.”
— Brené Brown

✨ Embrace the Next Chapter: Awaken to Your True Self

Love is more than just a feeling — it’s a life force.
It echoes through the laughter at family gatherings, in the soft presence of a loyal pet, and the quiet victories we’ve earned along the way.

But life also brings change.
Loss.
Grief.
Growth.

And sometimes, it asks us to pause… and awaken.

What if this is your moment?

🌿 Your awakening doesn’t need to be dramatic. It begins when you decide to live from your truth—not expectations.

🌷 Awakening After 40: Reclaiming Your Power

At 40 and beyond, we stop waiting for permission.
We begin to ask ourselves — with honesty, with courage:

What do I truly want now?

It might be:

• That passion project you’ve shelved for years

• A reconnection with friends or self

• A bold pivot into a new path entirely

• Or simply the gift of being still and listening to your soul

💡 Awakening isn’t about changing who you are — it’s about finally hearing her.

💫 The Many Seasons of Womanhood

There’s a sacred rhythm to womanhood.
It’s not something we step into all at once — it evolves.
Like the moon, like the tide — it rises and softens, brightens and renews.

In our:

• 20s – we are wild and curious

• 30s – we become sharp and striving

• 40s+ – we shift into stillness, clarity, and courage

“Womanhood isn't a destination; it's a dance through every season of life.”

🌹 This Season? It’s Yours to Define.

At this stage of life, there’s a deeper kind of beauty:

• In your laughter lines, etched by both joy and resilience

• In your fierce no and your soft yes

• In the dreams you still hold close — not despite your age, but because of it

This is where life stops being about proving… and becomes about being.

🦋 You Are Still Becoming

Today, we celebrate the woman who has lived many lives in one.

Tomorrow, we honour the dreams she still dares to dream.

And always, we remember this truth:

She is still growing.
She is still glowing.
She is still enough.

Because womanhood doesn’t end.
It blooms again and again.

🌟 About the Author:

Allison Ockenden
Director of Today, Tomorrow and Always
🎙 Host of From The Heart Podcast – Talking Truths, Taboos, and Triumphs
📧 Contact Allison

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