Episode 128: - Embracing a Queer Life in Midlife with Jen Berlingo

Midlife Mavericks - Living Life Happy, Healthy, Sexy & Strong

Outwardly, Jen Berlingo had the perfect life - a beautiful home and family and a great career. She had established a family, career, and persona that fulfilled social, familial, and cultural expectations. When she entered her forties, she realized that something didn't feel right. She reframed the midlife transition as a midlife emergence® to make meaning of her own transformation during this time of life when she dared to reveal the raw, sometimes inconvenient truth of who she was.

Today, through her own experiences, as well as decades of working as a psychotherapist and coach with those facing similar choices, Jen now midwifes the modern woman through her unique, non-linear midlife passage.

Her book Midlife Emergence:Free Your Inner Fire is part personal memoir, part coaching manual that helps women explore their true desires in midlife, whatever they are. It's an empowering and transformative book for every woman - I literally couldn't put it down!

Some of the things we discussed:

- The decision to open her marriage and practice ethical non-monogamy.

- How, as women, we give our power away.

- The myth of a "broken family."

- Her daughter's experience in a blended family with a queer mom.

- How we set ourselves on fire to keep others warm.

You can learn more about Jen at jenberlingo.com

Grab her book Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire here.

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Grab my book Daily Inspirations for Midlife Women: A Guide to Peace, Joy, Confidence, and Abundance.

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