The Midlife Initiation: What No One Tells You About Menopause, Power + Awakening with Ashley Turner
What if everything you’ve been taught about midlife is missing the point — and this is actually your most sacred initiation?
In this raw and revelatory conversation, I’m joined by Ashley Turner, LMFT — licensed psychotherapist, psychedelic therapist, yoga-meditation teacher, and founder of the Metamorphosis: Midlife & Menopause Mentorship — to explore the deep psycho-spiritual terrain of menopause and midlife transformation.
Ashley shares her own personal awakening through the overlapping portals of postpartum, perimenopause, and identity loss — a season that unraveled everything she thought she knew… and ultimately called her into deeper truth, purpose, and feminine power.
Together, we illuminate the rarely spoken truth of this phase: that menopause is not a medical event to “manage,” but a sacred rite of passage — one that initiates us into our next level of wholeness and leadership.
✨ We explore:
What perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause really are
Hormone therapy (HRT) and how it supported Ashley through deep unraveling
Womb grief, hysterectomy trauma, and second chakra healing
Shifting sex drive, body image, and self-worth in midlife
Psychedelic therapy for healing trauma and relational repair
Why wounds from girlhood rise to the surface — and how to meet them
Reclaiming “crone” as a crown of embodied wisdom
Stepping into the wise woman — and why your gifts matter now more than ever
This conversation is a mirror for the woman in the in-between — the one sensing a sacred shift and longing for language to name it. You’re not breaking down. You’re being reshaped into the truth of who you are.
And your soul knows the way.
💛 Connect with Ashley Turner:
✨ ashleyturner.org
✨ Instagram: @ashleyturner1
✨ Explore The Haven + Metamorphosis Mentorship
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