Write of Passage
Truths about Perimenopause and Finding Your Way Through
WRITE OF PASSAGE: TRUTHS ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE AND FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH
WHEN: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from 3 - 5 pm PDT/ Thursday, June 1, 2023 from 8 - 10 am AEST
WHAT: WRITE OF PASSAGE is a two-hour, live, virtual workshop for anyone with a body. Perimenopause has been wreaking havoc in my life, and that has forced me to learn about myself -- to take better care of myself and my relationships, to learn that the systems in my body are connected, to get stronger, to rest. Learning makes me feel both empowered and infuriated. Why is this major transition such a mystery to so many of us?
I feel like an evangelist about perimenopause. I wish I’d known this stuff about my body when I was 20. Or 30. Or 40. Come write with me. We’ll be joined by a medical expert, Dr. Sarah de la Torre (she’s my amazing doctor, who is helping me navigate this transition!). She’ll talk with us for 30 minutes and share key things we need to know and do to be our most vibrant selves. And for the other 90 minutes, we'll write. I'll give you prompts to help you express your feelings, your questions, and your knowings, and together, we'll find our way through.
This isn’t just a workshop for writers. It’s for everyone. Writing will be our tool and our guide. It will help us better understand, express, release, discover, claim, and know. Come join us. Let this be a powerful right of passage. Invite your friends and loved ones. The workshop is virtual, so you can live anywhere. And it will be recorded, so if you can’t attend the live session, or if you want to watch it a zillion times, it will be available for you.
WHERE: Zoom!
WHAT YOU GET:
- 90 minutes of generative writing prompts
- 30 minutes of information from Dr. Sarah de la Torre, who is double board certified in OBGYN and Lifestyle Medicine and is a women’s wellness expert with specialized training in Functional Medicine
- Community and the reminder that we are not alone
- A recording of the workshop in case you can't attend the live session or want to watch it again
$: The cost for this life-changing workshop is $250. The first 50 people who register can use the coupon code PASSAGE to save $50.
Your Instructor
Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, scholar of religion, and author of many books, including Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours, a New York Times Editor's Choice and Idaho Book of the Year. Her book Draw Your Weapons won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Orion, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She's been awarded residencies at Yaddo and Hedgebrook. She earned a bachelor's degree at Yale and master's and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She is also the co-founder of The Alliance of Idaho, which protects the human rights of immigrants.