Midlife left me asking what was the point of me? But then everything changed, again | Ros Reines

Losing fertility, friends, family, work - midlife for women can be self-altering. But I found liberation on the other side of menopause

In the first flush of my post-menopausal years, I didn't exactly experience the energy surge that Dr Christine Northrup mentions in her breakthrough book The Wisdom of Menopause. She refers to menopause as the mind-body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence". Talk about a positive spin.

On one level, I was still mourning the loss of my fertility and feeling a bit like a husk of a person. I longed to get my sexy back, not realising that it would eventually be replaced by something equally as powerful - a lust for life.