Join us sisters, Sharon Johnson and Marcella Hill, as we chat with author Kelly Barnhill about massive life transformations and how to survive and thrive after the unexpected happens.

What happens when large parts of how we define ourselves go missing?

• If you are a writer and can no longer write, who are you?
• If you are a wife and no longer a wife, who are you?
• If your body is failing you, who are you?

We discuss the power of anger and how to use it.

The healing magic of radical acceptance and curiosity.

Kelly reads one of my favorite passages from the book that displays how I was feeling in my own body during the beginning of Perimenopause. "It's just too damn small in here!"

She is a former teacher, former bartender, former waitress, former activist, former park ranger, former secretary, former janitor and former church-guitar-player. The sum of these experiences have prepared her for exactly nothing – save for the telling of stories, which she has been doing quite happily for some time now.

She received the Newbery Medal in 2017, as well as fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the McKnight Foundation. She is the winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Parents Choice Gold Award, the Texas Library Association Bluebonnet, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. She also was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton Award and the PEN/USA literary prize. She has been on the New York Times bestseller list for a bunch of weeks now, as well as the Indie Besteller list. She is the author of the novels THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON, THE WITCH’S BOY, IRON HEARTED VIOLET and THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF JACK, as well as the novella, “The Unlicensed Magician”.

Grab a cozy blanket, snuggle up and enjoy being read to and listening to a story that will inspire you to use your creativity to turn rage into art that can inspire change.

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Midlife brings a lot of change in perspectives and belief systems. We share our new views about marriage while still being married.

- What we thought marriage would be

- When we noticed it was not what we thought it would be

- How we gained new beliefs about relationships

-How we are developing new relationships with our current partners

-Should marriage be hard?

-Is commitment more important than change?

-How do you go from saving each other to being whole people sharing a life?

-Is it your marriage or is it your HORMONES?!

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Women are not allowed to be angry. We don't know how to be angry. Yet, our society has created enraged women.

I discuss RAGE with the author of Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly. Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and media critic whose writing appears regularly in national and international media including The Atlantic, The Nation, Verge, Quartz, TIME, Salon, The Guardian and The New Statesman. Her book was part of the beginning of my awakening to realize how much work there is still to be done for women to live in a world where we feel safe.

• Why is anger allowed for boys but not girls?
• How can we teach girls to feel and use their anger?
• Where is this anger coming from?
• What to do with our anger?

Find Soraya Chemaly and her awakening books at https://www.sorayachemaly.com/

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