Celebrating Crones: Life After Menopause

Let's celebrate when it's our time for a new era, clothes, hair, body, and mood.

Don’t you think we should be celebrating crones? Life after menopause is reason enough to celebrate! I say let’s take back that word. Change it up. Give it a new meaning. Wear that crown proudly.

From vocabulary.com - “Since the late 14th century the word crone has been a term of abuse, describing old and bad-tempered women”

Bad-tempered? OR simply not putting up with all the shenanigans going on around us anymore? I’m GenX, we have that reputation anyway. Crone’s schmones is what I say about bad-tempered.

Listen. I don’t want to be who I was as a child, a teen, or even who I was in my 20’s, 30’s, or 40’s. Embracing our 50’s and graduating into our 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s is like a whole new life. New era, clothes, hair, body, and mood. Why not celebrate that?

Celebrating Crones: Life After Menopause

Once I make it through the self-inflicted isolated Menopausal stage and into the Crone stage, I want to have a big celebration. It’s another milestone that needs celebrating, don’t you think?

We had the sweet 16, the big 18, the rite of passage at 21, and then the milestone of reaching each decade. Why not the biggest milestone of them all… making it to the crone stage?!

Hopefully we’ll feel braver, wiser, and step into who we’ve grown to be. Sure, there will be some aches and pains that come along with aging, but the alternative is death. No thanks, I still have a lot of living to do!

The Crone stage just means that I get to be who I am, flaws and all. Who cares that some of us gain some menopausal weight? Some of us will gain more wrinkles, a double chin, gray hair, hair on our face, jowls, and etc. So what?!

There’s no growing old gracefully, we just do it. There’s no age appropriate dress codes to abide by anymore. What are we in the 1900’s? Burry those rules. Live and let live! Let’s not boo-hoo over no longer being a certain younger age. I’m all for celebrating crones: life after menopause!!

Alright ladies, are we sticking with the word crone or are we going to try to come up with something else that will stick around for centuries?

How are you or did you already celebrate coming into the lovely crone stage of life?

*Photo by Yaroslav Shuraev

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