Dr Sharon Blackie wants you to embrace your inner hag - THE SHIFT REVISITED

The Shift with Sam Baker

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Yes, it's still January! And this week we're revisiting an episode with psychologist, folklorist, mythologist and all-round one-woman campaigner for us to embrace our inner crone! --- How do I want to age? What does the rest of my life look like? Those are questions I know many of you have given A LOT of thought. Well, my guest today has some answers. Dr Sharon Blackie is a psychologist and folklorist who is passionate about reimagining the ageing process for the better. Her last book If Women Rose Rooted was an ecofeminist sleeper hit about finding your place in the world that was passed from woman to woman with the words “you MUST read this”. Her new book, Hagitude: reimagining the second half of life, does JUST that. What, she asks, would ageing as a woman in the west be like if we embraced it. If we saw it as an adventure, not something to be dreaded, dodged, denied. At its heart is the radical idea: what if older women knew how to use the power and influence many of us don't know we have. What if we recognised our value? What if we wrote our own narratives? Sharon joined me to talk about the power of myth, embracing your inner hag and why she’d rather be the old woman in the wood than a boring old fairytale princess any day. She also told me what she learnt from THREE midlife crises, her decade of hot flushes and the joy of no longer having skin in the mating game. I found this conversation so motivating and inspiring. I hope you do too. * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Hagitude and If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me! * And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-hold of our truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker.
0:45.4	How do I want to age? What does the rest of my life look like? Those are questions I know many of you have given a lot of thought. Well, my guest today has some answers. Dr. Sharon Blackie is a
0:55.6	psychologist and folklorist who is passionate about reimagining the aging process for the better.
1:01.5	Her last book, If Women Rose Rooted, was an eco-feminist sleeper hit about finding your place in the
1:07.1	world that was passed from woman to woman with the words, you must read this.
1:12.5	Her new book, Haggitude, reimagining the second half of life, does just that.
1:17.3	What, she asks, would aging as a woman in the West be like if we embraced it?
1:22.3	Physical changes go hand in hand with psychological changes. And I really wanted to highlight to people that these are opportunities, you know, for more transformation, for more growth, for some really good stuff, rather than what the culture tells us about it, you know, that it's supposed to usher in a time of decline.
1:38.9	At its heart is the radical idea.
1:41.3	What if older women knew how to use the power and influence that many of us don't
1:45.8	know we have? What if we recognised our value? What if? Brace yourself, we wrote our own narratives.
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