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Women and the meaning of midlife

Women and the meaning of midlife

Update: 2025-07-28
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In Ecclesiastes we read there is a time to be born and a time to die, but what about the middle phase of life? In this week’s Life Issues, Jayne Manfredi, an Anglican Deacon and author of Waking the Women: Faith, Menopause, and the Meaning of Midlife, shared with Vicky Gibbens how it should not be framed as a time of loss for women, but of discovery.

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Women and the meaning of midlife

Women and the meaning of midlife