Make 2024 a year of renewal and resilience!

Did you know that eagles have the potential to live up to 70 years?

However, once they reach around 40 years old, they encounter a critical “health crisis.”

Their talons become overly long and inflexible, their beak curves excessively, and their wings become cumbersome, making flying a challenging task.

Faced with this dilemma, eagles must make a tough choice: embrace decline and inevitable death or undergo a painful process of renewal.

Choosing the latter, the first step in the eagle’s renewal journey involves finding a secure space – nestled in the mountains near a protective wall.

The eagle initiates the challenging renewal process by striking the wall with its beak.

As the beak breaks, the eagle patiently waits for a new one to grow.

Once equipped with a fresh beak, the eagle proceeds to pluck out its worn feathers, allowing new ones to emerge.

After enduring five months of wounds, scars, and growth, the eagle celebrates its renewal with a triumphant flight, emerging stronger than ever, capable of soaring the skies for another 30 years.

Interestingly, lobsters also undergo transformative experiences throughout their lives.

Continually outgrowing their shells, pressure builds up inside, causing pain and stress until the shell eventually cracks open.

Vulnerable and exposed, the lobster scurries to a safe place, growing a new shell rapidly.

Once settled in its new home, the lobster is ‘as happy as a clam’ but inevitably continues growing.

Eventually, every millimeter of space inside the shell is occupied, leading to another period of vulnerability, hiding under a rock, and growing a fresh “armour.”

Lobsters can live to be 70, if they are lucky!

So, how do these incredible creatures relate to us?

For women in their forties, it’s a time when they might “hit a wall.”

Bouncing back becomes more challenging, replaced by aches, pains, stress, and overwhelm.

Mojo becomes a thing of the past, making room for irritation, forgetfulness, and a loss of confidence.

The root cause, as Pete and I understand, often goes deeper, involving unresolved childhood issues.

Stress and trauma from early experiences can no longer be suppressed after 40, as the body tires from keeping them locked away in the subconscious mind.

The energy for suppression wanes, and these unresolved issues begin leaking into everyday life.

Men, too, may face an identity crisis or serious health concerns in their late forties or early fifties (heart attacks or prostate cancer for example)

So, what can we learn from eagles and lobsters?

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