Feminine Wisdom and Aging: The Wise Woman and Crone
A meditation on how women, freed from the rhythms of reproduction, come into a different and equally sacred power — and what our culture loses when we refuse to honor it.
Illuminating the sacred passages of women's lives — from maidenhood through the wise-woman years — through writing that honors the spirit beneath every transformation.
Kristi Meisenbach Boylan is an American author whose work has helped a generation of women understand the rhythms, rituals, and spiritual transformations woven into the female experience. Drawing from her own life and from the wisdom of women across cultures, she writes not as a clinician but as a witness — gentle, honest, and deeply attuned to what is sacred.
Formerly the publisher of The Parent Track magazine, Kristi began writing about women's issues after her own midlife transformation. What she discovered there — that menopause was less a medical condition than a profound spiritual rite of passage — became the seed of her acclaimed first book. Her writing has since expanded to embrace the journeys of adolescent girls and the experience of raising spirited, nonconforming children.
She makes her home in Richardson, Texas, where she continues to write, speak, and gather with women seeking to honor the wisdom of their bodies and the wisdom of their lives.
Menopause is not a medical condition. It is a spiritual rite of passage — and a woman who walks through it consciously emerges with wisdom the world is waiting for.
Three works that have guided countless readers through the seasons of womanhood and parenthood — each one written with reverence for the spirit that animates every transformation.
A groundbreaking reframing of menopause — not as illness, but as a sacred passage. Boylan identifies seven rites that menopausal women move through, restoring ceremony, meaning, and dignity to a transition our culture too often hides away.
Drawing from her own midlife awakening, she invites women to view the symptoms of this season as messengers — calling them home to themselves.
A tender, wise companion for mothers and daughters. Drawing from her own experience raising a young girl, Boylan illuminates seven spiritual passages that shape a girl's journey from maidenhood toward womanhood.
An invitation to mothers to walk beside their daughters with intention, ritual, and reverence — and to remember the sacredness of their own beginnings.
A powerful and personal account of raising a child labeled hyperactive. Boylan shares how, with an enlightened doctor and devoted teachers, she and her husband freed their son from limiting labels — and from medication.
A book offering hope, strategy, and love to families walking the same road — and an argument for seeing the spirit of a child before any label.
How we welcome a girl into womanhood shapes how she will inhabit it. Ritual whispers to her: you are sacred.
Beyond her books, Kristi's voice reaches readers through essays on the wisdom of aging, the truth about menopause, and the spiritual life of women.
A meditation on how women, freed from the rhythms of reproduction, come into a different and equally sacred power — and what our culture loses when we refuse to honor it.
Kristi dismantles the myths that distort how women understand their own changing bodies — and offers a clear-eyed, compassionate guide to what is real, cultural, and sacred.
An invitation to parents: see the spirit of your child, not the label. Drawing from Born to Be Wild, Kristi explores how language shapes a child's self-understanding — and how love rewrites it.
How we welcome a girl into womanhood shapes how she will inhabit it. A reflection on ritual, reverence, and the small ceremonies that say: you are sacred.
See the spirit of your child — not the label. The labels we give shape the stories children carry their whole lives.
For speaking inquiries, interviews, women's circles, or to share what her work has meant to you — Kristi welcomes your message.