Author · Speaker · Voice of the Feminine

Kristi Meisenbach
Boylan

Illuminating the sacred passages of women's lives — from maidenhood through the wise-woman years — through writing that honors the spirit beneath every transformation.

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Kristi Meisenbach Boylan — author portrait
"The body of a woman holds the wisdom of the ages."

A Storyteller
of Sacred Passages

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.

3
Published Books
20+
Years Writing
Women Touched
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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.
— From The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause

A Lifetime of Writing

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.

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The Seven Sacred Rites of Menopause

The Spiritual Journey to the Wise-Woman Years
Santa Monica Press · 2000

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.

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The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche

The Spiritual Journey of the Adolescent Girl
Santa Monica Press · 2001

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.

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Born to Be Wild

Freeing the Spirit of the Hyperactive Child
Penguin / Perigee · 2003

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.

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How we welcome a girl into womanhood shapes how she will inhabit it. Ritual whispers to her: you are sacred.
— From The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche

Essays & Articles

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.

Wisdom & Aging

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.

Menopause

Am I Crazy or Menopausal? Myths & Fallacies

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.

Parenting

Beyond the Label: Raising a "Hyperactive" Child with Grace

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.

The Sacred Feminine

Honoring Menarche: A Mother's Guide to Her Daughter's First Passage

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.

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See the spirit of your child — not the label. The labels we give shape the stories children carry their whole lives.
— From Born to Be Wild

Get in Touch

For speaking inquiries, interviews, women's circles, or to share what her work has meant to you — Kristi welcomes your message.

Speaking & Interviews

Keynotes, podcast conversations, retreats, and women's gatherings. Kristi welcomes the right audiences and the right circles.

Based in Texas

Writing from Richardson, Texas — available to travel for the right audience and the right circle of women.

For Readers

Letters from readers — about their own passages, their daughters, their mothers, their mid-life awakenings — are always welcome.