The Liminal Body: When Puberty and Menopause Converge

​Ali Lawrence of Four Chambers Writing invites you to come as you are and let those unruly bodies unlock some unruly words — to write, listen, connect, and create at the untamed intersection of puberty and perimenopause. We use poetry as a doorway and the creative unconscious as our guide. Expect laughs, tears, and a brave space to let it rip.

​Parenting a pubescent body while your own shifts beneath you is complicated, surprising, humbling, frustrating, soft, rugged, potent, poetic, and yes, sometimes absurd territory. Both of you are changing, think, same storm, different seasons. And somehow you're expected to hold it all together.

This is an invitation for pur perimenopaulsal bodies to stop holding it together for just a couple of hours.

You don't need to be a writer. You just need a pen, some paper, and something you haven't said out loud yet.

(Yes, we write with our actual hands.)