Personal Transformation Journey
Sometimes it takes a seismic shamanic shake up to blossom into our full mature potential. This was certainly the case for me nearly 3 years ago when at 57, I experienced the most brutal year of my life and journeyed deep into the underworld like never before.
Broken and on my knees, face down in the dirt covered in tears – it wasn’t pretty that’s for sure. All familiar relationships, structures, places, and community died a dramatic death and turned to ashes around my feet. All that I held dear burnt to the ground in a terrifying blaze that shook me to my core and stripped me to the bone.
This was the death of my 35-year marriage to a man I loved and thought I was going to grow old with. This was the time of moving back to the UK after living in South Africa for 20 years to start from scratch in a town I’d never even visited before. This was the end of the successful thriving business I ran with my husband.
As painful and devastating as the end of the marriage was, it was also an enormous relief that I could let go of trying to fix and mend something that was irretrievably over. I gave it my best shot for many years that’s for sure, with couples therapy and workshops.
It was time to set each other free with as much grace and compassion as possible, and challenging as it was I knew in my heart that it was for the best.
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Big Girl Pants On
This was put your ‘big girl pants on’ time on steroids!! AND – it was the biggest gift of my life and the making of me as the badass entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and leader I am today.
This diamond has been squeezed tightly in the dark coal to be formed and is now shining brighter than ever as I bring my soul purpose business and movement Mature Eros to the world. I’m now leading the menopausal pleasure revolution!
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Healing Journey
I have spent the last 20 years healing from childhood trauma growing up with a bi-polar, alcoholic, and sexually abusive father. This meant that for most of my adult life I did not feel safe to be fully sexual in my body – always struggling to orgasm and feel pleasure even though most of my marriage was happy and loving.
I was seriously depressed for 5 years after the birth of my second son and that’s when Tantra found me. I was sitting in a restaurant one evening and this woman walked in – she was RADIANT! Shining so brightly and totally magnetic…. I wanted to know her secret so went to talk to her and signed up to her women’s Tantra retreat on the spot! It was lifechanging and transformational to say the least.
I worked with her for 10 years and the deep work shifted me out of depression into aliveness and vibrancy. This journey of healing and blossoming has taken me to the depths of my despair and the heights of my ecstasy and everything in between, and built my capacity for full spectrum living like no other!
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Gratitude for Life Experiences
I’m so grateful for the many lives I’ve lived – from the corporate world in London as senior fashion editor of UK Elle UK to barefoot hippy in the wilds of South Africa working as an ally to local marginalised communities and now a visionary midlife mentor and embodied leader.
I’m a woman who refuses to fade quietly into the background and instead, in my 60th year, am blazing a new trail for midlife women everywhere – reframing the narrative about ageing in our youth-obsessed culture – I’m sexy at sixty living my BEST most vibrant turned on life and want EVERY midlife woman to feel this amazing!
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Pioneering Integration of Menopause and Sexuality
I’m a pioneer in female pleasure and erotic embodiment, and living proof that maturity is not the end of desire, but the ignition of a deeper, richer eros and vitality. What sets me apart is my pioneering integration of menopause and sexuality – a still largely uncharted and cutting-edge territory.
My work addresses physical, emotional, and relational wellbeing simultaneously, recognising desire and pleasure as central to health, vitality, and identity in midlife.
I see and experience menopause as a powerful rite of passage, not a condition to be fixed. Yes it has its challenges and yet often the symptoms are important messages about where we have been pushing too hard and overriding our bodies and needs.
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Action Step: Listen and take the right action to suit your own unique bodies and systems. That’s where my unique programmes come in – to support women to recalibrate out of stress into ease and cultivate feel-good hormone oxytocin to naturally reduce cortisol that creates inflammation, brain fog, drop in libido, and weight gain.
I believe a mature embodied woman, in her pleasure, open heart, fierce boundaries, and emanating what I call SOFT POWER is the revolution our world needs right now – turned on female leadership at it’s very best!
South Africa re-wilded me.
Name: Sally Berg
Professional Title: Midlife Mentor And Embodiment Coach
Bio: Sally Berg is a visionary midlife mentor & embodiment coach and motivational speaker. She is a trauma-informed master guide for discerning, high-achieving women navigating midlife and menopause supporting them out of stress & overwhelm into ease and pleasure with the Mature Eros unique 1:1 Reclaimed Woman methodology mentorship programme.
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