MIDLIFE EMERGENCE: Free Your Inner Fire

by Jen Berlingo

Midlife Emergence is a revelatory memoir and an inviting guidebook; it is a compassionate companion that belongs on the bedside table of every woman who finds herself burning to reclaim powerful parts of herself that social conditioning has locked away. Midlife doesn’t need to be a crisis or an emergency—rather, it’s an emergence, an opportunity to make those beautiful, unexpressed facets shamelessly visible.

When psychotherapist and coach Jen Berlingo traversed her own midlife portal, she expanded more fully into her queer identity, experimented with ethical non-monogamy, and reframed divorce as an expansive form of love. Through her midlife journey, she became a cartographer, pinpointing universal signposts so others would not have to walk this path alone. Alongside her story, Jen shares journaling prompts, art invitations, and personal rituals designed to support the woman in midlife in freeing her own inner fire.

Midlife Emergence is for the woman who secretly wonders “Is this all there is?” It validates the adult in untangling her inherent values from those culturally imposed. It embraces the parent ready to be a model for living her truth. It emboldens the woman who has come of age under the patriarchy to finally claim her sovereignty. It supports the person who has been conditioned into compulsive heterosexuality in exploring her intrinsic sexuality. It empowers the recovering “good girl” to take courageous steps toward full integrity in the second half of life.