HER SECOND ACT is a 9 week self guided, sensual & magical midlife rites guide with weekly live integration meetings. It explores the treacherous and liberating terrain from your First Act to your Second Act of Life which frees us to surrender the ego to the soul and to live a life of our own from the truth of our bones. While the Maiden embodies the energies of springtime, and the Mother embodies the Full Bloom of Summer, the third season of the feminine wheel of life- call it what you will, the Enchantress, the Sorceress, the Wild Woman, the Witch, embodies the electric, magical, transformative season of Autumn, or Fall. It is the Harvest of the Feminine time of life. Her First Act was for Learning. Her Second Act is for Living. Her First Act was for holding on and holding back. Her Second Act is for Letting it Go and Letting it Flow. “Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”+
“Life really does begin at 40. Up until then you are just doing research.” Carl Jung. 
HER SECOND ACTa self guided midlife experience, delivered in a daily capsule curriculum, posted M- Th. Live Integrations are Fridays at Noon EST.we begin may 30 at noon est + end august 1.running 9 weeks. all calls recorded.
HER SECOND ACT is a mystical path to a more joyful, sensual, ritual and creative life. This is a Midlife Map across the treacherous divide from your First Act to Your Second Act of Life. This is a midwifery manual: for at midlife we midwife our true life. We know what is dying in us, and in the world, too, but what is also birthing through? This is the work of shedding skins and old roles: of deconstructing the First Act Mask, and existing in liminal time & space between worlds, Before the Second Act You can emerge. And when women change, women change the world. If your old skin is feeling suffocating, or you'd rather go naked then wear it again, try HER SECOND ACT. This curriculum meets you in your wild life where you are right now. Just check in on the website daily (you'll get an email reminder to do so) to see the. updated content. Take it in where you want and at your pace. No rush, no race. Everyone's transformations happen at their own pace.
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up. The Hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed. If we are hanging onto the form now, we’re not going to have the form next. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. Destruction before creation."
- Joseph CampbellFresh out of the Fresh Hell that has been my nearly Five Year Midlife Crisis & Awakening, I present you with HER SECOND ACT. This is the sort of capsule curriculum I would have loved to have had in my inbox during some of the most rootless messy AF times of this Crisis/ Chrysalis. It's woven with wisdom I myself ould cling to as the waves crashed over my head and it's marked with sign posts I wish I had had when I lost all hope. This is a Mystical Midlife Makeover. This is the Shedding of Skins before the Begin Again. The Midlife Crisis is a Chrysalis & a Rite of Passage to Mark a Life Half Lived. Never before has how we spent our time on this Earth Mattered More. This Mystical Magical Midlife Map helps you unravel your patriarchal personality and resurrect the primordial you. And live the life your soul and this world are asking of you.HER SECOND ACT IS a NINE WEEK JOURNEY THROUGH
3 (non linear) STAGES OF THE MIDLIFE METAMORPHOSIS.
stage one: caterpillar/separation. weeks 1-3.
stage two: underworld/chrysalis. weeks 4- 6:
stage three / butterfly/ emergence. weeks 7- 9
What’s Included. A DAILY Capsule Curriculum for MIDLIFE women & femmes at the Crossroads. Check back daily on the private website (the Velvet Vault) where curriculum is uploaded M-Th 10 am EST. This Midlife Map is curated for the femme with the whole world in her lap & the weight of it all on her back. Life is flying by in the blind of an eye. On top of it there's ecocide, genocide, fascism, femicide. So this curriculum meets who where you are. You can take it to the bath, the car, the trail, or hiding in the closet for a little me time.
Upon registration, you will receive a password to the Private Second Act website. To Access your Capsule Curriculum, check in on the site, enter the VELVET VAULT, anytime after 10 am EST, M- Th for updated Second Act content.
We Meet Fridays at Noon EST to Integrate the Content. Think of the Capsule Content like a Daily Digital Giftbox: + Daily Twenty Minute Audio Teachings, + weekly rituals, + a daily song for your Midlife Rites playlist, weekly meditations, + daily curated wisdom of those who have gone before, MidLife Tips + Secrets + a daily Sufi poem, + daily Journal Prompts aka Crossroads Questions (delivered on a PDF for printing) + bi weekly Midlife Movement (3 min videos guided by Sarah to incorporate movement throughout your day).
That's 9 Weeks (36 Days) of M -F Transformative Midlife Rites Capsule Curriculum , & 9 Live Integration Calls with Sarah Durham Wilson, a 9 year rites of passage guide & author, 14 years teaching. But no longer a teacher, a creature. (A Midlife Crisis really does change and rearrange you). Starting friday, may 30, at noon est running til friday, august 1, 2025. $300 from Today until Saturday May 3, 2025, save $97. (Pricing will go back up to $397). 
The Crisis at Midlife is one of I-dentity. The Individual is asking “Who Am I?” And right now, on this beautiful earth fighting for its life under genocide, ecocide, fascism and femicide, the people of the world are asking, “Who Are We?” "Is this who we really are? Is this all there really is?" The Soul and Ego are at a crossroads individually and collectively, and we must choose soul to survive. CRISIS is a word of double meaning: crisis means "dangerous opportunity."
What’s the opportunity? To Change Your Life. Why is it dangerous? Because if you don’t you’ll d!e. Just like the collective crisis humanity currently faces. The Midlife Crisis esstenitally means to evolve or die. THE MIDLIFE CRISIS during POLYCRISIS is a Mirror of Itself, a symbiotic relationship : and both the individual and collective are being pressurized into change. We are in a unique crisis of opportunity to change ourselves and the world, and it is dangerous, because if we don’t, we’ll die.
When the patriarchal mask cracks and the Repressed You can’t hold back, It’s the End of Your First Act. Patriarchy is dying on the outside, and it’s dying on the inside too. So how do we help what is dying, to die, and birth what is longing to come through? And after the patriarchal death, what comes next? As hard as it can feel in the Crucible of the Chrysalis, this Crisis loves you, and wants you to live the life that will be most soul fulfilling and therefore a boon for the soul-deprived world. The Midlife Crisis is a CHRYSALIS. It’s a Rite of Passage marking a life half lived. It’s a death and rebirth. This time, for perhaps the first time in your life, you really come alive. When the feminine wakes from the patriarchal curse, we remember the primordial life where Life, children, and the Mother/Earth come first.
SCHEDULE. fri may 30 to fri aug 1 2025.
Opening Call: friday may 30 at 12 noon EST on zoom. Introduction & "Mapping Midlife," plus overview of the phases & stages of the Midlife Rites. In this First Meeting, get to know the group of other midlife femmes transforming their inner and outer lives. Conversation will range but revolve around: our places on our paths: where we are in our midlife journeys, what or who is dying in us, what or who is birthing. Pls bring completed home play or questions about home play to circle. Plus socks, water (tea, optional) journal and pen, a yoga mat (optional) meditation cushion (optional) layers (optional) .
Stage one: CATERPILLAR/ SEPARATION STAGE. week 1 capsule curriculum: starting mon, june 2- 5. Themes: The Beginning of the End, The Midlife Split. When the persona of us (the mask, or ego) and the true person of us, (the authentic self, the soul) meet at a crossroads, or enter into a rift. Also: exploration on the Midlife Crisis amidst Poly Crisis.
week 2: june 9-12. Themes: Your Midlife Blueprints in your younger years. Inspiring Transformative Midlife Stories. A Little About my Own Midlife Story & Why I am so Passionate About the Midlife Rites. Some of my Favorite Midlife Recommendations.
week 3: June 16-19 Themes : Rage Against the Machine. Midlife Femmes are a Volcano. The truth has to blow for our lives to get unstuck and flow. Decentering money + materials + men. Feeling Rendered Invisible + Entering Invisible worlds. Identifying the First Act Us. Identifying Ageist Misogyny in us + society.
Fridays June 6, 13, 20 at 12 NOON EST Live Integrations with Sarah.
Close Caterpillar/ Separation Stage. Stage 2. CHRYSALIS STAGE week 4: june 23-26, Themes. Entering the Chrysalis. The backdrop of our Mortality, the breath of death on our neck's. First Act Funerals & Pseudocide. The Blessings of the Dark. week 5 june 30- july 3. Themes: Dream work. Entering the atrophied inner rooms of our lives like abandoned houses. Listening to the asks of the inner unlived life. Leaning into the atrophied attributes beneath the hard mask of persona we've built up. the wisdom of Perimenopause. Slowing down. week 6. july 7 - july 10. themes. Getting to know Medusa + the Gorgon Archetype. Resurrecting the Inner Rebelle Teen & The Third Season Feminine: Witch, Sorceress, Enchantress, Wild Woman. Resurrecting our Magic. Close Chrysalis Stage. REEMERGENCE STAGE week 7: july 14 - 17. Themes: Now that we are not centering money + men, we are centering joy, earth, children, magic, wisdom, justice and pleasure + our bodies again. Now that we are patriarchally invisible, we belong to the invisible worlds where the Goddess is Alive and Magic is AFoot. Sourcing Mystic Love, meeting the Inner Lover, leaning into a different spirituality. week 8 : july 21- 24 themes. creating the second life itinerary, taking steps into a life of your own from the truth of your bones. Centering Eros & working with the second chakra. week 9 july 28- 31 themes. living in generativity, for the next seven generations. Friday Integrations at Noon EST July 18, 25, Aug 1. Close Her Second Act. 
Having a Midlife Crisis in Poly Crisis? I got you. Feeling invisible? I see you. Lost your purpose? I understand. Feeling like burning it all down? Come on down. Can't ignore the urge to become Local Folklore? Couldn't get you more. Lost your luster? Heard. Lost your groove? I did too. Forgetting why you're alive? Ready to live your unlived life? Give HER SECOND ACT a try.EARLY BIRD PRICE $300
until SATURDAY MAY 3, 2025
