What You Get Inside the Midlife Out Loud Membership
I’ve kept the posts free, and they’ll stay free. But there’s a room behind the posts and notes now. It’s for the woman who’s done performing and wants a place where that’s just the starting line, not the thing she has to explain.
Here’s what’s in it. Three things.
Around the Kitchen Table
Once a month, an hour on Zoom. Small group. No agenda. No worksheet. No icebreaker where you say your name and one fun fact about yourself.
You bring whatever you’re sitting with. The divorce. The mother. The job. The body that stopped asking your permission. We talk about it like grown women who’ve stopped pretending everything’s fine. I’m in the room as a therapist, so nobody’s giving you nonsense advice. But this isn’t therapy. It’s the conversation you wish you could have with a friend at your kitchen table.
Any topic. You pick. Show up as you are, coffee or wine optional, camera on or off.
Upgrade your membership and join us on the next live chat Around the Kitchen Table
The Midlife Library
Every ebook I’ve written or will write next, as well as other valuable resources. Free, in one place, whenever you need it.
No more hitting a paywall at 11 pm when you’re wide awake and finally ready to read the thing about people-pleasing you’ve been avoiding for a year. It’s just there. Yours. Read it in the bath, read it in the car, read it in the pickup line while you pretend to check your email.
Become a paid member to access The Midlife Library, and so much more:
Expert Substack Lives
Four times a year, I bring in one person who actually knows their subject. Not a motivational speaker. Someone with real expertise. A fashion psychologist. A hormone specialist. A divorce attorney who’s seen it all and flinches at nothing. We go live on Substack for an hour, and you get to ask the questions you’d normally pay a consult fee to ask.
You bring the questions nobody’s answering for women our age. They bring the answers. I keep the conversation honest.
Watch previous lives here.
Ellen Scherr is a psychotherapist who has spent decades sitting with women in midlife transition and rebuilt her own life at 50. She writes Life Branches for women 40+ navigating divorce, identity loss, and the specific grief of a body that’s changing without permission.