Hello, I’m Shae.

Professional Executive, Leadership & Life Coach.

Heart Woman. Mother. Baby Crone.

Embodiment & Intimacy Educator.

Midlife Alchemist.

Hello courageous woman, I’m Shae, founder of The Tilt Shift, and transformational guide for women at midlife.

The Tilt Shift offers paradigm shifting professional coaching and education to support midlife women globally. Through the pillars of embodiment; intimacy; midlife identity integration; self-leadership + activism we foster a connected community of women who develop an empowered and transformational approach to midlife and channel their wisdom into personal and collective leadership.

A goal that inspires me to my core.

This is a contemporary feminine force of the highest order. The vision and creative inspiration for this movement is to ignite powerful impact for the wisdom of humanity, the most vital shift needed on the planet today.

My work with midlife women was born from my own experience of an early menopause at the beginning of 2019, just after my 44th birthday.

At 41 I began to notice changes in my cycle and energy levels…not at all unusual to start to see perimenopausal symptoms at this age, however within two and a half years just after my 44th birthday, I reached 1 year without bleeding, my official menopause. At 43 I was going through menopause, at 44 I was post menopause. It’s typical for women to spend much longer in the peri phase, but for me it was swift—and it shocked me—I wasn’t ready to face all the negative conditioning around what I had been conditioned to believe menopause meant about my worth as a woman.

During the peri phase I had sporadic periods and having regular hot flashes that at first had me feeling like there was something really wrong with me. I wasn’t computing at first that my body was entering menopause because I thought that only happened to women in their late forties/early fifties. When it was confirmed that my follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) was consistently in the menopausal range, I became overwhelmed with stress, grief and disbelief. I absolutely wasn’t ready. No way was I ready, because at the time I understood this to mean I was old before my time, potentially defunct in the intimacy realms, middle aged. I didn’t want to be. I felt shame about my body and for a period of time and all the work I had done as an embodiment and intimacy coach over the previous five years felt out of reach.

I realised my conditioned perception of menopause—the toxic narrative and collective wounding of the midlife woman—was dictating my experience of my body.

Shame and invisibility overshadows this incredible stage of life for women because of the infatuation with youth that dominates our culture. Empowering, uplifting rites of passage are hard to find. I've dedicated my work to help rewrite the story because when we reclaim narratives we produce empowered action and become a part of momentous change.

menopause is a descent, a transformation, a becoming.

Menopause is a descent, this much is true, but what lies at the depths of that descent?

Menopause asks a lot of us as we burn the old stories that no longer serve us. It's an initiation with no road map and we live in a culture where there is no acknowledgement or understanding of this. We need to create a culture where we are safe to burn our old stories so we can rise from the ashes embodied and empowered and with an unwavering connection to our body. Prioritising ourselves, we learn to use our voice and channel our wisdom in a way we haven’t before; with grace, courage, vulnerability and power.

When we journey with the alchemy of menopause to unshackle, remember, refine and renew it becomes a process of undulating your way from the chrysalis and opening to a more expansive relationship to your body and life. There is darkness, then there is dawn break, and a potent crimson sky awaits your metamorphosis.