Writing My First Book at 61: How Women Over 50 Can Reclaim Their Power

At 62, I'm publishing my first book challenging society's narrative about women after 50. "Empress Rising" rejects the notion that we should fade into invisibility and instead embraces our power as women who rule our own lives with wisdom earned through experience.

• Written because women over 50 are often told to slow down, step aside, and become invisible
• Inspired by seeing brilliance, wisdom, and power in women in their 50s-80s
• Developed the "Empress" concept as an alternative to the limiting "crone" archetype
• The Empress rules in her own right, sits on her throne because she's earned it
• Share vulnerable personal stories including breast cancer, toxic relationships, and becoming a yoga teacher at 55
• Every woman has stories of courage, resilience, and reinvention that deserve celebration
• Writing this book at 61 because I finally have the clarity and courage to speak my truth
• Message that women are not "old" or "too late" regardless of age
• Your empress years aren't coming—they're here now

"An Empress is a woman who rules in her own right. She sits on her throne not because someone gave her permission, but because she's earned her place there through every triumph and challenge she's faced."

Rose's book "Empress Rising: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom, and Rewrite the Rules of Aging" launches October 16th

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Rose (00:01):
Ready to unlock your most vibrant, authentic self?
Welcome to Chat Off The Mat,where holistic wellness meets
practical wisdom andextraordinary transformation.
I'm your host, Rose Wippage.
I'm a Qigong instructor, yogateacher and a Reiki master, so
get ready for inspiringconversations with wellness

(00:21):
experts who understand yourunique journey, plus practical
tools for energy healing, lifetransitions and conscious and
soulful living.
Your journey to radiantwellness starts now.
Let's create magic together.
Hello and welcome to Chat OffThe Mat.

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I am your host, rose Whippich,and today's episode is a little
different.
Instead of our usual formatwhere I interview someone else,
I want to share something deeplypersonal with you.
In just a few weeks, on October16th, I'm launching my very
first book.

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It is called Empress Rising,own your Energy, trust your
Wisdom and Rewrite the Rules ofAging.
62 years old, I'm doingsomething I always wanted to do.
Never thought maybe I would doit in this lifetime, but it was
always a thought, it was alwaysa dream of mine, and today I

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want to tell you why and why I'mexcited about it.
You know people keep asking me,rose, why now?
Why are you writing a book atthis stage?
Or how can you do this?
Like, wow, you're writing abook and I have to kind of
chuckle at the question, becausein and of itself it reveals

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exactly why this book needed tobe written.
Why now?
Because this is exactly when Ihave something important to say.
Well, for too long we've beentold stories about what happens
to women after 50.
We're supposed to slow down,step aside, become invisible.
We're supposed to accept beingcalled hags, crones, old, old

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lady and just accept it.
We're supposed to fade into thebackground of our own lives.
At least that's what we thinksometimes.
But here's what I discovered.
None of that is true.
My awakening to this didn'thappen overnight.
It's been a gradual realization, building over, let's say, the
past decade.
I remember walking into a roomand I suddenly felt overlooked,

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and maybe part of it was my ownthinking right, not being
accepted, looked at,acknowledged, and it's all good.
Because who am I?
Right, and I was probably likemy mid-50s, perhaps, or even
earlier than that.
But I noticed somethingdifferent.
Younger eyes looked past at me.

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Their attention went to voicesthat sounded well, like mine
used to sound right.
I felt like the old person inthe room and at first I
internalized it.
Maybe I wasn't as sharp as Iused to be, maybe I felt I
didn't have much to say, thatwas important.
Maybe I didn't have much tooffer, maybe this was just a

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natural order of things, butthen something shifted.
I started paying attention tothe women around me, women in
their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s.
I saw brilliance, wisdom, power, creativity.
I saw women who had survivedcancer just like myself, raised

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families, built businesses,overcome trauma, develop
spiritual practices that couldheal the world.
I saw women with so much togive, so much wisdom to share,
and I realized the problemwasn't with us.
The problem was with thenarrative.

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You see, I come from a familywhere my mother died at 49 from
breast cancer.
When I was diagnosed with thesame disease at almost the same
age, I made a decision I wasn'tgoing to accept any limitations
on what my life could be.
I wasn't going to live.
Small could be.
I wasn't going to live smallbecause some voice, whether

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internal or external, told me mytime was up, I'm done, I'm too
old.
So the concept of the empressstarted to form in my mind.
Actually, it really fullycrystallized one morning last
year, last June, when everythingclicked into place.

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I had been reading more aboutthe crone and the triple goddess
archetype, you know, the maiden, mother, crone, and I was
studying this traditionalframework that's supposed to
honor the stages of a woman'slife, and it's a beautiful
concept, right.
So you have the maiden in heryounger years, starting her
cycle, and she's just filledwith this beautiful energy, this

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expansion of energy, and thenshe becomes the mother and
things change, right.
So she's more nurturing, morethinking about others.
Her cycle is still going, butat some point it starts to
change and then the cronearchetype sets in this
transition of being the wise,elder person, which is still

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true.
But the images that weredepicted, the visuals, were of
this old, hunched over,toothless woman, and that was
the image that I didn't want toassociate with.
I didn't want women in theseyears, in these emperor's years,
associated.
So I realized that crone wasn'ta term.

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I wanted to be called nor hagnor old.
These words just didn't capturehow I felt inside or how I saw
myself and other women in theirwisdom years.
One morning, when the veilbetween the worlds is thin,
subconscious to conscious, Istart to really sometimes come

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up with some ideas and concepts.
Sometimes come up with someideas and concepts.
Well, this one particularmorning I started getting ideas,
downloads of content of words,of script around this Empress
energy that's what it wasoriginally called embodying the

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empress energy and I got up,grabbed my notebook a notebook,
I have many and I just startedto write and I started to think,
wow, this is something.
What if we change the image?
What if, instead of crones, wesaw ourselves as empresses,
change the language around?
And as I was writing all thesethings, it was almost as if I

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couldn't really keep up and Iwrote them longhand, right?
No typewriter.
The energy is different when Iwrite and everything just flows.
So I really was in the moment,right.
So after I wrote all this, Ipaused and I was thinking about
paused and I was thinking aboutthe concept, the words, the

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energy around what I was writingand I thought, wow, an empress.
I want to be called an empressBecause an empress is a woman
who rules in her own right.
She's regal, wise and powerful.
She's gathered abundancethrough her life experiences,

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and we all have experiences.
An empress sits on her thronenot because anyone gives her or
someone gives her permission,but because she's earned her
place there through everytriumph and challenge she's
faced.
So the empress in the tarotsits surrounded by abundance,

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radiating this confidence thatcomes from a fully lived life.
She's not withering, she's infull bloom.
I feel I'm in full bloom, asare all the empresses out there,
and she's not invisible.
She's actually impossible toignore, and it's not because
she's demanding attention, butbecause she's radiating

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authentic power.
She knows her worth, her value.
This is who we really are.
Writing this book has been oneof the most vulnerable things
I've ever done, so I sharestories I've never told publicly
before.
So I share stories I've nevertold publicly before.
I've mentioned my breast cancerjourney, but more about the
toxic relationship thatliterally made my body hurt

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until I found the courage toleave, and also the spiritual
awakening that began in a littletiny bookstore in Sedona when I
was broken because of thisrelationship and searching for
hope.
I talk about becoming a yogateacher at the age of 55,
despite the voice in my headthat said I was too old to start
teaching.
Well, not really.

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I really wanted to teach.
I was hesitant, of course,because it was out of my comfort
zone, but I was excited.
I did not let my age stop me.
I share the vision I had duringmy first Reiki session in my
book, where my deceased mothershowed me that one day I would
have twins, a vision that cametrue years later, when my boys

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were born.
These aren't just personalstories.
They're examples of whatbecomes possible when we refuse
to accept society's limitationson what our lives can be.
Every woman I know has storieslike this.
I've heard them.
Moments when they choosecourage over comfort, times when
they reinvented themselves overand over again, experiences

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that proved they were far moreresilient and powerful than they
ever ever imagined.
But we don't share thesestories enough.
We keep them to ourselves, andthat's sad, because these
stories are powerful and weshould celebrate them.
We need to use them as evidenceof our magnificence.

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Sharing our stories can inspireothers, other empresses on the
rise.
So why did I start writing thisbook at the age of 61?
Well, because this is when Ifinally had the clarity to see
the bigger picture.
This is when I have the courageto speak truths that might make
some people uncomfortable.
This is when I have the wisdomto know that my voice matters,

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regardless of whether everyoneagrees with me.
When I was younger, and maybenot so long ago, I was still
trying to figure out who I wassupposed to be, what my path was
, who I was supposed to inspire,what I was supposed to do and
seeking external validation.
I was apologizing for taking upspace, but now, now I know who
I am.
I've done the work and I'mstill doing the work, but I know

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what I believe.
I know that my years ofexperience have given me
insights that can help otherwomen step into their own power,
and I'm writing this bookbecause I want other women to
feel empowered, to know thatthey can live their life the way
they want to, to step intotheir personal sovereignty and

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reclaim their kingdom.
Refuse to be invisible.
I refuse to accept that myvibrant years, my most vibrant
years, are behind me.
I refuse to believe that wisdomcomes with a requirement to
diminish ourselves Heck, no.
I refuse to believe that wisdomcomes with a requirement to
diminish ourselves Heck.
No.
My vibrant years, they're stillhere, and I'm writing this book

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because I know I'm not alone.
I know there are womenlistening to this right now and
people I've talked to, peopleI've worked with, who feel the
same stirring inside them.
Women who know they have moreto give, more to create and,
more definitely, more toexperience.

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Women who are ready to claimtheir thrones and ready to wear
the crown.
Empress Rising launches onOctober 16th, and I'll be
sharing more about this journeyin upcoming episodes, but today
I want to leave you with thisyou are not old, you are not too
late, you are not made to fadeinto the background of your own
life.

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You have earned your place onyour throne.
You have wisdom that could onlycome from a life fully lived.
You have power that deepenswith age rather than diminishes,
whether you're 45 and worriedabout what comes next, 55 and
feeling overlooked, 65 and beingtold you should slow down, or

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even older, this message is foryou.
This book is for you.
Your empress years aren'tcoming.
They're here.
The only question is are youready to claim your throne?
Well, that's all for today'sepisode of Chat Off the Mat.
Thank you for listening.
If you're interested in thebook, there is a waitlist on my
website.
You can follow the links in theshow notes at rosewhippishcom.

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I would really love for you tojoin the royal court and be a
part of this community of risingempresses.
So let's straighten our crownand step into our power.
Have a beautiful day.
Thank you for joining me onChat Off the Mat.
If you're ready to transformyour energy and step into your

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