Her Soul Is Ablaze
A companion for your midlife awakening
“A tender, earthy guide to the deep transformation of menopause.”
— Kate Codrington, author of Second Spring and The Perimenopause Journal
Her Soul Is Ablaze is a poetic sanctuary for those navigating the transformative terrain of midlife and menopause.
With wisdom, warmth, and wit, this book offers a beacon of encouragement for anyone feeling the intensity of change and the quiet power awakening within.
Each poem serves as a reminder that midlife is not a time of loss, but a season of renewal – one where you can rediscover your inner strength, redefine your purpose, and honour your journey.
Whether you're feeling lost, lit up, or somewhere in between, Her Soul Is Ablaze meets you where you are.
These word potions celebrate the sacred messiness of midlife, offering encouragement for the hard days, insight for the confusing ones, and celebration for the moments when your power shines through.
This is not just a book of poetry. It’s a companion. A conversation. A mirror.
And most of all, it’s a reminder:
You are not fading – you are awakening, rising stronger, wiser and more yourself than ever before … with a soul ablaze!
COMING sOON!
Out 22 September 2025.
praise for Her Soul Is Ablaze
"A tender, earthy guide to the deep transformation of menopause. With practical wisdom and soulful reflections, this book is a daily companion to remind you of your power, your beauty, and the profound renewal waiting beneath the surface"
— Kate Codrington, author of Second Spring and The Perimenopause Journal
"Stella Tomlinson's words are a balm to the soul.
This book is sacred medicine for mid-life women.”
— Lucy H. Pearce, author of Moon Time; Medicine Woman; Burning Woman
“If you are wandering through the wilds of perimenopause seeking guidance, take a breath and pause right here for a moment.
Center yourself in your body and then look around you. Look! There is a light on the horizon. Her Soul is Ablaze is a poetic, fiery, contemplative invitation to journey together through this unmapped landscape of change.”
— Molly Remer, creatrix of #30DaysofGoddess, author of Womanrunes, 365 Days of Goddess, and Walking with Persephone
"If you’re looking for a book that speaks to you rather than at you, Her Soul Is Ablaze is a beautifully crafted companion for your midlife experience. It wholeheartedly refuses to pathologise this sacred transition which got me hooked straight away.
Stella Tomlinson doesn't sugarcoat the complexity of perimenopause and menopause. Instead, she honours it as the powerful, messy, necessary rite of passage it truly is. Her words are an invitation to see the grief, anger, confusion, and loss of old identities as signs of deep alchemical change rather than disorders (which is often the path we are lead down by the medical industrial complex.)
This book is refreshingly unapologetic in its feminist lens. Tomlinson lays bare the cultural forces of patriarchy, ageism, medicalised misogyny that so often shame women into silence about their pain. She offers permission, instead, to feel, to rage, to grieve, and to claim the authority of our own experience, which is the wisest force within us.
What I loved most, is that the book doesn’t offer quick fixes or platitudes. Instead, it gives you the gift of witnessing what’s happening to you, it’s a masterclass in mindfulness and a deep validation of your experiences. Stella’s writing is lyrical and provides you with a series of prayers or incantations you can return to on the days you feel lost. It’s a book to read slowly, to underline, to keep by your bedside for when the dark knight visits.
She invites us to reframe midlife as an awakening, starting with a descent into chaos followed by a rebirth into authenticity, sovereignty, and truth. She speaks directly to the part of us that’s tired of being small, polite, and pleasing, and offers fierce, loving encouragement to choose ourselves.
This book is a a call to shed layers of conditioning and remember who you are beneath them. It’s for anyone ready to meet themselves with radical self compassion, curiosity, and courage.
Highly recommended for anyone in the throes of midlife change who is done with the “everything will be fine” tropes, but instead is looking for acknowledgement that they are not broken, they are just being forged."
— Sally Garozzo - Clinical Hypnotherapist helping people heal the complex trauma underlying their menopause symptom severity - @sallygarozzomindmentor
