How embracing pleasure in midlife rewires confidence, vitality, and feminine power
By Sally of Mature Eros for Confidence Magazine
In my 60th year, I feel more alive, vibrant, and sensual than ever before.
I’m passionate about reframing the narrative around aging for women, helping them move from burnout to bliss through self-enquiry, nervous system regulation, and embodiment practices.
I’m leading the menopausal pleasure revolution, and I want every midlife woman to know this truth: a turned-on, embodied, mature woman is unstoppable.
This is female leadership at its most authentic, grounded in pleasure, truth, and vitality.
But it hasn’t always been this way.
My Shero’s journey has taken me through the underworld more than once, face down in the dirt, broken and covered in tears. I have navigated and healed from childhood sexual abuse and violence from my father, which left me struggling to orgasm and to feel safe in my own body.
That pain later spiralled into five years of deep depression after the birth of my second child, until one day, everything changed.
I was sitting in a restaurant when a radiant woman walked in. She was glowing — alive, magnetic, fully embodied. I couldn’t help myself; I had to ask her what her secret was.
She told me she was a Tantra teacher.
And that conversation changed my life.
The Return to the Body
Tantra became my healing path. I began to realise that my trauma was trapped in my body and that it couldn’t be talked away.
Through movement, breath, and dance, Tantra brought me back to myself. It cracked me open to feel it all.
Tantra welcomes every emotion, every shadow, every piece of our truth, so that what’s been stuck and shut down can finally move, creating space for ease, pleasure, and power.
As women, we’ve been conditioned to be “good girls.”
Smile nicely. Don’t be too loud. Don’t be too much.
Is it any wonder our bodies store years of unexpressed emotion that eventually turns into illness, anxiety, or disconnection?
Symptoms are often messages, invitations from the body to feel what’s been buried.
The Burnout Blueprint
We are the generation who wanted it all, got it all, and then had to do it all.
No wonder so many of us hit perimenopause like a brick wall.
Decades of holding, caring, pushing, achieving, it all catches up. We’ve adapted to a masculine way of working, overriding our natural cycles just to keep up.
By the time most women reach forty, our bodies are flooded with cortisol and our adrenals are begging for rest.
Cortisol inflames the body, fogs the mind, lowers libido, and disconnects us from joy.
But here’s the antidote: pleasure.
Cultivating oxytocin through pleasure resets the nervous system, restoring harmony and vitality.
Female bodies were never designed to thrive in a patriarchal system built on constant output.
We are built for rhythm, for cycles, for connection, and it’s time we remembered that.
Menopause: The Rebirth Portal
What I’ve learned is that menopause isn’t a problem to be fixed.
It’s a rite of passage, a stripping away of what no longer serves.
Yes, the menopause landscape is confusing, supplements, hormones, opinions everywhere, but my invitation through Mature Eros is simple:
Start by coming home to your body.
Your body holds the wisdom you’ve been searching for.
When it’s regulated, nourished, and at ease, it naturally leads you toward health and aliveness.
Did you know it’s almost impossible for a woman’s body to experience pleasure when it’s under stress?
Our sexual life force isn’t just about sex, it’s about energy, intuition, and creation. It’s the compass of our vitality.
When activated, it’s like rocket fuel for life.
For years, I believed I was done, sexually frozen, trapped in a dying marriage, convinced I’d never feel desire again.
Then I took a leap.
I left the marriage, returned to my body, and practised what I now teach.
I sailed through menopause, rediscovered my power, and now, I’m living my soul’s purpose, building my business, and yes, having incredible sex.
Because when a woman reclaims her pleasure, she reclaims her life.
Pull Out Quotes
- “A turned-on, embodied, mature woman is unstoppable.”
- “The pussy-ometer never lies. When pleasure leads, everything else, confidence, purpose, power follows.”
Bio
Sally of Mature Eros is a mentor and coach who helps women 40+ move from burnout to bliss. Through her Mature Eros programmes, she guides women to regulate their nervous systems, awaken pleasure, and reconnect with their innate sensual power.
🌸 Connect:
Instagram: @mature.eros
Website: www.mature-eros.com
Front Cover Strap Line
Queen of Pleasure with Sally Berg:
She says midlife is when real desire begins and her story will make you rethink everything you know about ageing.
Content Page Blurb
Meet Sally of Mature Eros, the woman redefining menopause as a pleasure revolution. Her secret? A finely tuned pussy-ometer that measures not time, but aliveness. In Queen of Pleasure, she invites women to rewrite the story of ageing, showing how reconnecting to pleasure, not pushing through pain, is the key to vitality, confidence, and freedom.
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