Loss: A Path to Ascension

Gretchen Upshaw
9 min readOct 31, 2019
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Part 2: Alzheimer’s Disease is Proof of Evil

Something happens to your brain when you enter menopause. It’s like a software update. After the restart, a lot of things look different. It’s not a bad thing. For me, menopause started absolving me of some crippling guilt.

After my father died, there was no time for grief; I had to sort out my mother’s care and…

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Gretchen Upshaw

I like the word “alchemy.” Hildegard of Bingen was a bad ass. I would like to see more purple in the U.S.