About The Way

The Way is a method—rooted in real life, and shaped by Françoise’s own experience navigating health and, eventually, physical aging, hormonal shifts, and emotional healing.

It’s been refined over decades through her personal lifestyle practices, deep one-on-one work with other women in her clinical aromatherapy, herbalism, and holistic coaching practice, and her studies with women walking a more enlightened path as they move through the second half of their lives.

It’s not a loose collection of ideas. It’s a path. A daily practice. A system of care for your body, mind, and spirit—designed to help you move through midlife and hormonal change with clarity, strength, and beauty.

This site is not just content to consume. It’s a living method—meant to be implemented, lived, and returned to again and again.

What Makes This Different

Midlife brings enormous change—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Aging skin. Shifting hormones. Nervous system overwhelm. Emotional unraveling. Most women are told to fix, hide, or medicate their way through.

The Way offers something different.
It guides you on how to support yourself from the inside out.
And if you follow it—if you live it—your experience of this transition can shift entirely.

This is how you take your power back.

The Way Is Built on Three Pillars

Body – Hormonal support, nourishment, movement, and sensory care
Mind – Nervous system healing, emotional clarity, stress resilience
Spirit – Connection, intuition, ritual, meaning, and beauty

Every article, ritual, and product on this site is a tool.
Not just something to read—but something to live.

The Women’s Circle

At the heart of The Way is The Women’s Circle—a ritual product collection formulated to support your hormones, calm your nervous system, and help your skin reflect how good you feel inside.

This isn’t surface-level beauty. It’s transformation that begins within—and becomes visible over time.

This Is The Way

This isn’t about trying to stay the same.
It’s about caring differently and evolving.
About finding what truly supports you and makes you glow—and choosing it, over and over again.

Our Name

This is the stone,
drenched with rain
that points the way.
— Santōka, 20th century Japanese poet

The name The Way emerged after Françoise came across this Buddhist poem during a particularly transformative time in her life. It reminded her that the path that feels most challenging is often the one guiding us toward awakening.

Midlife can feel like a stone in the road—unwelcome, heavy, uncertain. But it may be the exact moment pointing us toward who we’re truly meant to become.