Empowered Midlife Alchemy Blog
Wisdom + soul healing for the second half of life
A sacred space for women at the threshold – exploring spiritual awakening, healing and transformation in the middle seasons of life
Welcome, dear one.
This blog is a place where I share insights, stories, and practices to help you navigate the deep transitions of life — especially the often-hidden initiations of midlife.
It weaves soul-centred reflections, healing insights and poetic truths for sensitive midlife women navigating spiritual awakening, life transition, and the call to reclaim their deeper power.
You can browse the posts intuitively below. Each post is tagged by theme — so if there is a category you would like to explore in more detail, just click on the category label to see more posts on that subject.
I hope something here meets you where you are and reminds you:
You’re not alone, you’re full of potential and midlife is holy!
What’s wrong with me?
In this heartfelt post, I explore the common and often silent question many of us ask: "What's wrong with me?" Through personal experiences and insights from my counseling practice, I reveal how this question stems from deep-seated beliefs formed in our early years. I discuss the importance of witnessing and nurturing our true selves, recognising the unique gifts we hold, and understanding that there is nothing inherently wrong with us. This post offers a compassionate perspective on self-acceptance and the journey to reclaiming our authentic selves.
How to work through and transform inner resistance, procrastination or avoidance with compassion and sensitivity
Inner resistance is something that we can all struggle with... some of us more than others depending our life experiences and life myth. While it can keep you stuck, trapped, missing out on beneficial experiences and the good things in life and even get you into trouble at work when it shows up as avoidance and procrastination, it can also be a wise protector. The challenge is to meet your inner resistance in a way that you can understand what its deeper message is, so you can make aligned choices and respond instead of react.
Be like driftwood: medicine for failure
So when your goal, dream or plan fails or no matter how hard you try or what you do you just can’t achieve your goal, what do you do? Do you come up with plan B? Maybe. Or maybe the medicine your soul needs is to become like driftwood.
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