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!
How to use radical compassion to help yourself through a freeze state (or any difficult emotion or experience)
Some members of my community have been telling me that they’re in various states of freeze that they've been in for quite some time, or that they’re really challenged by going into a freeze response in certain situations such as being criticised by a loved one or having anger directed towards them.
So in this helpful article, I explain:
what a freeze state is
why you can get stuck in a freeze response
the typical approaches people react to a freeze and why they don’t work
how radical self-compassion can help yourself get out of a freeze state; and
I take you through Tara Brach’s RAIN process combined with somatic touch to help you through a freeze/shutdown response or any challenge you may be experiencing
BONUS audio recording of me taking you through the RAIN and somatic touch process for radical self-compassion
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