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!

Feeling anxious, stressed or panicked? Read my love letter for your stuck or panicked soul

Feeling anxious, stressed or panicked? Read my love letter for your stuck or panicked soul

Dear lost, searching, trying, sensitive soul,

If change has been forced upon you. If the rug has been pulled out from under your feet.

If what you had is lost or taken from you and you’ve been thrown into a sudden abyss of darkness and uncertainty. If your way is lost, you’ve lost your vision, become directionless, disoriented, confused and you don’t know what to do, who or where to turn to.

Your body may be panicking. You might be fearful and anxious, desperate and scrambling to find a way out of your situation. Your nervous system will be automatically making you react into fight, flight, freeze or fawn.

But don’t rush to take the first step that comes to mind to get you out of your experience and away from where you don’t want to be unless the house is on fire or you are in some other kind of immediate danger. Don’t scramble to retrace your steps to find out where you went wrong to end up in this place for nothing is wrong despite what you may think. This may be confusing but stay with me and you’ll understand.

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The biology of stuckness: how your nervous system can stop you achieving your dreams and what to do about it

The biology of stuckness: how your nervous system can stop you achieving your dreams and what to do about it

There will be times in your life, when change is forced upon you, the rug is pulled out from under your feet, where what you had is lost or taken from you and you are thrown into a sudden abyss of darkness and uncertainty. The way is lost.

You may feel immense fear, panic, dread, and confusion, worry or even numbness or shame.

When things stop working in your life or where you are trying to reach a goal but can’t find your way to get there, you can easily jump to the conclusion that something is wrong, that you’ve made a mistake and that you need to fix things to make it work again.

There is a biological reason for this. …

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