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EPISODE · Aug 18, 2026 · 12 MIN

#84 - Why You Can't Feel Pleasure Until Your Nervous System Feels Safe

from Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation · host Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide

Your body isn't betraying you in midlife — it's been trying to talk to you for years.The tension, the tightness, the stuck feeling you can't quite name? It's not new. It's just finally loud enough to notice.🦋 You'll Discover:Why the pain, tightness, or “stuckness” you're feeling isn't a midlife ‘treat’ — it's your nervous system finally being heardThe real reason people-pleasing and self-abandonment are so hard to shift, even when you know betterHow to move your body out of fight-or-flight and into a state where pleasure, aliveness, and clarity actually become possible✨ Coming Home Question: Where in your body have you been ignoring a whisper — until it had to become a scream?🥁 The Leading From Pleasure 5-Week Journey, it's open for enrolment. We're starting in September 3rd. Save your spot now!  http://home.midlifebutterfly.ca/leading-from-pleasure💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here!🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide.Instagram: @midlifebutterflyWebsite: midlifebutterfly.caMusic: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

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Your body isn't betraying you in midlife — it's been trying to talk to you for years. The tension, the tightness, the stuck feeling you can't quite name? It's not new. It's just finally loud enough to notice. 🦋 You'll Discover: Why the pain, tightness, or “stuckness” you're feeling isn't a midlife ‘treat’ — it's your nervous system finally being heardThe real reason people-pleasing and self-abandonment are so hard to shift, even when you know betterHow to move your body out of fight-or-flight...

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