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Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation

Midlife Butterfly is a raw and honest podcast for midlife women who feel the pull toward deeper alignment, freedom, and self-trust.Hosted by Kena Siu — Empowerment Guide, truth-teller, and embodiment mentor — this space is for the woman who has been strong for everyone else and is now ready to expand into a more connected, grounded, and joyful version of herself.If your life looks “fine” but doesn’t fully feel like home…If you’ve mastered responsibility yet crave more pleasure and presence…If you’re done shrinking, over-giving, or abandoning yourself to keep the peace —You’re not having a crisis. You’re awakening to a new level of growth.Through grounded spirituality, emotional maturity, nervous system awareness, boundaries, and lived experience, Kena shares the inner shifts that create real expansion — in how you relate to love, truth, identity, and your own voice.This isn’t about fixi

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    #85 - What a Bicycle Accident Taught Me About Nervous System Healing

    Have you ever ignored what your body was trying to tell you until it forced you to stop?Ten days ago, Kena had a bicycle accident — and what followed wasn't a story about pushing through, but about finally, fully listening. This episode is a real-time lesson in nervous system healing, self-trust, and what it means to let your body lead.🦋 You'll Discover:What it really looks like to let your body lead instead of your mind — even when your mind is trying to push and control in a real emergencyThe instinctive tools I leaned on to calm my nervous system in shock. The same things animals do without thinking, that we as humans forgetWhy healing with ease and a lot of compassion means allowing your body its own timing and rhythm, instead of rushing it back to "normal"✨ Coming Home Question: If you stopped trying to control your body for just one day, and let it lead instead — what would it ask of you?🥁 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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    BPF #9 — Let Go of Control & Let Pleasure In

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 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🥁 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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    #84 - Why You Can't Feel Pleasure Until Your Nervous System Feels Safe

    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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    BFP #8 - Sreen Off for good Rest

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 🥁 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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    #83 - The Importance of Rest for Your Nervous System

    Why can't you rest, even when you finally lay down?Rest isn't just sleep — it's a nervous system state. And most of us have forgotten how to actually let our bodies get there. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why pushing through exhaustion instead of resting is actually a form of self-abandonmentWhy "the same rest routine every day" doesn't work for a woman's body — and what to do insteadThree simple night habits that get your nervous system into real rest — not just hours in bed✨ Coming Home Question: Where in your life are you still waiting for permission to rest — and what would it feel like to give it to yourself today?👉🏼 Invitation to Free WorkshopI'm hosting Leading From Pleasure, a free workshop on August 19th, where you go into what it actually looks like to lead your life and your work from rest and pleasure instead of push and control. Sign up here: http://home.midlifebutterfly.ca/leading-from-pleasure🥁 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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    #82 - Leading From Pleasure: The Nervous System Shift To Stop Creating From Pressure

    Are you creating from devotion, or are you creating from need?One question from my mentor cracked me wide open on a walk by the canal — and it's reshaping how I show up for my launch, my clients, and myself. 🦋 In this episode I'm sharing the real, unedited moment that shifted my relationship with money, service, and pleasure — and how Neuro-Epigenetic Breathing made the shift possible.🦋 You'll Discover:The one question my mentor Sajeeva asked that struck me and reminded me, my relationship with money, service, and worth.Why the neediness of "I have to pay my bills" quietly hijacks your energy — even when the work itself is sacred.How Neuro-Epigenetic Breathing rewires your nervous system so you create and lead from pleasure instead of pressure.✨ Coming Home Question: In your work, your relationships, your daily life — are you giving from devotion, or are you giving from neediness? And what would change if you let yourself find out?Press play, beauty — this one's coming straight from my heart, mid-walk, no script, no polish. Just truth.💜 Join Leading from PleasureCan you imagine what it would be like if the next level of your leadership came from pleasure and your life force?This is a 5-week nervous system experience for coaches ready to lead with more magnetism, more ease, and more presence. And it's based in Neuro-Epigenetic Breathing (NEB), which works through three currents at once — sexual energy, biology, and spirituality — moving as one intelligence through the body.All the details are here: http://home.midlifebutterfly.ca/leading-from-pleasureThe cohort starts September 3, enrolment is open until August 15.5 spots for soul-alike leaders. Join the Free Workshop on August 5 at 12pm EDT. Sign up here!🥁 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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    BPF #7 — The Art of Savouring: A Practice for Simple Pleasure

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head. Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 🥁 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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    #81 - From Self-Abandonment to Living in Pleasure: A Midlife Woman's Return to Her Body

    You've spent years leading from the doing, the controlling, the checklist — and you're exhausted.Kena shares her own journey out of self-abandonment and people pleasing, into a life guided by her cycle, her body, and pleasure itself — and why pleasure isn't indulgence, it's the way home.🦋 You'll Discover:Why living in your masculine was survival, and what it's quietly been costing youHow reconnecting to your own cycle guides you back into your bodyWhy pleasure is proof you're home in your body, and how to find it in the most ordinary moments✨ Coming Home Question:What can you do today to feel more pleasure every day of your life?🥁 Leading From Pleasure - 5-week JourneyA nervous system experience for coaches ready to lead with more magnetism, more ease, and more life force.Sign up for the journey or the free workshop on August 5. All details here: http://home.midlifebutterfly.ca/leading-from-pleasure 🥁 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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    BPF #6 - A Practice for Releasing Stress

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 🥁 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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    #80 - Reclaim Your Worth: Ending Self-Abandonment to Remember Your Midlife Identity

    Where in your life are you still living from the neck up — and what happens if you let your body answer instead?In this episode I sat down with Kamesha and Denise over at Wisdom in Bloom, and we went deep on what it actually costs to reclaim your worth and end self-abandonment — the friendships that fall away, the body's quiet warnings, the grief nobody tells you to make room for.🦋 You'll Discover:Why unlearning can be more powerful than learningReleasing limiting beliefs and outdated expectationsLetting go of who you thought you had to beEmbracing transformation and personal freedom in midlife✨ Coming Home Question: Where in your life are you still living from the neck up — and what happens if you let your body answer instead?👉🏼 Check the Wisdom in Bloom Podcast With Kamesha & Denise: www.wisdominbloom.net🥁 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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    BPF #5 - The Law Of Mirrors: A Midlife Practice for Self-Awareness & Healing Relationships

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 🥁 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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    #79 - Stop Attracting Toxic Relationships: Healing Self-Abandonment & Your Nervous System

    Ever wonder why the same kind of person keeps showing up in your life — just wearing a different face?In this episode, we’re unpacking why “toxic relationships” might not be about anyone being toxic at all — and what your triggers, patterns, and hardest goodbyes are really trying to show you.🦋 You’ll Discover:Why the relationships you call “toxic” might actually be self-abandonment wearing a really convincing disguise.Why it’s your nervous system and not bad luck, that keeps attracting the same pattern in a different body.How to reclaim yourself — not by fixing anyone, but by finally listening to what your body has been trying to tell you.✨ Coming Home Question:If every relationship in your life right now is a mirror… what is it reflecting back to you that you haven’t been willing to see?🥁 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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    BPF #4 - The Versions of You That Self-Abandonment Left Behind

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 🥁 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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    #78 - The Cause Of “Feeling Broken” Is Self-Abandonment. Reclaim Your Wholeness In Midlife

     How many parts of yourself have you left behind just to be liked?In this episode, we explore why you're not broken — you're fragmented — and how calling those rejected parts of yourself back to the table is the real path to feeling whole again.🦋 You'll Discover:What being fragmented instead of broken actually means — and why the parts of you you left behind still matter.How what looks like a midlife crisis is actually an awakening — and what's really driving it.Why it's your nervous system, not your mindset, keeping the same patterns of self-betrayal alive.✨ Coming Home Question:Which part of yourself are you ready to call back to the table?🥁 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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    BPF #3 - Nervous System Healing: How Midlife Women Start Loving Themselves Again

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it.Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly🥁 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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    #77 - The Real Reason Midlife Women Struggle to Love Themselves (It's Self-Abandonment, Not Self-Esteem)

    Have you ever wondered why you're supposed to suffer for love?What if the love you keep looking for outside yourself was your responsibility all along?In this episode, we explore why suffering for love is a program — not a requirement — and why learning to love every part of you, including the parts you've hidden away, is the most unselfish thing you'll ever do.🦋 You'll Discover:What suffering for love is actually costing you — and why pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.How self-love is not something to outsource, but has been your responsibility since the moment you were born.Why the parts of you that you've hidden are the ones that can help you learn to love yourself.✨ Coming Home Question:Which part of you have you been waiting for someone else to love first?🥁 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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    BPF #2 - Processing Dark Emotions & Heal Your Nervous System

    What if the emotions you've spent your whole life hiding... are actually the ones trying to guide you home?Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. That's it. Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly🥁 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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    #76 - When Self-Abandonment Was the Strategy That Worked & How to Come Back Home

    You've done everything right. And somehow that's exactly the problem. This episode is for the woman who has built a beautiful life by overriding herself — and is finally ready to stop. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why overriding your intuition isn't a failure of self-trust — it's a nervous system strategy that once kept you safeWhat's really happening when you say yes and mean no — and what it's costing your sense of selfWhy your darker emotions aren't problems to manage — and what they're trying to give back to you✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life right now are you waiting for permission from someone else to trust what your body has already told you? 🥁 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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    BPF #1 - Redefining Pleasure - Butterfly Practice Friday

    Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the thing. And Feel alive again!Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly🥁 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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    #75 - How Much Longer Are You Willing to Wait? Breaking the Comfort Zone in Midlife

    Is there a friend you keep meaning to call — and you haven't?Is there a life you keep meaning to start living — and you're still waiting?This is one of those episodes that came from real life, raw and unfiltered. This week, Kena lost a dear friend. And in the weight of that loss, she returned to the question that changed her life after losing her father — and she's asking it now, directly to you.🦋 You'll Discover:Why the comfort zone isn't a safe place — it's just a familiar one. And the difference between the two might be costing you the life you actually want to experience.How self-grief can become the most powerful doorway back to yourself, and why slowing down in those moments brings clarity and wisdom.The one question that changed everything for Kena — and that has the power to shift how you move through your life from this moment forward."💜 Coming Home Question: If you knew — really knew — that time was not guaranteed, what would you stop waiting for?"🥁 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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    #74 - From Over-Functioning to Feeling: How to Reclaim Your Aliveness in Midlife

    Are you moving through your days efficiently — but feeling strangely empty inside? What if the life you've built looks fine from the outside, but something underneath has gone quiet?This episode is an invitation to stop, feel, and ask the question most women never give themselves permission to ask: what does it actually mean to feel alive — not just functional, not just grateful, but genuinely alive?🦋 You'll Discover:Why feeling "fine" is not the same as feeling alive — and why so many high-achieving women have been living in the space between the two without a name for what's missingWhat aliveness actually feels like in the body: presence, sensation, desire, and unperformed joy — and why you've probably felt glimpses of it and dismissed themWhat has been quietly suffocating your aliveness over time, and the surprisingly gentle way back to yourself✨ Coming Home Question: When did you last feel genuinely, unmistakably alive — and what was it about that moment that made you feel that way?🥁 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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    #73 - Reconnecting with Pleasure in Midlife: Intimacy, Shame & the Path to Feminine Aliveness with Trina Read

    Have you ever felt completely disconnected from your own body — like pleasure was something that happened to other women, not you?What if the shame you carry around sex isn't a personal failing — but a pattern you were never meant to carry in the first place?In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Dr. Trina Read — a women's sexual health expert with over 25 years of experience — to explore why so many high-achieving midlife women feel cut off from their own pleasure, how shame quietly runs the show in our intimate lives, and what it actually takes to come home to our bodies again. This episode is a permission slip to stop self-abandoning in the one place we most need to feel alive.🦋 You'll Discover:Why so many high-achieving women feel disconnected from their own pleasure — and the surprising truth about where that disconnection actually startsHow shame silently shapes your sexual experiences and what it takes to break the cycle so you can finally stop abandoning yourself in intimacyThe small, embodied shifts that can completely transform how you experience your body — whether you're in a long-term relationship, navigating midlife, or rediscovering yourself on your own✨ Where to Find Trina:Website: TrinaRead.comThe Taboo Show web page: www.trinaread.com/596436bd-6146-4371-a1b0-e85707400a54Product page with OMGYES: www.trinaread.com/productsSubstack: substack.com/@drtrinareadYouTube: www.youtube.com/@DrTrinaRead 🦋 Coming Home Question: Where in your body have you been holding back — and what would it feel like to finally give yourself permission to be fully present there?🥁 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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    #72 - The Slow Fade: How People-Pleasing Steals Your Identity

    You didn't lose yourself all at once. It happened one small yes at a time.In this episode, we trace it back — to the exact moment the slow fade begins, and why most women can't pinpoint when they stopped being themselves.People-pleasing isn't a bad habit or a character flaw. It's a survival response your nervous system learned a long time ago to keep you safe, loved, and accepted. And that's exactly what makes it so hard to stop.Today I'm walking you through the four layers of the slow fade — the edited self, the shrinking, the performance, and the forgetting — so you can finally name what's been quietly happening inside you, maybe for decades.We also go into what it actually costs you. Your voice. Your desires. Your self-trust. Your connection to yourself.And then, the part that matters most: what it actually takes to come home to yourself. Not a reinvention. Not a breakdown. Something quieter and more powerful — it starts with one small, honest moment of noticing.If you've ever felt like a stranger in your own life, this episode is for you.✨ Key Topics CoveredWhy people-pleasing is a nervous system survival strategy, not a weaknessThe four layers of the slow fade: edited self, shrinking, performance, and forgettingHow thousands of small self-betrayals build a life that fits everyone elseThe real cost of people-pleasing: erased voice, lost desires, broken self-trustWhy midlife is often the first moment life gets quiet enough to noticeHow to begin restoring your inner signal — without a dramatic reinventionWhy guilt during change means your nervous system is recalibrating, not that you did something wrong🦋 Listener TakeawaysPeople-pleasing lives in the body, not the mind — you can't think your way out of a pattern that lives in your nervous systemThe slow fade happens through ordinary moments, not one big lossGuilt is not a sign you did something wrong — it's a sign you're recalibratingYou haven't lost who you are. She's been quietly waitingNoticing is where everything begins — not fixing, not reinventing. Just noticingComing Home Reflection QuestionWhere in your life have you been slowly fading? And what small, true part of yourself has been quietly waiting for you to come back?🥁 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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    #71 - Why High-Achieving Women Feel Exhausted from Self-Abandonment

    Many high-achieving women think they’re exhausted because they’re doing too much. But beneath the over-functioning, caregiving, people-pleasing, and constant responsibility, there’s often something deeper happening: self-abandonment.In this episode of Midlife Butterfly, Kena Siu explores the emotional exhaustion that builds when women spend years disconnecting from their own needs, emotions, desires, and truth while staying endlessly available for everyone else. This conversation dives into the hidden cost of being “the strong one,” how achievement and productivity can become emotional survival strategies, and why midlife often awakens the parts of ourselves we’ve ignored for decades.You’ll hear reflections on nervous system overwhelm, identity loss, emotional numbness, resentment, and the quiet longing many women carry to finally feel alive again. Kena also shares how embodiment, self-awareness, and emotional honesty can help women reconnect with themselves gently and safely — without needing to become someone new.If you’ve been feeling emotionally drained, disconnected from yourself, or unsure who you are beyond your roles and responsibilities, this episode offers a grounded and compassionate invitation back to yourself.Because exhaustion is not always a sign that you’re failing. Sometimes it’s the soul asking you to stop leaving yourself behind.🎙️ Key Topics CoveredEmotional exhaustion and self-abandonmentPeople-pleasing and over-functioning patternsAchievement as emotional survivalNervous system overload in midlife womenIdentity loss beneath caregiving rolesMidlife awakening and self-remembranceEmbodiment and reconnecting with the selfLearning to stop overriding your needs✨ Listener TakeawaysSelf-abandonment can look highly capable and successfulEmotional exhaustion often carries deeper truth and unmet needsMidlife can become a powerful season of identity reclamationYour nervous system responds to how often you override yourselfComing home to yourself happens through small moments of honesty and awareness🦋 Coming Home Reflection QuestionWhere in your life have you become emotionally absent from yourself?🥁 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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    #70 - Emotional Eating In Midlife And What Your Nervous System Wants

    Have you ever finished eating something and immediately felt worse — not from the food, but from the story you told yourself about it?What if there was nothing wrong with you — and the only thing missing was understanding how your brain and body actually work?In this conversation, Kena sits down with Lizzie Merritt — certified life coach, bestselling author, and former science teacher — to unpack what's really happening when we eat emotionally in midlife. Lizzie how learning the science of her nervous system changed everything.  🦋 You'll Discover:Why emotional eating isn't a weakness or a lack of willpower — it's your nervous system trying to keep you safe, and once you understand that, the shame starts to lose its grip.What's the real reason you reach for the cookie at 9:30 at night — and why it has almost nothing to do with food and everything to do with what you've been quietly saying no to all day.A practical three-step framework to break the cycle — not through restriction or control, but through curiosity, self-compassion, and finally learning how to feel what's actually there. Coming Home Question:The next time the house gets quiet and something inside you reaches for comfort — what if you paused, placed a hand on your heart, and asked: what am I actually hungry for right now?✨ Where to Find LizzieWebsite: www.confidentbody.coachThe Confident Body Podcast: https://confidentbody.coach/podcastIG: @coachlizzie.merritt FB: www.facebook.com/coachlizzie.merrittLizzie invites you to enjoy all the extra bonuses from her book LIGHT: The New Psychology of Weight Loss. Those bonuses can be found at https://confidentbody.coach/light🥁 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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    #69 - Fragmented, Exhausted & Disconnected: How Self-Abandonment Shows Up in Your Taboo Body Parts

    What if the disconnection you feel from your body isn't a problem to fix — but a doorway leading you back home to yourself? This episode is for the woman who's been doing everything right and still feels like something's off. In Part 2 of A Doorway to Home, Kena goes deeper into why midlife isn't a crisis — it's your soul calling you back. We explore the invisible weight of the roles we carry, the cost of living in constant doing mode, and a revolutionary body-based practice — neuroepigenetic breathing — that rewires the nervous system and brings the fragmented parts of you back home. Honest, grounded, and deeply human. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why that quiet "something is off" feeling in midlife isn't a flaw — it's your body asking to come home.How so many high-achieving women stay exhausted despite doing everything right — and why doing more isn't the answer.What neuroepigenetic breathing actually does — and why it works with your taboo body parts. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your body are you holding tension you've never given yourself permission to release — and what might become possible if you finally did?🥁 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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    #68 - How Your Nervous System Armours Your Body for Protection. And How to Heal It

    What if the reason you can't seem to change isn't a lack of knowledge — but  the body protecting itself because it hasn't been part of the conversation yet? This is the episode for the woman who has done everything right — the courses, the therapy, the journaling — and still feels like something is missing. In Part 1 of A Doorway to Home, Kena introduces neuroepigenetic breathing and explores the three centers where women hold the most armor: the mind, the heart, and the pelvic floor. Honest, grounded, and deeply human — this is embodiment, not as a concept, but as a coming home. 🦋 You'll Discover:How your identity was built — and why you might feel disconnected from your body even when you know so much. Why the heart closes to protect itself — and what it's quietly costing you in love, pleasure, and receiving.What the tension in your pelvic floor is holding — and why your body heals through feeling, not thinking. 💜 Coming Home Question:Where have you been keeping your heart closed to protect yourself?🥁 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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    #67 - Traveling Alone Isn't Selfish. Staying Home to Please Everyone Else Is Self-Abandonment

    Is there a trip — or a dream — that you've been saying "someday" to for so long it almost doesn't feel real anymore?What if the guilt you feel about choosing yourself isn't the truth — but just a story you were handed, and never thought to question? In this rich, grounded conversation, Kena sits down with Maria Kamau — Kenyan-born travel writer, ICF certified coach, and founder of Travel with McKay — to explore what's really behind the trips we never take. Together, they unpack the guilt, the fear, the "I'm waiting for my friend," the mental baggage we carry across borders — and why stepping away, even briefly, might be the most powerful thing a midlife woman can do for herself and everyone around her. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why the guilt and the "someday" aren't really about travel — they're about a woman still waiting for permission to choose herself.How identity comes from doing, not deciding — and why one small trip can shift how you see yourself.What solo travel actually feels like from the inside — and the practical first steps to go from scared to gone. 💜 Coming Home Question:What is one thing — a trip, a dream, a desire — that you've been waiting for permission to say yes to? And what would change if you stopped waiting, and gave that permission to yourself today?✨ Where to Find Maria:Website: www.travelwithmkay.co.keFB: www.facebook.com/TravelwithMkay/IG: www.Instagram.com/Travelwithmkay🥁 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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    #66 - •Why Am I Still Stuck? And How to Finally Bring Your Midlife Inner Work Into Transformation

    You've read the books, hired the coaches, been to the retreats — so why do you keep coming back to the same patterns, the same reactions, the same stuck places?What if the transformation you've been seeking isn't missing — it just hasn't landed in your body yet?In this solo episode, Kena speaks directly to the woman who has done everything right on the inside — and still wonders why nothing has really changed. She breaks down the crucial difference between intellectual growth and embodied transformation, and why the nervous system, not the mind, is the gatekeeper of real change. She introduces neuroepigenetic breathing as the bridge between what you know and how you actually live — a practice that transforms stored emotional energy without requiring you to analyze, revisit, or retell your story. Raw, honest, and deeply practical. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why all the knowledge you've gathered stays stuck in your mind — until your body receives it.How neuroepigenetic breathing transforms stored emotion without needing to analyze or relive your story.What living in coherence actually feels like — and what becomes possible when you stop surviving and start living. 💜 Coming Home Question:Where in your body right now are you holding something you've been trying to understand with your mind — and what would it feel like to simply let your body hold it instead?Stop surviving. It is time to start living — and it starts in your body. Hit play.🥁 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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    #65 - What’s Truly Happening In Your Body During Midlife with Dr. Heather Awad

    Have you noticed that the things that used to work — the way you ate, the way you exercised, the way you managed yourself — just don't work anymore?Your body is changing… and no one really prepared you for this. In this conversation, I sit with Dr. Heather Awad to explore what’s truly happening in women's bodies during the menopause transition — from hormonal shifts and weight gain to emotional eating and self-criticism. But more than that, we open a different path, one rooted in awareness, nourishment, and self-trust. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why the sudden weight gain, sleeplessness, and cravings aren't your fault — and what hormones are actually doing to your body right now.What emotional eating really looks like in midlife — and why most women don't even recognize they're doing it.How self-compassion isn't soft — it's the only strategy that actually makes lasting weight loss possible and liveable. 💜 Coming Home Question:Where have you been fighting your body — treating it like something broken to be fixed — and what might become possible if you chose, just for today, to nourish it instead? ✨ Dr. Heather AwadVibrant Menopause Weight Loss Website: https://vibrant-md.comVibrant-MD PodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherawadmdFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathervibrantmd/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherawadmdYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@heatherawadmd7858Free Gift for Listeners: https://vibrant-md.com/breakfast🥁 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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    #64 - Stop Avoiding What Feels Off: A Midlife Woman's Guide to Emotional Healing

    Have you ever been somewhere beautiful — a holiday, a gathering, a perfect moment — and still felt strangely off?This is a Reflection Bomb — short, honest, and straight from real life. Kena shares what happened on a morning when she noticed something quietly wrong beneath the surface: a flicker of anger she hadn't even recognized as anger. Instead of pushing through and filling her schedule, she stopped. She put down her mat, did 40 minutes of neuroepigenetic breathing, and let the energy shift. The result wasn't just a better mood — it was a completely different day. This episode is a reminder that you can be in paradise and still miss it entirely when something inside you is asking for attention. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why discomfort hides in plain sight — and why you won't feel better by being somewhere beautiful if you haven't noticed what's underneath.What happens when you give space to emotions instead of pushing them awayHow simple, personal practices — breathwork, movement, journaling — can shift your entire energy and give your day back to you. ✨ Coming Home Question:What feeling have you been too busy to notice — and what would shift in your day if you gave it just a few minutes of honest attention right now?🥁 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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    #63 - From Self-Abandonment To Full Remembrance with Kimber Hardick

    Have you ever caught yourself telling the same story about your life — the one where you stayed too long, gave too much, and kept waiting for things to change? In Part 2 of this rich conversation, Kena and Kimber Hardick go into the layers of self-abandonment most women never name: the stories we carry like gospel, the desires we’ve quietly buried, and what it really means to choose yourself — not someday, but now. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why so many high-achieving women feel invisible in midlife — and why the real invisibility is the one happening inside, not around you.How the stories you’ve been holding as gospel may be keeping you locked in exhaustion, self-sacrifice, and waiting for permission that will never come.What it actually feels like to choose yourself without apology — and why reconnecting with your desires, your emotions, and your body is the doorway back to you. 💜 Coming Home Question:Where are you still waiting for permission to choose yourself — and what becomes possible the moment you stop waiting?✨ Where to Find KimberWebsite: KimberHardick.comBook: An Invitation to Shine: From Invisible to Invincible on Amazon and Amazon listing pageInstagram: @kimberlivinglifeFacebook: Kimberly Ogle HardickYouTube: Kimber HardickThreads: @kimberlivinglife🥁 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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    #62 - Remembering Who You Are & The Truth About Emotions

    Have you ever caught yourself in the middle of an old pattern — reactive, shrinking, or going silent — and thought, I thought I’d worked through this? What if the frustration isn’t a sign you’re failing — but proof that something in you is finally awake enough to notice? In this first part of a rich two-part conversation, Kena and Kimber Hardick explore what it really means to come home to yourself in midlife — not through reinvention, but through remembrance. They dig into emotional awareness, the trap of feeding our stories instead of feeling them, and a grounding practice called Wait, What, Watch that can change the way you move through your days. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why midlife isn’t a crisis or a reinvention — it’s an invitation to remember who you’ve always been beneath the roles, the shoulds, and the conditioning.How you’ve likely been feeding the story around your emotions instead of actually feeling them — and why that one shift changes everything.What the Wait, What, Watch practice is — and how this deceptively simple tool can help you pause, return to yourself, and respond from truth instead of autopilot. 💜 Coming Home Question:Where have you been feeding a story instead of feeling what’s underneath it — and what might become available to you if you simply let yourself feel it?✨ Where to Find KimberWebsite: KimberHardick.comBook: An Invitation to Shine: From Invisible to Invincible on Amazon and Amazon listing pageInstagram: @kimberlivinglifeFacebook: Kimberly Ogle HardickYouTube: Kimber HardickThreads: @kimberlivinglifeThe Interactive Emotion Wheel: https://gamma.app/docs/The-Interactive-Emotion-Wheel-ctc97ztnzaembwo🥁 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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    #61 - Why Self-Trust Is the Foundation of Real Intimacy for Midlife Women

    Have you ever stayed quiet in a conversation — swallowed what you really felt — and then spent hours replaying what you wish you’d said?In this solo episode, Kena explores the connection most women never see: that the intimacy we long for — in relationships, in friendships, even within ourselves — doesn’t collapse because love runs out. It collapses the moment we stop trusting our own inner signals. Raw, honest, and deeply personal. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why intimacy doesn’t collapse because love is missing — it collapses the moment you stop trusting yourself, and why no partner, friendship, or conversation can fill that gap.How people-pleasing, over-functioning, and staying quiet to keep the peace are all forms of self-abandonment, and the hidden price your body is already paying for them.What self-trust actually is (hint: it’s not confidence) and the quiet, embodied shift that happens when you start living in coherence with your inner signals. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where are you silencing yourself to maintain a connection and what is that silence costing your intimacy with yourself?🥁 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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    #60 - Why High-Achieving Women Feel Trapped Beneath the Life They Built & How to Reclaim Who You Are

    You survived it. You built the life. And somehow you're still carrying it — that secret, that shame, that version of you, you haven't let anyone fully see.In this raw and honest conversation with Candi Rose, we explore why so many high-achieving women still feel trapped beneath everything they've built — and what it actually takes to step into freedom in midlife. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why the success you built to prove your worth might be keeping you locked out of your own freedom — and what finally cracks it open.How speaking your truth — not just knowing it — is what moves shame out of your body and into the light.What it really means to break the isolation and build the kind of community where healing actually begins. ✨ Coming Home Question:What truth have you been protecting others from — that is actually keeping you from yourself?💜 Candi Rose Contact Details:Website: https://www.candirose.comTEDex Talk: https://youtu.be/AApYIyGW6YQ🥁 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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    #59 - You Are the Source of Love: A Midlife Reflection on Self-Worth and Expansion

    What if the love you've been longing for isn't somewhere out there — but has been living inside you all along, waiting to be remembered? In this intimate birthday solo episode, Kena shares the journey that transformed how she experiences love — from a fear-based, approval-seeking pattern to an embodied, expansive love she generates from within. Through yoga, ancestral moon ritual, and Neuroepigenetic Breathing, she traces the path back to herself — and invites you to do the same. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why the love you've been searching for has been living inside you all along — and the moment Kena finally felt it in her body, not just her mind.How three radically different paths — yoga, ancestral moon ritual, and Neuroepigenetic Breathing — all led to the same truth about who you really are.What changes in every relationship when you stop making others responsible for loving you — and become the source yourself. ✨ Coming Home Question:If you truly believed you were the source of love — not just someone who receives it — what would you allow yourself to feel right now?🥁 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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    #58 - The Observer Shift: How to Stop Reacting and Start Living in Midlife

    Are you meeting life as it is — or fighting it into what you think it should be? In this grounded solo episode, Kena shares what it really means to become the observer — through the lens of a certified neuroepigenetic breathing milestone, a freshly painted room, and the everyday moments where presence either holds or breaks. Short, potent, and deeply real, this episode is an invitation to stop resisting your experience and start moving through it with ease. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why the only thing you can truly control is your mind — and what becomes possible the moment you stop trying to control everything else.How becoming the observer instead of the reactor is the quietest, most powerful shift you can make in midlife — and what it actually looks like in the middle of an ordinary, frustrating day.The difference between choosing love and choosing judgment — and how your body already knows which one sets you free. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life right now are you fighting what is — and what would it feel like to simply allow it?🥁 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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    #57 - 7 Ways Midlife Women Stop Self-Abandoning (And Start Making Their F*cks Sacred)

    What if the reason you're still giving f*cks you don't want to give… isn't because you care too much — but because your body hasn't felt safe enough to stop? Born from a real, raw conversation with her pod sisters, this episode is Kena's most grounded take yet on what it actually means to stop giving unnecessary f*cks in midlife. Not as rebellion, but as a return to your body, your truth, and the inner authority that's been waiting for you to trust it.She walks through seven embodied ways midlife women stop self-abandoning and finally making your f*cks sacred. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why stopping giving unnecessary f*cks isn't a mindset shift — it's an embodiment shift that begins in your nervous system, not your head.Seven real ways midlife women stop self-abandoning — from honoring self-boundaries and choosing values over approval, to grieving the version of you who survived by performing.How to let your body — not your mind — be the one that finally decides what truly deserves your energy. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life are you still giving f*cks out of protection — and what would it feel like to finally make yours sacred?🥁 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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    #56 - The Fertile Void: When Life Slows You Down on Purpose

    What if the void you feel it’s guiding you to something great? If you’re in a season where you’re not moving forward, but you’re not moving backward either… this episode is for you.In this deeply grounding conversation, Kena speaks to the fertile void — that uncomfortable, quiet, in-between space so many women in midlife try to rush through or fix. The pause after a divorce. The stillness after a big move. The winter that follows an awakening.Through lived experience, embodied wisdom, and soulful truth, Kena reframes stagnation as gestation. This isn’t a time for forcing clarity or chasing answers — it’s an invitation to slow down on purpose, listen inward, and consciously choose what you’re planting next.You’ll explore how productivity culture disconnects you from your body, why rushing leads to building someone else’s dream, and how presence, rest, and self-trust become radical acts of empowerment in midlife.By the end of this episode, you’ll feel permission to pause, clarity about your season, and a deeper trust in your timing — knowing that something meaningful is already forming beneath the surface.✨ In This Episode You’ll LearnWhy the fertile void is not stagnation but a powerful gestation phaseHow to stop forcing clarity and start listening to your bodyWhat happens when you rush decisions that don’t belong to youThe truth about rest, embodiment, and midlife empowermentHow to plant intentions rooted in soul — not conditioning🦋 Reflection QuestionsWhere in my life am I rushing for answers instead of allowing myself to listen?What kind of life am I unconsciously planting when I ignore my body’s timing?What would change if I trusted this season as preparation, not delay?🥁 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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    #55 - Stop Pushing, Start Planting: How Cyclical Living Transforms Midlife

    What if you're not stuck — you're simply in Winter? In this gentle, grounding solo episode, Kena invites you to slow down and remember something your body already knows: you are cyclical by nature. If midlife has you feeling quieter, foggier, or out of sync with the world's relentless pace, this episode isn't here to motivate you. It's here to give you permission to rest. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why feeling slower, quieter, or less clear in midlife is not a sign of failure — it's your body living in alignment with the season it's actually in.How cyclical living — through nature's seasons, energy rhythms, and a woman's inner landscape — can transform the way you move through reinvention, rest, and rebirth.What it means to plant intentions from your soul instead of resolutions from the collective's checklist — and why that difference changes everything. ✨ Coming Home Question:If you trusted the season you're in right now — what would you stop forcing, and what would you allow yourself to quietly become?🥁 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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    #54 - Reclaim Your Voice: How Sound Heals Your Body, Identity & Soul in Midlife

    What if your voice isn't broken — it's just been waiting for a safe space to be heard? In this rich, soulful conversation, Kena sits down with voice liberation coach and sound healer Skylar Temple Singer to explore one of the most overlooked gateways to healing in midlife: the power of your own voice. Not just speaking, but the living, vibrating expression of your soul's truth. Together they trace the journey from silenced to sovereign — weaving personal story, somatic wisdom, the science of the throat-womb connection, and a live vocal activation you can experience in real time. This is not about singing perfectly. This is about remembering who you are. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why losing your voice in midlife isn't about speaking less, it's about disconnecting from your soul's truth. The profound body connection between your throat and your womb — why when one is closed, the other is too — and a live sound practice to open both in under five minutes.What it truly means to become worthy of yourself again: how reclaiming your voice dissolves old conditioning, regulates your nervous system, and teaches you to trust yourself from the inside out. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life are you still silencing yourself to stay safe — and what one truth is your voice ready to finally speak?💜  Connect with Skylar:Website: http://skylartemplesinger.comIG: https://www.instagram.com/skylartemplesinger🥁 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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    #53 - What Is Behind The Perfectionism That Keeps Midlife Women Small, Silent & Stuck

    What if perfectionism isn't proof that you care — but proof that some part of you is still afraid?In this deeply personal anniversary episode, Kena marks one year of Midlife Butterfly with a raw reflection on the fear that almost stopped this podcast from ever existing. Perfectionism. And everything it was really protecting underneath.  🦋 You'll Discover:Why perfectionism is not a personality trait or a virtue — it's a fear-based survival response rooted in the terror of rejection, judgment, and not belonging. And why your nervous system built it to protect you.How procrastination, people-pleasing, and invisibility are all expressions of the same wound underneath: unworthiness. And how this one root, once recognized, can begin to dissolve everything built on top of it.What becomes possible when you do the inner work — body, mind, and soul — and finally let yourself show up perfectly imperfect. Just like this podcast, which is celebrating its very first anniversary. ✨ Coming Home Question:What would you create, say, or become if you stopped waiting to be ready — and trusted that showing up imperfectly was always enough?🥁 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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    #52 - Live From Intention Instead of Resolutions — A Midlife New Year Invitation

    What if the most important things you achieved this year are the ones no one else could see? As the year draws to a close, Kena invites you to put down the external scorecard and pick up something far more honest — a celebration of your inner wins. The boundaries you held. The nos you finally said. The moments you chose yourself, even when it was uncomfortable. Even when no one clapped. 🦋 You'll Discover:Why the achievements that matter most this year are the ones no one witnessed — and how to finally celebrate them.How gratitude becomes a bypass when it skips honesty — and what real, embodied gratitude actually looks and feels like.Why resolutions keep failing you — and how living from intention instead changes everything from the inside out. ✨ Coming Home Question:What inner shift from this past year are you most proud of — that no one else may have seen, but you felt completely?If you’re ready to stop doing this alone and want support living with intention and inner coherence in 2026, you’re invited to reach out.Email me at [email protected] and let’s start the conversation.🥁 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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    #51 - Healing Shame in Midlife: Conversations & Practices with Five High-Achieving Women

    Shame doesn’t always scream. Sometimes it lives quietly in your body — in the moments you dim yourself, stay silent, or question your worth.In this rich panel conversation hosted by pod sister Dana Hunter Fradella, Kena joins four extraordinary women to do what shame hates most: speak the truth. Together they share personal stories of how shame took root early — in their bodies, their careers, their sexuality, their spirituality — and what began to shift the moment they brought it into the light.This isn’t a clinical conversation about shame. It’s five women getting real about the whispers that shaped them — and the practices, the community, and the radical self-knowing that helped them begin to set it down. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why shame is not who you are — and the one distinction that changes everything about how you carry it.What five women discovered when they finally spoke their shame out loud — and what immediately began to shift.The practices that actually work to release shame from the body — and why community may be the most powerful one of all. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where is shame still whispering in your life — and what would you do, say, or become if you finally stopped listening to it?🔗  Connect with my Pod Sisters:Casey TatonInstagram: @catatonPodcast: Inner SparkDana Hunter FradellaInstagram: @girls.who.recoverPodcast: Girls Who RecoverJennifer ChambersWebsite: www.jennifer-chambers.comInstagram: @jennifer_chambers_ Tracy HillInstagram: @abeautifulfixPodcast: A Beautiful Fix🥁 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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    #50 - From Family Triggers to Inner Freedom

    50 episodes. Almost a year. And what Kena wants to talk about isn’t the podcast — it’s what happened inside her while building it.Recorded from Mexico while celebrating her mother’s birthday, surrounded by family, navigating transitions, and in the middle of two certifications that are quietly changing everything — this episode is raw, warm, and deeply human. It’s about what it looks like to actually live the inner work, not just talk about it. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why your body always knows the truth before your mind does — and what changes when you finally start listening to it first.How family dynamics reveal the exact places where you still need to grow — and why that’s a gift, not a problem.What it really means to be a co-creator, and the moment Kena realized she’d been trying to do life entirely alone. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life are you still trying to carry everything alone — and what would it feel like to finally let yourself be held?🥁 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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    #49 - Simple Gratitude Rituals to Stay Present & Grounded in Midlife

    Gratitude isn’t a once-a-year ritual — it’s the moment-to-moment practice that brings you back home to yourself. Even on the hard days. Originally recorded for Casey Taton’s Inner Spark Podcast, this warm and wonderfully real conversation brings Kena together with her pod sisters Casey and Jen for an honest exploration of what gratitude actually looks like in everyday midlife life — not the polished version, but the wiggle-your-toes-before-getting-out-of-bed version.From body scans to glimmers, from “observe, don’t absorb” to setting energetic intentions before your feet hit the floor — this episode is full of practices you can use today. Including how to stay centered when someone at the holiday table says exactly the wrong thing. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why gratitude isn’t about being positive all the time — and the small daily practice that actually rewires how you move through your day.What “observe, don’t absorb” really means — and how one phrase can become your invisible shield in even the most triggering moments.How to stay grounded when life and/or the holidays are doing their best to pull you out of yourself. ✨ Coming Home Question:What is one micro-moment from today that deserves your gratitude — and have you let yourself actually feel it?🔗 Connect with my Pod Sisters:Casey Taton: https://www.instagram.com/cataton Jen Chambers: https://www.instagram.com/j_b_chambers🥁 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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    #48 - Your Soul's Blueprint: Remembering Who You Already Are with Jeanne Comeau

    What if you didn’t come here to find your purpose, but to remember it? In this rich, wide-ranging conversation, Kena sits down with metaphysical guide, evolutionary astrologer, and PhD Jeanne Comeau to explore one of the deepest questions a midlife woman can ask: Who am I, really? And why does it feel like I’m just now starting to find out? 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why your soul came into this lifetime with a blueprint — and how evolutionary astrology reveals the karmic patterns, gifts, and lessons already written in your chart.How your thoughts, emotions, and physical body are all part of the same energy system — and what shifts when you start guarding your mind like the treasure it is.The truth about perimenopause and menopause that most doctors won’t tell you — including what bioidentical hormone therapy actually does and why it could change everything. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life are you still searching for answers outside yourself — and what would change if you trusted that the map is already within you?✨ Connect with Jeanne:Website: jeannecomeau.comInstagram: @jeannecomeau_metaphysician Facebook: @jeannecomeau_metaphysician LinkedIn: Jeanne Comeau🥁 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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    #47 - The Root of Your Boundaries: Why Healing Your Nervous System Changes Everything

    When the holidays arrive… does your body tighten before your mind even catches up?  That tightening in your chest before a family gathering. The way your shoulders rise before someone even says a word. Your body isn’t overreacting, it’s remembering. And in this short, potent solo episode, Kena invites you to get curious about what it’s remembering, because that’s exactly where your boundaries are rooted. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why your body signals a boundary violation before your mind does — and why learning to listen to it changes everything about how you show up.How old wounds and people-pleasing patterns are shaping the limits you set — or don’t set — right now, especially with family.What becomes possible when you set boundaries from self-awareness instead of fear — and how that shift starts with noticing, not forcing. ✨ Coming Home Question:Where in your life are you setting boundaries from fear of losing love — and what would it look like to set one from knowing your own worth instead?🥁 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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    #46 - Reclaiming the New You: Identity, Reinvention & Creating a Fun Life in Midlife with Jen Chambers

    What if you woke up tomorrow with no past, no memories, no sense of who you were — and had to build yourself from the ground up? That’s exactly what happened to Jen Chambers at 15. A car accident, a traumatic brain injury, and an identity completely erased. And then, from a hospital room, a list of everything she’d supposedly never do again — which she quietly decided to complete, one item at a time. 🦋 You’ll Discover:Why your body holds what your mind can’t remember — and how learning to trust its deep yeses and nos becomes the foundation of knowing yourself again.How Jen rebuilt her identity from nothing, and what that radical blank-slate experience reveals about the masks we all wear without realising it.Why midlife is not a winding down but a revving up — and how storytelling, creativity, and female community are the fuel that lights the next chapter. ✨ Coming Home Question:What story have you been telling yourself about who you can’t be anymore — and what would you put on your list if you decided to prove it wrong?🔗 Connect & Follow Jen ChambersWebsite: https://jenniferchambers.my.canva.site/jen-chambersSubstack: https://jbchambers.substack.com/Instagram: www.instagram.com/J_b_chambers🥁 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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    #45 - Mind & Body Coherence: From Self-Abandonment to Self-Honouring in Midlife

    Have you ever made a plan that looked perfect on paper — but felt completely wrong in your body?In this short, raw episode, Kena shares how cancelling her own three-day event became one of the most self-honouring choices she’s made all year — and what it taught her about nervous system coherence, boundaries, and trusting your body over your mind.🦋 You’ll Discover:Why cancelling her own event was the most self-honouring choice Kena made all month — and what it has to do with your nervous system.The exact moment her mind tried to hijack her morning, and the one small action that pulled her back into her body.What “coherence” really means (hint: it’s not about feeling good 24/7) and how to find it when your mind and body disagree.✨ Coming Home Question:If your body could choose instead of your mind today, what would it cancel — and what would it finally say yes to?🥁 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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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Midlife Butterfly is a raw and honest podcast for midlife women who feel the pull toward deeper alignment, freedom, and self-trust.Hosted by Kena Siu — Empowerment Guide, truth-teller, and embodiment mentor — this space is for the woman who has been strong for everyone else and is now ready to expand into a more connected, grounded, and joyful version of herself.If your life looks “fine” but doesn’t fully feel like home…If you’ve mastered responsibility yet crave more pleasure and presence…If you’re done shrinking, over-giving, or abandoning yourself to keep the peace —You’re not having a crisis. You’re awakening to a new level of growth.Through grounded spirituality, emotional maturity, nervous system awareness, boundaries, and lived experience, Kena shares the inner shifts that create real expansion — in how you relate to love, truth, identity, and your own voice.This isn’t about fixi

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How many episodes does Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation have?

Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation currently has 50 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation about?

Midlife Butterfly is a raw and honest podcast for midlife women who feel the pull toward deeper alignment, freedom, and self-trust.Hosted by Kena Siu — Empowerment Guide, truth-teller, and embodiment mentor — this space is for the woman who has been strong for everyone else and is now ready to...

How often does Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation release new episodes?

Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation has 50 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

Where can I listen to Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation?

You can listen to Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.

Who hosts Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation?

Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation is created and hosted by Kena Siu.
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