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Talkin about Midlife
by Kellie Stirling
Conversations about life transitions, relationships and trauma for people who want to understand what this life is about.
Episodes
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Ep 66 - The hands remember - painting the unspoken with Leah Mariani
In this episode, I sit down with artist Leah — a former accountant turned figurative painter known for her portraits of women — to talk about art as a language for the body when words run out. We trace Leah's path from the audit floor to the easel, sparked by an unexpected, almost hormonal pull...
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Ep 65 Meeting yourself on the journey with Damianne President
What if the most transformative journey you could take wasn't to a faraway place, but back to yourself? In this episode, I sit down with Damianne President, a coach who helps midlife women use intentional solo travel as a catalyst for self-discovery. Damianne has lived and worked across four...
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Ep 64 Roots: Understanding somatic decolonisation with Sasha Ostara
What if the systems that have shaped our world for centuries aren't just political structures but are actually living in your body right now? In this rich conversation, I sit down with my dear friend Sasha Ostara, writer, coach and decolonisation educator, to explore how capitalism, white...
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Ep 63 Embracing Sacred Intimacy with Ashley Miley
Today I talk with Ashely Miley, a sacred intimacy coach, about how we can develop a deeper connection with the our sensuality and sexuality. With our life force energy. Ashley talks about her own journey of connecting with her sexuality after long periods of disconnection from her body and what…
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Ep 62 Ageing on your own terms
One of the most challenging aspects of midlife transition for many women is coming to terms with your own mortality and ageing. The paradigm is indeed different for men, there is more acceptance of the ageing man with grey hair. But for women, aside from menopause, there is great fear in ageing…
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Ep 61 A map for growth and healing
A quick little podcast with just me today. I have been reflecting on how some people struggle through growth and healing, more in terms of being lost in the liminal space. In the darkness we might say. I did write a blog about the anatomy of life transitions where I talked about it a few months…
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Ep 60 Transforming Relationships with Caroline Shahbaz
Caroline Shabaz is a colleague, mentor and friend who I am so happy to talk to today. She is a meta psychotherapist, who is deeply experienced and who has trained in many different therapeutic modalities. She is a Clinical Psychologist, has a masters degree in Depth Psychology, is trained in…
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Ep 59 Why we Fawn with Rae Halder
Many people have heard of Flight, Fight and Freeze when it comes to our autonomic nervous system’s defence responses but not all of us have heard of Fawn. Fawning is a pretty sophisticated response that shows up as people pleasing or appeasement. Some practitioners also call it…
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Ep 58 Understanding Human Design with Moira Cormack
Today I am talking to Moira Cormack, my multi talented colleague and friend about Human Design. I have to tell you this podcast was a lot of fun because Moira is fun. Moira is a coach, parenting expert, human design expert and all round super human being. This is Moira’s third time on my podcast,...
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Ep 57 The Pleasure Alchemist with Daniella Matutes
In this episode, I talk with Daniella Matutes who is a somatic coach, breathwork teacher, a very talented human really, who has a not for profit focused on healing gender based violence against women in two generations. We discuss her own journey of healing from abuse and how a body based…
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Ep 56 Art, a resource for all of us, with Gemma Donnellan
Today I am talking with Gemma Donnellan who is an artist and art curator, a creator of community and a natural born network. Gemma has a gift of bringing people together around art. Gemma began her career as an artist which she has created over time whilst working full time and also being a stay…
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Ep 55 Finding true intimacy at midlife with Heidi Trudinger
Today I am talking to the fabulous Heidi Trudinger about midlife relationships. Our bodies go through huge changes at midlife and women in particular feel the change more acutely due to the hormonal dropoff of perimenopause. Men go through their own hormonal change with Andropause however the...
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Ep 54 Understanding Burnout with Dr Ashlea Broomfield
Burnout is a complex health syndrome that we seem to be hearing more cases of everyday. I am seeing it more and more in workplaces and working with people moving trough big life transitions. So I have been deeply curious about it for the last couple of years and wanting to talk to a guest about…
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Ep 53 Moving through life with greater ease with Sophia Breust
As we get older many of us experience joint pain and muscle pain. We think it is just our old joints but it might very well be dry fascia. In this episode I talk to Sophia Breust who is a structural integration practitioner about the many benefits of working with fascia. Sophia has an interesting...
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Ep 52 The Midlife Mysteries
Midlife is not a crisis it is an awakening. It is about healing your childhood adaptive strategies to become your most authentic self. The development challenge of midlife is radical honesty with yourself. There is a strong mystical side to the midlife transition and this can be best understood…
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EP 51 Supporting your body with nutrition in Midlife with Annie Gaudreault
In midlife, we start to notice changes in how our body metabolises food, how we recover from exercise and how we are able to deal with stress in our life. No longer can we drink lots of alcohol and pull up OK the next morning. Maybe there are a few sneaky kilograms piling on. This is because as…
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Ep 50 Navigating life with self compassion with Belinda Haan
How do we navigate life with self compassion? What is self-compassion? Today I welcome Belinda Haan to my podcast, Talkin' about Midlife, to talk about how we can navigate life with self-compassion. Belinda is a coach, teacher and facilitator and she works predominately with women who are…
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Ep 49 How do we get better at being with our emotions and regulating ourselves
Many of my the clients I work with, whether they be senior executives I am coaching, or clients I am doing relationship coaching with, often have a goal of wanting to get better at being with their emotions. They want to be able to respond better to the challenges that life throws their way. The...
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Ep 48 Women, Power and Deep Knowing with Celine Levy
When it comes to midlife we often talk about the concept of ‘women stepping into their power”, what does this actually mean? Well in today’s episode I will unpack that with my friend and colleague Celine Levy. Celine is a Sex and Power coach who works with women to help them gain a sense of…
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Ep 47 Midlife the path to authenticity with Dianne Shepherd
For my last podcast of the year, my good friend and colleague Dianne Shepherd joined me as we talked about all the weird and whacky stuff that can happen in our midlife transition. Dianne’s work focuses on supporting midlife women in sacred sexuality, connecting with their sensuality and pleasure...
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Ep 46 Developing leaders and helping them to thrive in very uncertain times with Deborah Pascoe
It has become more important than ever that organisations focus on developing their leaders to cope with the Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) times that we work in. We have been talking about VUCA for the last 15 years, it has come and to be honest it is more dysfunctional than...
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Ep 45 Creating and running a socially responsible, sustainable business with Christine McDougall
As the world we live and work in has become more complex, we have had to change the way we live and work. Our global society has gone through significant change but the way we create and build businesses has not. How we approach organisational design, redesigning organisational processes for...
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Ep 44 Exploring wellbeing in Midlife and beyond with Dr Beth Claxton
Midlife is a time that tend to show up the vulnerabilities in our bodymind. We experience these as physical or mental health issues, challenges in relationships and sometimes just a really strong needs to make some big changes in our lives. In this episode I am joined by Dr Beth Claxton to talk...
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Ep 43 Liberating the Inner Child with Moira Cormack
In this episode I am joined by my colleague and friend Moira Cormack to talk about Inner child work and how powerful it is for all of us to do. Moira has an interesting life story and in many ways all of her life experiences have lead her to understanding this work deeply and work with clients to...
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Ep 42 Barbie and the bucket of frogs - Tales of Sisterhood
I recently went to see the Barbie movie and loved it. There were so many great messages in there and the dealt with what are extremely complex cultural messages and phenomena in a way that was digestible for even the youngest members of the audience. So today I wanted to reflect on those messages...
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Ep 41 Thriving sexually in midlife and beyond with Gabriella Espinosa
Midlife is an incredibly transformational period of our lives and when it comes to our relationship with our sexual selves it is almost a revolution that most women feel they experience. Midlife can be a new chapter in our lives. Today I have women’s sexuality and empowerment coach Gabriella...
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Ep 40 Embodiment is Liberation
Embodiment, it is a word that we hear a lot. What does it really mean? It is our ability to sense and be present with our internal feelings, sensations and emotions. The skill of being able to sense this all of this is called interoception. Interoception is available to all of this but most of us...
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Ep 39 What is self sabotage? Is it really a thing?
We often hear the term self sabotage and it is generally referring to a behavioural response where someone is stopping their own growth, success or connection with others in relationships. Is it really a thing and do we understand what is going on in the person’s response? I often talk to my...
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Ep 38 The energy chiro, on nervous system healing with Dr Kathryn Theodosis
Dr Kathryn Theodosis joins me for this fantastic podcast where we are talking about our amazing bodies, in particular our nervous systems. Kathryn is a chiropractor who works with clients to allow their nervous system and energy system to move out of a state of stress and fear and into one of...
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Ep 37 Skin magic with Richie Angelo
Today my good friend Richie Angelo joins me to talk about skin through the major rites of passage we go through. Richie is a beauty therapist who is a skin guru. She has incorporated further study into her practice and uses both kinesiology and energetic work to treat her clients. In this podcast...
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EP 36 The deeper meaning of midlife, menopause the the seasons of life
The midlife crisis is one of the most poorly misunderstood transitions and no surprises that menopause is too. In this episode I talk about the deeper meaning of both and go into explaining the challenges of all the rites of passage we have. I talk about: -What the developmental challenge of the...
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Ep 35 Is it masculine, feminine or just being human with Sasha Ostara
Today I am joined again by my very fabulous friend and colleague Sasha Ostara. Sasha is a Somatic Intimacy Coach. Sasha and I both have a really strong aversion to the labelling of behavioural traits as masculine or feminine and instead prefer to categorise them as human qualities. in this…
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Ep 34 Why nervous system healing is important when it comes to connecting with our sexuality
Hello and happy new year. 2023 is the year of the Rabbit and it is a yin year in chinese astrology. So given it was Chinese New Year yesterday I feel its worth mentioning this and that this year is supposed to me more of a YIn energy year. Here’s hoping. Today I’m talking to you about why we have...
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Ep 33 Emotions - why befriending your emotions will liberate you
This week I’m talking about Emotions and how a somatic approach to your inner work will support you to have a really healthy relationship with your Emotions. Emotions are not a ‘nice to have’ luxury item in our makeup, they are an essential aspect of it. We don’t have them just for the pleasure…
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Ep 32 How experiencing more pleasure in your body can be a pathway through pain
This week I’m talking about pleasure and how experiencing the expansive energy of pleasure in our body can be a pathway through pain. When we have trauma and stress stored in our body it has a very constrictive quality to it. You would know this be either a tight jaw or pelvis, or maybe tension…
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Ep31 Living with Chronic Illness with Elizabeth Ann
Today I talk to my friend Elizabeth Ann about Living with Chronic Illness. Elizabeth is a Music Therapist who herself has living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for many years now. We thought it was time to have a discussion about Chronic Illness which is so prevalent in our society now days and so...
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Ep 30 Menopause - all the aspects of it that no one talks about
Today I’m on my own. I decided to do a shorter podcast in honour of world menopause month and in fact this week the 18th October being world menopause day, about all the stuff related to menopause that no one talks about. Believe me there is a lot. Menopause is larger sold as a disorder. It is a...
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Ep 29 The power of Slow with Casey Hall
Today I talk with my friend and colleague Casey Hall, who is a stress management coach, about the power of slowing down. Casey is both a sensuality coach and holistic wellness coach and has studied and worked in the wellness landscape for many years. She is the best person to talk to about this...
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Ep 28 Breathe to Create Flow with Timmy and Jackie
In this episode I talk to my friends and colleagues Jackie Verinder and Timmy Noad who are both Breathwork teachers about Breathwork. Jackie and Timmy have a great story about their own journey to breathwork and how it has helped them release trauma from their body, connect with their emotions…
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Ep 27 Feeling the wild belly of grief with Ellen Clarke
Grief is one of the toughest emotions that most of us have to feel and work through. In our culture we seem to have lost our way when it comes to expressing grief. We have really narrowed our understanding of what being human really means and that includes the emotions we let ourselves feel....
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Ep 26 The Forgotten Father with Carla Crivaro
Becoming a parent is a huge transition for all of us one that is often poorly supported. We often receive lots of guidance with regard to caring for the baby but little regarding the rite of passage of becoming a mother or father; the identity change and how that impacts on our sense of self.…
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Ep 25 Sacred Sexuality with Suzanne Najarian
Many people, regardless of gender, come to midlife and start to wonder about their sexuality. It might not be conscious thoughts but often a yearning or longing for something more in their intimate life. Both with themselves and their partner, if they have one. That more, is often better sex or a...
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Ep 24 Your Money Relationship with Tamara Lee
How would you describe your relationship with Money? Yes you are reading it correctly, we have a relationship with money. How does your nervous system feel when you think about money? Did you know that money and sex have a relationship? Today I talk with Tamara Lee who is a Money Coach about…
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Ep 23 Blooming after Divorce with Elizabeth Clair de Lune
Divorce is an extremely complex transition that many of us go through, that can really rock our foundations and sense of self. for many people, post divorce can be a time of immense growth and identity change. Having the support during this period creates both a safe and comforting space for us…
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Ep 22 The heart of creativity with Moira Cormack
Where does creativity come from? This question has always sat with me. I am a very creative person and I have been painting, sewing, dancing, drawing since I was a young girl. I’ve rarely stopped. I’m always curious when people say to me ‘I am not creative’. The curious part of me always thinks,...
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Ep 21 Healing and growing ourselves to heal the planet with Mangala Holland
The world is in a really weird place at the moment and the last two years has shown us we still have a very long way to go to build a sustainable future for ourselves. Systems are breaking down and need to work differently if we are going to build sustainable change for broader societal issues.…
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Ep 20 Menopause as a pathway to our authentic sexuality with Dr Laura Monk
The transition to menopause is complex and multifaceted. It is a death and rebirth, a shift in all the different aspects of ourselves. There is a lot of stigma around sexuality and ageing, so for many women there is a great fear that their sexuality will disappear. In this episode, Dr Laura Monk...
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Ep 19 Self love as a pathway to healing and personal growth with Gina Catherine
Self love is a concept that I am not sure everyone has their head wrapped around. Sometimes when we think of self love we think of a narcissistic type of self love. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about really loveing who you are as a person, all the parts of you. Loving your...
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Ep 18 Demystifying Hormone Replacement Therapy with Dr Fatima Khan
I’ve wanted to do this podcast for quite some time and have been quietly searching for a Doctor who is a menopause specialist and who takes a holistic and systemic view of the Midlife and Menopause transition. I looked at practitioners all over the world and found Dr Fatima Khan who funnily…
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Ep 17 Understanding Trauma and navigating it in motherhood and midlife with Shelby Leigh
This episode is a fantastic conversation with Shelby Leigh that sits in the intersection of our work; Trauma resolution and education and transitions or rites of passage through motherhood and midlife. Shelby is a former licensed psychotherapist, now coach and consultant - She teaches trauma...
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Conversations about life transitions, relationships and trauma for people who want to understand what this life is about.
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Kellie Stirling
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