In this transformative episode of Chat Off The Mat, Rose sits down with Annette Knopp — trauma therapist, teacher, and author of Mystic Nomad: A Woman's Wild Journey to True Connection — for a deep dive into reclaiming our "inner gold" by healing trauma and creating healthy boundaries.

Annette shares her own journey of leaving Germany at 21 to travel the world in search of belonging after a childhood shaped by her parents' unresolved wartime trauma. That search became a decades-long study of somatic healing, attachment patterns, and the subtle energy body — work she now brings to clients and retreats around the world.

Rose and Annette explore:

• The childhood wounds that catalyzed Annette's healing journey
• Why boundaries are so challenging for trauma survivors — and where to begin
• The difference between somatic healing and talk therapy alone
• How early attachment patterns shape our adult relationships
• The "inner gold" ceremony: a ritual for reclaiming projected qualities
• Boundaries as a spiritual practice — honoring our true yes and no
• A simple breath practice for feeling safe and connected in the present

If you've ever felt like your suffering was something to fix rather than something to understand, or like true connection was something you had to find outside yourself — this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.

Annette's book Mystic Nomad closes with the same "inner gold" ceremony she guides listeners through in this episode. It's a potent ritual for reclaiming the qualities we've long projected onto teachers, parents, and guides — one that calls us home to our own unshakable wholeness.

Annette Knopp, MA, is an internationally renowned meditation and dharma teacher, retreat leader, transformational counselor, and author of the award-winning book Mystic Nomad – A Woman's Wild Journey to True Connection.

With over 25 years of dedicated meditation practice and integration work, combined with her background in psychology, spirituality, and the healing arts, Annette has a profound understanding of the human experience. She is certified by Naropa University and teaches Diamond Approach Meditation.

Annette teaches in Germany, Costa Rica, and virtually from her home in Northern California. She founded Being & Belonging, an online forum dedicated to cultivating compassionate communities worldwide.

Passionate about raising awareness of our shared humanity, Annette illuminates both our inner gold and blind spots to support living soulful, empowered lives in harmony with each other and the Earth. Her uncanny ability to attune to people touches into the core of their being.

Connect with Annette Knopp: AnnetteKnopp.com | Book: Mystic Nomad: A Woman's Wild Journey to True Connection

Connect with Rose: rosewippich.com | rosewippich.substack.com | Book: Empress Rising: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

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© 2026 Rose Wippich

What if midlife isn't a crisis to survive, but a sacred initiation to step into?

In this episode, I sit down with astrologer and coach Raina Elkins to explore how astrology—particularly Saturn and Uranus transits—can help us understand the profound shifts that happen during midlife (ages 35-53). We dive deep into Sabian symbols, a unique astrological tool that adds powerful layers of meaning to your birth chart, creating a personalized blueprint for your soul's journey.

Raina shares how women can move from self-abandonment to self-honoring, why everything falling apart might be the universe calling you home to yourself, and how to work with planetary transits instead of resisting them.

In This Episode:

• What Sabian symbols are and how they reveal your soul's story
• The difference between natal charts and solar returns
• Why ages 42-43 are pivotal (hello, Uranus opposition!)
• Saturn returns at 30 and 60—what they mean for your evolution
• Moving from self-abandonment to authentic alignment
• How to navigate midlife transitions without making rash decisions
• Using astrology for relationship readings and understanding your partnership

About Raina Elkins: Raina Elkins is an astrologer, coach, and healer specializing in midlife transitions. She blends astrology with coaching and healing work to help women understand major life transits—not as breakdowns, but as initiations into deeper truth and alignment. Raina works with Sabian symbols to add profound layers of meaning to astrological readings, helping clients connect with their soul's blueprint.

Special Offer for Listeners: Get 40% off an astrology reading with Raina using code ASTRO40 Visit: rainaelkins.com

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

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In this episode we celebrate Lammas which occurs every year around this time.  This year it's on August 1st but the theme is evergreen, really.  Lammas is the first harvest festival on the Celtic Wheel of the Year, and a moment that has Rose thinking about the Empress archetype in Tarot, women over 50, and why so many of us are terrible at receiving what we've already built.

In this episode of Chat Off The Mat, Rose shares a childhood memory of making tomato sauce with twenty relatives in a Brooklyn kitchen every September — an unofficial harvest ritual long before she had language for it. She connects that memory to Lammas, a festival not about planting or tending, but about pausing to receive what has already grown.

Rose explores the Empress card in Tarot — a woman who sits on her throne surveying her kingdom, looking both back at what she's built and forward to what's still ahead — and explains why "Empress" became her chosen archetype for women in their wisdom years, rather than "crone." She talks honestly about her own struggle to let herself feel finished, the cultural pressure to always ask "what's next," and why quiet harvests — trusting yourself, setting a boundary, healing, choosing your own peace — deserve recognition just as much as visible ones.

The episode closes with a Royal Invitation: a short guided practice for sitting on your own throne, reflecting on what's grown in your life, and releasing what no longer fits before planting anything new.

In this episode:

• The Celtic Wheel of the Year and the meaning of Lammas
• Why Rose chose the Empress archetype over "crone" for women 50+
• Letting go of what no longer serves you
• A guided Royal Invitation practice for receiving your harvest

Find Rose: rosewippich.com | rosewippich.substack.com

This episode — and everything Rose teaches — grows out of her book, Empress Rising: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. If the Empress archetype speaks to you, start there. 

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

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Why do we keep getting triggered by the same thing, over and over, no matter how much therapy or self-help we try? In this episode, Rose sits down with JJ Flizanes — transformational empowerment strategist, best-selling author, and creator of the Empowering Minds Network — to unpack the Core Wound Map, a framework built from Imago Relationship Therapy that identifies the top three wounds and beliefs quietly running your life. JJ and Rose talk about why talk therapy alone often isn't enough, how core wounds like abandonment, devaluation, and control show up in relationships and self-sabotage, the link between chronic pain and repressed emotion, how astrology can be used as a mirror for understanding yourself and the people you love, and why so many women stop themselves right at the edge of investing in their own transformation. This is a conversation about trading guesswork for a map — and finally understanding what you're actually trying to heal.

In this episode:

• What a Core Wound Map is and why identifying your wounds comes before healing work, not after
• The five most common core wounds: abandonment, devalued, controlled, ignored, smothered
• Why anger is almost always a mask for sadness or fear
• The difference between "what happened to me" and "what's happening for me" — and why that shift changes everything
• How chronic pain (like back pain) can be a signal of repressed emotion, not just a physical issue
• Astrology as a tool for understanding yourself and the people closest to you
• The four limiting beliefs (from Gay Hendricks' The Big Leap) that keep women capping their own success
• Why so many women won't invest in themselves — and what that reveals about self-worth
• JJ's Rewire program, Date Your Body, and Healing the Mother Wound retreat

About JJ Flizanes: JJ Flizanes is a transformational empowerment strategist, best-selling author, and creator of the Empowering Minds Network. Drawing on Imago Relationship Therapy, astrology, and mindset work, she helps people identify and rewire the core wound patterns that keep them stuck — in relationships, in self-worth, and in their ability to receive success. Learn more at jjflizanes.com.

Topics covered: Core wounds, Imago Relationship Therapy, self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, mindset shifts, astrology and self-understanding, manifestation, chronic pain and repressed emotion, self-worth, women in transition, Empress archetype

Connect with JJ Flizanes 

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, subscribe to the podcast.

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© 2026 Rose Wippich

What happens when a successful podcaster walks away at the height of her influence to answer a call from her 19-year-old self holding a paintbrush?

In this episode of Chat Off the Mat, Rose sits down with Monica Rodgers — coach, spiritual practitioner, rites of passage guide, and former host of The Revelation Project podcast — who returned to art school at 53 to study medicine painting. That decision cracked open an entirely new way of helping women meet the parts of themselves they've abandoned.

Monica and Rose dive deep into feminine archetypes (the Wise Woman, the Empress, the Wounded Maiden, the Muse), the medicine painting process as a mirror for the inner world, shamanic study as a path through shadow work, and why "unbecoming" who the world told us to be is the real work of midlife.

Key Topics:

• Monica’s transition from podcasting to studying medicine painting at age 54
• The revelation project and the power of inner truth and courage
• How art serves as a mirror for meeting fractured parts of oneself
• Archetypes, including the wise woman and wounded maiden, and their shadow counterparts
• The significance of the heroine’s journey versus the hero’s journey
• Incorporating shamanic practices to deepen shadow work and inner healing
• Breaking societal rules and stories of scarcity to reclaim personal sovereignty
• Practical tools: Women’s Bill of Rights and creating new stories with desire work
• The importance of community and guides in navigating women’s rites of passage

Timestamps:

In this episode:

• (01:24) Monica's two-year sabbatical and the revelations that came from finally slowing down
• (04:26) Returning to art school at 53 — a new adventure, a new identity
• (04:48) Medicine painting as a mirror: meeting the perfectionist, the exile, the fractured parts of self
• (08:30) The layered painting process taught by her teacher Shiloh Sophia — from intention to muse
• (11:20) Archetypes at work: the Wise Woman, the Crone, the Empress
• (12:38) The Wounded Maiden — the shadow archetype that quietly runs so many women's lives
• (19:54) The myth of Inanna as a blueprint for the feminine descent-and-return journey
• (20:39) Monica's shamanic studies — Celtic lineage, indigenous influence, and working with the shadow
• (26:38) The "story of scarcity" and why true prosperity starts with realizing we are enough
• (30:27) How Monica works with women one-on-one and in circles like her "Unbecoming" group container

About Monica Rogers

Monica Rodgers is a catalyst, companion, and mentor for awakening women. A seasoned coach, former podcaster, spiritual practitioner, and intentional creativity facilitator, she helps women investigate and transform the conditions keeping them from being seen, heard, and fulfilled.

As a seasoned coach, podcaster, spiritual practitioner, and Intentional Creativity™ facilitator, Monica supports women with teachings, tools, and practices that support embodiment, authenticity, and leadership.
Through storytelling, timeless wisdom teachings, and creative expression, she interrupts the trance of unworthiness, helping women trust themselves,
dismantle limiting beliefs, and reclaim their inner guidance while activating their true potential.

Connect with Monica:

• Instagram: Revelation Woman
• Website & Free Gift: Women’s Bill of Rights

Extra inspiration:

• Explore your archetypes, integrate shadow work, and craft your new story—Monica’s journey exemplifies the powerful transformation that awaits.

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, subscribe to the podcast.

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© 2026 Rose Wippich

What if the fear you feel about stepping into your power isn't yours — but something you've inherited, carried quietly in your DNA for centuries?

In this Summer Solstice episode of Chat Off The Mat, Rose Wippich sits down with internationally recognized witch, intuitive channeler, and bestselling author Emma Griffin for an unforgettable conversation on healing the witch wound, awakening intuitive gifts, and reclaiming your most sovereign, magical self.

In this episode, Emma and Rose explore:

🌙 What the witch wound actually is — and how it shows up in modern women as self-doubt, hiding our gifts, and fearing the loss of female friendships when we step into our magic

🌙 Why healing the witch wound begins with sisterhood, not solitude

🌙 Living by the Wheel of the Year and aligning with nature's seasonal cycles

🌙 The one simple daily ritual (it starts with a cup of tea) that reconnects you to your magic

🌙 The story behind Emma's beloved Witch School and how women across the world are coming home to themselves through her work

🌙 Why intuition is the highest form of guidance — and how to learn to trust it

Why this episode is personal for Rose:

Emma has been a guide in Rose's own journey. In a soul guidance session, Emma named a witch wound Rose hadn't yet seen — one around being visible. Shortly after, Rose lost her voice. Literally. The parallel between Emma's insight and Rose's lived reality became impossible to ignore. That moment of recognition is woven throughout this conversation.

About Emma Griffin:

Emma is an eclectic modern witch, intuitive channeler, and bestselling author. Raised in Cornwall, England, in a family of witches and mediums, she has spent more than 28 years devoted to the craft. She is the author of Find Your Soul Path and The Witch's Way Home: Magic, Spells, and Rituals to Lead You Back to Your Most Powerful Self, and the creator of The Witch's Way Home Oracle Deck. Her work has been featured on the BBC, Talk TV, Heart FM, in The Mirror and The Guardian, and on stages across the UK.

Connect with Emma Griffin
Website · Instagram · Substack · Books  

Connect with Rose:
rosewippich.com · Substack · YouTube: Rose Wippich | Empress Rising · Instagram: @rosewippich 

Read the companion Substack essay: Rose's reflection on her own witch wound around visibility —  [link]

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, subscribe to the podcast.

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Are you feeling stuck, burnt out, or like you're living life on autopilot? In this powerful episode, transformational coach Karen Bartholomew shares her signature Pause Method framework for helping women break free from limiting beliefs and step into their full potential.

Discover how to:

• Recognize when you're triggered and use it as an opportunity for growth
• Uncover the root stories and messages holding you back
• Choose a new truth and embody it daily
• Build a supportive community on your own terms
• Give yourself permission to rest and recharge without guilt

If you're ready to trade hustle for intention, fear for clarity, and old stories for empowered truth, this episode is a must-listen. Karen's no-nonsense approach and real-world wisdom will leave you inspired to reclaim your vitality and start designing the life you truly desire.

Karen also shares details on her upcoming retreats, group coaching programs, and the free Sanctum Community where you can connect with like-minded women and access bonus teachings and live coaching.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Karen's Website: https://karenbartholomew.com
• The Pause Method Free Webinar
• 1:1 and Group Coaching with Karen
• Sanctum Online Community

Karen Bartholomew is the founder of the Pause Method, a transformational coaching approach that helps women and leaders break free from autopilot living. After her own awakening 14 years ago, Karen dedicated herself to helping others release limiting beliefs and step into their full potential.

Drawing on 20 years of corporate experience and certifications in personal development and sales coaching, Karen guides her clients to trade hustle for intention, fear for clarity, and old stories for empowered truth using her signature Pause, Realign and Rise framework.

Karen is passionate about women's empowerment and helping clients confidently design their next chapter through 1:1 coaching, group programs, retreats, and her online Sanctum Community.

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, subscribe to the podcast.

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© 2026 Rose Wippich

What does it feel like to lose your voice — literally — right before you're about to claim it?

That's exactly what happened to me.

I recently returned from the Azores — a volcanic archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic that sits on the St. Michael Ley Line, one of the most energetically potent lines on the planet. I went to rest. To restore. To breathe.

The island had other plans.

Within days, I lost my voice. And in the stillness that followed, something came through clear and undeniable:

This isn't just losing my voice. This is an upgrade.

What This Episode Is Really About

I talk about:

• The woman I saw in a café in Portugal who stopped the entire room just by walking in — and what she taught me without saying a word
• Six years behind this mic amplifying other voices while quietly dimming my own
• The visibility wound — what it is, why so many of us carry it, and why it shows up as perfectionism, waiting, and performing invisibility before anyone else can make us feel it
• Why losing my voice in the Azores was the old energy leaving — literally, physically, cellularly
• My "fuck it" moment — the quiet internal shift that changed everything
• What the Empress archetype actually looks like when you stop waiting for permission and start reigning

And the thing I know now with absolute certainty:

My age is not my liability. It is my greatest credential.

IF YOU'VE EVER FELT INVISIBLE, THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU.

You're in your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. You feel the shift happening inside you. You don't want to light a candle and say a mantra — you want to shed your previous skin, reconnect with what got buried, and step into something bigger than what you've allowed yourself to be.

This isn't decline. This is initiation.

It's not just a returning. It's a becoming.

And your reign? It begins internally.

Grab the Book

If this episode resonated, Empress Rising is where we go deeper.

This is the book I channeled when I woke up one morning and knew that the years ahead — the Empress Years — are not years of diminishing. They are years of expansion. Of invincibility. Of finally owning the wisdom you've spent a lifetime earning.

📖 Get your copy: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging

Come Find Me on Substack

This is where I'm living now — long form, real talk, Empress energy. If you want to go deeper on sovereignty, visibility, energy, and what it actually means to step into your power at this stage of life, Substack is where the conversation continues.

✍️ Join me on Substack

Let's Keep This Conversation Going

This podcast is not just for me. It's for you — the women out there who are ready to stop waiting and start reigning. If something in this episode stirred something in you, I want to hear about it.

Where are you on this path? What does your throne look like from where you're standing?

Drop a comment, send me a message, share this episode with a woman who needs it today.

Your crown is waiting. 👑

Connect With Rose

🌐 Website: rosewippich.com ✍️ Substack: rosewippich.substack.com 📸 Instagram: @rosewippich

Keywords

women over 50, women over 60, midlife women, invisible woman, women's empowerment, Empress Rising, Empress archetype, energy healing, spiritual sovereignty, voice and visibility, self-expression, showing up, hiding, perfectionism, ley lines, Azores, energy upgrade, qigong, Reiki, personal transformation, midlife is not decline, midlife initiation, reclaim your power, Rose Wippich, Chat Off The Mat

I'm Rose Wippich — Energy Alchemist, Reiki Master, qigong teacher, and author of Empress Rising. Wear your crown proudly — and live the magic.

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

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What if your fertility journey is actually a spiritual initiation - and your future baby is already trying to communicate with you?

In this episode of Chat Off the Mat, I sit down with Lindsay Goodwin - a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, spirit baby medium, and fertility specialist - to explore the profound intersection of reproductive medicine and energetic wisdom.

We cover:

• What spirit babies are and how they communicate
• How unresolved trauma shows up as fertility blocks
• New earth kids and the age of Aquarius
• Chinese medicine, chakras, human design and astrology as a fertility blueprint
• Simple steps to shift your consciousness and clear stagnant energy

I also share my own spirit baby story — complete with a Reiki vision, a message from my late mother, and a set of twins. ✨

Whether you're on a fertility journey, spiritually curious, or simply ready to deepen your connection to your own energy and inner knowing, this episode is for you.

Connect with Lindsay: garnetmoonlove.com and fertilefrequencies.com Podcasts: Intuitive Mind Lab Radio and Fertile Frequencies

Guest Bio:

Lindsay Goodwin is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, licensed herbalist, and board-certified fellow of the Acupuncture and TCM Board for Reproductive Medicine. She is also a certified hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, trauma healing specialist, and trained medical intuitive. Lindsay is one of a rare few practitioners working as a spirit baby medium - receiving energetic messages from souls preparing to enter the world. She works with women and couples globally to uncover the emotional, ancestral, and energetic roots of fertility challenges, blending science and spirit into a one-of-a-kind fertility blueprint. Find her at garnetmoonlove.com and fertilefrequencies.com.

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, subscribe to the podcast.

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© 2026 Rose Wippich

In this special collaborative episode, Kim Benoy, host of Midlife with Courage, and Rose Wippich, host of Chat Off The Mat come together for an honest and empowering conversation about what it truly means to navigate midlife with courage, sovereignty, and self-trust.

Together, they explore the identity shifts that many women experience in midlife—when traditional roles begin to change and new possibilities emerge. This conversation invites women to reflect on their purpose, reclaim their energy, and step into greater visibility with confidence and authenticity.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• Identity shifts and reinvention in midlife
• Returning to yourself after years of caregiving and responsibility
• The importance of energetic boundaries and self-care
• Finding purpose and meaningful work in your next chapter
• Visibility, voice, and being seen in midlife and beyond, and more!

Midlife is a turning point—not a decline.
It is a time to reassess priorities, rediscover passions, and reconnect with your inner wisdom.

You are allowed to redefine success.
Success may look like meaningful connections, personal fulfillment, creative expression, or simply living in alignment with your values.

Your voice matters.
Many women feel invisible in midlife, yet this stage of life holds immense wisdom and leadership potential.

Boundaries protect your energy.
Learning when to say no—and how to care for yourself—is essential for long-term well-being and vitality.

It's never too late to begin again.
Dreams can evolve, resurface, or be reimagined at any stage of life.

Connect with Kim

https://www.midlifewithcourage.com/

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Kim Benoy is a retired Registered Nurse turned podcast host, speaker, and passionate connector of midlife women. Through her Midlife with Courage™ Podcast, she inspires and motivates women over 40 to embrace change, rediscover their strength, and live their next chapter with purpose, confidence, and courage.

✨ The deeper work lives on Substack and in my book.

Rose Wippich — weekly essays on Remembering, Returning, and Reclaiming the energy, voice, and years that are yours.

If you're ready to stop fading and start reigning, meet me there. Substack Link

Rose Wippich is an Energy Alchemist & Empowerment Guide, Reiki Master Teacher, qigong and yoga instructor, and author of Empress Rising. She's here for the woman who knows she's ready for something more — the one who feels the pull of her next chapter but isn't quite sure how to step into it.

Through her book, podcast, and teaching, Rose inspires and guides women in midlife to reclaim their energy, identity, and voice — and step boldly into their Empress years.

📖 Book: EMPRESS RISING: Own Your Energy, Trust Your Wisdom & Rewrite the Rules of Aging. 

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