Soul Knows the Way

You were taught, long before you could question it, that the dark is where danger lives: stay out of the forest, keep the lights on, always move toward the light. So when a season of your life goes dark, or you feel the pull to slow down and be still, something in you feels like something’s wrong. What if the dark was never something to fear, and the very thing you've been running from holds and grows the life you're longing for? Today we're talking about what we were taught to fear about darkness, and what shifts when we learn to be with it.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Welcome: Befriending the Dark in Midlife

01:32 - What We're Taught to Fear About the Dark

04:18 - Fairy Tales and the Dark Forest

06:33 - Where Intuition and Imagination Come From

07:11 - Why Rest and Fallow Time Matter

09:15 - How Religion and Culture Shaped Our Fear of the Dark

10:49 - Yin and Yang: Why We Need Both

12:34 - We're Sold Relief From Uncertainty

13:14 - Why Dreams and Scary Dreams Matter

15:35 - Reconciling Spirit and Soul, Light and Dark

19:00 - Where Our Fear of the Dark Begins

21:12 - How to Start Experimenting With the Dark

23:21 - Problem or Mystery? Sitting With Uncertainty

24:42 - How Comfort or Fear of the Dark Is Learned

29:41 - Why Not Seeing Ahead Triggers Anxiety

33:19 - Feeling Safe Through All Your Senses

36:24 - Focused vs. Diffuse Awareness and Intuition

39:42 - Working With Scary Dreams and Nightmares

43:53 - Listening to the Body's Messages

48:08 - Practice: Start Working With Your Dreams

49:46 - Practice: Circadian Rhythms and Sitting in the Dark

53:05 - Practice: Lie Still and Wait for the Impulse

53:54 - Overwhelmed or Uncertain? Rest and Let Ideas Emerge

56:14 - Winter Solstice Practice: Sacred Nights of Winter

01:02:52 - Tiny Rituals: Finding What Brings You to Life

01:05:29 - Meeting the Dark Slowly, Together

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

We Are Enough - Pleasure, Satiety and Appetite: How to shake off the epidemic of not-enoughness. Reclaiming fullness as an embodied skill that connects us to our libido and life force. Hosted by Vive Oldham, Somatic Practitioner, MotherCircle facilitator, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, and Artist serving awareness through BodyDreaming, creativity coaching, authentic expression and somatic vocal work.

New episodes twice monthly. Subscribe and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

✨ CONNECT & WORK WITH VIVE OLDHAM

▶️ YouTube/Podcast @ViveandCo

☎️ Book a 1:1 Consult Call

👉 https://www.ViveandCo.com/WorkWithMe

🌐 https://ViveandCo.com

IG | @vive_and_co

FREE GIFTS FROM VIVE

✨ TINY RITUALS Guide ✨

Create self designed rituals to support your contentment, joy, creativity and

connection to flourish - free of perfectionism and mental load.

👉 https://viveandco.kit.com/tinyritualsfreeguide

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

You’ve spent years living from the neck up, pushing, managing, and producing, and treating your body like a problem to be fixed. Underneath the perfectionism, there’s still an insatiable hunger. What if your body was never the enemy, but the very place your soul has been waiting for you? In this Body & Soul Session, Kim Marie of Soul Knows the Way and Vive Oldham of We Are Enough share how Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman changed both their lives, and how her work on perfectionism, emptiness, and the connection between Body and Soul can help women in the second half of life feel alive, rooted, and at home in themselves again.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here, and so excited to be doing this special collaboration for you to join the conversation around Body & Soul.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Your Body Was Never the Enemy

01:13 - Who Is Marion Woodman?

02:38 - Starting Your Life Over in Midlife

05:11 - Perfectionism and the Hunger Beneath It

07:08 - Why Marion Woodman's Books Change Lives

11:28 - Connecting Body and Soul (Psyche and Soma)

13:55 - Fairy Tales and Jungian Archetypes

15:11 - Movement, Voice and Art as Paths to Soul

17:43 - Pausing Before You Reach to Fill the Emptiness

21:25 - Why We Lose Connection With Body and Intuition

24:32 - Healing From Religious Guilt and Patriarchal Conditioning

27:11 - Breaking the Codependency Triangle

29:21 - Healing the Masculine Within Women

30:29 - Shadow Work and Descent in Myth

33:43 - Reclaiming Your Creative Life Force and Eroticism

39:42 - A Visualization for Feeling Held and Nourished

42:57 - What Is Body Dreaming?

48:54 - Taking Risks and Sharing Your Gifts

53:17 - Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energy

55:25 - Sharing Soul-Centered Work in a Skeptical World

58:01 - Tolerating Uncertainty Instead of Seeking Quick Relief

01:03:36 - Building Capacity to Sit With Discomfort

01:07:21 - Bringing Inner Work Out Into the World

01:10:52 - The Soul Planner: Structure and Flow Together

01:13:37 - Closing: You Are Enough, and Soul Knows the Way

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

We Are Enough - Pleasure, Satiety and Appetite: How to shake off the epidemic of not-enoughness. Reclaiming fullness as an embodied skill that connects us to our libido and life force. Hosted by Vive Oldham, Somatic Practitioner, MotherCircle facilitator, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, and Artist serving awareness through BodyDreaming, creativity coaching, authentic expression and somatic vocal work.

New episodes twice monthly. Subscribe and join the journey.

✨ CONNECT & WORK WITH VIVE OLDHAM

▶️ YouTube/Podcast @ViveandCo

☎️ Book a 1:1 Consult Call

👉 https://www.ViveandCo.com/WorkWithMe

🌐 https://ViveandCo.com

IG | @vive_and_co

FREE GIFTS FROM VIVE

✨ TINY RITUALS Guide ✨

Create self designed rituals to support your contentment, joy, creativity and

connection to flourish - free of perfectionism and mental load.

👉 https://viveandco.kit.com/tinyritualsfreeguide

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

📅 THE SOUL PLANNER 2027 IS HERE! 📅 - https://go.kimmariecoaching.com/sp-yt

As we hit our 40s, 50s and beyond, we keep wondering what’s next. We think, “when I get clarity, I’ll move forward. What if waiting for clarity is the thing keeping you stressed, stuck and overwhelmed? Clarity is NOT something you need before you move forward, but it IS created by one specific shift. In my own life, and in coaching hundreds of women, I’ve seen that it works surprisingly well, and changes everything.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why Waiting for Clarity Keeps You Stuck

00:59 - The Cost of Staying Stuck in Midlife

02:56 - Why Overthinking a Decision Doesn't Work

06:22 - The Right State of Mind for Big Decisions

08:19 - How to Tune Into Your Intuition Before Deciding

09:19 - What It Really Means to Decide

10:24 - Moving Forward Without Certainty

11:34 - A Simple Grounding and Centering Practice

12:27 - Finding Your One Next Step

14:20 - The Soul Planner and Free Weekly Livestreams

17:08 - How One Small Step Creates Momentum

17:52 - Clarity Comes From Action, Not Waiting

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Something in your life is falling apart, or you've simply reached the point where you can't keep going the way you have, yet you have no idea what comes next. If you're a woman in the second half of life feeling lost, worn out, and tired of trying to fix it, this conversation is for you. We see you - here’s what it takes, what gives you the capacity to let something die, dissolve, end, before you know what's coming next.In this Body & Soul Session, Kim Marie of Soul Knows the Way and Vive Oldham of We Are Enough talk honestly about why falling apart in midlife isn't something to fix.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here, and so excited to be doing this special collaboration for you to join the conversation around Body & Soul.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - When Life Falls Apart and You Don't Know What's Next

00:51 - Why No One Teaches Us How to Handle Big Change

03:56 - Why We Think Something Is Wrong and Rush to Fix It

05:35 - Being Held in Curiosity Instead of Being Fixed

06:47 - Menopause and the Fear of Losing Control

08:14 - How Midlife Teaches You to Loosen Your Grip

12:32 - Losing Your Identity After a Major Life Change

14:52 - The Turning Point When Change Becomes Non-Negotiable

16:48 - Choosing Yourself Even When Others Are Disappointed

22:44 - How Discernment Helps You Say No or Surrender

26:42 - How Your Home Reflects Your Inner Journey

35:12 - Why We Avoid Grief and Why It Matters to Feel It

37:53 - Letting Your Body Move Through Heartache

40:19 - Grounding in Nature When Life Falls Apart

49:26 - Rediscovering Delight and Creative Play

54:27 - Finding Yourself in Fairy Tales and Myth

59:56 - Feeling Again After Years of Numbing Out

01:06:08 - Closing & Where to Find Us

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

We Are Enough - Pleasure, Satiety and Appetite: How to shake off the epidemic of not-enoughness. Reclaiming fullness as an embodied skill that connects us to our libido and life force. Hosted by Vive Oldham, Somatic Practitioner, MotherCircle facilitator, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, and Artist serving awareness through BodyDreaming, creativity coaching, authentic expression and somatic vocal work.

New episodes twice monthly. Subscribe and join the journey.

✨ CONNECT & WORK WITH VIVE OLDHAM

▶️ YouTube/Podcast @ViveandCo

☎️ Book a 1:1 Consult Call

👉 https://www.ViveandCo.com/WorkWithMe

🌐 https://ViveandCo.com

IG | @vive_and_co

FREE GIFTS FROM VIVE

✨ TINY RITUALS Guide ✨

Create self designed rituals to support your contentment, joy, creativity and

connection to flourish - free of perfectionism and mental load.

👉 https://viveandco.kit.com/tinyritualsfreeguide

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Many of us carry a deep fear that we'll lose ourselves forever, or that we already have. If you've been wondering whether you'll ever find your way back to who you really are, finding yourself matters even more than you may realize, because when we lose ourselves, the world loses something too. In this episode for women in the second half of life, I share an unexpected reminder I found in a place I almost didn't go, and the simple things we can do today to start finding our way home.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 – The Fear of Losing Yourself Forever

01:13 – Why I Almost Didn’t Go

04:10 – Why This Work Is No Longer Optional

04:50 – The First Great Disconnection

07:13 – Cut Off From Nature, Cosmos & Body

09:44 – Isolated From Each Other

11:13 – What Soul Sickness Actually Costs Us

15:31 – Alive on the Coast… and the Sadness Beneath

16:58 – How We Subtly Hand Over Our Power

21:12 – Why the Usual Fixes Leave Us Empty

22:30 – Becoming a Wellspring Instead

23:55 – The Spiral Path of Coming Home

27:53 – Still… Open… See

30:59 – Remembering We Are Nature

32:39 – All My Relations

36:03 – Why Connection Changes Everything

41:09 – Simple Ways to Begin Today

44:03 – Why This Is Bigger Than Us

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

You leave the conversation and then replay it for hours...what you said, what you should've said, whether they're upset with you. You've read the books and learned the communication tools, and you try so hard to be the good one, the nice one, the easy one to be around, yet your relationships still feel effortful, and you still lose a little of yourself inside them. What if the thing that actually holds a relationship was never about better technique at all?

In this Body & Soul Session, Kim Marie of Soul Knows the Way and Viv Oldham of We Are Enough get honest about why relationships between women can feel this way, what really lets two people disagree and still stay close, and how to stay rooted in yourself instead of disappearing into who everyone needs you to be.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here, and so excited to be doing this special collaboration for you to join the conversation around Body & Soul.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why Relationships Need More Than Communication Skills

02:25 - Competition vs. Collaboration Between Women

03:56 - How to Truly Listen and Hear the Other

06:41 - Why Communication Techniques Can Feel Rote

09:46 - How Pushing Your Agenda Breaks Connection

11:27 - Disagreeing Without Ending the Relationship

12:51 - How Two People See the Same Thing Differently

15:39 - Why We Mistake Agreement for Trust

16:49 - The Cost of Always Being Agreeable

18:18 - How Curiosity and Interest Build Trust

19:27 - How Being Truly Seen Helps You Know Yourself

21:21 - Why We Rush to Fix Instead of Being Present

22:50 - Listening to Your Kids Instead of Fixing Their Problems

25:38 - Rooting and Grounding in Your Own Body

29:16 - Masculine and Feminine Ways of Relating

31:38 - How to Stay Grounded Without Losing Yourself

34:43 - Step Outside the Situation to See It Clearly

36:09 - Finding the Middle Way Between Extremes

38:05 - How Something New Emerges Between Two People

41:34 - Why Boundaries Help You Explore Freely

43:34 - Finding Your Voice Within the Larger Whole

49:45 - Finding Your "I" Before the "We"

51:19 - The Anger and Grief of Finding Your Voice

52:42 - Closing Reflections & What's Coming Up

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

We Are Enough - Pleasure, Satiety and Appetite: How to shake off the epidemic of not-enoughness. Reclaiming fullness as an embodied skill that connects us to our libido and life force. Hosted by Vive Oldham, Somatic Practitioner, MotherCircle facilitator, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, and Artist serving awareness through BodyDreaming, creativity coaching, authentic expression and somatic vocal work.

New episodes twice monthly. Subscribe and join the journey.

✨ CONNECT & WORK WITH VIVE OLDHAM

▶️ YouTube/Podcast @ViveandCo

☎️ Book a 1:1 Consult Call

👉 https://www.ViveandCo.com/WorkWithMe

🌐 https://ViveandCo.com

IG | @vive_and_co

FREE GIFTS FROM VIVE

✨ TINY RITUALS Guide ✨

Create self designed rituals to support your contentment, joy, creativity and

connection to flourish - free of perfectionism and mental load.

👉 https://viveandco.kit.com/tinyritualsfreeguide

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

You started setting boundaries, saying no, speaking your truth, and suddenly you're the villain. The bad guy. The selfish, cold, difficult one. Nobody warns us that the second half of life, when we naturally shift away from self-abandonment, is often when people start calling you the bad guy more often. Some say to "Be the Villain" to become free, but that's not entirely true unless you understand this first.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - What Makes You Become the "Bad Guy"?

01:22 - How People-Pleasing Became a Cage

02:13 - The Hidden Cost of Being the Good Girl

05:07 - Why This Hits Us in Midlife

07:25 - Why Speaking Your Truth Triggers People

08:39 - How to Speak Your Truth Wisely

12:02 - Why Keeping the Peace Costs You

12:58 - The Victim, Villain, and Rescuer Trap

14:03 - The Villain Label Is Not What You Think

16:09 - Meeting Your Shadow: Carl Jung's Wisdom

17:39 - Reframing the Black Sheep

19:22 - What a Villain Actually Is

22:54 - Why Being Disliked Can Be Healthy

26:11 - How to Stop Defending and Explaining Yourself

28:32 - A Contemplation to Help You Shift

29:35 - What Real Freedom Looks Like

31:01 - Free Guide: 7 Keys to Reclaim Your Soul

32:43 - You Are Not the Villain

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🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Ever wonder why it’s so hard to find contentment and a sense of true satisfaction and peace in today’s world, no matter how much work you’re doing?

That’s exactly what we’re talking about today. If you've reached the second half of life feeling empty and disconnected from yourself no matter how much you do, this conversation is for you. In this first Body & Soul Session, Kim Marie of the Soul Knows the Way podcast, and Vive Oldham of the We Are Enough podcast, explore why true contentment seems to keep slipping away, and what it actually takes to feel nourished, at home, and fully alive in your own body and Soul again.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here, and so excited to be doing this special collaboration for you to join the conversation around Body & Soul.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why Satisfaction Feels So Out of Reach

02:31 - How the Body Speaks: Feeling, Sensation & Dreams

04:53 - Why Trying to "Fix" Yourself Backfires

06:15 - Living From the Inside Out (and Trusting Yourself)

09:16 - Holding Both: Your Inner and Outer Worlds

11:53 - Honoring the Body's Seasonal Rhythms

14:00 - Why You Feel More Before You Feel Better

16:14 - Is the Soul in the Body, or the Body in the Soul?

17:54 - The Real Cost of Not Feeling Real

20:01 - The Midlife Turning Point: "I Can't Go Back"

22:14 - Knowing About Life vs. Truly Living It

24:35 - The Exhaustion of Self-Monitoring

26:17 - What "Remembering" Yourself Really Means

28:07 - Wholeness Isn't Perfection: Embracing the Mystery

30:35 - Embracing Every Part of Yourself: Myth & Archetype

33:19 - What Soul Work Is For: Meeting the Subconscious

36:59 - Why Real Growth Is Messy and Ongoing

40:43 - What Is Body Dreaming?

41:59 - Reclaiming Your Authentic Voice

43:27 - Inside Solace: Becoming One With Your Inner Sun

44:20 - Leaving Dogma Behind: Searching for Something Real

47:55 - Healing the Emptiness of Modern Life

50:27 - Why Nothing Ever Feels Like Enough

52:53 - The Quick Fixes We Use to Numb Out

54:08 - Rebuilding Trust With Body & Soul

55:10 - Feeling Real by Being Truly Seen

56:11 - Closing & Where to Find Us

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

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You're exhausted, but wired and restless, unable to sleep for no clear reason. Your moods are all over the place, your body feels off, and then you notice it's a full moon. If you've been asking what's happening to me? in the second half of life, maybe your midlife body knows something you've forgotten. In this episode I look at how the moon, your sleep, your cycles and your hormones are far more connected than we've been taught, why that connection got so disrupted, and how to start feeling it again.

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📍 IN THIS EPISODE

0:00 - Why You Feel Off Around the Full Moon

1:06 - How We Lost Our Connection to the Moon

3:24 - The Moon, Your Cycle, and Menopause in Midlife

6:06 - The Moon, Blue Light, and Your Circadian Rhythm

7:45 - Do the Moon and Eclipses Affect Women's Hormones?

9:13 - The Study on the Moon and the Menstrual Cycle

10:28 - When the Moon's Pull Is Strongest

12:19 - Is It the Moon or a Medical Issue?

13:37 - How the Full Moon Affects Sleep and Melatonin

14:21 - Why You May Feel the Moon's Effects More Now

15:05 - Why Science Can't Prove the Moon-Body Connection

16:27 - Why Averaging Data Hides the Moon's Effect

18:11 - Trusting Your Own Experience Over the Data

19:42 - It's Not Too Late to Reconnect (Even in Menopause)

20:40 - How to Start Noticing the Moon's Phases

21:45 - Better Sleep: Blue Light Blockers and Blackout Shades

22:23 - New Moon Intentions and Full Moon Release

22:50 - Free Live Streams, Soulstead, and the Soul Astrology Guide

25:20 - This Week's Practice and the 2026 Soul Planner

27:10 - How the Moon May Affect Your Body's Fluids and Hormones

28:47 - A Bigger Connection With the Moon in the Second Half

🧐 RESEARCH/RESOURCES

Charlotte Helfrich-Förster et al., Science Advances (2025) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adw4096

Charlotte Helfrich-Förster et al., Science Advances (2021) https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe1358

"Evidence that the Lunar Cycle Influences Human Sleep" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23891110/

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From Red Moon to Dark Moon: The Spiritual Journey of Menopause by Miranda Gray - https://amzn.to/4xGZaf4

Moon Time: Living in Flow with Your Cycle by Lucy H. Pearce - https://amzn.to/4gGodch

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Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

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If you're somewhere in midlife and it feels like everything's falling apart at once...your work, your relationships, where you live, even your sense of who you are all up for review at the same time...you're not going crazy, and you're not alone. There's a real reason this happens, and no one warns us about it. It tends to arrive right as we cross into the second half of life and stay with us through the transition. In this episode I share what I've been living through all Summer, why this "everything's falling apart" feeling shows up as if right on schedule, and how to navigate the discomfort of it.

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✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

🔥 JOIN THE SOULSTEAD (FREE COMMUNITY): Click here to join our free community. A gathering place for women in the second half of life who are tending their Souls together through soulful conversation and seasonal gatherings.

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - When Everything Feels Up for Review at Midlife

02:22 - The Cost of Rushing Through Transition

03:15 - Feeling Like You're Going Crazy in Midlife

05:56 - What a Nodal Return Is (North & South Nodes)

08:40 - The First Nodal Return: Finding Your Identity

10:02 - The Second Nodal Return: The Dark Night of the Soul

11:45 - The Third Nodal Return: Aligning with Intuition/Spirit

13:33 - Saturn Return: Living From the Inside Out

16:10 - Feeling Cosmic Shifts Without Knowing Astrology

19:07 - Reconnecting to Your Values in Midlife

20:08 - Ways We Try to Escape Midlife Discomfort

22:48 - Working With the Seasons of Your Life

25:16 - Practices for Moving Through Midlife Change

28:16 - Getting to Know Yourself, Not Changing Yourself

28:47 - Letting Go and Trusting Something Greater

30:01 - Ages These Midlife Shifts Happen

31:18 - Journaling Questions + Free Journaling Guide

32:23 - Free Autumn Equinox Gathering

33:56 - What Makes the Uncomfortable Transition Worth It

35:37 - Coming Together on the Other Side

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

• Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
• Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
• Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
• E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
• Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
• Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
• The Soul Planner
• Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
• Personal Coaching & Mentoring
• Visit the Website

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.