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Somewhere, somehow in these recent months or years, maybe you've found yourself going quiet. You stopped volunteering first, stopped over-explaining, stopped being the one who holds it all together, and you can't tell if you're exhausted, burned out, or slowly falling apart. If you're a woman approaching or in the second half of life feeling this silent pull to withdraw, this quiet quitting of a life that used to look right, I have good news for you. You might be right on track! Today I'm speaking about what that withdrawal actually is, why it's surfacing now in midlife, and what your Soul might be asking of you through it.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - When You Quietly Stop Holding It All Together
01:25 - The Good Girl and What She Costs You
02:50 - Soul Sickness: Why You Feel So Flat and Depleted
05:15 - Why This Is Surfacing Now in Midlife
06:27 - A 'Wake Up' Story of Exhaustion and Withdrawal
08:54 - Why Vacations and Boundaries Don't Fix It
11:24 - The Silent Quit Is Not a Breakdown
13:35 - The Good Girl Was Never Really You
14:19 - Why Your Soul Needs the Quiet
16:14 - How to Implement an Effective Silent Quit
17:54 - How to Listen to Your Soul
19:13 - How to Step Toward Soul Alignment Today
22:48 - A Warning to Be Mindful Of
25:10 - The Freedom of No More Performing or Masking
26:56 - Why This Is So Hard to Do Alone
29:42 - A Free Guide to Reclaim Your Soul
30:15 - Why It's So Difficult to Stay on the Path
31:31 - You're Not Falling Apart, You're Breaking Free!
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
You've done everything right, and still there's a restless sense that 'this can't be all there is.' If you're in the second half of life and feeling lost, empty, or afraid you'll run out of time to live the life you can sense is still inside you, this one's for you. It took me more than 30 years to understand what that restless feeling actually was, and how to find and realize the fulfillment I'd been longing for. What I finally discovered changed everything, and it isn't where you've been taught to look.
π Free Journaling Workbook:
Journaling as a Path to Come Home https://go.kimmariecoaching.com/jw-yt
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - Introduction: Why You Feel Unfulfilled
00:40 - "Is This All There Is?" Feeling Lost in Midlife
02:01 - The Inner Voice You Keep Ignoring
04:24 - Why Chasing Success Leaves You Empty
06:09 - Why the Answer Isn't Outside You
07:07 - Making Space to Hear Yourself
09:16 - The Sacred Feminine Power Already Within You
11:09 - The 3 Hidden Roles That Keep You Stuck
12:15 - The 3 Empowered Roles You're Meant to Live 1
3:20 - Reclaiming Your Power and Freedom
15:47 - Finding Your Voice and Trusting Yourself
18:03 - Creating Work and a Life You Love
18:57 - One Woman's Midlife Transformation
21:01 - How to Start Listening to Yourself
21:34 - Journaling for Self-Discovery
24:12 - Free Workbook, Community and Support
25:09 - You Were Ready All Along
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
If you've crossed into the second half of life and your birth chart suddenly feels off...like it's describing a woman you used to be, not the one you're becoming...you're not imagining it. Somewhere in midlife the old astrology stops fitting: the sun sign you've claimed for decades, the horoscope that once landed, the map that used to make sense of you. This is about why your birth chart doesn't fit anymore in midlife, and the subtle shift beneath the restlessness so many women feel and struggle to name. There's a second map most of us were never shown...and it may be the one your Soul has been waiting for you to pick up.
Two resources to generate your own maps:
https://www.astro.com/
https://www.astro-seek.com/
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π Dive Deeper in my Solace ("one with your inner Sun") Program
https://go.kimmariecoaching.com/sol-yt
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - Why your birth chart feels off in midlife
02:12 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
04:05 - The two maps you were never shown
06:11 - Why your old astrology feels hollow
11:29 - The wobble that moved your sign
13:43 - Sidereal astrology and the real stars
17:43 - When your Sun sign no longer fits you
21:55 - How I went from Virgo to Leo27:00 - When your birth chart stops fitting you
32:45 - How to find your true chart (free tools)
37:00 - Free guide, the Soulstead & going deeper
38:42 - You don't have to figure it all out
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
There comes a point in the second half of life when you stop trying to fix your family... and something in you finally begins to soften.
If you're navigating a difficult family in midlifeβan aging parent, an estranged sibling, or old wounds that never got the apology they deservedβthis episode is for you. After 3,500 miles on the road visiting my family of origin, I came home seeing all of it differently. Not because anything got fixed, but because I finally had room to see what else was true.
Schedule a Free Exploratory Conversation:
π https://go.kimmariecoaching.com/schedule-yt
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - When You Stop Trying to Fix Your Family
00:54 - Lessons From a 3,500-Mile Journey Home
01:57 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
02:36 - Reuniting with an Estranged Sibling
03:35 - The Pancake Parable: Apologies Without Words
08:00 - Breaking Old Patterns Without Reopening Wounds
09:07 - Why "Hurt People Hurt People" Changes Everything
13:11 - When Loss Clears Space You Didn't Choose
16:25 - Watching a Parent You Love Unravel
18:18 - Grief and Grace Sitting in the Same Chair
19:30 - Re-entering the Circle of Family Dysfunction
21:42 - What the "Wellness World" Gets Wrong About Toxic Families
24:21 - The Plant Parable: How Opposite Truths Exist Together
26:50 - Finding Beauty in the Darkest Chapters
28:38 - One Question That Shifts Everything
31:36 - A Sanctuary for Your Midlife Transition
32:10 - What Real Healing in Midlife Looks Like
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
A Different Take on Codependency (mentioned in the episode): https://youtu.be/guw74QV7Qb4?si=gBskCBNEqtOpk5Z0
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
If you're in perimenopause or menopause and feeling like thereβs more happening to you than anyone is talking about, you're not imagining it, you're not going crazy, and youβre not alone. The 3am waking, the hot flashes, the rage and grief that seem to come from nowhere, the strange sense of not recognizing yourself...midlife hands women all of this and calls it βdeclining hormones.β But this passage into the second half of life is about far more than just hormones. There's something almost no one talks about, and it changes everything once you recognize it.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - What no one tells you about menopause
01:23 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
02:39 - It's not just your hormones
04:25 - A soulful take on HRT and menopause
07:51 - Why you don't feel like yourself
27:57 - Perimenopause rage, grief, and exhaustion
33:59 - Why your menopause symptoms won't ease
36:21 - Free gift + The Soulstead
36:56 - Your body hasn't betrayed you
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
If "finding your purpose" isn't working...if nothing you do feels like it matters, if you sense there's a woman you were meant to become and haven't yet met, this episode names what's really happening underneath that ache. It's the seventh and final key in the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul...for women in midlife and the second half of life ready for the deeper truth about meaning, purpose, and the life their Soul has been waiting to live.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - What no one taught you about midlife
01:35 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
02:25 - The signs you keep dismissing
05:20 - How you became someone you don't recognize
11:07 - The truth about reinventing yourself in midlife
19:25 - A practice to meet the woman waiting
24:15 - The one question that changes everything
27:19 - Free guide + community
29:10 - The woman you came here to become
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
If your boundaries keep failingβ¦if you keep saying yes when you mean no, second-guessing every decision, and asking everyone except yourself what to do...the problem isn't a lack of willpower or the right answer. There's a deeper knowing within you, and tapping into it is what will help you hold those boundaries and strengthen so much more within yourself. In this episode of Soul Knows the Way...Key 6 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul...we look at the most accurate boundary instrument you have, and what becomes possible when you finally begin trusting it again.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - Your Boundaries Aren't the Problem
01:04 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
03:02 - Signs You've Stopped Listening to Yourself
09:35 - How Your Soul Actually Speaks to You
21:54 - Setting Boundaries From a Place of Knowing
28:27 - How to Use Oracle Cards for Intuition 3
6:59 - Your Free Gift of Oracle Cards
44:30 - The Voice Within You All Along
π RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
Soul's Journey Oracle Deck Used in Video*
Centering-Grounding-Presencing Video
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
*Amazon affiliate link, creating no additional cost to you if you purchase upon using it.
Did you know your unspoken words could be poisoning you? Why do so many women in the second half of life still bite their tongues, even when we have so much to say? In this episode of Soul Knows the Way, Kim Marie names the silencing every woman has inherited, and what happens to a woman's body, relationships, and Soul when she finally starts to speak. This is Key 5 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - Why women stay quiet in midlife
01:51 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
03:24 - The symptoms of unspoken words
09:16 - The history that silenced women's voices
12:28 - The throat chakra and its healing
15:21 - The power of the Crone
17:41 - How to open your voice in midlife
33:59 - Your free guide + the Soulstead
35:50 - Say it anyway
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
You've tried to love yourself...the affirmations, the self-care, the journaling, all of it. And if you're a woman in midlife or the second half of life, feeling disconnected from love itself, you've likely sensed that the usual "love yourself" advice never actually works. This is Key 4 of the 7 Keys to Reclaim Your Soul, and it points to what you were never taught about love.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - The Love You've Been Missing
01:31 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
01:52 - Why "Love Yourself" Practices Never Land
09:05 - What Loss Taught Me About Real Love
18:57 - Healing Soul-Sickness Through Love
24:40 - True Self-Love and How to Practice It
32:52 - Free 7 Keys Guide + The Soulstead Community
33:42 - You're Already Made of It
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
People-pleasing can destroy midlife women. Most women in the second half of life have spent decades looking outside themselves for permission, direction, and answers. Feeling lost, unsure, second-guessing, asking everyone else first... it's exhausting, and it slowly disconnects us from our own knowing. This is Key 3 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul, and it's about something subtler and more powerful than the conventional version of empowerment. Thereβs a kind of humility almost no one talks about that turns out to be the doorway home.
β¨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul β 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.
π Kim Marie
π₯ 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.
π IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - Why You Stopped Trusting Yourself
01:29 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
02:54 - Signs of People-Pleasing in Midlife
05:34 - How I Outsourced My Own Authority
14:57 - Why the Cost Gets Steeper Now
20:09 - An Important Element of True Empowerment
25:04 - When Frustration Becomes Information
28:57 - A Practice to Reclaim What's Yours
34:20 - Finding Empowerment in Day-to-Day
37:14 - The Question of Worthiness
38:08 - Your Free Tools to Begin
38:36 - The Woman You've Always Been
π 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.
πΏ EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE
π¬ GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here
MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.
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