In this season 1 finale, I guide you through a gentle reflection ritual to help you close out 2025 with intention. Bring your journal, light a candle, play some music, and create a space that feels nourishing and pleasurable. This is your moment to pause, reflect, shed, and integrate before stepping into the new year. A soft, spacious, voice-note style ritual to honour everything you moved through and shed this year.

If this episode resonates with you, share it with a friend, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. Invitation to come join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, my free Facebook community for women redefining what this chapter looks and feels like.

I also want to give a special 'shout-out' to the hubster, who is my podcast producer. Grateful for his patience helping me fine-tune each episode.

Sending love x

Full moon blessings! This episode is especially for the woman who's shedding her old skin and has no idea who she's becoming but can feel the spark of it under the surface.

I share more about my own year of pausing, shedding, recalibrating, supporting others, and sitting in the messy, scared in-between. I know that before a breakthrough there's usually a breakdown, even though it can be uncomfortable...

And the Pheonix fire that is 2025 has been uncomfortable AF! But like the Phoenix, we rise again. Coz if not now, then when...

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. Invitation to come join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, my free Facebook community for women redefining what this chapter looks and feels like.

Sending love x

In this episode, I share a quiet reflection that I've been pondering lately - have we stopped dreaming?
As I looked back on 2025, I realised how many of my own dreams slipped into the background without me even noticing. And how common this is for so many women in midlife.

This episode is an invitation to pause, check in with yourself, and reconnect with the desires you may have pressed pause on.
And if you’re ready to dream again, I’m hosting a vision board workshop in January called Envision Her. It's created to help you reconnect with the woman you’re becoming, coz if not now, then when?

If this episode resonated with you, share it with ​a friend​, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. Invitation to come join ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠⁠⁠⁠, my free Facebook community for women redefining what this chapter looks and feels like.

​Sending love x

In this episode, I share a very vulnerable personal story, probably one of the most vulnerable stories I've shared on the podcast to date.

As this episode is released on the Women For Change G20 Shutdown here in South Africa (21 November), I felt called to add my voice to the conversation around gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide, which continues to impact women every single day. I also share some of the shocking statistics, numbers we cannot ignore.

I open up about a relationship I was in during my early twenties, the signs I ignored, the fear I lived with, and the moment I knew I had to leave. I speak about the control, the threats, the hypervigilance that followed, and the long shadow an abusive relationship can cast, even years after you walk away.

This is not an easy story for me to tell. But I believe in the power of speaking up and the power of storytelling for healing, advocacy, and connection.

If my story reaches even one woman who needs to hear it, then sharing it is worth it.

If you're currently in a relationship that feels unsafe or controlling, I know leaving is never simple, but you deserve safety, love, and a life where your voice is yours. Please reach out to ⁠Women for Change⁠. 

We cannot stay silent. We cannot look away. Coz if not now, then when?

If this episode resonated with you, share it with ​a friend​, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. Invitation to come join ⁠⁠⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠⁠⁠, my free Facebook community for women redefining what this chapter looks and feels like.

​Sending love x

In this episode of The Midlife Sessions, I'm joined by one of my clients, empowerment coach and author, Bianca Johnson, whose debut book All of These Lines: My Story of Pregnancy, Loss and Hope is a beautiful journey of truth, healing, and courage. For more on the book, and to order your copy visit https://alloftheselines.com.

We talk about what it really takes to bring a story to life, not just the discipline of writing, but the emotional, spiritual, and deeply human process of saying, 'I’m ready to be seen'.

Bianca shares how midlife shaped her voice, how vulnerability became her teacher, and what she learned about trusting herself through the messy act of creation.

If you've been feeling the pull to share your story, write your book, start your business, or speak your truth, this episode is your loving nudge to stop waiting for the perfect moment. Coz if not now, then when?

Come join ⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠, my free Facebook community for women redefining what this chapter looks and feels like.

And, if this episode resonated with you, share it with ​a friend​, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. 

​Sending love x

​How to connect with Bianca YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoZmAuezxTQf0TXcMGFAyA Instagram https://www.instagram.com/i.am.biancajohnson/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/bianca-johnson-empowerment/ Facebook https://web.facebook.com/i.am.biancajohnson/

In this episode, I get real about something we don't talk about enough the loneliness that can sneak up on us in midlife.

I share my own reflections on how friendships shift as we grow, why connection still matters more than ever, and how tending to our friendships doesn't have to feel like another to-do.

If you've been feeling the quiet ache of missing your people or wondering where to find them again, this one's for you.

Because midlife isn't meant to be a solo mission. It's a call to choose connection, joy, and community, one coffee and one voice note at a time.

Come join The Midlife Experiment, my free Facebook community for women redefining what this chapter looks and feels like.

Who knows, you might just meet your next soul-sister there.

And, if this episode resonated with you, share it with ​o​ne of your midlife friend​s, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. 

​Sending love x

In this episode, I talk about something that's been showing up every time I sit down to record this podcast. That uncomfortable tug-of-war between wanting to do the thing that lights you up and still finding it hard to begin.
I share a powerful insight from a video my coach, Liane, sent me, and how it completely shifted the way I see resistance.

What if resistance isn’t trying to stop us at all. What if it’s showing us exactly what matters most.

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. 

I'd also love to invite you to join my free Facebook community, ⁠⁠⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠⁠⁠.

Sending love x

PS You can find Liane Elle on Instagram

In this episode, I explain what midlife is from my own experience and perspecive, and, it may not be what you think.

I speak about the myths we’ve been sold about midlife, the so-called “invisibility era” (and why it might actually be your superpower), and what I call The Midlife Striptease, the beautiful, messy process of shedding who you’ve been so you can remember who you really are.

If you’re feeling the shift, the restlessness, the desire to come home to yourself, this one’s for you.

And, if this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world to me, and it helps other midlife women find this space. 

I'd also love to invite you to join my free Facebook community, ⁠⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠⁠.

Sending love x

In this week’s episode, I invite you to take action!

You've listened. You've nodded. You've felt that spark, that goosebumpy, heart-thudding aliveness that whispers if not now, then when?

But this time, it's different. Coz this isn't about waiting for perfect conditions or feeling "ready." This is about saying YES to the woman you're becoming, even when it's messy, even when it's uncertain, even when your voice trembles.

In this episode, I speak about:

• The sacred moment between who you are and who you're becoming

• How to recognise activation vs. anxiety

• Why readiness isn't a feeling but rather a decision, and

• How to take one small, imperfect step forward today

So if you've been waiting for a sign, consider this your sign, your nudge, your spark. Because you don't need another podcast to inspire you. You just need to make that move!

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend, hit subscribe, and leave a review. It means the world, and it helps other midlife women find this space. I'd also love to invite you to join my free facebook community, ⁠The Midlife Experiment⁠.

Sending love x

In this powerful and tender conversation, I sit down with Di Atherton, a certified death doula, grief guide, and Reiki Master, to explore the quieter forms of grief we experience in midlife.

Midlife brings so many transitions: menopause, changing bodies, children leaving home, ageing parents, shifting roles, and evolving identities. It's a season of endings and beginnings, a series of small deaths that often go unspoken.

Together, we dive into: - What it really means to grieve beyond the loss of a loved one
- How to honour the grief of lost identities and past versions of ourselves
- Why feeling your feelings is the most radical form of self-trust
- Rituals to help you navigate endings with more grace and softness
- How to reframe the narrative of ageing and step into midlife with power

This episode is an invitation to slow down, exhale, and let yourself be human. Because sometimes, before we can rise, we need to grieve.

Connect with Di

Come hang out in my free Facebook community The Midlife Experiment.

https://www.facebook.com/DiAthertonSpiralPath/