This episode is a transmission.
Not advice.

Not reassurance.

Not a map.

What looks like instability in midlife women is actually non-consent.

A refusal to keep settling.
A refusal to keep erasing ourselves to survive systems that were never built for us.

In this episode, I name a pattern I’m seeing everywhere —in my own life, in my friendships, in my work, and across society.

Brilliant, heart-centered women in midlife who appear to be “falling apart,” when what’s actually happening is a withdrawal of consent from:

• Old rules

• Old bargains

• Old identities

• Old definitions of success

This is for the women who are:

• Early

• In-between

• Done pretending they’re behind

• Unwilling to unknow what they see (no matter how uncomfortable it is)

If you’ve been tempted to apologize for where you are…for not having it figured out…for not fitting the standards you were handed…

Listen.

You are not broken.You are early.

Let this land slowly.