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. There’s a kind of humility almost no one talks about that turns out to be the doorway home.

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💜 Kim Marie

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📍 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

🎙 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.

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