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Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#62 - Remembering Who You Are & The Truth About Emotions
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to lose yourself in the roles you’ve been playing for years?Mother. Partner. Professional. The strong one. The helper. The one who holds everything together.In this first part of my conversation with Kimber Hardick, we explore what it truly means to remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations, and “shoulds.”Midlife has a way of bringing radical honesty. Suddenly the patterns, emotional reactions, and stories we’ve carried for decades become visible.And that’s where real freedom begins.Kimber s...
2026-03-13
1h 00
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#61 - Building Self-Trust To Experience Real Intimacy
Ever leave a conversation thinking, “Why didn’t I say what I really felt?”That tight throat. The replay in your mind. The quiet loneliness that follows.In this episode, we explore the hidden truth most midlife women don’t see: intimacy doesn’t fade because love is missing, it fades when self-trust is.We talk about people-pleasing, ignoring red flags, staying too long, and the deep healing journey of rebuilding trust with yourself.Because midlife empowerment is about becoming aligned.When you trust your body, your voice, your intuition...
2026-03-05
14 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#60 - When Success Isn’t Enough & Speaking Your Truth Frees You
You built the life. You survived the heartbreak. You carried the shame.And yet… something still feels heavy.In this powerful conversation, I sit with Candi Rose — author, speaker, single mother, and woman who transformed a past filled with trauma, addiction, and secrecy into a life of purpose and midlife empowerment.We talk about the shame so many women carry in silence. The identities we perform to be chosen. The success that looks impressive but doesn’t heal the wound. And the moment midlife becomes less of a crisis… and more of a spiritual awakenin...
2026-02-25
58 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#59 - Experiencing Every Day Life Through Love
What if love isn’t something you find… but something you are?On my birthday, after a deep physical reset and days of surrendering to what my body needed, I found myself reflecting on one thing: love. Not just romantic love — but the kind that expands you, cracks your heart open, and changes how you move through life.In this intimate episode, I share how yoga, ancestral ritual, and Neuroepigenetic Breathing (NEB) reshaped my healing journey and spiritual awakening. How I moved from fear-based conditioning into embodied love. How self-trust in midlife becomes the doorway to fre...
2026-02-21
28 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#58 - Midlife Reinvention: A Loving Shift To Live With More Ease
When discomfort shows up, do you rush to fix it… or can you stay? In this episode, we explore the quiet power of becoming the observer — the woman who no longer lets her mind run the show. Through real-life moments and grounded reflection, you’ll discover how choosing presence over judgment shifts your entire midlife healing journey. This is about self-trust, emotional freedom, and remembering the steady awareness beneath the noise — so you can meet life with more softness, clarity, and power.✨ In This Episode You’ll LearnHow to interrupt judgment and...
2026-02-12
13 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#57 - 7 Ways You Stop Giving Unnecessary F*cks
Most women don’t give too many fucks because they care too much — they do it because, at some point, it kept them safe.In this episode of Midlife Butterfly, Kena Siu opens a raw, grounded conversation about what it really means to stop giving unnecessary fucks in midlife — without becoming numb, cold, or disconnected. This isn’t about rebellion or attitude. It’s about something deeper that begins in the body, not the mind.For many women, midlife brings a quiet but undeniable shift. After years of being the good one, the reliable one, the one wh...
2026-02-04
21 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#56 - The Fertile Void: When Life Slows You Down on Purpose
What if the void you feel it’s guiding you to something great? If you’re in a season where you’re not moving forward, but you’re not moving backward either… this episode is for you.In this deeply grounding conversation, Kena speaks to the fertile void — that uncomfortable, quiet, in-between space so many women in midlife try to rush through or fix. The pause after a divorce. The stillness after a big move. The winter that follows an awakening.Through lived experience, embodied wisdom, and soulful truth, Kena reframes stagnation as gestation. Th...
2026-01-28
18 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#55 - You Are Not Behind, Nor Stuck; You Are Living In Cycles
What if you’re not stuck… you’re simply in Winter?In this episode, Kena invites you to slow down and remember something your body already knows: you are cyclical by nature. If midlife has you feeling quieter, foggier, or out of sync with the world’s expectations, this conversation is for you.Through the lens of cyclical living — nature’s seasons, energy rhythms, and a woman’s inner landscape — Kena shares why Winter is not a time for doing and pushing, but a sacred phase of gestation. A time for stillness, reflection, and planting intentions roote...
2026-01-20
20 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#54 - Reclaim Your Voice: Become Sovereign in Truth and Body
What if the healing you’ve been searching for isn’t something you need to find… but something you need to express?In this intimate conversation, Kena sits down with voice liberation coach and sound healer Skylar Temple Singer to explore the profound connection between voice, nervous system, womb, and identity — especially for women in midlife navigating reinvention, loss, or awakening.Together, they explore how losing your voice isn’t about speaking less, it’s about disconnecting from your soul’s truth. And how reclaiming it can dissolve old conditioning, regulate the nervous system, and awaken deep se...
2026-01-14
59 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#53 - Are You A Perfectionist? Know What’s Behind Holding You Back
Perfectionism is often praised, but what if it’s hidden fear?In this episode of Midlife Butterfly, Kena shares a raw reflection on perfectionism as a survival response rooted in the fear of rejection, judgment, and not belonging. This conversation it’s about understanding what your nervous system has been trying to protect all along. Through personal stories, including the one-year anniversary of this podcast, Kena reveals how perfectionism quietly keeps women stuck, invisible, and procrastinating, even when they feel deeply called to create, express, and be seen. Beneath the need to “get it right,” there is...
2026-01-09
16 min
Happiness Unscripted
Choosing Growth Over Comfort: Reflections from Kristin's Conversation with Kena Siu
Send us a textIn the final episode of Season One of Happiness Unscripted, host Kristin DeSouza reflects on her impactful conversation with Kena Siu, the Empowerment Guide behind Midlife Butterfly and the host of Midlife Butterfly Podcast. Kristin discusses the key lessons she learned from Kena about self-love, radical acceptance, and the courage to grow beyond comfort. Key takeaways include the importance of accepting all parts of ourselves, becoming our own best friend, and the never-ending journey of personal evolution. Kena's journey through multiple personal transformations, including her reflections on self-compassion, somatic awareness, and the sacred...
2025-12-31
39 min
A Beautiful Fix | Midlife Burnout, Human Design & Reinvention
Is Hidden Shame Running the Show Behind the Scenes?
I LOVE hearing from you! Drop me a text! 💬Is Hidden Shame Running the Show Behind the Scenes?Shame doesn’t always show up as shame. Sometimes it disguises itself as overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or playing small. In this powerful panel conversation hosted by Dana Fradella, I sat down with a group of brilliant women to talk about the many faces of shame — the conscious, the unconscious, and the ones we didn’t know we were still carrying.We talked about what it really means to release shame, how it lingers in the bo...
2025-12-31
1h 13
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
52 - How to avoid pushy resolutions to live in gratitude and intention
What if gratitude wasn’t about pretending this year was fine and intentions weren’t another thing to get right?As the year comes to a close, many women feel an invisible weight: to be grateful, to celebrate, to set resolutions… even when something inside feels off. In this episode, Kena invites you into a quieter, deeper reflection — one that moves away from external achievements and toward what actually shifted inside you. Those inner moments no one applauded.Kena explores why traditional resolutions often fade and offers a different way of approaching the next chap...
2025-12-31
26 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#51 - Releasing Shame To Reclaim Your True Self
Shame doesn’t always scream. Sometimes it lives quietly in your body. In the moments you dim yourself, stay silent, or question your worth.In this episode of Midlife Butterfly, I’m sharing a powerful and honest conversation from a Shameless Panel hosted by my pod sister, Dana Hunter Fradella. Together, we open a raw, compassionate dialogue about the shame so many women carry — especially in midlife — and how it shapes our identities, choices, and sense of belonging.This conversation is for the woman who has done “everything right,” yet still feels a heaviness she can’t quite...
2025-12-23
1h 12
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#50 - From Family Triggers to Inner Freedom
In this 50th episode of Midlife Butterfly, Kena speaks from the middle of life itself — being with family, navigating transitions, honoring her body’s timing, and choosing presence over pressure. She shares what it looks like to listen to your energy instead of forcing consistency, to pause when your heart isn’t fully there, and to trust that your truth lands when it’s ready.This episode explores midlife empowerment through everyday moments: family dynamics, emotional triggers, boundaries, and the choice to approach others — and yourself — from love without self-abandonment. Kena invites you to notice sensations before stories, to...
2025-12-18
41 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#49 - Choosing Presence And Let Gratitude Lead
When life feels loud, heavy, or uncertain, gratitude becomes the doorway back to yourself — not as a cliché, but as an embodied practice that shifts your entire day.In this heartfelt episode, Kena joins her pod sisters for an intimate conversation on what gratitude really looks like for a woman in midlife navigating change. You’ll hear stories, laughter, and practical rituals — from body scans to micro-moments, from “observe, don’t absorb” to choosing the energy you bring into the world.This isn’t the performative gratitude you’ve been taught. It’s the kind that reconnects you...
2025-12-09
23 min
Inner Spark
The Shameless Woman Panel: A Conversation on Releasing Shame, Remembering Your Worth and Building an Extrodinary Life
Send a textIn this deeply healing and electrifying episode I sit down with my pod sisters for The Shameless Woman Panel — a raw, truth-telling conversation about shame, womanhood, embodiment, belonging, and the power of speaking our stories out loud.What unfolds is a multi-layered, soul-stirring exploration of how shame begins in childhood, compounds across years, and quietly shapes how women show up in the world — and more importantly, how we break free.Through personal stories, humor, spiritual wisdom, somatic tools, journaling practices, intuitive self-talk, sensual reclamation, and powerful “shame interception,” this panel shows wh...
2025-12-06
1h 14
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#48 - Your Soul's Blueprint: Remembering Who You Already Are with Jeanne Comeau
There’s a moment in midlife when everything you thought you knew about yourself starts to fall apart… and even though it feels terrifying, something inside whispers, This is the beginning. In today’s episode, we explore what your soul has been trying to tell you all along — that you didn’t come here to chase purpose… you came here to remember. Joined by metaphysical guide and evolutionary astrologer Jeanne Comeau, we dive into your soul’s blueprint, the emotional patterns you incarnated with, and the identity shifts that awaken during midlife. We also go straight into th...
2025-12-03
1h 12
Inner Spark
Gathering in Gratitude: Coming Home to Your Body This Holiday Season
Send a textAs we move into the holiday season, emotions can feel heavier, louder, and more complicated than they look on the outside. In today’s special Thanksgiving episode, I sat down with two of my pod sisters, Kena and Jennifer, for a warm, honest, and deeply grounding conversation about gratitude, body awareness, boundaries, and the truth of what the holidays bring up for so many of us.Together, we explore:Why gratitude is a year-round practice—not a one-day eventHow to listen to your body before the holiday chaos beginsWhat it means to “...
2025-11-27
25 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#47 - The Root of Your Boundaries: Healing the Patterns That Hold You Back
When the holidays arrive… does your body tighten before your mind even catches up? You’re not crazy, you’re intuitive. And your body has been whispering the truth long before you learned how to listen. In this short and potent episode, we explore the root of your boundaries — not the surface “say no” version, but the deeper identity wounds, people-pleasing patterns, and protective mechanisms your nervous system created to keep you safe.This is where midlife empowerment truly begins: in understanding why you react the way you do… and choosing something different. You’ll hear...
2025-11-26
06 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#46 - Reclaiming the New You To Live a Fun & Creative Life with Jen Chambers
When life strips away everything you thought you were… who do you become next?In this raw and breathtaking conversation, Jen Chambers shares the story of waking up at 15 with her entire memory erased — no past, no identity, no sense of who she was supposed to be. What followed wasn’t just recovery; it was a full-blown rebirth. Together, we explore the messy beauty of midlife reinvention, the deep wisdom stored in the body, and how choosing yourself — even in the face of fear, illness, or uncertainty — becomes the most sacred act of freedom.Jen opens...
2025-11-19
58 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#45 - Why Listening to Your Body Changes Everything
Ever felt torn between what your mind says you should do and what your body whispers you need? In this raw, heart-opening episode, Kena shares why honouring yourself matters. From changing her own event plans to reclaiming calm and alignment, she invites you to explore what true coherence feels like: when your thoughts, emotions, and actions finally agree.By the end, you’ll remember that honouring yourself isn’t selfish, but a way to find peace within. ✨ In This Episode You’ll LearnWhy honouring yourself brings instant ne...
2025-11-11
11 min
Happiness Unscripted
Exploring Trauma-Informed Coaching with Kena Siu
Send us a textExploring Trauma-Informed Coaching with Kena SiuIn this episode of Happiness Unscripted, Kristin DeSouza hosts Kena Siu, a self-love and empowerment guide behind Midlife Butterfly. Kena specializes in helping women navigate through life's challenging transitions such as divorce, loss, and soul awakening using trauma-informed coaching practices like shadow work, inner child work, and somatic awareness. The discussion dives into what these practices entail, how they help in healing and personal transformation, and the importance of understanding and processing emotions to avoid physical manifestations of unresolved feelings. Kena also shares...
2025-11-06
31 min
Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation
#44 - First You, Without Guilt: Reclaiming Your Energy and Inner Peace
If you’ve spent years fixing, organizing, and caretaking before you even check in with yourself—this one is your homecoming. We name the quiet ache of overgiving and replace it with a grounded, guilt-free “first you” practice that turns scarcity into overflow. Through simple morning rituals, energetic boundaries, and self-honoring choices, you’ll feel how awareness shifts your entire day—and your life. We talk midlife empowerment, identity shifts, and the standards that rise when you finally remember your worth. By the end, you’ll know how to set your tone for the day, protect your energy like it’s sacred (b...
2025-11-05
22 min
Her Next Level with Dana Hunter Fradella | Midlife, Manifestation, Feminism & Wealth
Episode 46: The Shameless Woman Panel: A Conversation on Releasing Shame, Remembering Your Worth and Building an Extraordinary Life
Text me what you love + suggestions to make GWR even better!So you've built a strong recovery foundation and now you’re ready to break through life’s glass ceilings and create next-level success that feels as good as it looks? I can help you get there. Book your conversation here.___Your shame just might be killing you, and it’s past time to step into your unapologetic role as a Shameless Woman. The Shameless Woman Panel is a raw, liberating conversation about shedding the shame that’s been ru...
2025-11-04
1h 11
Happiness Unscripted
Kena Siu: Navigating Life's Transitions with Midlife Butterfly
Send us a textKena Siu: Navigating Life's Transitions with Midlife ButterflyIn this episode of 'Happiness Unscripted,' host Kristin DeSouza talks with Kena Siu, the self-love and empowerment guide behind Midlife Butterfly. Kena shares her journey through significant life transitions, including multiple marriages, moving to different countries, and profound personal losses. She discusses how these experiences led her to launch the Midlife Butterfly brand and become a guide for women navigating midlife transformations. Kena emphasizes the importance of self-love, breaking free from old patterns, and embracing life's 'sacred in-between' moments. She...
2025-10-30
48 min