When everything that used to work… stops working
There comes a moment in many women’s lives — often in midlife — when the strategies that once helped us manage, succeed, or simply survive… begin to falter.
The routines, roles, and rhythms we’ve relied on no longer fit. Our emotional landscape shifts — sometimes subtly, sometimes like a tidal wave. Things that once felt manageable now bring us to our knees. We cry more. Or we can’t cry at all. We feel untethered, reactive, numb, or oddly distant from ourselves.
And for many, the most confusing part is this: nothing dramatic has happened. But everything feels different.
You’re Not Falling Apart - Something Deeper is Asking to Be Known
Midlife brings a convergence of transitions: hormonal shifts, changes in relationships or career, caregiving or loss, aging parents, empty nests (or lives that never included children), and a reckoning with time.
But there’s another layer. One that’s harder to name and often hidden beneath the logistics of life.
Many women I work with describe a quiet — or not-so-quiet — inner voice emerging. One that whispers:
“This isn’t who I am anymore.”
Or…
“There’s more to me than this.”
What begins as emotional overwhelm in midlife is often the body’s way of saying, you can’t keep pushing past your own truth. The coping strategies that helped you survive earlier chapters — perfectionism, people-pleasing, staying busy, staying silent — have done their job. But they’re no longer sustainable.
Because this next chapter is not about surviving. It’s about coming home to yourself.
The Unraveling is Sacred — Even If It’s Messy
What if this unraveling isn’t failure, but a kind of threshold?
What if the tears, the rage, the sense of emptiness or confusion are not problems to be fixed… but initiations?
In many traditions, midlife is a rite of passage — a liminal space between identities. A time when the “false self” starts to dissolve so that something more authentic, more whole, more rooted can emerge.
But in our culture, there’s so little space to honor this. Instead, we’re told to push through. To numb. To fix. To diet or rebrand or “find balance” as if we’re a business strategy.
What’s often needed isn’t more pressure or self-improvement. What’s needed is presence. Compassion. Witnessing. Ritual. Relationship. And time.
This Is the Work I Love
In my practice — Wild Woman Journeys — I hold space for women who are in this tender terrain. If you're looking for therapy for women in midlife, or support from someone who deeply understands this passage, I’m here.
I blend Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS), somatic therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and nature-based approaches to help you:
Reconnect with your body’s wisdom
Work with your parts (the inner voices and patterns we all carry)
Process old wounds
Listen to your deep inner truth
Whether you’re navigating grief, rage, identity shifts, or simply the quiet ache of something more, I offer a place to slow down, be witnessed, and heal.
You don’t need to be in crisis. You just need to be ready to listen.
Reach Out
If you're standing at the edge of something uncertain, something sacred — I invite you to reach out.
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This is your time. Let’s walk it together.
