Midlife Butterfly: Stop Self-Abandoning & People Pleasing by Healing Your Nervous System — Feel Alive Again
Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women who are tired of abandoning themselves just to hold everything else together. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide, this podcast explores emotional truth, nervous system healing, self-remembrance, feminine aliveness, and what it really means to come home to yourself after years of over-functioning, caregiving, people-pleasing, and survival mode.
If you've been feeling emotionally exhausted, disconnected from yourself, overwhelmed by everyone else's needs, or unsure who you are beyond your roles and responsibilities — you are not alone.
Each episode meets you where you are — in the exhaustion, the confusion, the quiet longing — and gently guides you back to yourself through nervous system awareness, embodied reflection, and deeply honest conversation.
This is a space for women navigating midlife awakening, emotional burnout, identity shifts, relationship patterns, self-worth, feminine healing, and the quiet longing to finally feel alive again.
You don't need to become someone new. You just need to remember who you truly are.
🔗 Connect with Kena:
🦋 Instagram: @midlifebutterfly
🌐 Website: midlifebutterfly.ca
Much love 💜, Kena Siu
Midlife Butterfly: Stop Self-Abandoning & People Pleasing by Healing Your Nervous System — Feel Alive Again
Latest Episodes
#74 - From Functioning to Feeling: How to Reclaim Your Aliveness in Midlife
Are you moving through your days efficiently — but feeling strangely empty inside? What if the life you've built looks fine from the outside, but something underneath has gone quiet?This episode is an invitation to stop, feel, and ask th...
#73 - Reconnecting with Pleasure in Midlife: Intimacy, Shame & the Path to Feminine Aliveness with Trina Read
Have you ever felt completely disconnected from your own body — like pleasure was something that happened to other women, not you?What if the shame you carry around sex isn't a personal failing — but a pattern you were never...
#72 - The Slow Fade: How People-Pleasing Steals Your Identity
You didn't lose yourself all at once. It happened one small yes at a time.In this episode, we trace it back — to the exact moment the slow fade begins, and why most women can't pinpoint when they stopped being themselves.People-pl...
#71 - Why High-Achieving Women Feel Exhausted from Self-Abandonment
Many high-achieving women think they’re exhausted because they’re doing too much. But beneath the over-functioning, caregiving, people-pleasing, and constant responsibility, there’s often something deeper happening: self-abandonment.In t...
#70 - The Real Reason You Reach for Food — And What Your Body Knows
What if the moment you reach for food isn't about hunger at all — but a quiet cry from a part of you that's never been fully met?In this soul-opening conversation, Kena sits down with Lizzie Merritt — certified life coach, bestselling au...
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