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
MBP #82 - Leading From Pleasure: The Nervous System Shift To Stop Creating From Pressure
Are you creating from devotion, or are you creating from need?One question from my mentor cracked me wide open on a walk by the canal — and it's reshaping how I show up for my launch, my clients, and myself. 🦋 In this episode I'...
BPF #7 — The Art of Savouring: A Practice for Simple Pleasure
Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head. Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do the th...
#81 - From Self-Abandonment to Living in Pleasure: A Midlife Woman's Return to Her Body
You've spent years leading from the doing, the controlling, the checklist — and you're exhausted.Kena shares her own journey out of self-abandonment and people pleasing, into a life guided by her cycle, her body, and pleasure itself — an...
BPF #6 - A Practice for Releasing Stress
Butterfly Practice Fridays are short, intimate episodes designed to land in your body, not just your head.Consider this your weekly permission slip.Every Friday, a simple practice to help you come home to yourself. Press play. Do ...
#80 - Reclaim Your Worth: Ending Self-Abandonment to Remember Your Midlife Identity
Where in your life are you still living from the neck up — and what happens if you let your body answer instead?In this episode I sat down with Kamesha and Denise over at Wisdom in Bloom, and we went deep on what it actually costs to rec...
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