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 self-abandonment 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, people pleasing, 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
#88 - The Rejection Wound Behind Your People Pleasing
You've done the mindset work. You know your patterns. And your body still braces when someone says no.In this episode, I share the moment my rejection wound was planted, how it turned into 35 years of people pleasing and self-abandonment...
#87 - Why You Keep Buying Programs and Still Feel Stuck (hint: Nervous System)
You've spent thousands on programs, coaches, and courses trying to figure yourself out. So why does it still feel like something's missing?In this episode, I'm getting honest about what it's really costing you — in money, time, and espec...
#86 - Labour Energy vs. Life Force Energy: The Pelvic Floor as the Seat of Creation
What if shifting your energy helps you keep producing, achieving, holding it all together from a place of vitality and not depletion?This episode is about the difference between labour energy and life force energy, and what happens when ...
#85 - What a Bicycle Accident Taught Me About Nervous System Healing
Have you ever ignored what your body was trying to tell you until it forced you to stop?Ten days ago, Kena had a bicycle accident — and what followed wasn't a story about pushing through, but about finally, fully listening. This...
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