121. After the Unraveling: How to Reconnect with Who You Really Are in Midlife

In this episode: midlife identity shift, feeling stuck, women over 40, personal reinvention, high-achieving women

✨ Show Notes:

You’ve unraveled the roles. You’ve let go of the hustle. You’ve stopped performing.

Now what?

In this raw, grounding episode of The School of Midlife, Laurie Reynoldson explores the space after the unraveling—when you’ve done the work to let go of who you’re not, but haven’t yet figured out who you really are.

If you’ve stopped being the overachiever, the people-pleaser, the approval-seeker—but feel lost in the in-between—this episode is for you.

💡 In This Episode:

• Why the midlife in-between space is wildly uncomfortable—and wildly necessary
• The myth of reinvention and why it can become just another performance
• What to do instead: a softer, sustainable way to reconnect with your real self
• The 3 most important questions to ask in midlife:
   ➤ What do you want?
   ➤ What does success mean to you?
   ➤ What does your best life actually look like?
• Why it’s OK (and necessary) to stay in the question before rushing to the answer
• A light intro to Human Design as a future tool to support identity alignment

🧭 Journal Prompts:

• What lights you up—even if it doesn’t make sense to anyone else?
• What drains you—mentally, physically, spiritually?
• What are you curious about—not good at, not known for, just curious?
• When did I first learn that being high-achieving made me valuable?
• What would I do differently if I trusted who I was becoming?

🔗 Links & Resources:

• 📩 DM “BECOMING” on Instagram or email with the same subject to explore coaching
• 🧳 Join the Best Life Retreat in Sun Valley (only 8 spots available!)
• 🎧 Listen to the two previous episodes in the “I Want to Feel Like Myself Again” series:
  • 120. Feeling "Off" in Midlife? Maybe You Were Never "That Woman" to Begin With
  • 119. Midlife Feels Off? It's Not Your Hormones--It's Something Deeper

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