Your Magical Midlife
Calling all wildflowers, late bloomers, seekers and dreamers: Your Magical Midlife is for women 40+ who never (quite) fit in. I'm Kate Higgins, a licensed therapist turned coach. I walk women through the portal of midlife using four archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empress and The Crone-each phase bringing wounds and wisdom. This podcast is part confessional, part advice column, and part deep dive interviews with untamed woman living lives of their own creation. If you're tired of midlife content geared towards losing weight and "fixing" yourself, you're in the right place. When I was struggling through menopause and the reckoning that is aging, the only support available to me was focused on preserving the 35 year old version of me-insisting that I should stay frozen there in that "ideal". I couldn't find anything geared towards the emotional and spiritual challenges I was facing –let alone anywhere that was CELEBRATING it. So I decided to create it myself from scratch. Midlife is a Portal, and I'm here to witness and support you as you dance, leap (or even) limp through it. It's okay. I got you. Check out my website: www.yourmagicalmidlife.com Follow me on Instagram: @yourmagicalmidlife Book your FREE 20 minute coaching curiosity call: https://calendly.com/kate-katehigginslcsw/curiosity-call
Episodes
In this episode I talk about something I’ve been thinking about for years: what happens when we freeze those expressions with Botox.
Research shows that Botox doesn’t just change how we look — it can actually mute our ability to fully feel certain emotions and can make it harder for children to learn emotional intelligence by watching our faces.
I’m not here to shame anyone who chooses Botox. I get the pressure. But this is exactly w...
Fun isn’t frivolous. Fun is medicine.
And play is a form of prayer.
The wild, silly, filled-with-glee Maiden inside you never actually left. She’s just been waiting for permission to come out and play again.
This episode is your invitation to stop being so responsible for five minutes and remember what it feels like to be ridiculous, joyful, and fully alive.
What’s one silly, playful thing you’re going to do this week just because...
We talk about a lot of losses in midlife — but we rarely talk about the quiet grief of saying goodbye to the girl we used to be.
There’s a real ache that comes when you realize that sparkling, reckless version of yourself is gone. The one who still believed she had unlimited time. The one who hadn’t yet been told to shrink.
This grief is sacred. It deserves to be felt, not rushed past or spiritual-bypassed. Because honoring it is wh...
From a young age, little girls are told to quiet down, be polite, and stop being “too much.” We trade their sparkle for “appropriate” and their freedom for approval.
In this episode I share my own story of rebelling against those expectations — goth phase, purple phase, pink phase, burlesque stages and all — and the quiet grief so many of us carry when we realize the wild girl we used to be has been buried under years of “shoulds.”
T...
I just got back from Santa Fe, where I led a private Craft Your Crown day with one incredible client, and I’m still feeling the afterglow.
Midlife can be lonely. Kids launch, parents pass, careers go stale, and sometimes even longtime friendships fade, leaving you wondering where you belong now.
But here’s what I know for sure: magic happens when women gather.
Real women. Unconventional women. The ones who skipped the script, who are ...
This is a vulnerable share. I am presenting this story at an event in Santa Fe called Third Act Quest created by Diana Dunbar-Place, an amazing woman who I interviewed on this podcast (E36)
This story is about the expectations placed on girls by their mothers and what happens when girls make choices for themselves.
The doors are officially open for Empress Awakened Immersion- a four week online journey through The Maiden The Mother...
Stress is at an all time high, look at the news and it's completely overwhelming- if you're feeling "flakier" you are not alone. Breathe, babe
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Join the waitlist for Empress Awakened Immersion-we begin June 3rd: https://yourmagicalmidlife.com/empress-awakened
Book me to come to you so that YOU can Craft Your Crown: https://yourmagicalmidlife.com/craft-your-crown
I'm so tired of people insisting that midlife is some kind of crisis. Midlife offers the opportunity of a lifetime-the opportunity to step fully into the woman you were meant to be.
Follow me on Instagram @yourmagicalmidlife
Join the waitlist for Empress Awakened Immersion-we begin June 3rd: https://yourmagicalmidlife.com/empress-awakened
Book me to come to you so that YOU can Craft Your Crown: https://yourmagicalmidlife.com/cra...
A wedding, baby shower, graduation, or 21st birthday should never be the last time a woman is surrounded by community, witnessed, and joyfully celebrated.
Society throws confetti for the young—but what if we threw just as much (or more) for the women who have actually lived long enough to become magnificent?
What if menopause, divorce, the empty nest, retirement, recovery from illness or even widowhood were honored with ceremony and ...
Ai is everywhere and quickly taking over.
ChatGPT’s great for quick facts or recipe hacks, but as a replacement for a therapist or life coach? 👀
This week, I did a little experiment. I talked back and forth with Chat about a (completely fabricated) emotional problem.
Chat validated me up and down the wazoo, yessed me to pieces, told me I was 100% valid, totally in the right
Sure. Chat is always available, free and (annoyingly) perky ...
I've been in the mental health field for over 25 years and I have some bad news: traditional therapy doesn't really help. Talking about the same problems, retreading the same stories, isn't that effective. What does help ? Take a listen
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Join the waitlist for Empress Awakened Immersion-we begin June 3rd: https://yourmagicalmidlife.com/empress-awakened
After 77 episodes and a necessary (but longer than intended) pause, I'm returning with this soft relaunch episode. I open up about the real reason for my absence: processing the death of my father and giving myself the space to grieve.
Now, with a full heart and renewed fire, I'm moving forward—celebrating women in midlife through Craft Your Crown: a powerful invitation to heal old wounds, claim your gifts, and step i...
Hi it's Kate-I am in the process of an exciting rebrand and relaunch of Your Magical Midlife The Podcast. I will be back on September 4th with a refocus on walking you through the four feminine archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empress, The Crone. I will have new guests, new episodes and a new look ! In the meantime, be sure to check out seasons 1-3 and follow me on Instagram for the latest and greatest
Much love and se...
On Mother's Day I led a healing ceremony for women who had walked the childless or childfree path by chance, choice or somewhere in between. I was really proud of what I managed to offer and blown away by the vulnerability and open hearts of the women who showed up.
This week, I am sharing the mediation that I led-it's for women in peri or post menopause to reconnect them to their creativity, their vitality and their sacr...
“Intimacy Expert to Millions” — Susan Bratton is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships.
Flashes of brilliance pop like paparazzi as Susan rolls out one relationship epiphany after another. When she describes how love and intimacy can transcend what media portrays, you see the path to more intimacy and pleasure than you’ve been getting.
Whether you enter Susan’s world through a sexual health problem you n...
MJ Vachon is a licensed clinical social worker and coach of over 30 years. She specializes in helping clients to build a foundation of self care. In an increasingly stressful and overstimulating world, MJ offers her clients her signature "NEST" toolkit and works with them to re-regulate their nervous system, minimize their scroll time and develop alternate coping skills to shopping, scrolling and relying on weed and wine....
Elizabeth Hammond is a leadership coach with a twist-she doesn't coach her clients to play the game and fit in, she coaches her clients to stand out ! Elizabeth's signature We Queens Leadership Framework™, unlocks the codes to collapse time for your GROWTH as a skilled leader, a visionary entrepreneur, and a woman ready to whisper her vision to redefine her legacy... THEN when she's ready... GO SHOUT about it FROM w...
Tracy Gold is a NYC based stylist and designer who wants women to feel beautiful, comfortable and (yes) sexy as their bodies shift and change in peri and menopause. We have an amazing conversation about aging and personal style.
Check out Tracy's beautiful collection here: https://tracygoldnewyork.us/
Get Tracy's best style tips for morphing bodies here: https://tracygoldnewyork.us/blogs/news
Lesli Baker is the creator of the Instagram and Substack platform In Our Hag Era for shes and theys of a certain RAGE! Burly folx 45 +,this is a place to embrace aging, find like-minds, and share thoughts and feels.
She and I met under our burlesque alter egos Bettie Beelzebub (Leslie) and me (Beelzebabe) and we bonded not just over our similar names, but also in our love for alternative music, performing and aging well in an agis...
Amy Weinland Daughters is a keynote speaker, letter writer, satirist, sports journalist and author of Dear Dana: That time I went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter and You Cannot Mess This Up: A true story that never happened. She is absolutely convinced that when human beings connect individually in a meaningful way that nothing can separate them.
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