Midlife Butterfly: Stop Self-Abandoning & People Pleasing by Healing Your Nervous System — Feel Alive Again

Kena Siu
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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

  1. 1d ago

    BPF #3 - Nervous System Healing: How Midlife Women Start Loving Themselves Again

    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 thing. That's it. Feel alive again! Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    7 min

  2. 3d ago

    #77 - The Real Reason Midlife Women Struggle to Love Themselves

    Have you ever wondered why you're supposed to suffer for love? What if the love you keep looking for outside yourself was your responsibility all along? In this episode, we explore why suffering for love is a program — not a requirement — and why learning to love every part of you, including the parts you've hidden away, is the most unselfish thing you'll ever do. 🦋 You'll Discover: What suffering for love is actually costing you — and why pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.How self-love is not something to outsource, but has been your responsibility since the moment you were born.Why the parts of you that you've hidden are the ones that can help you learn to love yourself. ✨ Coming Home Question: Which part of you have you been waiting for someone else to love first? 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    16 min

  3. Jun 19

    BPF #2 - Processing Dark Emotions & Heal Your Nervous System

    What if the emotions you've spent your whole life hiding... are actually the ones trying to guide you home? 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 thing. That's it. Feel alive again! Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    8 min

  4. Jun 16

    #76 - When Self-Abandonment Was the Strategy That Worked & How to Come Back Home

    You've done everything right. And somehow that's exactly the problem. This episode is for the woman who has built a beautiful life by overriding herself — and is finally ready to stop. 🦋 You'll Discover: Why overriding your intuition isn't a failure of self-trust — it's a nervous system strategy that once kept you safeWhat's really happening when you say yes and mean no — and what it's costing your sense of selfWhy your darker emotions aren't problems to manage — and what they're trying to give back to you✨ Coming Home Question: Where in your life right now are you waiting for permission from someone else to trust what your body has already told you?   💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    17 min

  5. Jun 12

    BPF #1 - Redefining Pleasure - Butterfly Practice Friday

    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 thing. And Feel alive again! Share your experience with me on Instagram @midlifebutterfly 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    4 min

  6. Jun 10

    #75 - How Much Longer Are You Willing to Wait? Breaking the Comfort Zone in Midlife

    Is there a friend you keep meaning to call — and you haven't? Is there a life you keep meaning to start living — and you're still waiting? This is one of those episodes that came from real life, raw and unfiltered. This week, Kena lost a dear friend. And in the weight of that loss, she returned to the question that changed her life after losing her father — and she's asking it now, directly to you. 🦋 You'll Discover: Why the comfort zone isn't a safe place — it's just a familiar one. And the difference between the two might be costing you the life you actually want to experience.How self-grief can become the most powerful doorway back to yourself, and why slowing down in those moments brings clarity and wisdom.The one question that changed everything for Kena — and that has the power to shift how you move through your life from this moment forward."💜 Coming Home Question:  If you knew — really knew — that time was not guaranteed, what would you stop waiting for?" 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    23 min

  7. Jun 3

    #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 the question most women never give themselves permission to ask: what does it actually mean to feel alive — not just functional, not just grateful, but genuinely alive? 🦋 You'll Discover: Why feeling "fine" is not the same as feeling alive — and why so many high-achieving women have been living in the space between the two without a name for what's missingWhat aliveness actually feels like in the body: presence, sensation, desire, and unperformed joy — and why you've probably felt glimpses of it and dismissed themWhat has been quietly suffocating your aliveness over time, and the surprisingly gentle way back to yourself✨ Coming Home Question: When did you last feel genuinely, unmistakably alive — and what was it about that moment that made you feel that way? 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    32 min

  8. May 27

    #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 meant to carry in the first place? In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Dr. Trina Read — a women's sexual health expert with over 25 years of experience — to explore why so many high-achieving midlife women feel cut off from their own pleasure, how shame quietly runs the show in our intimate lives, and what it actually takes to come home to our bodies again. This episode is a permission slip to stop self-abandoning in the one place we most need to feel alive. 🦋 You'll Discover: Why so many high-achieving women feel disconnected from their own pleasure — and the surprising truth about where that disconnection actually startsHow shame silently shapes your sexual experiences and what it takes to break the cycle so you can finally stop abandoning yourself in intimacyThe small, embodied shifts that can completely transform how you experience your body — whether you're in a long-term relationship, navigating midlife, or rediscovering yourself on your own ✨ Where to Find Trina: Website: TrinaRead.comThe Taboo Show web page: www.trinaread.com/596436bd-6146-4371-a1b0-e85707400a54Product page with OMGYES: www.trinaread.com/productsSubstack: substack.com/@drtrinareadYouTube: www.youtube.com/@DrTrinaRead  🦋 Coming Home Question: Where in your body have you been holding back — and what would it feel like to finally give yourself permission to be fully present there? 💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here! 🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide. Instagram: @midlifebutterfly Website: midlifebutterfly.ca Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

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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

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