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. 3d ago

    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 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

  2. 6d ago

    #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 — and why pleasure isn't indulgence, it's the way home. 🦋 You'll Discover: Why living in your masculine was survival, and what it's quietly been costing youHow reconnecting to your own cycle guides you back into your bodyWhy pleasure is proof you're home in your body, and how to find it in the most ordinary moments✨ Coming Home Question: What can you do today to feel more pleasure every day of your life? 🥁 Leading From Pleasure - 5-week Journey A nervous system experience for coaches ready to lead with more magnetism, more ease, and more life force. Sign up for the journey or the free workshop on August 5. All details here: http://home.midlifebutterfly.ca/leading-from-pleasure  💜 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

  3. Jul 17

    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 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

  4. Jul 14

    #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 reclaim your worth and end self-abandonment — the friendships that fall away, the body's quiet warnings, the grief nobody tells you to make room for. 🦋 You'll Discover: Why unlearning can be more powerful than learningReleasing limiting beliefs and outdated expectationsLetting go of who you thought you had to beEmbracing transformation and personal freedom in midlife✨ Coming Home Question:  Where in your life are you still living from the neck up — and what happens if you let your body answer instead? 👉🏼 Check the Wisdom in Bloom Podcast  With Kamesha & Denise: www.wisdominbloom.net 💜 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

  5. Jul 10

    BPF #5 - The Law Of Mirrors: A Midlife Practice for Self-Awareness & Healing Relationships

    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

  6. Jul 8

    #79 - Stop Attracting Toxic Relationships: Healing Self-Abandonment & Your Nervous System

    Ever wonder why the same kind of person keeps showing up in your life — just wearing a different face? In this episode, we’re unpacking why “toxic relationships” might not be about anyone being toxic at all — and what your triggers, patterns, and hardest goodbyes are really trying to show you. 🦋 You’ll Discover: Why the relationships you call “toxic” might actually be self-abandonment wearing a really convincing disguise.Why it’s your nervous system and not bad luck, that keeps attracting the same pattern in a different body.How to reclaim yourself — not by fixing anyone, but by finally listening to what your body has been trying to tell you. ✨ Coming Home Question: If every relationship in your life right now is a mirror… what is it reflecting back to you that you haven’t been willing to see? 💜 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. Jul 3

    BPF #4 - The Versions of You That Self-Abandonment Left Behind

    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. Jul 2

    #78 - The Cause Of “Feeling Broken” Is Self-Abandonment. Reclaim Your Wholeness In Midlife

    How many parts of yourself have you left behind just to be liked? In this episode, we explore why you're not broken — you're fragmented — and how calling those rejected parts of yourself back to the table is the real path to feeling whole again. 🦋 You'll Discover: What being fragmented instead of broken actually means — and why the parts of you you left behind still matter.How what looks like a midlife crisis is actually an awakening — and what's really driving it.Why it's your nervous system, not your mindset, keeping the same patterns of self-betrayal alive.✨ Coming Home Question: Which part of yourself are you ready to call back to the table? 💜 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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