Confessions of a Freebird - Midlife, Divorce, Heal, and Date Differently with Somatic Experiencing, Empty Nest, Well-Being, H

Laurie James - Podcaster, Author, Somatic Relationship Coach
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Hi, I’m Laurie James—author of Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, somatic relationship coach, mother of four adult daughters, divorcée, and recovering caregiver. I created Confessions of a Freebird as a heartfelt space for women navigating midlife transitions—divorce, empty nesting, loss, dating again, or simply wondering: “Is this all there is?” If you're longing for more authenticity, joy, freedom, and purpose, especially after years of putting everyone else first, you're in the right place. Each episode, I’ll share: Practical tools and somatic coaching strategiesRaw reflections and confessions from my own journeyExpert conversations on everything from sex, grief, trauma healing, and finances to dating, caregiving, and reinvention We'll explore what it means to come home to yourself through somatic practices—and how to design a life that feels aligned with who you are now, not who you were 20 years ago or who someone or society has told you to be.  Whether you’re in the sandwich generation, starting over after loss, or dreaming of your next chapter—Confessions of a Freebird is your midlife best friend. Think of it as a permission slip to evolve, heal, and fall in love with your life all over again. Because the most important relationship you’ll ever have… is the one you have with yourself. XO, Laurie  Connect with me: www.laurieejames.com  Purchase my book, Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, https://www.laurieejames.com/book  IG: https://www.instagram.com/laurie.james/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurie.james.79219754

  1. 1D AGO

    How Safe Hormone Therapy and Vaginal Health Can Close The Bedroom Gap with Dr. Maria Sophocles

    Do you feel like the gap between you and your partner’s sexual desire is widening? Has managing a home, raising kids, and building a career left you feeling disconnected from your body and from sexual pleasure? You are not broken. And you are not alone. In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Dr. Maria Sophocles, board-certified OB/GYN, founder of Women’s Healthcare of Princeton, nationally recognized menopause expert, and author of The Bedroom Gap. With over 1.2 million views on her viral TED Talk, “What Happens to Sex in Midlife,” Dr. Sophocles is leading the conversation on female sexual health, perimenopause, and closing the intimacy gap in long-term and short-term relationships. Together, we pull back the curtain on sexual health, menopause wellness, hormone therapy, vaginal health, and the cultural silence that has left so many women believing they’ve simply “outgrown” desire. You haven’t. Midlife intimacy is possible when you understand what your body actually needs. When you realize that menopause wellness is about restoring what your body is missing (not pushing through discomfort), you can release the guilt and choose real support. In this episode, we explore: Vaginal health and vaginal estrogen: how targeted treatments restore comfort, and support long and short-term relationship intimacyThe truth about perimenopause and heart health and how estrogen therapy may help in early menopauseWhy Viagra widened the “bedroom gap” and what couples can do about itBioidentical hormone therapy and menopause relief: what’s evidence-based, what’s marketing, and what actually works3 practical ways to reduce painful intercourseSexual dysfunction in women: causes, solutions, and when to seek supportWhat current science says about hormone therapy so you can make informed decisionsThe connection between intimacy, longevity, and overall post menopausal healthYou were never meant to outgrow sexual desire, you were taught to deprioritize it. Your physical comfort matters. Your pleasure matters. And this next chapter of life can include confidence, connection, and vibrant intimacy. If you’re navigating perimenopause, menopause, low libido, painful sex, or relationship disconnection, this conversation will give you clarity, science-backed guidance, and hope. Tune in to reclaim your anatomy, close the bedroom gap, and embrace midlife with confidence and heart. Much love, Laurie Click here to listen to Dr. Maria Sophocles first podcast interveiw Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    42 min

  2. JAN 29

    Navigating The Empty Nest? Discover Ways To Find Joy In Self-Discovery And Aging Gracefully With Bernadette Catalana

    Do your children really know who you are? Not just the mother who managed schedules, emotions, and daily life—but the woman underneath it all? Motherhood shifts in midlife—so do we. Maybe you’re navigating an empty nest, single motherhood, or a quieter new chapter—you may find yourself asking deeper questions about identity, inner peace, and how to stay meaningfully connected to the people you love most. In this episode of Confessions of a Freebird, I sit down with Bernadette Catalana, author of Daughter Lessons and mother of two, for a heartfelt and honest conversation about mother–daughter relationships, generational healing, and leading by example. Together, we explore what it means to love our children with intention while staying true to ourselves. Bernadette opens up about the weight of people-pleasing, the emotional realities of single motherhood, and how she carried her own mother’s sorrow before consciously choosing to break that cycle. We talk about family dynamics and how generational healing often happens in the most ordinary moments—and why finding happiness isn’t something we arrive at, but something we practice along the way. This conversation is for any woman in midlife who is learning how to release old roles, speak her truth, and model emotional freedom for the next generation. In this episode, you’ll hear us explore: Why truth-telling is a radical act for women raised to keep the peaceHow personal growth and identity shift in midlife—especially after children grow upWhat it really means to lead by example as a motherHow emotional healing in parents breaks generational trauma from being passed down. The unseen weight of single motherhood—and why it deserves more compassionHow family dynamics and generational patterns show up in everyday lifeWhy choosing contentment over performance can deepen your relationship with your childrenYou are still deeply needed. Your presence still matters.  And this season of life holds more meaning, connection, and love than you may realize. If you’re ready to embrace this next chapter with honesty and heart, I invite you to listen in and join us for this rich, reflective conversation. Much love, Laurie Click here  to sign up for my FREE Somatic class on Wednesday, February 4th at 4pm PST Click here to fill out my Podcast survey for 2026. Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    17 min

  3. JAN 22

    How to Heal Relationship Patterns Rooted in Childhood Trauma with IFS and Nervous System Regulation

    Have you ever felt like you were doing everything “right” on your healing journey—only to find yourself right back in your old pain on your personal growth journey? Maybe you finally found a healing modality that worked. You felt grounded, regulated, even hopeful. And then one comment, one moment of disconnection, or one unexpected ending stirred something much deeper—bringing old wounds, loneliness, or abandonment back to the surface. In this deeply personal solo episode, I’m reintroducing myself—not just as your host, but as a woman actively in the midst of her own healing. I share openly about my recent breakup after a 3.5-year relationship, and how it activated an abandonment wound I’ve carried since childhood. Despite years of personal growth and trauma-informed work, I realized something important: healing isn’t about finding the right tool—it’s about going deeper into the body when old patterns resurface. That realization led me back to Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems (IFS)—two practices that helped me slow down, reconnect with my body, meet my protective parts with compassion, and begin rebuilding self-trust from the inside out and tend to an old abandonment wound that I’ve carried since childhood. Because the truth is: the only way to find joy again… is to go through the pain. In this episode, I share how nervous system regulation became the foundation for real trauma healing and helped me shift lifelong relationship patterns—how physical symptoms pointed the way forward, and how learning to stay with sensations (instead of avoiding it) expanded my capacity to feel, grieve, and eventually experience joy again. In this episode, you’ll learn: What  somatic healing looks like in everyday lifeWhy nervous system regulation is the gateway to deeper emotional healingHow Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work helped me relate differently to the parts that once helped me surviveHow healing childhood trauma can restore your capacity for joy.Why building tolerance for physical sensations is essential to trauma recoveryHow healing after divorce laid the foundation for healing after this breakup.What it means to fully grieve, feel, and slowly reconnect with yourselfIf you’re navigating heartbreak, grief, or the confusion of feeling “set back” on your healing journey, this episode is a gentle reminder: nothing is wrong with you. Healing is not linear. Your body remembers. And your pace matters. Much love, Laurie Click here to fill out my Podcast survey for 2026. Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    29 min

  4. JAN 15

    How to Break Free from Relationship Patterns Using Somatic Tools and Trauma-Informed Support with Riana Malia

    What if the patterns you keep repeating aren’t flaws or bad habits, but survival strategies your body learned long ago? In this episode, I sit down with Riana Malia, a certified Neuro-Somatic practitioner whose work focuses on healing generational trauma through the unconscious mind, nervous system regulation, and trauma-informed care. Riana shares her powerful personal story of betrayal, loss, and the promise she made to her daughter, that the cycle of trauma would end with her. Together, we explore how the body holds experiences the mind can’t always explain, and how unhealed childhood wounds can quietly shape our relationships, choices, and sense of self well into adulthood. We talk about why emotional regulation is the foundation of real change, how trauma responses often disguise themselves as personality traits or self-sabotage, and how Riana used quantum healing to shift lifelong pain, without having to relive every traumatic moment. You’ll learn: Why certain relationship patterns keep repeating, even when you “know better”How trauma responses can disguise themselves as personality traits or self-sabotage What somatic tools actually look like in everyday life, especially when things feel overwhelmingThe difference between emotional awareness and true embodied healingWhy forgiveness is about reclaiming yourself, not excusing harm.What a practical, sustainable healing journey can look like after decades of stored trauma.How trauma-informed personal growth gives your nervous system a new story to followHow understanding your body creates emotional safety and resilienceIf you’re carrying pain you can’t quite name, or if healing has felt confusing or out of reach, this episode offers a gentler, more embodied way forward. Your body already knows the way. It just needs your attention, patience, and care. Much love, Laurie Click here to fill out my Podcast survey for 2026. Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Website Connect with Riana Malia https://rianamalia.com/ Click here to take Riana’s E.L.I. Assessment Instagram Linkedin Youtube Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    38 min

  5. JAN 1

    Using Astrology Predictions to Support Your Spiritual Awakening and Somatic Healing with Remy Ramirez

    Do you notice the same patterns repeating in your life? What if those patterns weren’t random but part of your astrological blueprint, offering guidance for your healing journey?  In this light, New Year episode, I sit down with Remy Ramirez—astrologer, mental health coach, and host of the Patrauma Party podcast—for a grounded and expansive conversation on using astrology as a tool for self-awareness, emotional healing, and inner work. We explore what’s ahead in 2026 astrology, including the rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction, and how this potent alignment may signal both a collective energetic shift and a deeply personal invitation to change and do the inner work. Rather than predicting fate, we discuss how astrology can help you understand your nervous system patterns, emotional responses, and subconscious themes—so you can move forward with greater clarity and compassion. Remy also shares how receiving her own birth chart reading illuminated the roots of long-held wounds, softened her relationship with herself, and opened the door to lasting emotional healing. If you’ve been navigating self-love, energetic boundaries, or a season of transition, this episode offers insight, reassurance, and gentle encouragement. In this episode, you’ll learn: What the 2026 Saturn–Neptune conjunction may bring collectively and personallyHow astrology mirrors nervous system responses and emotional patternsWhy somatic healing and subconscious work pair powerfully with astrologyHow astrology supports spiritual healing and growthThe connection between your moon sign and mental healthHow your birth chart reveals emotional patternsThe healing power of naming and understanding recurring patternsHow to work intentionally with full moon and new moon energyWhy astrology predictions are about awareness—not destinyThe role of self-respect in healing and relationshipsHow astrology can guide both your subconscious work and next steps with clarityWhether you’re in a season of reflection, transition, or spiritual awakening, this conversation offers a reminder: healing doesn’t happen all at once. As you learn to trust yourself—and the divine timing of your path, clarity unfolds naturally. Much love, Laurie Laurie’s episode on Patrauma Party with Remy Ramirez Click here to fill out my Podcast survey for 2026. Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Website Connect Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    39 min

  6. 12/18/2025

    How Nervous System Regulation Creates Emotional Safety and Secure Attachment with Jessica Bishop

    Do you ever feel like your body is reacting for you—especially in moments of stress or around certain people? In this powerful episode, I sit down with Jessica Bishop, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Yoga Teacher, to dive into her personal journey of healing anxiety, nervous system regulation, and living with essential tremors. Jess shares her experience of relying on medication for years, and how somatic healing and learning to regulate her nervous system not only transformed her physical symptoms, it changed the way she relates and shows up with others. We explore how Jess's essential tremors, panic attacks, and chronic anxiety once controlled her life—and how somatic practices, emotional regulation, and embodiment  brought real, lasting anxiety relief. She talks about how she reduced her need for medication, left an unhealthy marriage, and learned about secure attachment, leading to a healthier relationship and a deeper sense of emotional safety in her body. This conversation gently unveils how body-based therapy and somatic practices can heal trauma, transform anxiety, and reshape the relationships you attract—starting with the relationship you have with your own body. In this episode, you’ll learn: Simple somatic tools for healing anxiety and stressThe power of emotional safety in trauma recovery How somatic practices help regulate your nervous system and stress response.What it feels like to experience secure attachment in your bodyHow nervous system regulation can support healthier relationshipsThe difference between intellectual awareness and embodied awareness. Why yoga is often the gateway practice into somatic experiencing. How to tell the difference between a "threat response" and the feeling of "butterflies"If you’re on a journey to trust your body again or notice how your relationships impact your nervous system, you’re not alone. Your body has wisdom, and as you create more safety, it has the potential to change. Much love, Laurie Click here for a video on how to leave a review to receive a free somatic stabilization/grounding exercise. The podcast graphic is different from the current one. Once you complete it and send me a picture I will send you the video. My email is laurie@laurieejames.com Thank you in advance.  Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Website Connect with Jessica Bishop Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    33 min

  7. 12/04/2025

    How Trauma Responses Lead to People-Pleasing and How to Start Healing with Kati Morton

    Have you ever felt lost after putting all your effort into pleasing others?  Maybe you’ve spent years being the responsible one, the strong one, the helper, the one who “just handles it”… until one day you wake up and feel hollow. Exhausted.  Disconnected from the person you used to be. Maybe you’ve spent years trying to “doing it all”,  only to wake up one day and wonder where you lost yourself along the way?  In this episode, I sit down with Kati Morton, licensed therapist, author, and one of the most trusted mental health voices online. Her new book, Why Do I Keep Doing This?, dives into the emotional and nervous system patterns that keep us stuck in cycles of people-pleasing, low self-esteem, overgiving, perfectionism, and self-abandonment. Together, we explore how unresolved trauma responses shape our beliefs about love, worth, confidence, and why so many of us feel like we need to be “good” or “please others” to feel safe. Together Kati and I discuss what a fawn response is,  the deeper reasons why we fawn or people-please and the emotional cost it takes on us. You’ll learn: Why people pleasing begins as a survival strategyWhy rebuilding self worth is about changing patternsWhat your inner critic is trying to protect you fromHow to spot patterns that lead to burnout and resentmentWhy confidence grows through small acts of self trustThe difference between guilt and false guilt in boundary settingHow somatic practices support healing and resiliencePractical tools to regulate stress and shift old patternsIf you’re in a season of personal growth, or if you’re tired of feeling exhausted, overlooked, or in cycles of self-doubt, this episode will offer compassion, clarity, and a path home to yourself. Tune in. This conversation is a breath of fresh air for anyone ready to reclaim the parts of themselves they had to hide to survive. Much love, Laurie Click here to sign up for my "FREE Online Somatic Workshop - Find Your Calm During the Holidays" on Thursday, Dec 4th at 4 PST  Click here for a video on how to leave a review to receive a free somatic stabilization/grounding exercise. The podcast graphic is different from the current one. Once you complete it and send me a picture I will send you the video. My email is laurie@laurieejames.com Thank you in advance.  Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Website Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    46 min

  8. 11/20/2025

    How to Navigate Grief During Holidays with More Ease and Grace with Barri Grant

    Does your heart feel heavier this time of year?  Maybe you're missing someone who's no longer here…or carrying a quiet ache that’s lingering and hard to name. When the world is celebrating, it can feel lonely to carry sadness that doesn’t have a clear place to land. In this episode, I’m joined by Barri Grant, certified grief coach and founder of The Memory Circle—a woman who has turned her own profound losses into a compassionate, grounded space for others to heal. After losing her mother at 27 and later her father to Alzheimer’s, Barri has walked the kind of path that reshapes you from the inside out. Her work offers tender, tangible support for anyone navigating holiday grief and why nervous system regulation is such a powerful companion to grief work, especially during the holiday season when emotions tend to intensify. You’ll hear reflections on being a grieving parent, remothering your inner child, and creating grief rituals that help you feel more connected. You’ll learn: How to honor your grief without minimizing or explaining it to family membersWhat makes somatic healing helpful when you are experiencing emotional painWhy the 5 stages of grief often miss the mark when it comes to healingHow to create small grief rituals that help you feel more connected to loved ones who have passedHow expressive writing can be a safe place for releaseWhat grief coaching offers that therapy sometimes doesn’tNew holiday traditions that can support your emotional healing However your grief during the holidays shows up—loud, quiet, messy, or soft—there is room for it here. You’re not alone. Much love, Laurie   Click here for a video on how to leave a review to receive a free somatic stabilization/grounding exercise. The podcast graphic is different from the current one. Once you complete it and send me a picture I will send you the video. My email is laurie@laurieejames.com Thank you in advance.  Click here to learn about my NEW “Nervous System Regulation Starter Kit”  Free Resources Click here to schedule a FREE inquiry call with me. Click here for my FREE “Beginner’s Guide to Somatic Healing” Click here for my FREE Core Values Exercise Click here to purchase my book: Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go Website Connect with Barri Grant Instagram Please leave me feedback. I cannot respond so if you'd like me to respond, please leave your email *********************** DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL, MEDICAL OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED THERAPIST IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MEDICAL ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

    53 min
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Hi, I’m Laurie James—author of Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, somatic relationship coach, mother of four adult daughters, divorcée, and recovering caregiver. I created Confessions of a Freebird as a heartfelt space for women navigating midlife transitions—divorce, empty nesting, loss, dating again, or simply wondering: “Is this all there is?” If you're longing for more authenticity, joy, freedom, and purpose, especially after years of putting everyone else first, you're in the right place. Each episode, I’ll share: Practical tools and somatic coaching strategiesRaw reflections and confessions from my own journeyExpert conversations on everything from sex, grief, trauma healing, and finances to dating, caregiving, and reinvention We'll explore what it means to come home to yourself through somatic practices—and how to design a life that feels aligned with who you are now, not who you were 20 years ago or who someone or society has told you to be.  Whether you’re in the sandwich generation, starting over after loss, or dreaming of your next chapter—Confessions of a Freebird is your midlife best friend. Think of it as a permission slip to evolve, heal, and fall in love with your life all over again. Because the most important relationship you’ll ever have… is the one you have with yourself. XO, Laurie  Connect with me: www.laurieejames.com  Purchase my book, Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, https://www.laurieejames.com/book  IG: https://www.instagram.com/laurie.james/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurie.james.79219754

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