The Midlife Awakening with Odilia

Odilia Judith
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The Midlife Awakening is a space for women in their 40s who feel stuck or unsatisfied and are ready to embark on a healing journey. Not only sharing my  personal story but I will also explore the mind-body connection, and dive into inspiring interviews to uncover tools and insights for deep transformation. If you're ready to heal old wounds, rediscover yourself, and move from stuck to thriving, this podcast is for you."

  1. 5d ago

    Why I'm Taking a Summer Break: Burnout, ADHD, Grief & Healing in Midlife l EP 48

    What happens when you've spent months helping everyone else heal... but realise you've forgotten to heal yourself? In this deeply personal solo episode, I'm sharing why the podcast will be taking a short summer pause, why you'll hear replay episodes over the next six weeks, and what has been happening behind the scenes in my own life. From my son's emergency surgery and navigating single motherhood, to receiving my ADHD diagnosis, being referred for an autism assessment, processing the end of a 25-year relationship, and recognising that I've reached burnout—this episode is an honest conversation about choosing rest before breaking completely. If you've ever felt guilty for slowing down, struggled with people not understanding your neurodivergence, or found yourself constantly pushing through exhaustion, I hope this episode reminds you that healing isn't something we teach—it's something we have to give ourselves permission to live. This isn't goodbye. It's simply a pause before Season 4 returns with incredible conversations, practical tools, and inspiring stories to support your own midlife awakening. In this episode we discuss:  Why the podcast is replaying episodes over the summer  Recognising the signs of burnout  Receiving an ADHD diagnosis in adulthood  Being referred for an autism assessment  Navigating single motherhood and emotional overwhelm  Healing after the end of a 25-year relationship  Why rest is productive  Creating a more sustainable life and business  What to expect when Season 4 launches If this episode resonated with you... Please follow the podcast, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs permission to slow down. You can also stay connected throughout the summer:  Subscribe on Substack  Join our Facebook community  Follow on Instagram and TikTok Season 4 returns 3 September at 5:00 a.m. (UK time) with brand-new conversations, expert guests, and practical tools to help you navigate your own midlife awakening. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

  2. Jul 16

    How Your Home Affects Your Healing | Feng Shui, Nervous System & Midlife with Moni Castaneda l EP47

    Can your home influence your mental health, emotional wellbeing, and even your healing journey? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening with Odilia, I'm joined by Moni Castaneda, Feng Shui expert, author and creator of the Nine Steps to Feng Shui® System, to explore how our environment impacts our nervous system, confidence, relationships and overall wellbeing. If you've been focusing on mindset, trauma healing or nervous system regulation but still feel stuck, this conversation offers a fresh perspective. Moni explains why your home isn't just where you live—it's an active participant in your healing journey. Together we explore how simple changes to your environment can help you feel calmer, more grounded and more aligned with the woman you're becoming. In this episode we discuss: ✔️ What Feng Shui really is (and what it isn't) ✔️ How your home affects your nervous system ✔️ Why clutter creates more stress than you realise ✔️ The connection between your environment and emotional healing ✔️ How to reclaim your space after divorce or separation ✔️ Supporting yourself through the empty nest transition ✔️ Creating a home that reflects your next chapter ✔️ Simple Feng Shui tips you can implement today Whether you're navigating midlife, healing after trauma, rediscovering yourself after raising children, or simply wanting your home to feel more peaceful, this episode is full of practical wisdom you can begin using immediately. Connect with Moni 🌿 Website: https://ninestepstofengshui.com 📚 Books 🌸 Feng Shui Friends Community 📱 Instagram: @fengshuiforus Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/monica.p.castaneda Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/MoniCastaneda If this episode resonated... Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could benefit from creating a home that truly supports their healing journey. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    How Your Home Affects Your Healing | Feng Shui, Nervous System & Midlife with Moni Castaneda l EP47

  3. Jul 9

    Trust Your Knowing: Leela Black on Intuition, Shame & Feminine Business l EP46

    In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, host Odilia sits down with Leela Black, a Business Resonance Guide who spent nine years studying the I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — to create her own system, the Resonant Truth Archetypes. Leela has generated over $1 million in revenue by rejecting inherited, man-made business rules and teaching women to trust their inner feminine knowing instead. Leela and Odilia talk candidly about internalized misogyny, shame, healing the mother wound, and what it really means to step into feminine authority in midlife. As a special feature of this episode, Leela gives Odilia a live Resonant Truth Archetype reading using nothing but her date of birth — a preview of the kind of live reading Season 4 of The Midlife Awakening will bring listeners starting in September, when practitioners take the mic to demonstrate their work in real time.  What you'll learn in this episode: ●      What a Resonant Truth Archetype reading is and how the I Ching is used to reveal personality and life path ●      Why hesitation and holding back quietly erode a woman's magnetism in business and life ●      How internalized misogyny and inherited shame show up in the body and in decision-making ●      Leela's four-stage business rebirthing process for shedding outdated identities ●      Why saying a 'sacred no' can be the most powerful catalyst for change in midlife ●      Simple, low-risk daily practices for rebuilding trust in your own intuition About Leela Black For 17 years, Leela Black has intuitively trailblazed a feminine approach to business. Generating $1 million in revenue over her career was only possible because she kept rejecting the inherited, man-made book of business rules. Honing her voice through four published books and re-niching seven times, Leela kept shedding outdated identities in order to authorize her inner feminine knowing. She now guides business owners to act on their inner knowing to generate perpetual prosperity.   Connect with Leela Black ●      Website: www.heartmagic.co.nz ●      Instagram: instagram.com/theleelablack ●      Facebook: facebook.com/FeminineBusinessResonance ●      YouTube: youtube.com/@FeminineBusinessResonance ●      LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/leela-black-5026363a Free resources mentioned: discover your own Resonant Truth Archetype and receive a guided reading on the energy of 2026 for your business — links available via Leela's website above. Coming in September: Season 4 of The Midlife Awakening kicks off with practitioners demonstrating live readings — I Ching, astrology, and more — right here on the show. Keywords / Tags: I Ching reading, Resonant Truth Archetype, feminine authority, feminine business, business rebirthing, internalized misogyny, shame healing, mother wound healing, intuition, midlife women, business resonance guide, midlife awakening, self-worth, feminine leadership Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    Trust Your Knowing: Leela Black on Intuition, Shame & Feminine Business l EP46

  4. Jul 2

    Grief, Alcoholism & Building a Dating Empire with Nicky Wake l EP45

    In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, I sit down with Nicky Wake — widow, recovering alcoholic, serial entrepreneur, and solo parent — for one of the most raw and powerful conversations we've had on the show. In 2017, Nicky's husband Andy suffered a heart attack that left him with a catastrophic brain injury. For three years she lived in a devastating limbo, running a multi-million-pound events business and solo-parenting their son while grieving a husband who was still alive. When Andy passed away during COVID lockdown in 2020, the grief she'd suppressed came crashing down — and she became a highly functioning alcoholic, drinking up to three bottles of wine a day while never missing a day of work. Nicky opens up about: Anticipatory grief and the "limbo" of loving someone who's gone but not goneBecoming a high-functioning alcoholic while running a successful businessThe rock-bottom moment that led her to choose rehabRebuilding her life through sobriety and launching Chapter2Dating, Widow's Fire, and SoberLoveEmbracing her bisexuality after years of assumed heterosexualityEthical non-monogamy and finding an unexpected second chapter of loveWhy community and peer support were essential to her healingThis is a conversation about grief, addiction recovery, midlife reinvention, and turning pain into purpose. Connect with Nicky Wake: Website: nickywake.com Apps: chapter2dating.app | widowsfire.dating | soberlove.app Community: thewidowedcollective.com If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share The Midlife Awakening with someone who needs to hear it. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    Grief, Alcoholism & Building a Dating Empire with Nicky Wake l EP45

  5. Jun 25

    What Your Skincare Is Really Doing to Your Hormones with Nicky Hughes l EP44

    Episode Title What Your Skincare Is Really Doing to Your Hormones (with Nicky Hughes, Intrinsic Skincare) Episode Description Did you know that the average woman absorbs hundreds of synthetic chemicals through her skin every single day — many of which are known hormone disruptors? In midlife, when our hormones are already in flux, this matters more than ever. In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, host Odilia sits down with Nicky Hughes — founder of Intrinsic Skincare and a student doctor of naturopathy — for a conversation that will change the way you look at everything in your bathroom cabinet. Nicky shares her own extraordinary story: how a desperate search to heal her son's chronic acne scarring during lockdown led her to formulate her own natural skincare, how that grew into a 30-product clean skincare range now sold across the UK, USA and South Africa, and how she eventually used the same principles to reverse her own menopausal weight gain and exhaustion — coming off HRT and losing 10kg through diet and clean skincare alone. You'll Learn •       Why ingredients labelled “fragrance” or “parfum” are a legal loophole that lets brands hide hormone-disrupting chemicals •       How chemical sunscreen ingredient oxybenzone has been shown to remain in the bloodstream for 21 days and affect testosterone production •       Why your body becomes far less “forgiving” of processed food and toxins after menopause •       The truth about magnesium — which type to take, and why it's linked to over 400 functions in the body •       Why Nicky reverses thyroid issues with Brazil nuts instead of medication (and the real story behind it) •       The collagen mistake almost everyone makes, and the cheap trick to make it actually absorb •       Her simple “would you eat it?” test for deciding what's safe to put on your skin This is an honest, practical, and genuinely eye-opening conversation — exactly the kind of information every midlife woman needs and deserves to hear. Guest Links Website: www.intrinsicshop.co.uk Instagram: instagram.com/intrinsicskincareuk Facebook: facebook.com/Intrinsicskincareuk YouTube: youtube.com/@IntrinsicSkincare Use code NEWSITE10 for 10% off at intrinsicshop.co.uk (valid until end of June, excludes promotional items). Nicky also offers free 30-minute skincare consultations — email her directly via her website to book  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    What Your Skincare Is Really Doing to Your Hormones with Nicky Hughes l EP44

  6. Jun 18

    Pregnancy Loss, Grief & Building Cocoon: Sam's Story of Miscarriage, Maternity Care and Midlife Reinvention l EP43

    Pregnancy loss, miscarriage recovery and the gaps in NHS maternity care — this episode goes straight to the heart of all three. Sam, founder of Cocoon, a midwife-led pregnancy ultrasound clinic in Harrogate, shares the devastating loss of her baby, Willow, and how that experience — and the dehumanising language used around it — became the catalyst for building the maternity care she wished had existed. Sam opens up about the anxiety of a subsequent pregnancy after loss, leaving a successful corporate career at Bettys & Taylors to start again from scratch, and why she believes proper qualifications and regulation matter so much in private ultrasound clinics. We also talk about Cocoon's next chapter — a new preventative health and diagnostics site, Science and Soul, launched in memory of her best friend who died from metastatic breast cancer — and what it really takes to build a business on purpose rather than a plan. In this episode: Sam's experience of miscarriage and the language of "product of conception"Pregnancy after loss: managing anxiety through a subsequent pregnancyWhy Sam left a stable corporate career to found a maternity clinicWhat's missing from regulation in private pregnancy scan clinicsBuilding Cocoon with a midwife-led, trauma-informed model of careCocoon's new diagnostic and preventative health clinic, Science and SoulLate-diagnosed neurodivergence and ADHD as an entrepreneurial superpowerSam's advice for anyone standing on the edge of a midlife career changeResources & Links mentioned: Cocoon — https://cocoon-hgt.com/Taking Baby Steps — https://takingbabysteps.co.uk/Brighter Skies — https://www.brighterskies.org.uk/Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    Pregnancy Loss, Grief & Building Cocoon: Sam's Story of Miscarriage, Maternity Care and Midlife Reinvention l EP43

  7. Jun 11

    From "Something's Wrong With Me" to Radical Self-Love: Breaking Subconscious Patterns in Midlife l Liora Sponko l EP42

    Have you ever felt like you're living smaller than you were meant to? Like something invisible is holding you back — and you can't quite name what it is? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, I sit down with empowerment coach and motivational speaker Liora Sponko to explore the subconscious patterns, limiting beliefs, and childhood wounds that keep so many of us stuck — and how midlife is actually the perfect moment to finally break free from them. Liora spent years living under the weight of one quietly devastating belief: there's something wrong with me. That story fuelled anxiety, people-pleasing, and self-doubt — until she committed to peeling back the layers through deep transformational work. Today she helps women, entrepreneurs, and leaders move from scarcity to abundance, from fear to radical self-love. In this episode we cover: Why 95% of our thoughts are subconscious loops from the past — and how to interrupt themThe difference between scarcity mindset and abundance mindset, and how to shift between themLiora's three-step Internal Work Framework: unblock the past, reprogram the present, embody the futureWhy midlife is not a crisis — it's an awakening and an opportunityThe power of emotional release (yes, including crying) as a somatic healing toolHow to tell the difference between your thoughts and your intuitionWhy inner child healing is the key to changing your outer worldConnect with Liora Sponko: 🌐 Website: liorasponko.com — download her free Internal Work Framework📞 Book a free Breakthrough Call via her website📸 Instagram: @liorasponko👥 Facebook: @lioramotivatesSend us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    From "Something's Wrong With Me" to Radical Self-Love: Breaking Subconscious Patterns in Midlife l Liora Sponko l EP42

  8. Jun 4

    Healing Autoimmune, Money Wounds & Midlife Purpose: Kristen Renee on the 12-Element Framework l EP41

    What if the chronic pain, exhaustion, and stuckness you're feeling isn't just physical — and the solution isn't another diet, supplement, or protocol?   In this episode, Odilia sits down with author, speaker, and transformational coach Kristen Renee to explore the radical idea that lasting healing — physical, emotional, and financial — requires us to address the whole person. After a decade of autoimmune disease and a financial crisis in her forties, Kristen developed a 12-principle framework that bridges the spiritual with the practical, helping busy midlife women create real, lasting change without overhauling their entire lives overnight.   This conversation is for you if you've tried everything and still feel like something is missing. IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER: •       Why you can't manifest or find your purpose when you're living in survival mode •       The overnight healing events that proved the mind-body connection is real •       How suppressed emotions and trauma show up as physical symptoms in the body •       The masculine/feminine energy imbalance driving burnout in midlife women •       How to start a body scan practice even when you've never felt connected to your body •       Why healing your environment — including your home and your food — matters •       The 12-week framework that gently folds healing into your real, busy life •       Finding your purpose in midlife and the 'pre-purpose steps' that make it possible RESOURCES MENTIONED: •       Kristen's book: The Elements of Healing — available on Amazon (author name: Kristen Renee) •       Upcoming book: Healing the Money Wound •       Louise Hay — You Can Heal Your Life •       Gabor Maté — on trauma and autoimmune disease in women CONNECT WITH KRISTEN: •       Website: www.kristenreneehealing.com •       Instagram : @kristenreneehealing •       Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/KRISTENRENEEREBUILDING?locale=en_GB •       TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@kristenreneerebuilding •       YouTube: @kristenreneerebuilds •       LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kristen-appleby •       Amazon Author Page: Search 'Kristen Renee' on Amazon midlife healing, autoimmune healing, mind-body connection, trauma healing, women's health midlife, burnout recovery, healing framework, Kristen Renee, The Elements of Healing, midlife awakening, feminine energy, purpose in midlife, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, emotional healing Send us Fan Mail Support the show Rate the Show : RateThisPodcast.com/midlife Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1717887919057641/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/the.midlife.awakening/ Substack : https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/ The Awakened Community - https://themidlifeawakening.substack.com/subscribe To submit your story to be featured on...

    Healing Autoimmune, Money Wounds & Midlife Purpose: Kristen Renee on the 12-Element Framework l EP41
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The Midlife Awakening is a space for women in their 40s who feel stuck or unsatisfied and are ready to embark on a healing journey. Not only sharing my  personal story but I will also explore the mind-body connection, and dive into inspiring interviews to uncover tools and insights for deep transformation. If you're ready to heal old wounds, rediscover yourself, and move from stuck to thriving, this podcast is for you."

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  • Creator
    Odilia Judith
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Midlife Awakening with Odilia
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