Unfolding - Connecting the Dots of Midlife with Human Design

Erica Voell
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Unfolding is a podcast for women in midlife who want to understand themselves and the people they love better using Human Design. If you’ve been the peacekeeper in your family? Do you say yes in the moment, only to regret your decision later? There is a reason behind both of these, and it has nothing to do with something being wrong with you. On the podcast, I share stories from my own life and from women who share about their own patterns, and the families we’re trying to understand. You don’t need to know your Human Design chart to follow along. When I asked twenty people what changed once they understood even one part of their Human Design, they all said some version of the same thing: “There is nothing wrong with me.” The other thing I hear again and again: “It gave me permission to just be me.” I’m Erica Voell, a Human Design guide for women in midlife. Before that, I was a children’s librarian for nineteen years. You can find more of my writing and workshops at ericavoell.com.

  1. 3d ago

    Relationships & Human Design

    You’re frustrated when a family member always gives you unsolicited advice. You feel like your parenting skills are lacking. You wonder why your body doesn’t fit the schedules set by society. And the way you were taught to make decisions might not fit your body, so expecting your kid or partner to decide the same way isn’t how they work. This is the first episode in a season on relationships and Human Design. Erica walks through the three areas of the chart she starts with when she looks at relationships: type, decision-making, and centers. Clients get why they feel different, and they start to understand their partners and kids. In this episode The parenting advice that never worked with her daughterA client who had an aha with one piece of information from her daughter’s chartWhat shifted when Erica looked at her sister’s and mom’s designs, and why they never knewType: why your energy, or someone in your family’s, doesn’t fit the 9 to 5 schedule that work and school were built aroundDecision-making: how not everyone is meant to make quick decisions, and how her daughter learning to sleep on her decisions saved so much moneyCenters: a client’s session on how her partner and kid affect herWhat the season covers, and what it doesn’t * AI Transparency note: AI assisted in writing the show notes --- Start to Connect the Dots: Learn about the Dot Connection Session Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

  2. Oct 13

    You Don’t Have to Hide Your Magic

    You get the chills, or a nudge you can’t explain, and you talk yourself out of it before it has a chance to land. You were taught to be rational, so you learned to rationalize it. In this episode, I share my first experience with the spiritual world outside of church, and it started with my cats. Then came the dreams, the perfume, and the footsteps in the attic, and I started to embrace a side of myself that I had been afraid of for years. I also share what happened when I first heard “gather the women” and tried to make sense of what it meant. And how in the last year or so, I’ve leaned so far into the practical that I started to feel I wasn’t woo enough, until a nudge told me to pay attention. I close with an invitation to notice why your intuition may be feeling more online in the forty days from the end of September to the early part of November. * AI Transparency note: AI assisted in writing the show notes --- Start to Connect the Dots: Learn about the Dot Connection Session Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

  3. Oct 5

    Fine Is a Four-Letter Word - A Conversation with Katie Farinas

    You checked all the boxes. Got the degrees, the marriage, the house, the career. Everything looked exactly as it should. So why did something still feel missing? In this episode, Erica talks with Katie Farinas, former labor and delivery nurse turned yoga teacher and life coach, about what happens when your body finally stops letting you ignore what you've been pushing down. They dig into the quiet grief of midlife that doesn't have a name, what dharma actually means and why "purpose" gets so tangled, and how to reconnect with something greater than yourself when the religion you grew up with never quite fit. Katie also shares her own episode on exactly that: The G Word: How to Reconnect with God in Midlife. Find Katie at: Midlife Spirituality Project Podcast: https://pod.link/1698844006Substack: https://katiefarinas.substack.com/Website: katiefarinas.com * AI Transparency note: AI assisted in writing the show notes --- Start to Connect the Dots: Become a Paid Substack Subscriber Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

    Fine Is a Four-Letter Word - A Conversation with Katie Farinas

  4. Oct 2

    What We Learned in the Summer of Self-Love

    You think self-love is something you arrive at, one aha moment, one conversation, and you're done. It's not. And if your inner critic has gotten louder in midlife instead of quieter, you're not imagining it, and you're not alone. Erica looks back at the whole Summer of Self-Love series, what she learned, what she didn't talk about enough along the way, and what twelve women told her it meant to be part of it. * AI Transparency note: AI assisted in writing the show notes --- Start to Connect the Dots: Become a Paid Substack Subscriber Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

  5. Sep 21

    What If Midlife Isn't a Crisis? It's a Calling - A Conversation with Julie Ciardi

    You've been told that turning 50 means winding down, easing off, preparing for retirement. What if it's actually when you're just getting started? In this episode, Erica talks with her mentor Julie Ciardi, creator of the IGNITE Her® Frequencies, about the line that stopped Erica mid-drive: "What if midlife isn't a crisis, it's a calling?" They dig into Julie's own journey leaving a corporate career, why she rewrote traditional Human Design into her own language, and how understanding her family's design changed how she parents, loves, and leads. * AI Transparency note: AI assisted in writing the show notes --- Start to Connect the Dots: Become a Paid Substack Subscriber Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

    What If Midlife Isn't a Crisis? It's a Calling - A Conversation with Julie Ciardi

  6. Sep 17

    The Inner Codes, Before the Workshop: A Preview of the Perfectly Designed Workshop

    You were told, in a hundred small ways, that something was wrong with you. So you set goals, fixed things, waited to love yourself once you finally got there. What if there was nothing to fix? Join me live for the Perfectly Designed Workshop, Thursday, September 24th at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, where we'll explore the Inner Codes of Self-Love, my own original framework built on 15 areas related to self-love in your Human Design chart. Upgrade to paid at https://ericavoell.com/connect to attend live or catch the replay. --- Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

  7. Sep 14

    When the Camera Shows What's On The Inside - Conversation with Tommy Collier

    You know when you get family photos taken and the photographer really captures the essence of everyone, including you? That’s close to what happened when I started working with Tommy Collier on my camera setup this summer, except it happened live, on video, in a corner of my office. Tommy and I talk about what it’s like when the person you feel like on the inside finally shows up in how you look on camera. This is the final Summer of Self-Love conversation. 🎥 Watch the Conversation on Substack --- Start to Connect the Dots: Become a Paid Substack Subscriber Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

    When the Camera Shows What's On The Inside - Conversation with Tommy Collier

  8. Sep 8

    When Your Own Label Doesn't Fit Anymore

    We don't like it when other people put us in a box. Yet sometimes we build one for ourselves anyway, a title, a role, or a version of who we think we're supposed to be. Then we wonder why things feel too small. In this episode, Erica shares why the title she gave herself over a year ago stopped fitting, and what she's calling herself instead. She unpacks why personality tests like Myers-Briggs left her feeling boxed in, why Human Design works differently – more like connecting the dots. *AI Transparency: AI assisted in writing show notes --- Start to Connect the Dots: Become a Paid Substack Subscriber Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@ericavoell Connect with me: erica[at]ericavoell[dot]com Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ericavoell.coaching/

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Unfolding is a podcast for women in midlife who want to understand themselves and the people they love better using Human Design. If you’ve been the peacekeeper in your family? Do you say yes in the moment, only to regret your decision later? There is a reason behind both of these, and it has nothing to do with something being wrong with you. On the podcast, I share stories from my own life and from women who share about their own patterns, and the families we’re trying to understand. You don’t need to know your Human Design chart to follow along. When I asked twenty people what changed once they understood even one part of their Human Design, they all said some version of the same thing: “There is nothing wrong with me.” The other thing I hear again and again: “It gave me permission to just be me.” I’m Erica Voell, a Human Design guide for women in midlife. Before that, I was a children’s librarian for nineteen years. You can find more of my writing and workshops at ericavoell.com.

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