Midlife Butterfly | Coming Home to Yourself: Presence, Embodiment, Self-Love, Life Coherence & Transformation

Kena Siu
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Midlife Butterfly is a raw and honest podcast for midlife women who feel the pull toward deeper alignment, freedom, and self-trust. Hosted by Kena Siu — Empowerment Guide, truth-teller, and embodiment mentor — this space is for the woman who has been strong for everyone else and is now ready to expand into a more connected, grounded, and joyful version of herself. If your life looks “fine” but doesn’t fully feel like home…If you’ve mastered responsibility yet crave more pleasure and presence…If you’re done shrinking, over-giving, or abandoning yourself to keep the peace — You’re not having a crisis. You’re awakening to a new level of growth. Through grounded spirituality, emotional maturity, nervous system awareness, boundaries, and lived experience, Kena shares the inner shifts that create real expansion — in how you relate to love, truth, identity, and your own voice. This isn’t about fixing yourself.It’s about remembering who you are and embodying her with courage, clarity, and connection. If you’re ready to come home to yourself — and live from that place — press play. 🔗 Connect with Kena:🦋 Instagram: @midlifebutterfly🤝 Join the Free Community: midlifebutterfly.ca/community✨ Explore Her Offerings: midlifebutterfly.ca/workwithme🌐 Website: midlifebutterfly.ca💌 Email Us: hello@midlifebutterfly.ca Much love 💜Kena Siu

  1. 2D AGO

    #70 - The Real Reason You Reach for Food — And What Your Body Knows

    What if the moment you reach for food isn't about hunger at all — but a quiet cry from a part of you that's never been fully met? In this soul-opening conversation, Kena sits down with Lizzie Merritt — certified life coach, bestselling author, and former science teacher — to unpack what's really happening when you eat emotionally. Spoiler: it's not weakness. It's your nervous system trying to keep you safe. Lizzie shares her own turning point — a 2 AM wake-up call in Guam, drowning in shame and goldfish crackers — and how understanding her brain changed everything. Together, Kena and Lizzie weave brain science with radical self-compassion to help you decode the signals beneath the snack. This episode is your invitation to stop fighting your body and start getting curious about what it's telling you. By the end, you'll walk away with a new framework, practical tools, and — most importantly — a deeper sense of trust in yourself. ✨ In This Episode You'll Learn Why emotional eating isn't a character flaw — it's your nervous system asking for safetyHow the "iceberg" beneath your food habits reveals what diets never addressWhat happens when you pause and ask why you want the cookie instead of reaching for itThe truth about the "dieter" identity — and how shifting to a chooser mindset changes everythingHow to use three powerful steps (regulate, feel, investigate) to break the cycle with compassion🦋 Reflection Questions When the house gets quiet and you reach for something to eat, what feeling are you actually trying to soften — and what would it mean to let yourself feel it instead?What old rules about food, your body, or worthiness were handed to you by someone else — and are those the rules you want to keep living by?If your body were communicating love to you right now, what would it be saying — and how might you begin to receive it?✨ Where to Find Lizzie Website: www.confidentbody.coach The Confident Body Podcast: https://confidentbody.coach/podcast IG: @coachlizzie.merritt FB: www.facebook.com/coachlizzie.merritt 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    58 min

  2. APR 28

    #69 - How The Constant Doing Disconnects You From Yourself

    Something starts to shift… the roles don’t fit the same, the life you built feels tight, and there’s a quiet pull asking for something deeper. In this episode, I share a powerful conversation from A Doorway to Home, where we explore what’s really happening in midlife—not as a crisis, but as a profound awakening. This is the moment where the checklist ends… and your truth begins. We talk about identity shifts, the hidden cost of living in constant “doing,” and the disconnection many women feel from their bodies, emotions, and inner voice. You’ll also discover how reconnecting with your body—and regulating your nervous system—can bring you back into alignment, self-trust, and inner peace. This is your invitation to stop abandoning yourself… and start returning home. By the end, you’ll feel a deeper sense of clarity, connection, and permission to create a life that actually feels like yours. ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn Why midlife “offness” is actually a call into awakeningHow identity roles disconnect you from your true selfWhat happens when you shift from doing to beingThe truth about body disconnection and stored emotional tensionHow to begin reconnecting with your body, breath, and inner safety HOME begins May 5. Founding member pricing is available for a limited time—if you’re feeling the pull, this is your moment to step in. Join Now! home.midlifebutterfly.ca/membership 🦋 Reflection Questions What parts of me have I outgrown… but I’m still holding onto?Where am I choosing “doing” over truly being with myself?What would it feel like to experience home within my own body? 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    29 min

  3. APR 23

    #68 - The 3 main armours to break, to feel at Home in your body.

    Something feels off… and no matter how much inner work you’ve done, you still find yourself going back to the same patterns. This episode is a deep, grounded conversation on what it really means to come back home to yourself — not as an idea, but as a lived, embodied experience. Kena guides you through the truth many women in midlife are facing: you’ve outgrown old identities, yet your body is still holding onto them. Through the lens of somatic healing, neuroepigenetic breathing, and the mind-body-heart connection, you’ll explore how your identity was built, why your nervous system keeps pulling you back, and how to begin shifting it from within. This is about more than awareness — it’s about embodiment, self-trust, and reconnecting with your inner power, your heart, and your feminine energy. By the end, you’ll feel a deeper connection to yourself… and a new understanding of what “home” truly is. ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn How to shift from intellectual healing into full-body embodimentWhy your identity keeps pulling you back to old patternsThe truth about people-pleasing, overgiving, and survival rolesWhat happens when you reconnect with your heart and feminine centerHow to begin transmuting emotional pain through the body 🦋 Reflection Questions Where in your life are you still abandoning yourself to feel safe or loved?What would shift if “home” wasn’t something outside of you—but within you?Are you allowing yourself to feel… or are you still trying to control the experience? 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    25 min

  4. APR 15

    #67 - Release What Holds You Back To Travel & Tips to Head to Your New Destination

    What if the trip you keep postponing is actually a doorway back to yourself? In this deeply honest conversation, Kena sits with travel coach Maria Kamau to explore how travel in midlife becomes more than movement—it becomes a reclamation. Together, they unpack the real reasons women delay their desires: guilt, identity, fear, and the quiet belief that choosing themselves can wait. This episode gently challenges that story. You’ll feel the truth of how travel can support your healing journey, awaken self-trust, and reconnect you with your desires—not the ones shaped by expectation, but the ones that feel like freedom. From releasing the need to be everything for everyone, to taking grounded action (even in small ways), this is an invitation to remember that your life is happening now. By the end, you’ll feel empowered to stop waiting for permission—and start choosing yourself, one step at a time. ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn How to shift from “someday” to aligned, grounded actionWhy guilt is blocking your freedom—and how to release itWhat happens when you step outside your comfort zoneThe truth about identity: you become through doingHow travel supports healing, self-trust, and expansion ✨ Where to Find Maria: Website: www.travelwithmkay.co.keFB: www.facebook.com/TravelwithMkay/IG: www.Instagram.com/Travelwithmkay 🦋 Reflection Questions What am I postponing that my soul is quietly asking for?Where in my life am I waiting for permission to choose myself?What would it feel like to trust my desires more than my fears? 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    1h 14m

  5. APR 9

    #66 - Bridge The Gap Between Mind And Body

    You’ve done the inner work — therapy, coaching, books, podcasts… so why do you still feel stuck in the same patterns? This is the missing piece of midlife healing, self-trust, and reinvention that no one talks about: your body. In this episode, Kena breaks down why mindset alone isn’t enough for lasting transformation — and how your nervous system, stored emotions, and unconscious patterns keep pulling you back into survival mode. If you’re a woman navigating midlife transitions — divorce, loss, reinvention, or a spiritual awakening — this conversation will shift how you approach your healing journey. Through embodiment, breathwork, and nervous system regulation, you’ll begin to move from overthinking to feeling, from control to surrender, from disconnection to deep self-trust. This is where true midlife empowerment begins — not in your mind, but in your body. ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn Why mindset work alone keeps you stuck in midlife patternsHow to regulate your nervous system and shift out of survival modeWhat happens when you stop suppressing emotions and start embodying themHow breathwork supports emotional healing without retelling your storyThe key to self-trust, alignment, and true midlife reinvention 🦋 Reflection Questions Where in my life am I thinking my way through instead of feeling?What emotions am I still trying to control or avoid?What would it look like to feel safe in my body again? 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    16 min

  6. APR 1

    #65 - What’s Truly Happening In Your Body During Midlife with Dr. Heather Awad

    Your body is changing… and no one really prepared you for this.  The things that used to work don’t work anymore. The control, the routines, the way you’ve always managed yourself… suddenly feel off. And underneath that frustration, there’s something deeper — a quiet disconnection from your own body. In this conversation, I sit with Dr. Heather Awad to explore what’s truly happening in midlife — from hormonal shifts and weight gain to emotional eating and self-criticism. But more than that, we open a different path, one rooted in awareness, nourishment, and self-trust. This is where you stop fighting your body… and start listening to it. Where you soften the inner critic… and build a relationship that actually supports you. Perimenopause and menopause are for you to remember how to live in your body again — with trust, with compassion, and with freedom.   ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn How to work with your hormones instead of fighting themWhy emotional eating is more subtle than you thinkWhat happens when you pause instead of reacting on autopilotThe truth about insulin, weight gain, and midlife metabolismHow self-compassion creates sustainable, lasting change🦋 Reflection Questions What is my body asking of me that I’ve been ignoring?Where am I trying to control instead of listening?What would shift if I treated myself with more compassion today?💜 Dr. Heather Awad Vibrant Menopause Weight Loss Website: https://vibrant-md.com Vibrant-MD Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherawadmd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathervibrantmd/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherawadmd YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@heatherawadmd7858 Free Gift for Listeners: https://vibrant-md.com/breakfast 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    1h 5m

  7. MAR 27

    #64 - Sitting With Discomfort: Going Through To Move Forward With More Ease

    Kena is trying something new… Reflection Bombs. Short, simple episodes to pause and sit with those little moments in life—triggers, glimmers, whatever is there. After a few days of feeling off, I realized there was discomfort underneath it all. And I couldn’t ignore it anymore. So I paused. I gave it space. I moved my body, breathed, let the energy shift… and everything changed. My day. My presence. How I experienced it all. Because the truth is—you can be in the most beautiful place, with everything “right”… and still not feel it when something inside you is asking for your attention. This is your reminder to notice. To feel. To stop postponing yourself. What’s there for you right now? ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn How to recognize subtle discomfort before it takes over your dayWhy avoidance keeps you disconnected from joy and presenceWhat happens when you give space to emotions instead of pushing them awayHow simple practices can shift your energy in under an hourThe truth about feeling “off” and what it’s really asking of you 🦋 Reflection Questions Where in your life are you ignoring what feels off?What would shift if you gave yourself permission to pause and feel?How can you support yourself today with more presence and compassion? 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    11 min

  8. MAR 19

    #63 - From Self-Abandonment To Full Remembrance with Kimber Hardick

    What if the story you’ve been holding onto… isn’t actually true? In this deeply honest continuation of my conversation with Kimber, we move beyond awareness and into responsibility — the kind that changes everything. This is where midlife empowerment stops being an idea and becomes a lived experience. We explore how many women stay stuck in quiet patterns of self-abandonment — blaming, shrinking, waiting — without realizing they’ve been living inside stories that no longer serve them. From redefining “selfishness” to reconnecting with your desires, your body, and your emotional truth, this conversation invites you into a powerful identity shift. Because this is about remembering who you are when you stop outsourcing your voice. If you’ve been craving freedom, deeper self-trust, and a more honest way of living… this episode will meet you there — and gently invite you to choose yourself in a new way. ✨ In This Episode You’ll Learn How to shift from victim stories into creator energyWhy midlife women feel invisible — and how to reclaim themselvesThe truth about “selfishness” and choosing your own lifeWhat happens when you reconnect with your emotions and desiresHow to embody self-trust without needing external validation 🦋 Reflection Questions Where in your life are you still waiting for permission to choose yourself?What story have you been repeating that’s keeping you small?What would shift if you honored your desires as truth, not inconvenience? ✨ Where to Find Kimber Website: KimberHardick.comBook: An Invitation to Shine: From Invisible to Invincible on Amazon and Amazon listing pageInstagram: @kimberlivinglifeFacebook: Kimberly Ogle HardickYouTube: Kimber HardickThreads: @kimberlivinglife 🦋 Work With Kena If this episode moved something in you, that's worth paying attention to. As an Identity & Embodiment Guide, I guide women home to themselves and into choosing that fully. I offer connection calls for women who are ready to stop waiting and come back to who they truly are. It's a real conversation to feel into whether working together is a yes. ✨ Book your connection call: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/bookings/connection-call-midlife-butterfly Music: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

    32 min
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Midlife Butterfly is a raw and honest podcast for midlife women who feel the pull toward deeper alignment, freedom, and self-trust. Hosted by Kena Siu — Empowerment Guide, truth-teller, and embodiment mentor — this space is for the woman who has been strong for everyone else and is now ready to expand into a more connected, grounded, and joyful version of herself. If your life looks “fine” but doesn’t fully feel like home…If you’ve mastered responsibility yet crave more pleasure and presence…If you’re done shrinking, over-giving, or abandoning yourself to keep the peace — You’re not having a crisis. You’re awakening to a new level of growth. Through grounded spirituality, emotional maturity, nervous system awareness, boundaries, and lived experience, Kena shares the inner shifts that create real expansion — in how you relate to love, truth, identity, and your own voice. This isn’t about fixing yourself.It’s about remembering who you are and embodying her with courage, clarity, and connection. If you’re ready to come home to yourself — and live from that place — press play. 🔗 Connect with Kena:🦋 Instagram: @midlifebutterfly🤝 Join the Free Community: midlifebutterfly.ca/community✨ Explore Her Offerings: midlifebutterfly.ca/workwithme🌐 Website: midlifebutterfly.ca💌 Email Us: hello@midlifebutterfly.ca Much love 💜Kena Siu

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