What if the reason you feel overwhelmed right now isn’t confusion… but capacity?

In this powerful and deeply relatable episode, Kate explores one of the most essential — and rarely taught — skills for navigating midlife, uncertainty, and emotional intensity: containment.

Through a personal story that begins with a perfectly planned day and a sudden emergency, she unpacks how nervous system capacity — not mindset or willpower — determines whether we react impulsively or respond with clarity.

Because most people don’t make bad decisions when life gets intense because they lack clarity.

They make them because they can’t tolerate the intensity they’re feeling.

You’ll learn what containment actually is, how it works in the brain and body, and why it’s the missing piece for women navigating midlife transitions, relationship shifts, identity changes, and a rapidly changing world.

If life feels like a lot right now — personally or globally — this episode will help you understand why… and what actually helps.

• Why emotional intensity often gets mistaken for intuition or urgency
• The nervous system science behind impulsive reactions and overwhelm
• How containment allows you to pivot instead of panic
• The difference between repression and true emotional capacity
• Why midlife increases activation — and how to work with it
• Practical nervous system tools you can use in under 60 seconds
• How presence becomes leadership in uncertain times

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Hi Love!

I want you to know how grateful I am that you’re here. . . and I would love to invite you to journey even further with me.

If you’re craving a steady place to land while life is shifting and reshaping you, come sit with us at The Hearth. It’s a gentle, grounded space for women in navigating change—an oasis of rhythm, reflection, and real support when the world feels loud or uncertain.

And if midlife has felt less like a problem to solve and more an initiation, it is! Join our waitlist for The Second Firing. This work is for women who know something meaningful is happening—even if they can’t quite name it yet—and are ready to meet who they’re becoming on the other side. We begin soon!

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