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Midlife Spirituality Project: Guiding 40+ women toward Connection, Inner Peace & Purpose

Midlife Spirituality Project: Guiding 40+ women toward Connection, Inner Peace & Purpose

De : Katie Farinas
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 The Midlife Purpose Project is a podcast for spiritually seeking midlife women who are ready to come home to themselves. If you are navigating midlife anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, disconnection, perimenopause, menopause, body changes after 40, and the deeper questions of purpose, identity, and what comes next - welcome to the community. I’m Katie Farinas — yoga teacher, former nurse, and midlife clarity and purpose coach helping women reconnect with themselves and move through midlife with more peace, self-trust, and purpose. Each week, we explore how to move through midlife with more intention and less overwhelm by blending yoga philosophy, meditation, breathwork, nervous system regulation, emotional regulation, and modern therapeutic tools. Through honest solo reflections, inspiring interviews, and practical conversations, we talk about midlife purpose, emotional healing, self-compassion, people pleasing, relationships, motherhood, intuition, inner peace, self-discovery, and coming home to yourself. You’ll also hear expert conversations on perimenopause and menopause, hormone therapy, healthy aging, longevity, movement, nutrition, career transitions, financial stress, body image, and how to care for your changing body and mind with more awareness and compassion. You’ll also hear expert conversations on perimenopause and menopause, hormone therapy, healthy aging, longevity, movement, nutrition, career transitions, financial stress, and how to care for your changing body and mind. If you’ve been asking: Why do I feel so disconnected from myself, and how do I reconnect with who I really am? How do I manage strong emotions in midlife? How do I regulate my nervous system and feel more grounded? How do I learn to listen to my intuition and trust myself? I’m not religious, but I long for a deeper spiritual connection — how do I find that? How do I stop judging, comparing, and criticizing myself and others? How do I let go of fear and move forward with more alignment? What is happening in my body after 40? How do I connect with this new body and honor what it needs? How can I shift my mindset to embrace this season of life? How do I navigate perimenopause and menopause with more clarity? Can I reinvent myself at 40, 50, and beyond? How do I stop people pleasing and start honoring my own needs? How do I get unstuck? What spiritual practices actually help in midlife? I’ve been through hard things — how do I make sense of them, heal, and move forward? How do I find more meaning, alignment, and purpose in midlife? This podcast is for you. The Midlife Purpose Project is your sanctuary for healing, clarity, connection, and reconnecting with yourself — so you can live with more peace, purpose, alignment, and joy. This podcast is for you. The Midlife Purpose Project is your sanctuary for clarity, healing, connection, and coming home to yourself — so you can live with more purpose, peace, and joy.Katie Farinas Développement personnel Hygiène et vie saine Psychologie Psychologie et psychiatrie Réussite personnelle Sciences sociales
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  • 154: Anxiety in Midlife and What One Woman’s Story Reveals About Finding Your True Self

    154: Anxiety in Midlife and What One Woman’s Story Reveals About Finding Your True Self
    Apr 27 2026
    In this episode of The Midlife Purpose Project, Katie is joined by Hillary for a deeply personal and honest conversation about anxiety, emotional healing, and reconnecting with your true self in midlife.Rather than an expert-driven conversation, this episode offers something different—a real-life story of what anxiety, misalignment, and healing can actually look like.Hillary shares her journey from pursuing music as a child to choosing a more practical path in medicine, shaped by early feedback, family expectations, and life circumstances. Like many women, she made decisions rooted in safety, responsibility, and loyalty—often at the expense of her true desires.Together, Katie and Hillary explore how these early patterns can follow us into adulthood, showing up as anxiety, self-doubt, and a persistent feeling of being disconnected from ourselves.Hillary also shares her experience with severe anxiety and panic disorder that developed after leaving her corporate career to pursue music full-time following the loss of her brother. While therapy helped her process emotions, it didn’t fully resolve the anxiety she was experiencing.A pivotal moment in her healing came through a therapeutic technique that helped her connect physical sensations in her body to childhood experiences—allowing her to relate to her inner critic with more compassion and perspective.Katie draws a powerful connection between this work and meditation, explaining how both create space between you and your thoughts—helping you move out of reactivity and into awareness.Through Hillary’s personal experience, this episode offers a relatable and grounded look at:how anxiety can signal being out of alignmentthe role of childhood conditioning and unconscious beliefshow inner critic patterns are formedwhy emotional processing is essential for healinghow self-compassion supports nervous system regulationwhat it looks like to reconnect with your authentic self and desiresHillary also reflects on her return to music and her desire to create meaningful community spaces for midlife women through live events and connection.This episode is especially supportive if you are:experiencing anxiety or emotional overwhelmfeeling disconnected from your true self or purposequestioning your life direction or past choicesstruggling with self-doubt or inner criticismnavigating a transition or identity shift in midlifeAt its core, this conversation offers a powerful reminder:Anxiety is not always something to fix. It may be a signal guiding you back to yourself.Connect With Hillary & Her MusicTikTokSpotifyInstagramAbout Katie FarinasKatie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.✨ Explore Katie’s work and offerings:Visit Katie’s websiteJoin the newsletter for soulful insights and to receive weekly practicesRead and watch on SubstackBook a reflective Insight Seat to come on the show and receive live coachingSchedule a Clarity Call to see if my coaching is right for you.🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube:
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    40 min
  • 153: Why Anxiety Increases in Midlife and What It’s Trying to Tell You

    153: Why Anxiety Increases in Midlife and What It’s Trying to Tell You
    Apr 20 2026

    Anxiety in midlife isn’t just stress—it may be a signal that something in your life is ready to change.

    If you’ve been feeling more anxious, on edge, or overwhelmed lately—even when nothing is obviously wrong—this episode will help you understand why.

    In this episode, Katie explores how anxiety is often connected to feeling stuck, nervous system shifts, and deeper identity changes in midlife—and how yoga philosophy offers a powerful reframe for what your anxiety is really trying to show you.

    You’ll learn:

    • why anxiety often increases in midlife
    • how feeling stuck contributes to anxiety
    • why working with only the mind or only the body isn’t enough
    • how a top-down and bottom-up approach creates lasting change
    • how yoga philosophy helps you understand and move through anxiety

    This episode is especially for you if:

    • you feel anxious but can’t explain why
    • you feel stuck in midlife
    • you’ve tried mindset or body work alone and still feel the same
    • you sense something in your life is ready to change

    At its core, this episode offers a powerful reframe:

    Anxiety in midlife is not just something to fix.

    It may be a signal that you are being asked to evolve.

    🧭 CHAPTERS

    00:00 — Anxiety in Midlife: Why You Feel This Way & What You May Be Experiencing

    Introducing anxiety as the primary experience.

    08:00 — Yoga Philosophy: Avidya and Samskaras Explained Simply

    Understanding identity and unconscious patterns.

    12:00 — Why Midlife Intensifies Anxiety (Body + Life Changes)

    Hormones, roles, and shifting priorities.

    15:50 — Nervous System + Anxiety: Why You Can’t Push Through Anymore

    Top-down vs bottom-up explained.

    17:00 — What Keeps You Stuck: Fear, Attachment, and Identity

    Why change feels so hard.

    20:00 — A Gentle Practice To Investigate Anxiety

    Practical ways to begin shifting.

    About Katie Farinas

    Katie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.

    ✨ Explore Katie’s work and offerings:

    1. Visit Katie’s website
    2. Join the newsletter for soulful insights and to receive weekly practices
    3. Read and watch on Substack
    4. Book a reflective Insight Seat to come on the show and receive live coaching
    5. Schedule a Clarity Call to see if my coaching is right for you.

    🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube:
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    26 min
  • 152: Finding Purpose in Midlife and Stepping Into Your Next Chapter

    152: Finding Purpose in Midlife and Stepping Into Your Next Chapter
    Apr 13 2026
    Feeling stuck in midlife isn’t a crisis—it may be a wake-up call to reconnect with your purpose, identity, and what truly matters.If you’ve been feeling unfulfilled, disconnected, or like something in your life no longer fits—even if you can’t fully explain why—this episode will help you understand what’s really going on.In this episode, Katie is joined by Wendy Valentine to explore how what feels like a midlife crisis is often a deeper awakening—and how self-discovery, courage, and aligned action can help you move from feeling stuck to creating a life that feels meaningful and true.You’ll learn:why feeling stuck in midlife is often a sign of deeper changethe difference between a midlife crisis and a midlife awakeningwhat keeps women stuck in the “middle suck”how fear, perfectionism, and overthinking block changehow to begin trusting your inner voice and intuitive nudgeswhy midlife is the perfect time for purpose and reinventionIn this episode of the Midlife Purpose Project, Katie welcomes Wendy Valentine, author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play, for an inspiring conversation about midlife awakening, purpose, and self-discovery.Wendy shares her powerful personal story of navigating a deeply challenging midlife season marked by divorce, financial hardship, chronic illness, and loss. What she once viewed as a crisis, she now reframes as a “midlife awakening”—a call to reconnect with her authentic self and create a more meaningful life.Together, Katie and Wendy explore the idea that many women are not experiencing a midlife crisis, but rather a “midlife coma”—a state of disconnection from purpose, passion, and identity.This episode dives into what it really takes to wake up in midlife, including the courage to make different choices, the willingness to embrace uncertainty, and the ability to trust yourself even when the path is unclear.You’ll hear:How Wendy moved from burnout, depression, and self-doubt to purpose and freedomThe difference between familiar discomfort and “scary freedom”Why midlife is the perfect time for reinvention and self-discoveryHow to move through fear, perfectionism, and overthinkingThe concept of the “middle suck” and why so many women stay stuck thereHow to recognize your inner voice and follow intuitive nudgesSimple practices like meditation, journaling, and rest that support clarity and connectionWendy also shares her transformational decision to leave her corporate career, travel across the country in an RV, and ultimately build a life aligned with her purpose—reminding listeners that meaningful change begins with a single decision.This episode is especially relevant for women who feel:stuck or unfulfilled in midlifedisconnected from their purposeafraid to make a big life changecaught between comfort and growthready for something more but unsure where to beginAt its core, this conversation is an invitation to remember your strength, trust your inner wisdom, and give yourself permission to create a life that feels aligned, expansive, and true.🧭 Episode Chapters1. Midlife Crisis or Midlife AwakeningReframing midlife as an opportunity for purpose and self-discovery.2. From Breakdown to BreakthroughWendy’s personal journey through loss, burnout, and transformation.3. Choosing Scary Freedom Over Familiar MiseryThe moment of decision that changes everything.4. The Middle Suck and Why We Stay StuckUnderstanding the space between comfort and growth.5. Building Courage and Trust in MidlifeHow women underestimate their strength and resilience.6. Listening to Your Inner Voice and Taking ActionFollowing intuition, letting go of perfectionism, and moving forward.About Katie FarinasKatie Farinas is a midlife coach, yoga teacher, and spiritual guide who helps women navigate midlife with clarity, peace, purpose, and empowerment. Through yoga philosophy, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and energy-based practices, Katie supports women in reconnecting with their intuition and stepping fully into their most aligned and authentic selves.✨ Explore Katie’s work and offerings:Visit Katie’s websiteJoin the newsletter for soulful insights and to receive weekly practicesRead and watch on SubstackBook a reflective Insight Seat to come on the show and receive live coachingSchedule a Clarity Call to see if my coaching is right for you.🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube:
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    51 min
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