Your Magical Midlife
Calling all wildflowers, late bloomers, seekers and dreamers: Your Magical Midlife is for women 40+ who never (quite) fit in.
I'm Kate Higgins, a licensed therapist turned coach. I walk women through the portal of midlife using four archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empress and The Crone-each phase bringing wounds and wisdom.
This podcast is part confessional, part advice column, and part deep dive interviews with untamed woman living lives of their own creation. If you're tired of midlife content geared towards losing weight and "fixing" yourself, you're in the right place.
When I was struggling through menopause and the reckoning that is aging, the only support available to me was focused on preserving the 35 year old version of me-insisting that I should stay frozen there in that "ideal".
I couldn't find anything geared towards the emotional and spiritual challenges I was facing –let alone anywhere that was CELEBRATING it. So I decided to create it myself from scratch.
Midlife is a Portal, and I'm here to witness and support you as you dance, leap (or even) limp through it. It's okay. I got you.
Check out my website: www.yourmagicalmidlife.com
Follow me on Instagram: @yourmagicalmidlife
Book your FREE 20 minute coaching curiosity call: https://calendly.com/kate-katehigginslcsw/curiosity-call
Episodes
96 episodes
E96: Finding Beauty in Being Temporary
Midlife keeps handing us reminders that nothing lasts forever — friends getting sick, peers passing, bodies changing. Instead of spiraling into gloom, this episode explores the playful side of impermanence through Memento Mori, Vanitas, and Wab...
E95 Aging is Agency
For far too long, we’ve been told that menopause is the beginning of the end — the end of youth, desirability, vitality, and power.In this episode, I’m reframing the entire conversation.Menopause is not a decline.It is alch...
E94: Sacred Silliness
We’ve been taught that by the time we reach midlife we should be serious, dignified, and “appropriate.” But what if play, laughter, and being a little ridiculous are actually some of the most powerful ways we can heal and unmask?In this ...
E93: The Joy Of Becoming
The Joy of Becoming is about giving ourselves permission to stop performing and start living more fully as who we actually are.It’s the shift from:Shrinking to stay likable → to taking up space unapologetically
E92: Who The F Does She Think She is ??!!
That sharp, judgmental voice in our heads — “Who does she think she is?” — shows up for so many of us in midlife. Sometimes we direct it at other women. More often, we turn it on ourselves every time we dare to take up space, speak our truth, s...
E91: Unmasking In Midlife
Midlife is the time when many women begin to feel a deep ache to shed the masks they’ve been wearing for decades.In this episode, we explore the powerful journey of unmasking — the process of finally feeling safe enough to let go of the ...
E90: The Tender In-Between: The Complexity of Being an Ambivalently Childless Woman
In this episode I talk openly about the messy middle space so many of us live in — not happily childfree, not desperately grieving, but somewhere in between.I share my own story of never deeply wanting children, making a half-hearted att...
E89: In Defense of My Free Range Face
In this episode I talk about something I’ve been thinking about for years: what happens when we freeze those expressions with Botox.Research shows that Botox doesn’t just change how we look — it can actually mute our ability to fully fee...
E88: Fun Is The Medicine
Fun isn’t frivolous. Fun is medicine.And play is a form of prayer.The wild, silly, filled-with-glee Maiden inside you never actually left. She’s just been waiting for permission to come out and play again.This episode i...
E87: Grieving Girlhood-The Grief No One Talks About
We talk about a lot of losses in midlife — but we rarely talk about the quiet grief of saying goodbye to the girl we used to be. There’s a real ache that comes when you realize that sparkling, reckless version of yourself is gone. T...
E86: Wild Free and Filled With Glee: Why do we squash little girls who dream big ?
From a young age, little girls are told to quiet down, be polite, and stop being “too much.” We trade their sparkle for “appropriate” and their freedom for approval.In this episode I share my own story of rebelling against those expectat...
E85: Magic Happens When Women Gather
I just got back from Santa Fe, where I led a private Craft Your Crown day with one incredible client, and I’m still feeling the afterglow.Midlife can be lonely. Kids launch, parents pass, careers go stale, and sometimes even longtime fri...
E84: The Day The Training Wheels Came Off
This is a vulnerable share. I am presenting this story at an event in Santa Fe called Third Act Quest created by Diana Dunbar-Place, an amazing woman who I interviewed on this podcast (E36) This story is about the expectations place...
E83: ADD ? Overwhelm ? Perimenopause ? Why not all ?
Stress is at an all time high, look at the news and it's completely overwhelming- if you're feeling "flakier" you are not alone. Breathe, babe
E82 Midlife isn't a crisis. It's a portal
I'm so tired of people insisting that midlife is some kind of crisis. Midlife offers the opportunity of a lifetime-the opportunity to step fully into the woman you were meant to be.
E81 It's Time To Craft Your Crown
A wedding, baby shower, graduation, or 21st birthday should never be the last time a woman is surrounded by community, witnessed, and joyfully celebrated.Society throws confetti for the young—but what if we threw just as much (...
E80 Robo-Coaches vs Real Talk: Artificial Intelligence And Artificial Affirmation
Ai is everywhere and quickly taking over. ChatGPT’s great for quick facts or recipe hacks, but as a replacement for a therapist or life coach? 👀This week, I did a little experiment. I talked back and forth with Chat about a (...
E79 The Case Against Therapy
I've been in the mental health field for over 25 years and I have some bad news: traditional therapy doesn't really help. Talking about the same problems, retreading the same stories, isn't that effective. What does help ? Take a listen
E78: The Pause That Healed Me: Grief, Grace, and Celebrating Midlife Magic Again
After 77 episodes and a necessary (but longer than intended) pause, I'm returning with this soft relaunch episode. I open up about the real reason for my absence: processing the death of my father and giving myself the space to grieve.Now, ...
E77: It's Time for A Sacred Pause
Hi it's Kate-I am in the process of an exciting rebrand and relaunch of Your Magical Midlife The Podcast. I will be back on September 4th with a refocus on walking you through the four feminine archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empr...
E74 And Now For Something Completely Different
On Mother's Day I led a healing ceremony for women who had walked the childless or childfree path by chance, choice or somewhere in between. I was really proud of what I managed to offer and blown away by the vulnerability and open hearts of th...
E76 You Deserve Sexual Pleasure at Any Age: A Conversation with Susan Bratton
“Intimacy Expert to Millions” — Susan Bratton is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships.Flashes of brilliance pop like paparazzi as Susan rolls out one relationship epiphany after another. When she des...
E75 Building a Foundation of Self Care with Therapist and Coach MJ Vachon
MJ Vachon is a licensed clinical social worker and coach of over 30 years. She specializes in helping clients to build a foundation of self care. In an increasingly stressful and overstimulating world, MJ offers her clients her signature "NEST"...
E73 Yaaaas Queen ! An interview with Elizabeth Hammond aka The Queen Whisperer
Elizabeth Hammond is a leadership coach with a twist-she doesn't coach her clients to play the game and fit in, she coaches her clients to stand out ! Elizabeth's signature We Queens Leadership Framework™, unlocks the codes to collapse ti...