Thrive After 45™
Thrive After 45™ is a leadership, identity, and personal transformation podcast for women navigating midlife.
Hosted by Denise Drinkwalter — Heart Whisperer, Midlife Mirror & Mentor — the show features intimate conversations that explore identity shifts, self-trust, emotional healing, and personal sovereignty after 45.
Each episode offers grounded wisdom and lived experience to support women in reclaiming their voice, purpose, and inner authority during midlife transitions in life, relationships, and work.
Thrive After 45™
Spiritual Clarity with Rev. Christine Davies
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What if you could rebuild your spiritual life in a way that actually feels safe, soulful, and completely your own?
In this powerful and deeply nourishing conversation, I sit down with Rev. Christine Davies - a hospital chaplain, seminary professor, and spiritual director with nearly two decades of experience walking beside people in their most sacred (and often toughest) life moments.
We talk about the real stuff - grief, spiritual clarity, religious trauma, and what it actually looks like to find your way back to a loving connection with the divine after being hurt or burned by religion.
Christine’s approach is refreshingly gentle, inclusive, and profoundly wise. She breaks down the difference between religion and spirituality in a way that feels so affirming - and reminds us that healing is possible, no matter where you are on your path.
Whether you're craving deeper connection, navigating loss, deconstructing old beliefs, or simply asking, “What’s next for me?” - this episode will feel like a warm, soul-hug.
You’ll leave with permission to go slow, ask your own questions, and create sacred rituals that truly reflect you.
If you’ve ever felt alone on your spiritual journey - listen in.
You are not alone, and you are so deeply supported.
Wanna connect with Christine or explore spiritual direction with her?
Follow her on
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rev-christine-davies/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cvdavies/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/christine.davies
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rev.christine_davies
Christine's newsletter - https://journeyingalongside.substack.com/
Thank you for spending time with me today on the Thrive After 45™ podcast! If this episode spoke to you, be sure to hit that follow button so you never miss one.
November 2026, I will be hosting a live, in-person experience called IGNITE: The Inner Uprising™.
It is a two-day immersive gathering for 1,200 women in midlife — women who feel the quiet pull toward something more truthful, more embodied, more fully their own.
IGNITE is an extension of these conversations.
It’s where reflection becomes embodiment.
Where insight becomes integration.
Where women who have held so much for others gather to stand fully in their own sovereignty.
If something in today’s conversation stirred you — if your body leaned in — that is NOT accidental.
The waitlist is now open.
If IGNITE feels like something your future self would thank you for, I invite you to add your name here.
https://ignite2026.lovable.app
There is a place for us to gather.
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