No Edits Just Life
Welcome to No Edits, Just Life — the raw, relatable midlife podcast where we talk hormones, hustle, healing, and everything in between. I'm your host Kiwanis, keeping it real about marriage, motherhood, and figuring it out with no filters and no fluff.
No Edits Just Life
When Growth Gets Lonely
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Nobody really talks about this part of growth.
Not the glow-up.
Not the wins.
But the loneliness that shows up when you start changing internally before your life on the outside catches up.
In this episode of No Edits, Just Life, Kiwanis talks honestly about the quiet isolation that can come with personal growth—especially when you’re building something, dreaming bigger, or evolving in ways the people around you can’t fully relate to yet. This isn’t about cutting people off or thinking you’re better than anyone. It’s about what happens when pretending gets exhausting and shrinking no longer feels safe.
Because sometimes growth doesn’t feel like elevation.
It feels like distance.
And that grief deserves to be named.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode
🌱 Why growth can feel lonely even when you’re surrounded by people
🧠 The awkward “in-between” season where you don’t fit where you’ve been—but aren’t fully where you’re going yet
💔 Grieving relationships that are still technically intact
🧩 How outgrowing roles (the fixer, the glue, the listener) can change dynamics
🕊️ Why choosing peace, alignment, and truth often comes with quiet instead of applause
“Loneliness doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision. It often means you made an honest one.”
Why You’ll Love It
This episode is for the woman who feels like a guest in rooms that once felt like home.
For the one who’s growing, building, and becoming—while quietly carrying the cost of that evolution.
If you’ve been feeling unseen, misunderstood, or isolated in your growth, this episode will remind you that you’re not broken—you’re just in the middle.
And the middle matters.
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No edits. Just life.