The Liberated Middle
The Liberated Middle is about awakening, releasing, and returning home to your truest and most authentic self. It’s for women in midlife who want real conversations, embodied wisdom, and tools to live a vibrant and authentic life.
If you’re a woman who’s done chasing perfection and ready to come home to yourself…
If you’re waking up to the truth that midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a powerful turning point…
You’re in the right place.
Hosted by Lisa Hamilton—embodiment coach, IFS practitioner, and integrative physical therapist, this podcast explores the real terrain of midlife: shifting hormones, changing bodies, evolving identities, and the inner work of releasing old narratives so you can live with greater vitality and freedom.
Lisa weaves science, soul, and story together with curiosity, compassion, and a touch of edge—offering grounded insights and practical tools you can carry into everyday life.
Get curious. Get clear. Get going.
The Liberated Middle
Coming Home & Belonging to Yourself
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Belonging begins with a homecoming.
In this opening episode of The Belonging Series, Lisa explores what it means to come home to yourself—and why that’s the foundation for every other kind of belonging. She weaves Internal Family Systems, interoception research, and polyvagal theory into a conversation about self-abandonment, nervous system safety, and the freedom of building home inside your own body.
You’ll walk away with reflection prompts and a simple practice to begin strengthening your own self-belonging.
Because coming home is the return. Belonging is the staying.
About The Belonging Series:
Belonging is one of our most essential human needs. In this special series of The Liberated Middle, Lisa explores belonging from the inside out—from coming home to yourself, to the difference between true belonging and fitting in, to the loneliness epidemic, the art of gathering, the neuroscience of connection, and how belonging shifts across the lifespan.
Music by RA, upbeat.io