The Midlife Ripening Podcast

In this episode I sit down with one of my dear mentors, Sil Read, a psychotherapist, co-author of Mothering & Daughtering, and devoted teacher of Marion Woodman's work. Sil studied with Marion for two decades, and she's journeyed with me through my relationship with my daughter, my body, and my dreams, including the season when my own mother was dying from cancer. We talk about the possibility of finding a spiritual mother when the mother line hasn't given us what we needed, and how arche...

In this episode, I sit down with Shelagh Lennon — web designer, yoga nidra facilitator, and author of Moon Pause: A Field Guide to Rest, Rhythm, and Returning to Yourself in Midlife and Beyond. Shelagh calls herself a "fairy godmother for the 21st century" and a "priestess of the rest garden," but she didn't always have that language. For twenty years she worked in post-secondary education, building a whole soulful life (studying aromatherapy, priestess training, nature-based practices) under...

Register for my upcoming monthly workshop, MORE OF YOU. This bonus episode is an invitation to stop. To lie down. To receive. Brooke recently completed a Yoga Nidra teacher training and is weaving this practice more deeply into her work as a Midlife Midwife — here's your first taste. In this special conversation, Brooke guides you through a yoga nidra practice for softening the overwhelm. You'll be invited to rest while a poem by Mark Nepo invites you off the wheel of approval-seeking. Throug...

Retreat details: Join Brooke in Tuscany this October for six days of dolce far niente. What if the most radical thing you could do for your growth right now… is nothing? In this deeply personal episode, Brooke invites you to slow down long enough to feel what's actually been simmering beneath the surface—the grief, the grayness, the soul cry that no amount of productivity can silence. This conversation is about the deeper kind of rest that reconnects you to your inner realm, your inst...

In this bonus episode, I’m sharing a live workshop replay where we name—and begin to gently unhook from—the Good Woman Myth. That inherited script that urges us to work before we rest, care for everyone else before we care for ourselves, and prove our worth instead of trusting it. Through story, teaching, and guided reflection, we explore resentment as a soul-level smoke alarm, what it means to hold our “flaws” without disappearing into shame, and why midlife invites a different kind of prior...