#14 - Sisterhood in Midlife: The Power of Female Connection

04/01/25 • 70 min

Midlife Butterfly: Healing, Empowerment & Self-Discovery

Female friendship isn't just a luxury—it's essential for our growth, healing, and transformation at midlife. In this extraordinary gathering, Kena welcomes five remarkable women from her podcasting community for a powerful conversation about sisterhood and connection.
Through laughter, vulnerability, and profound insights, these women share their personal struggles with isolation, the competitive mindset many of us were conditioned to adopt, and the transformative power of finding your true tribe.
Key Points:

Female friendships often become harder to maintain in midlife due to family responsibilities, work demands, and shifting priorities
Many women experience a competitive mindset with other women that stems from patriarchal conditioning around scarcity
Research shows children benefit tremendously when they observe their mothers maintaining strong female friendships
Breaking the ice with potential new friends requires courage but can be as simple as offering a compliment or suggesting coffee
Female friendship "breakups" can be as painful as romantic ones but often signal necessary growth and evolution
The most powerful relationships come from showing up authentically rather than trying to be perfect
Midlife brings clarity about which relationships deserve a "seat at your table" and the confidence to release those that don't align
Younger generations of women model unapologetic self-celebration that many midlife women weren't encouraged to embrace

Reflection Questions:

Who are the women in your life that truly see and celebrate you? How can you nurture those connections?
What kind of sisterhood do you crave in this season of your life? What would it feel like to be fully supported?
What’s one step you can take today to call in your soul-aligned tribe—whether it’s joining a new community, reaching out to someone, or showing up more authentically?

Reach out and make the first move! Also join the Midlife Butterfly Community in Facebook.

Where can you find our guests?

Casey Taton

Instagram: @cataton
Facebook: @casey.taton
Podcast: Inner Spark

Dana Hunter Fradella

Instagram: @girls.who.recover
Podcast: Girls Who Recover

Jama Patel

Website: www.jamapantel.com
Instagram: @ja

You can find all the podcast details right here: https://www.wellbeingproject.ca/podcast

If you're struggling with life transitions, download this FREE Guide with 5 Practices to Reclaim Your Power!
Follow Kena on Instagram: @kenasiu
Join the Midlife Butterfly Community: http://www.facebook.com/groups/midlifebutterfly
For Coaching, Courses & More Visit Kena's Website: https://wellbeingproject.ca

Request a Free Empowered Call with Kena if you're interested in working with her: http://www.wellbeingproject.ca/empowersession

Song: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

Female friendships often become harder to maintain in midlife due to family responsibilities, work demands, and shifting priorities
Many women experience a competitive mindset with other women that stems from patriarchal conditioning around scarcity
Research shows children benefit tremendously when they observe their mothers maintaining strong female friendships
Breaking the ice with potential new friends requires courage but can be as simple as offering a compliment or suggesting coffee
Female friendship "breakups" can be as painful as romantic ones but often signal necessary growth and evolution
The most powerful relationships come from showing up authentically rather than trying to be perfect
Midlife brings clarity about which relationships deserve a "seat at your table" and the confidence to release those that don't align
Younger generations of women model unapologetic self-celebration that many midlife women weren't encouraged to embrace

Reflection Questions:

Who are the women in your life that truly see and celebrate you? How can you nurture those connections?
What kind of sisterhood do you crave in this season of your life? What would it feel like to be fully supported?
What’s one step you can take today to call in your soul-aligned tribe—whether it’s joining a new community, reaching out to someone, or showing up more authentically?

Reach out and make the first move! Also join the Midlife Butterfly Community in Facebook.

Where can you find our guests?

Casey Taton

Instagram: @cataton
Facebook: @casey.taton
Podcast: Inner Spark

Dana Hunter Fradella

Instagram: @girls.who.recover
Podcast: Girls Who Recover

Jama Patel

Website: www.jamapantel.com
Instagram: @ja

You can find all the podcast details right here: https://www.wellbeingproject.ca/podcast

Request a Free Empowered Call with Kena if you're interested in working with her: http://www.wellbeingproject.ca/empowersession

Song: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

Previous Episode

#13 - Navigating Chaos & Coming Back to Center

Life isn’t just about love and light—it’s also about contrast, uncertainty, and the unexpected twists that shake us to our core. In this episode, we explore how to shift our perspective on contrast and use it as a tool for growth and expansion. Because life will always have duality—joy and sorrow, expansion and contraction—but what if instead of resisting it, we learned to navigate it with grace?

Here’s what we dive into:

Contrast as a Guide: How life’s ups and downs are not obstacles but invitations to return to your center.
Fear vs. Love: Recognizing how fear creeps in (through external noise and our own mind) and reclaiming our power by shifting our response.
A Personal Story of Loss & Synchronicity: How the unexpected passing of a dear friend reminded me of life’s impermanence and the signs that guide us back to love.
Sacred Ceremonies & Connection: The beauty of community, ritual, and finding support even when you feel alone.
Grounding Practices for Chaos: A simple breathwork technique to shift from contraction to expansion, from fear to presence.
Welcoming the Fullness of Life: How expansion and contraction exist in everything—even in your own body—and why embracing both is the key to peace.

Your Reflection Questions:

When contrast shows up in your life, how do you respond?
What practices help you shift from fear to love?
Can you recognize a recent synchronicity that reminded you that you are always held?

This episode is a reminder that even in the middle of chaos, you have the power to return home to yourself. 💛

✨ Let’s connect! I’d love to hear how you navigate contrast. DM me on Instagram or share your thoughts in the Midlife Butterfly community: http://www.facebook.com/groups/midlifebutterfly/

You can find all the podcast details right here: https://www.wellbeingproject.ca/podcast

Request a Free Empowered Call with Kena if you're interested in working with her: http://www.wellbeingproject.ca/empowersession

Song: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

Next Episode

#15 - How Lack of Self-Worth Silently Shapes Your Life (And How to Take Your Power Back)

In this empowering solo episode of Midlife Butterfly, Kena dives into the sneaky ways a lack of self-worth might be running your life without you even noticing. From people-pleasing to shrinking yourself in rooms, this is a loving wake-up call to midlife women who are ready to reclaim their joy, rewrite old programs, and live unapologetically aligned. Kena shares 3 practical mindset shifts you can start using right now to begin healing the unworthiness wound and coming back home to your truth.

Whether you're navigating divorce, life transitions, or simply awakening to your deeper self, this episode is for you.

🦋 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

What self-worth really is (spoiler alert: it's not self-esteem)
Subtle signs you may be operating from low self-worth
How your childhood, culture, and conditioning shaped your “good girl” programming
Why your people-pleasing, perfectionism, and over-apologizing are survival responses—not your truth
Three simple but powerful shifts to start reclaiming your self-worth today:
A reminder that you are already worthy, simply because you exist
An invitation to go deeper with Kena’s self-paced mini-coaching session: How to Stop Feeling Not Good Enough and Reclaim Your Worth.

🔮 Reflection Questions:

Where in your life are you still seeking external validation to feel worthy?
What’s one small boundary you can set today that honors your truth?
If you fully believed you were worthy—right now—what would you say yes or no to?

I created a mini-coaching session called "How to Stop Feeling Not Good Enough and Reclaim your Worth." It's a bite-sized coaching experience you can complete in about 45 minutes at your own pace to help break free from this cycle and embody your worthiness. Check it out here!

You can find all the podcast details right here: https://www.wellbeingproject.ca/podcast

Request a Free Empowered Call with Kena if you're interested in working with her: http://www.wellbeingproject.ca/empowersession

Song: Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

Midlife Butterfly: Healing, Empowerment & Self-Discovery - #14 - Sisterhood in Midlife: The Power of Female Connection

Transcript

Kena Siu00:00:04.307

Midlife isn't a crisis . It's a calling , a wake-up call that shakes it up , strips away the old and invites you to something bigger . You feel it , don't you that deep knowing , that whisper that says there's more for me ?

Kena Siu00:00:20.704

I see you , beautiful . You spent years showing up for everyone else , being the good wife , the devoted mother , t