Entering the Soft Life After 40 — A Spiritual Return to Beauty

05/20/25 • 26 min

This episode explores the deeper meaning of the soft life after 40 — beyond trends and into a sacred return to feminine energy, embodied elegance, and emotional beauty. Learn how to reconnect with your radiance through rest, ritual, and presence.

Head to my blog, ChristianSismone.com for more tips, reminders and beauty!

Head to my blog, ChristianSismone.com for more tips, reminders and beauty!

Previous Episode

What You’re Really Feeling Isn’t Burnout — It’s Disconnection

What if what you’re calling burnout... is actually something deeper?

In this opening episode of Mystique Femininity, we explore the hidden emotional and spiritual root beneath burnout: disconnection from your essence. Midlife women are often praised for resilience and productivity — but no one talks about what it costs to constantly perform, push, and prove. The truth is, many of us aren’t lazy or ungrateful — we’re disconnected from our sacred feminine core.

Host Christian Sismone gently unpacks the signs of disconnection — like emotional numbness, daily autopilot, and a quiet yearning for softness you no longer feel worthy of. This episode offers not just insight, but an invitation: to return to presence, to sacred slowness, to your body, your power, and your divine beauty.

✨ You’ll learn:

How disconnection often mimics burnout symptoms
Why feminine energy can’t thrive in survival mode
What embodiment really looks like (hint: it’s not perfection)
How to begin the sacred practice of reconnection today

💌 Bonus: Download The Midlife Glow-Up Checklist, a free guide to small sacred habits that help you feel soft, seen, and restored: https://christiansismone.com/glow-up/

If this episode resonates, share it with a sister, friend, or fellow woman on the edge of burnout. We rise by rising together.

Next Episode

The Myth of the Soft Life (And the Feminine Truth Beneath It)

Is the soft life really as soft as it looks?

In this episode of Mystique Femininity, we’re pulling back the velvet curtain on one of the most romanticized trends of the decade: the soft life. But if beige candles and flawless skin haven't made you feel more feminine, you're not alone. Because real softness isn’t an aesthetic — it’s a nervous system state, a spiritual homecoming to your feminine essence.

Host Christian Sismone breaks down how the soft life has become a performance — and why so many midlife women feel like they’re failing at it. You’ll hear the deeper feminine truth: that softness isn’t a look to copy, but a sacred energy to embody. And it doesn’t require more products — it requires more presence.

✨ In this episode:

Why the “soft life” as sold online is incomplete (and often triggering)
What true softness feels like in the body
How nervous system healing and feminine energy are deeply connected
Embodiment practices to help you reclaim real softness

💌 Bonus: Download From Frumpy to Feminine: A Mini Guide to Reclaiming Your Presence — your free companion for stepping out of survival mode and into sacred elegance: https://christiansismone.com/frumpy

Softness isn’t weakness — it’s your divine birthright. And it’s time to reclaim it.