Your Magical Midlife
Calling all wildflowers, late bloomers, seekers and dreamers: Your Magical Midlife is for women 40+ who never (quite) fit in.
I'm Kate Higgins, a licensed therapist turned coach. I walk women through the portal of midlife using four archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empress and The Crone-each phase bringing wounds and wisdom.
This podcast is part confessional, part advice column, and part deep dive interviews with untamed woman living lives of their own creation. If you're tired of midlife content geared towards losing weight and "fixing" yourself, you're in the right place.
When I was struggling through menopause and the reckoning that is aging, the only support available to me was focused on preserving the 35 year old version of me-insisting that I should stay frozen there in that "ideal".
I couldn't find anything geared towards the emotional and spiritual challenges I was facing –let alone anywhere that was CELEBRATING it. So I decided to create it myself from scratch.
Midlife is a Portal, and I'm here to witness and support you as you dance, leap (or even) limp through it. It's okay. I got you.
Check out my website: www.yourmagicalmidlife.com
Follow me on Instagram: @yourmagicalmidlife
Book your FREE 20 minute coaching curiosity call: https://calendly.com/kate-katehigginslcsw/curiosity-call
Your Magical Midlife
E93: The Joy Of Becoming
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The Joy of Becoming is about giving ourselves permission to stop performing and start living more fully as who we actually are.
It’s the shift from:
- Shrinking to stay likable → to taking up space unapologetically
- Following old scripts → to writing new ones
- Waiting until we’re “healed enough” or “ready enough” → to beginning right now, exactly as we are
This isn’t about toxic positivity or pretending life is always easy.
It’s about reclaiming joy as a serious, sacred part of our growth. It’s about remembering how to play, laugh, create, and feel alive again — even while we’re still healing, still messy, and still figuring things out.
Midlife joy looks like dancing in the kitchen, wearing the bright color, saying the honest thing, making the silly joke, and choosing ourselves even when it feels scary. It’s the quiet rebellion of deciding that our happiness matters too.
This season is about integration — letting the Maiden’s playfulness, the Mother’s depth, the Empress’s sovereignty, and the Crone’s wisdom all live in the same body.
Because becoming isn’t supposed to be solemn and heavy all the time.
Sometimes becoming is joyful.
Sometimes it’s ridiculous.
Sometimes it’s the best thing we’ve ever done.
I’m walking this path with you — late bloomer, imperfect, still becoming.
If you’re craving more joy, realness, and freedom in this chapter of your life, you’re in the right place.
Follow me on Instagram @yourmagicalmidlife
If you’re ready to explore which archetype is most active in your life right now, take the free Midlife Archetype Quiz.
👉 Take the Midlife Archetype Quiz
Book me to come to you so that YOU can Craft Your Crown: https://yourmagicalmidlife.com/craft-your-crown
Book your FREE 20 minute coaching discovery call: https://calendly.com/kate-katehigginslcsw/curiosity-call
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