Midlife Butterfly: Stop Self-Abandoning & People Pleasing by Healing Your Nervous System — Feel Alive Again

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#73 - Reconnecting with Pleasure in Midlife: Intimacy, Shame & the Path to Feminine Aliveness with Trina Read

May 27
1h 2m

Episode Description

Have you ever felt completely disconnected from your own body — like pleasure was something that happened to other women, not you?

What if the shame you carry around sex isn't a personal failing — but a pattern you were never meant to carry in the first place?

In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Dr. Trina Read — a women's sexual health expert with over 25 years of experience — to explore why so many high-achieving midlife women feel cut off from their own pleasure, how shame quietly runs the show in our intimate lives, and what it actually takes to come home to our bodies again. This episode is a permission slip to stop self-abandoning in the one place we most need to feel alive.


🦋 You'll Discover:

  • Why so many high-achieving women feel disconnected from their own pleasure — and the surprising truth about where that disconnection actually starts
  • How shame silently shapes your sexual experiences and what it takes to break the cycle so you can finally stop abandoning yourself in intimacy
  • The small, embodied shifts that can completely transform how you experience your body — whether you're in a long-term relationship, navigating midlife, or rediscovering yourself on your own


✨ Where to Find Trina:

 

🦋 Coming Home Question: Where in your body have you been holding back — and what would it feel like to finally give yourself permission to be fully present there?


💜 I created Coming HOME for the woman who has done everything right and still feels something is missing. It's free, it's private, and it might be the most important thing you listen to this year — sign up here!

🦋 Midlife Butterfly is a podcast for high-achieving midlife women navigating emotional exhaustion, people pleasing, self-abandonment, nervous system healing, identity shifts, and midlife awakening. Hosted by Kena Siu, Identity & Embodiment Guide.

Instagram: @midlifebutterfly
Website: midlifebutterfly.ca

Music: Back Home by Alex Productions and  Reborn by Alexander Nakarada

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