An Intuitive Life: Coaching, Intuition, Midlife, Inner Compass, Decisions, Self Trust, Identity

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Shannon Wallace on trusting your body, questioning the experts, and reclaiming your health in midlife and beyond.
Some of the most important decisions we'll ever make are about our own bodies, and yet we're taught to hand that authority to everyone but ourselves.

In this episode, I reconnect with past client and health educator Shannon Wallace, who shares how she moved from chronic illness, exhaustion, and fear to reclaiming her health on her own terms, and why learning to trust your body is the real foundation of healing.

What We Explore
Shannon's decades-long healing journey, from chronic illness and imposter syndrome to finding what finally worked
Why you don't have to be "100% healed" to help others (and how struggling can deepen your compassion)
The moment five lumps and a scary diagnosis sent her inward, and how she made her decision from intuition, not fear
What it really means to become "the CEO of your own health"

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Why We Override Our Intuition, And Three Practical Prompts to Reclaim It

Every day, your intuition sends you signals in your body, in that quiet inner knowing... and every day, you're taught to override them in favor of someone else's framework, someone else's success story, someone else's voice.

In this episode, I break down why women in midlife have been conditioned to abandon their inner compass in favor of guru culture and comparison, why discernment is the skill of our time, and give you three clear, practical prompts to notice the override in real time and come back to yourself.

What We Explore in This Episode
Why "woo-woo" has been used as a weapon to dismiss intuition and why that framing is exactly the problem
The deep conditioning that trains us to trust external authority over our own inner knowing
How the online world reinforces this override at scale (and why our nervous systems weren't built for a tribe of millions)
Why discernment, not productivity or the perfect framework... is the real skill of this moment
Three practical prompts to catch the override in the moment and rebuild trust with yourself

Resources & Links Mentioned
The Intuitive Decision Making Style Quiz

Learn About & Book Your 1:1 Intuitive Vision Session

Your Journey To Back to Self-Trust

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A somatic coach and energy healer on shedding labels, trusting the mess, and finding your work through midlife reinvention.

What happens when you're good at many things, and the world keeps telling you to pick just one?

In this episode, I sit down with Jessica Evans, esthetician turned somatic coach, energy healer, and self-described "portal", for an honest conversation about reinvention in midlife.

From opening a spa in 2020 to walking away from one-on-one facials toward Goddess Flow and community grief circles, Jessica shares the messy, non-linear path of following her intuition instead of forcing herself into a single tidy label.

Together, we reframe "throwing spaghetti at the wall" as courageous action and data-gathering, explore why nervous system healing needs community to last, and remind you that you don't discover your one thing until you've lovingly tried many.

A few bullet points (What we explore):
Why reinvention rarely arrives in a straight line, and how to trust the mess
Reframing "throwing spaghetti at the wall" as brave action, not failure
Moving from fixer to portal: holding space instead of doing the work for someone

Resources & Links Mentioned:
The Flow State Collective — Jessica's online collective meeting virtually near the full/new moons, with personalized weekly card pulls and a growing library of somatic tools
Goddess Flow Yoga — returning in person in August (Saturday mornings), and coming to the Flow State Collective too.
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There's Nothing to Figure Out
What Therapy Taught Me About Midlife, Identity, and Letting Go of the Doing

This episode is a little different for me, more of an exploration than a teaching. I open up about starting therapy this year, not for one big crisis, but with the intention to finally do things differently after a season that reshaped my family and my work.

I get honest about being a doer, a starter, someone who has let "figuring it out" define my worth for most of my life, and what it's been like to sit with my therapist's simplest, hardest instruction: there's nothing to figure out.

If you've ever felt addicted to the doing, unsure who you are without your work, or curious why women seem to burn out differently than men, this one's for you.

I get into:
Why the female nervous system is wired for connection, not constant achievement, and what happens when we override that for years
What it really looks like to redefine your identity in midlife when your career, your kids, and your sense of self are all shifting at once
The simple mantra from therapy that's changing how I relate to ambition, rest, and self-worth
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