Midlife Women Episodes

You have been someone’s mother for so long that when someone asks who you are, outside of that role, the answer does not come as easily as it should. In fact, that is what happens when a woman devotes decades of herself to raising other humans. The identity does not disappear. It just gets very quiet while you wait for it to come back. In this archive episode, PK goes deeper into the identity question, the one that does not get answered by picking up a new hobby. She sh...

The house is quiet. The schedule that organized your life for decades has dissolved. And somewhere underneath the relief, there is a guilt you were not expecting. The guilt of finally having time for yourself. In this archive episode, PK speaks directly to the midlife women and empty nesters who are standing in that quiet house, wondering what comes next. This is not about suggesting generic advice about pursuing hobbies. Instead, she provides specific steps to rec...

You are going through the motions of a life that looks completely fine from the outside. And yet. Something is hollow in the middle of it. Like the color has turned down a few notches. Like you are living in your life but not quite inhabiting it. Like you used to know what your life was for — and somewhere in the middle of all the giving and the doing and the showing up, that knowing got very quiet. If you have been sitting with a version of that feeling — the hollow, the grey, the vague but persistent sense that something is missing even when nothing is obviously wrong — this episode is for you. In this episode PK — Dr. Peggie Kirkland, host of The Unfinished GLOW — explores what spiritual wellness actually means for midlife women, why so many of us lose our sense of purpose and meaning during this season of life, and what it looks like to find your way back to the fixed point that has been there all along. In this episode you will find: • Why feeling hollow inside a l…