Soul Knows the Way

I Stopped Trying to Fix My Family (And Finally Found Peace)

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:05:00 -0600

There comes a point in the second half of life when you stop trying to fix your family... and something in you finally begins to soften.

If you're navigating a difficult family in midlife—an aging parent, an estranged sibling, or old wounds that never got the apology they deserved—this episode is for you. After 3,500 miles on the road visiting my family of origin, I came home seeing all of it differently. Not because anything got fixed, but because I finally had room to see what else was true.

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💜 Kim Marie

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📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - When You Stop Trying to Fix Your Family

00:54 - Lessons From a 3,500-Mile Journey Home

01:57 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

02:36 - Reuniting with an Estranged Sibling

03:35 - The Pancake Parable: Apologies Without Words

08:00 - Breaking Old Patterns Without Reopening Wounds

09:07 - Why "Hurt People Hurt People" Changes Everything

13:11 - When Loss Clears Space You Didn't Choose

16:25 - Watching a Parent You Love Unravel

18:18 - Grief and Grace Sitting in the Same Chair

19:30 - Re-entering the Circle of Family Dysfunction

21:42 - What the "Wellness World" Gets Wrong About Toxic Families

24:21 - The Plant Parable: How Opposite Truths Exist Together

26:50 - Finding Beauty in the Darkest Chapters

28:38 - One Question That Shifts Everything

31:36 - A Sanctuary for Your Midlife Transition

32:10 - What Real Healing in Midlife Looks Like

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

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E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Perimenopause & Menopause: It's Not Just About Your Hormones

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 -0600

If you're in perimenopause or menopause and feeling like there’s more happening to you than anyone is talking about, you're not imagining it, you're not going crazy, and you’re not alone. The 3am waking, the hot flashes, the rage and grief that seem to come from nowhere, the strange sense of not recognizing yourself...midlife hands women all of this and calls it “declining hormones.” But this passage into the second half of life is about far more than just hormones. There's something almost no one talks about, and it changes everything once you recognize it.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - What no one tells you about menopause

01:23 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

02:39 - It's not just your hormones

04:25 - A soulful take on HRT and menopause

07:51 - Why you don't feel like yourself

27:57 - Perimenopause rage, grief, and exhaustion

33:59 - Why your menopause symptoms won't ease

36:21 - Free gift + The Soulstead

36:56 - Your body hasn't betrayed you

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E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Why “Finding Your Purpose" Isn't Working

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:30:00 -0600

If "finding your purpose" isn't working...if nothing you do feels like it matters, if you sense there's a woman you were meant to become and haven't yet met, this episode names what's really happening underneath that ache. It's the seventh and final key in the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul...for women in midlife and the second half of life ready for the deeper truth about meaning, purpose, and the life their Soul has been waiting to live.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - What no one taught you about midlife

01:35 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

02:25 - The signs you keep dismissing

05:20 - How you became someone you don't recognize

11:07 - The truth about reinventing yourself in midlife

19:25 - A practice to meet the woman waiting

24:15 - The one question that changes everything

27:19 - Free guide + community

29:10 - The woman you came here to become

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Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Why Your Boundaries Keep Failing You (Do This Instead)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:15:00 -0600

If your boundaries keep failing…if you keep saying yes when you mean no, second-guessing every decision, and asking everyone except yourself what to do...the problem isn't a lack of willpower or the right answer. There's a deeper knowing within you, and tapping into it is what will help you hold those boundaries and strengthen so much more within yourself. In this episode of Soul Knows the Way...Key 6 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul...we look at the most accurate boundary instrument you have, and what becomes possible when you finally begin trusting it again.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Your Boundaries Aren't the Problem

01:04 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

03:02 - Signs You've Stopped Listening to Yourself

09:35 - How Your Soul Actually Speaks to You

21:54 - Setting Boundaries From a Place of Knowing

28:27 - How to Use Oracle Cards for Intuition 3

6:59 - Your Free Gift of Oracle Cards

44:30 - The Voice Within You All Along

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

Soul's Journey Oracle Deck Used in Video*

Centering-Grounding-Presencing Video

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E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

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The Words You Never Said Are Poisoning You (Reclaiming Your Voice in Midlife)

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:25:00 -0600

Did you know your unspoken words could be poisoning you? Why do so many women in the second half of life still bite their tongues, even when we have so much to say? In this episode of Soul Knows the Way, Kim Marie names the silencing every woman has inherited, and what happens to a woman's body, relationships, and Soul when she finally starts to speak. This is Key 5 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why women stay quiet in midlife

01:51 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

03:24 - The symptoms of unspoken words

09:16 - The history that silenced women's voices

12:28 - The throat chakra and its healing

15:21 - The power of the Crone

17:41 - How to open your voice in midlife

33:59 - Your free guide + the Soulstead

35:50 - Say it anyway

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E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

Why "Love Yourself" Advice Never Actually Works

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:25:00 -0600

You've tried to love yourself...the affirmations, the self-care, the journaling, all of it. And if you're a woman in midlife or the second half of life, feeling disconnected from love itself, you've likely sensed that the usual "love yourself" advice never actually works. This is Key 4 of the 7 Keys to Reclaim Your Soul, and it points to what you were never taught about love.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - The Love You've Been Missing

01:31 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

01:52 - Why "Love Yourself" Practices Never Land

09:05 - What Loss Taught Me About Real Love

18:57 - Healing Soul-Sickness Through Love

24:40 - True Self-Love and How to Practice It

32:52 - Free 7 Keys Guide + The Soulstead Community

33:42 - You're Already Made of It

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E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

What People-Pleasing Is Really Doing to You in Midlife

Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:00 -0600

People-pleasing can destroy midlife women. Most women in the second half of life have spent decades looking outside themselves for permission, direction, and answers. Feeling lost, unsure, second-guessing, asking everyone else first... it's exhausting, and it slowly disconnects us from our own knowing. This is Key 3 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul, and it's about something subtler and more powerful than the conventional version of empowerment. There’s a kind of humility almost no one talks about that turns out to be the doorway home.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why You Stopped Trusting Yourself

01:29 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way

02:54 - Signs of People-Pleasing in Midlife

05:34 - How I Outsourced My Own Authority

14:57 - Why the Cost Gets Steeper Now

20:09 - An Important Element of True Empowerment

25:04 - When Frustration Becomes Information

28:57 - A Practice to Reclaim What's Yours

34:20 - Finding Empowerment in Day-to-Day

37:14 - The Question of Worthiness

38:08 - Your Free Tools to Begin

38:36 - The Woman You've Always Been

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E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

The Hidden Cost of Holding Too Much

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:00 -0600

If you're exhausted, overwhelmed, and still holding it all together for everyone else, the hidden cost of carrying too much may be exactly what's keeping your Soul from speaking. In this episode, we explore why adding more never solves the real problem, and what your Soul is actually asking you to release. This is Key 2 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why you're exhausted even when you try harder

00:21 - Welcome

01:45 - What carrying too much actually looks like

04:02 - When your body finally says no

05:27 - Why every solution you've tried isn't working

06:48 - What emptying really means (it's not what you think)

09:45 - The part of you that governs flow and creativity

11:46 - A practice to release what isn't yours to carry

16:29 - How to make this part of every day

21:30 - Free guide + going deeper

24:21 - You don't need to do more to feel more

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Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
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MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

What to Do When Midlife Has You Feeling Completely Lost

Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:00 -0600

If you've been feeling lost in midlife — unmoored, untethered, like the ground keeps shifting under your feet — this episode is for you. We explore why so many women in the second half of life feel ungrounded, anxious, and disconnected from themselves, and the one foundational practice that almost no one is naming. This is Key 1 of the 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - Why Everything Feels Off (Intro)

01:34 - Welcome

03:11 - Why you feel so unmoored in midlife

03:46 - Why anxiety, exhaustion, and indecision are connected

08:27 - The one thing no one is telling you about feeling lost

13:53 - How to feel grounded again (guided practice)

22:01 - How to stay rooted in everyday moments

25:48 - Free guide + community

28:04 - You belong here

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Free Exploratory Call - Learn how Soul guidance & coaching can support you
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Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Women's Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
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📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

MUSIC: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.

The Silent Epidemic Haunting Women in the Second Half of Life

Wed, 20 May 2026 09:30:00 -0600

You've done all the right things. So why does something still feel like it's missing? You're not imagining it.

✨ FREE GUIDE: 7 Keys to RECLAIM Your Soul — A free guide and audio series with seven essential pathways back to your Soul to help you heal Soul-sickness, remember your True Self, and live a Soul-led life.

In this first episode of Soul Knows the Way, we explore a silent epidemic affecting women in the second half of life: a longing for deeper meaning, feeling weary from years of holding so much, and a Soul-hunger that so many women experience but rarely name.

I'm so glad you're here.

💜 Kim Marie

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📍 IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 - You're Not Imagining It (Intro)
01:05 - Welcome to Soul Knows the Way
02:05 - The Story: Doing Everything Right & Still Feeling Lost
15:49 - The Silent Epidemic Affecting Women in Midlife
27:17 - What Soul Really Means
31:12 - The Journey Home: 4 Stages of Awakening
37:03 - Why I Created This Podcast
41:20 - Your Free Guide + Free Community
42:58 - You're Not Imagining It (Closing)

🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY

Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.

🌿 EXPLORE MORE WITH KIM MARIE

Free Balance & Empowerment Cards
Free Journaling Workbook: Journaling as a Path to Come Home
E-Book: Mistakes You Might Be Making that Hold You Back
Sacred Seasons Journals (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Sacred Nights of Winter Journal & Program
The Soul Planner
Solace — Year-long Soul reclamation membership
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
Visit the Website

📬 GET IN TOUCH: Connect with Kim Marie Here

Music: Podcast music composed by Kim Marie, produced by Ben Carano.