your inner knowing.
your superpower.
Have you been feeling like a stranger in your own skin?
You’re not broken.
You're in transition.
And you're not alone.
Midlife and menopause are thresholds—
disorienting, yes.
And also full of possibility.
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You’re done with how it’s been—
but you don’t yet know what’s next.
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Here, we pause.
We listen.
We let what’s true shape what comes next.
You’re not too much.
You’re not making it up.
... and you're not losing your mind.
You might feel stuck, flat, or wordless.
You might carry a clear desire—
but something in you won’t let you move forward.
You’ve tried the advice, the forums, the supplements—
and still feel unseen.
You can’t explain it.
Not to yourself.
Not to your partner.
Not to your doctor.
Because this isn’t just physical.
It’s emotional.
Spiritual.
Existential.
And most of the world doesn’t know how to listen.
This space does.
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You may be carrying questions that don’t fit in polite conversation:
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If I change, will I be loved this new way
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Do I want this marriage to continue
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Do I want to live alone for the rest of my life
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How can I use my talents in this new way
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What do I do with all this hopelessness
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Will I recognize myself on the other side
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Is there still a future that feels like mine
These questions deserve space.
Here, they get it.
I work with people navigating emotional, spiritual, and identity-level shifts—especially in midlife, menopause, and the second half of life.
Not coaching. Not therapy.
No fixing. No formulas.
Just deep, attuned presence.
This is about making contact with what’s real—
even when it’s unclear, unfinished, or hard to name.
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We pause. We listen.
We follow what’s quietly asking for change.
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No agenda. No performance.
Just orientation to what matters now—
so the next move comes from coherence, not habit.
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This work helps you:
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Name what’s been bothering you—even if it’s vague or hard to explain
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Make decisions that feel right in your body, not just your head
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Feel less alone in the weirdness of change and becoming.
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Reconnect with meaning, even when things feel flat or stuck
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Live with more clarity, self-trust, and quiet joy.
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Befriend the parts of yourself you’ve been trying to outrun
Relief begins here.
Because being heard and understood changes everything.
If you’re navigating menopause or midlife, we might begin with The Midlife Edit—a space to name what no longer fits and listen for what’s next.
If you’re further along—where the maps no longer work and something deeper calls—North of Knowing may feel more true.
Either way, we begin in conversation with a 1-hour gratis coffee chat.
No pitch. No pressure. Just a quiet hour to see what’s ready to be heard.
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Want a soft place to start?
Tiny Rituals offers five elemental practices—simple, sensory, and free.
A way to reconnect with breath, body, and meaning.
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Curious how this work feels in real life?
I shared my own midlife journey with Focusing and spiritual companionship in this published piece for Presence, the journal of Spiritual Directors International (SDI).
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Read the published piece on SDI’s site (members only)
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View a plain-text copy (PDF)
Listening that honors your becoming—of everything that’s truly you.
The Midlife Edit
For Women in Menopause and Midlife—
Working. Leading. Becoming.
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This is a high-trust, non-directive container
for those in emotional, spiritual, and identity-level transition.
Whether you're leading teams, raising children, caring for parents, holding space for others—
or quietly unraveling beneath it all—this offering meets you there.
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You might arrive overwhelmed, uncertain, or wordless
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You might be reclaiming voice, presence, and rightful space
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You might be seeking clarity, integration, or language for what’s long been unnamed
This is not coaching.
Not therapy.
Not spiritual bypass.
This is embodied listening—
a way of hearing yourself clearly,
especially when the answers aren’t obvious (yet).
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I can’t fix the physical or mental impacts of (peri)menopause.
But I can help you become larger than what’s bugging you—
so you can meet life’s and menopause’s challenges with clarity and calm, and begin to feel better in the process.
Your body holds the answers.
You’ll learn its language.
When you can say “something in me feels overwhelmed”
instead of “I am overwhelmed,”
you create space.
You become bigger than the feeling.
You’re no longer inside it—identified with it—you’re beside it, with it, curious and listening.
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This work helps you shift from being overtaken to being spacious.
Not by bypassing what’s hard,
but by learning to be with it in a new way.
You’ll leave with:
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Language for what you’ve been sensing but couldn’t name
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A felt sense of clarity and self-trust
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Renewed confidence in your inner knowing and intuition
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Relief from stylized fixes and performative advice
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A deeper sense of becoming—quiet, real, and yours
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The beginnings of a new relationship with your body’s wisdom
And as these shifts take root, you may begin to notice even more…
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Over time, you may begin to:
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Heal and reclaim the parts of you that got left behind
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Know yourself more deeply—and feel freer to be who you truly are
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Be kinder to yourself and more at home in your own skin
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Clarify your boundaries and honor your needs
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Open to deeper, more satisfying relationships
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Make decisions with clarity and confidence
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Perceive patterns, timing, and relational dynamics with greater clarity and discernment
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Live with meaning, purpose, and quiet joy
For those called to go within—into the sacred work of coming home to Self
North of Knowing
For those in the second half of life who feel something shifting inside.
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You may have lived a lot—or feel like you missed out on things that mattered.
You may have held others, led quietly, or simply kept going.
Now something feels different.
The roles that once defined you don’t quite fit.
The familiar no longer feels like home.
You’re not in crisis,
but you’re not at peace either.
Something in you knows:
the old ways no longer fit.
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You might feel:
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A quiet ache for depth, for truth, for something more real
- A shift in how you want to live, relate, or create
- Grief—for what’s gone, or what never arrived
- A pull to listen for what’s next, even if it has no name
This isn’t about legacy.
It’s about coming home to yourself.
Here, we listen for what’s real.
We companion what’s emerging.
We honor the terrain beyond certainty.
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Over time, you may:
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Let go of what no longer fits
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Reclaim parts of yourself that were hidden or exiled
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Feel less tangled inside—even if the questions remain
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Live with meaning, spiritual coherence, and joy
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Honor the impermanence of all things
About
Hello! I'm Simone Grimmer
I began in the world of rocks and fault lines—
mapping terrain, reading layers, looking for shifts, listening to Earth’s story.
Now I work with inner landscapes.
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I support those navigating midlife transitions, menopause, and spiritual thresholds—
where the ground moves, and something deeper calls.
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That vague, hard-to-name feeling you sometimes want to dismiss?
It’s often the first signal something’s ready to be heard.
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This is where the midlife doula steps in—
where we listen for it, name it,
and discern what’s next with more inner alignment and less second-guessing.
Words from Those I’ve Worked With
The reflections below come from individuals who’ve experienced this work firsthand.Each voice is shared with permission. First names only, to honor privacy.
“People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.”
Brené Brown