The wisdom you seek is already within you.
Midlife is a breakdown breakthrough.
Messy, yes! Scary, yes!
Exciting? Quite possibly.
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An Unfolding. A Shedding. A Reclaiming…
The Age of Unapologetic Wisdom.
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​Together, we slow down and tune in, listening for the guidance your body already holds.
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This work helps you reframe midlife and menopause as seasons of becoming, not decline.
Have you been feeling like a stranger in your own skin?
You’re not broken. You’re in transition.
And you’re not alone.
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Midlife and menopause can feel disorienting. They can also open new possibilities.
This space helps you feel at home in yourself again.
From confusion to clarity.
From silence to being heard.
From carrying it alone to sharing the weight.
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Here, you learn to pause, listen, and let what’s true shape what comes next.
This is the shift embodied listening makes possible.
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Why Embodied Listening Matters
Your nervous system runs on pattern recognition, not logic.
That’s why you can know you’re safe and still feel anxious.
Why you can sense something’s wrong but your body insists it’s fine.
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You can’t think your way out of patterns that were built through your body.
You have to build new ones the same way — through repetition, through experience, through your body learning something different.
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Embodied listening teaches you how to sense what’s happening inside, acknowledge what’s real, and follow what your body needs to move through.
It helps you build body awareness and emotional literacy, so you’re not just conceptually understanding change — you’re actually wiring new patterns through your body.​​
The Midlife Edit
For women in all stages of menopause.
A supportive process to reframe menopause as a threshold, not a crisis.
You’ll learn to listen inward, reclaim agency, and edit the story you’ve been told about this stage of life.
→ Explore The Midlife Edit
North of Knowing
For anyone in the second half of life.
A soul-care practice rooted in Focusing.
It helps you tune into body wisdom, discover meaning beneath the surface, and live from the inside out.
→ Discover North of Knowing
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Whichever path you choose, the work helps you listen inward and move forward with clarity.
Two Pathways
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.
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.
Embodied listening helps you slow down, listen inward, and discover the next step that feels right in your body.
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This isn’t about fixing.
It’s about making contact with what’s real — even when it’s unclear or unfinished.
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Some questions don’t fit in polite conversation:
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Will I be loved if I change?
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Do I want this marriage to continue?
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Is there still a future that feels like mine?
Here, you learn to sit with them until clarity from within emerges.
You choose a path that feels right in your body, not just logical in your head.
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Relief begins here.
Because being heard and understood changes everything.
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.
This first step helps you feel what it’s like to be listened to without judgment.
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Gentle Entry Points
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Tiny Rituals: five elemental practices — simple, sensory, and free.
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My Story: read how Focusing shaped my own midlife journey in Presence, the journal of Spiritual Directors International.​
These gentle resources help you begin right where you are.
The Midlife Edit
For Women in Menopause and Midlife—
Working. Leading. Becoming.
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This is a high‑trust space for emotional, spiritual, and identity‑level transition.
Not coaching. Not therapy. Not bypass.
Just embodied listening—so you can hear yourself clearly, even when the answers aren’t obvious yet.
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What You Might Bring​
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Overwhelm, uncertainty, or wordlessness
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A longing to reclaim voice, presence, and rightful space
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A need for clarity, integration, or language for what’s long been unnamed
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A sharper voice or fewer filters — the honesty that often arrives with waning estrogen
What This Work Offers
I can’t erase the physical or mental impacts of (peri)menopause.
But I can help you grow larger than what’s weighing on you —
so you meet life’s challenges with clarity, calm, and confidence,
and begin to feel better in the process.​
Here, you learn to listen differently:
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Notice what your body is saying
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Step beside the overwhelm instead of being inside it
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Honor the truths that surface when your filters fall away
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Build new pathways that carry you forward
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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.
What You’ll Walk Away With
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Self‑trust, clarity, and intuition: You’ll find words for what’s been bothering you, make decisions that feel right in your body, and begin to trust your intuition instead of doubting it.
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Relationships that feel better: As you grow kinder to yourself and more at home in your own skin, you’ll clarify boundaries, honor your needs, and open to deeper, more satisfying connections.
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Quiet joy and meaning: You’ll reconnect with your body’s wisdom, notice sparks of purpose even in flat places, and begin to live with more ease and confidence.
Listening that honors your becoming— everything that’s truly you.
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.
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What You Might Feel
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A quiet ache for depth, truth, or 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.
What This Work Is
Here, we listen for what’s real.
We companion what’s emerging.
We honor the terrain beyond certainty.
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What Becomes Possible
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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
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