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The Emotional Truth Is Now Her Identity Shift
Who am I now?
After more than a thousand sessions with women in midlife, that's the question I hear underneath almost everything. It shows up after a divorce, a diagnosis, a career that stopped fitting, a body changing in perimenopause, or the day your kids stop needing you the way they used to. The catalyst is different every single time, but the question isn't. That question is the start of an identity shift, and it's exactly why my podcast has a new name.
In this post, I'm sharing why The Emotional Truth is now Her Identity Shift, what an identity shift actually is, and what you can expect from the show going forward.
Prefer to listen? Here's the trailer.
Why I renamed the podcast
When I looked back at every episode I've made, from people-pleasing and the eldest daughter to burnout, the good girl and divorce, I kept seeing the same thread. Every one of them was about a woman realizing that the identity she built early in life doesn't fit anymore, and having no idea who she is without it.
So I gave the podcast a name that says it out loud. Same voice, same body-based work, a much sharper focus. Her Identity Shift is a podcast for midlife women becoming more themselves than ever before.
What an identity shift actually is
The identity you built in your twenties and thirties wasn't a mistake. She's the version of you that got you through, the one who kept everyone happy, held it all together, and earned her worth by being capable. Then something happens in midlife. A divorce, a diagnosis, a career change, retirement, an empty nest. And suddenly you're standing in your closet and nothing in there feels like yours anymore.
That's an identity shift. It feels unmoored, and honestly it can be terrifying, which is why there's such a strong pull back to the familiar. But here's what I know from sitting with so many women through it: you don't have to evict the woman you've been. You get to thank her, take what she taught you, and integrate her into who you're becoming.
This isn't a midlife identity crisis. It's your nervous system recalibrating, and it does that over time, through safe experiences, real support and awareness. That's where somatic healing and nervous system regulation come in, and it's the heart of the work I do with the SEER Method™.
What you can expect from Her Identity Shift
You'll hear solo episodes where I unpack the emotional patterns that show up in midlife, and conversations with experts who support women through the biggest transitions of their lives. We're starting with divorce: what happens to who you are when you're no longer a wife.
Every episode is still short enough for the school pickup line and specific enough to make you pull over and think, wait, that's exactly me.
If you've been listening since The Intuitive Drop or The Emotional Truth, thank you. You don't need to do anything. Every past episode is still right there in your feed. If you're brand new, welcome. Start with the trailer, then pick the episode that catches your eye. Your body already knows which one.
Start here
Eldest Daughter Syndrome, Part 2 (What Happens When You Put Her Down)
The Good Girl Can't Survive Past 40, Four Signs the Emotional Patterns Are Healing
Self-Abandonment (Why You Keep Playing Small)
Subscribe to Her Identity Shift:
Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/her-identity-shift-nervous-system-regulation-somatic/id1896858957
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Every week I send one email about the identity shift women go through in midlife: what's happening in your body, why the old patterns are so loud right now, and what to do with all of it.
And if you're in the middle of your own identity shift right now, book a free Identity Shift Call at lesleyturner.ca. We'll get clear on what's changing for you and what you need next.
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