Midlife Purpose Project: Bringing women clarity and peace with yoga philosophy, mindfulness and spirituality.
Katie Farinas
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In this episode, Katie helps you navigate the holiday season with more clarity, grounding, and energy. Building on the idea of energy hygiene, she shares how daily energy maintenance is just as essential as caring for your physical health. Simple practices like pausing, walking, or breathing mindfully can help you stay centered even when life feels overwhelming.
Katie also opens up about a deeply personal moment of clarity: recognizing an old unconscious pattern of trying to fix and protect everyone around her. This habit—rooted in childhood experiences of caretaking and managing others’ emotions—has continued into adulthood, often draining her energy without her realizing it.
Through this real-time awakening, she explains:
✨ What an “Energy Drain” Really Is
- The obvious and not-so-obvious ways our energy leaks
- How family dynamics can activate old patterns
- Why trying to control everyone’s experience depletes your internal resources
✨ A Holiday Moment That Changed Everything
During a family Christmas tree outing, Katie noticed her body physically tightening—an immediate sign of stress. That moment helped her see the deeper pattern she was living out: the role of fixer, protector, and emotional buffer.
✨ Awakening: Seeing Life As It Is
Katie describes awakening as the moment when something previously invisible suddenly becomes clear. These moments are sacred—they’re invitations to shift, not judge ourselves.
✨ The Yoga Philosophy of Svadhyaya (Self-Study)
She breaks down five ways to recognize your patterns:
- Repeated emotional reactions
- Physical tension or constriction
- Feeling drained or depleted
- Automatically acting without choice
- Losing alignment with your values
Becoming aware of these patterns gives you the power of choice.
✨ Tools for Managing Stress, Anxiety & Energy
Katie shares practical tools including:
- Breath awareness to calm your system
- Grounding exercises to create space between stimulus and response
- Vagal toning through vibration, humming, singing, or chanting
- Journaling to reveal your patterns and support clarity
These techniques help you witness your patterns without judgment and reconnect to your values—especially during the intensity of the holiday season.
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94: Healing Through Internal Family Systems (IFS)
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66: Aparigraha: Letting Go For True Freedom
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In this deeply insightful episode, Katie and Britt dive into the transformative world of energy hygiene, Reiki healing, and intuitive wellness practices. Britt—a Reiki Master, artist, and therapist—shares her journey into energy work, highlighting how intuition, grounding, and self-awareness can support healing and personal growth.
Together, Katie and Britt explore how energy practices like yoga, Reiki, Saima Diksha, Tai Chi, and Qigong help release blocked energy, balance emotions, and elevate consciousness. They discuss the growing scientific understanding of the human energy field and how maintaining energetic alignment can positively impact both physical and emotional well-being.
Katie opens up about her own energy rituals, including a morning visualization practice for clearing unwanted energy and inviting divine light. Britt offers practical tips for daily energy hygiene, emphasizing grounding, nourishment, gratitude, and forgiveness as essential components of a healthy energy system.
Listeners will also learn about:
- The difference between Reiki Level 1 and 2 and how each deepens energetic awareness
- How forgiveness and compassion play key roles in healing
- The importance of combining therapy with energy work to address trauma holistically
- Britt’s concept of “attenergy” and how to maintain a high vibrational frequency
- The impact of media and daily choices on your personal energy field
- Simple grounding techniques like hand-rubbing, shaking, and breathwork to release stagnant energy
To learn more about Britt's work head over to her website at: brittmichaelian.art. Take a listen to her podcast Daily Healing Podcast, and check out her Healing House event, an annual art and wellness fundraiser for City of Hope Cancer Treatment Centers.
If you’re seeking tools for energetic balance, spiritual growth, and self-healing, this episode will inspire you to reconnect with your intuition, raise your vibration, and practice energy hygiene as a way of life.
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In this episode, we explore how the yoga principle of **Sthira & Sukha—steadiness and ease—offers a powerful roadmap for navigating holiday overwhelm, stress, and emotional intensity. You’ll learn how to recognize when you're in “too much effort,” how to soften your system in real time, and how to apply small, practical nervous system tools to restore balance during the busiest season of the year.
This episode includes a 1-minute somatic check-in, a guided breath practice, and simple micro-practices you can use anytime you feel overloaded or stretched thin.
Perfect for anyone who wants a calmer, more grounded, more intentional holiday season.
🧘♀️ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- What Sthira & Sukha actually mean in yoga philosophy
- How these principles map directly to nervous system regulation
- Why the holidays often trigger “over-efforting” and burnout
- How to identify bracing, tension, or emotional overload in real time
- Simple breathwork and somatic tools to create instant ease
- How to choose “just enough” instead of perfect
- Why softness is a strength—especially during the holidays
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In this powerful coaching episode, Katie guides guest Megan Tobler through an intuitive exploration to reconnect with her inner voice. Together, they uncover how intuition can serve as a compass for clarity, purpose, and aligned action—especially when fear and outside noise cloud decision-making.
You’ll hear Megan’s journey as a podcast host and entrepreneur navigating visibility, fear of the unknown, and the pull toward something greater. Katie offers practical tools for tuning into intuition through micro-decisions, journaling, meditation, and learning to recognize intuitive “hits.”
Whether you’re building a business, at a crossroads, or simply craving deeper self-trust, this episode will help you begin strengthening your relationship with your higher self and making choices from your inner knowing rather than external pressure.
In this episode:
- How to tell the difference between intuition and ego
- Simple daily practices to connect with your inner guidance
- What to do when fear or doubt cloud your intuition
- The connection between intuition, visibility, and purpose
- How micro-intuitive decisions build self-trust over time
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In this deeply insightful episode, Katie sits down with Shannon Ryan, a seasoned wealth advisor with over 30 years of experience, to explore the emotional, spiritual, and psychological dimensions of money. Together, they unpack what it means to cultivate a healthy relationship with wealth — one rooted in awareness, values, and self-trust rather than fear and scarcity.
Shannon shares how her career evolved from chasing financial returns to focusing on the human side of money management, helping clients align their financial decisions with what truly matters most. She discusses the scarcity mindset — how early experiences and cultural conditioning shape our beliefs about money — and how these “financial wounds” can create what she calls financial scar tissue.
Katie and Shannon explore:
- Why emotions drive money decisions more than numbers
- The hidden impact of a scarcity mindset on success and well-being
- How to balance saving for the future with living fully in the present
- The role of faith, tithing, and energetic flow in financial abundance
- Why women must take ownership of their financial lives — and how doing so builds stronger partnerships
- How to recognize and heal from financial trauma and transform fear into empowerment
Shannon shares a powerful case study of a young couple who downsized their home to follow their dream of traveling for a decade — an example of how aligning financial choices with personal values leads to true financial happiness.
This conversation invites you to rethink your relationship with money, release fear, and embrace financial decisions that reflect your deepest purpose.
For more on Shannon's work and to snag her book Your Money Has Feelings, head over to her website: https://shannon-ryan.com/