Coaching and Practical Magic for Mid-life Women at a Turning Point

You’ve held it all.
(And made it beautiful.)

Even when no one noticed.
Even when it cost you.

But something’s shifting.
You’re standing at the edge of what was.
You’re becoming more aware:
You don’t have endless time.

Midlife is not an age. It’s a fork in the path.
A threshold that asks:

Will you keep going this way? Or will you come home to yourself?

Not every woman finds the courage.

To leave the well-worn road—
paved with shoulds and self-sacrifice,
marked by proving,
and pleasing,
and waiting for permission that never arrives.


To make her way back to herself.
To feel the moment where everything clicks and she remembers—
Oh. This is who I am.

When we work together…

You’ll remember that you’re the artist of your own life—not just the manager of everyone else’s needs.

You’ll learn to trust your own timing, even when the map dissolves and the way forward is unknown.

You’ll welcome back the parts of you that got tucked away—the sensual, the playful, the wild.

You’ll make choices from a deep, embodied yes. Not fear. Not guilt. Not habit.

And step by step, you’ll feel free again.

Not in a running-away kind of way, but in a rooted, sovereign, I’ve-come-home-to-myself kind of way.

There is another path. Less crowded. More honest.
And my hunch is that it’s calling you.

midlife coach and soul guide

I’m Brooke Hofsess.
Midlife Midwife.

For over two decades, I’ve held space for women to grow—in higher education, workshops, retreats, and intimate coaching containers.

I bring the rigor of scholarship and the depth of soul.

Structure and intuition.
Inquiry and embodiment.
Academic and artist.
Both/and.

I’m here to walk beside you—as you learn to trust your rhythm, speak your truth, and live from your own knowing.

You’re in the right place if you are…

  • Successful on paper—yet soul-weary beneath the surface.

  • Dreaming of a slower, fuller way of living.

  • Unraveling from burnout, people-pleasing, and caregiving.

  • Longing to reclaim your creative voice—or hear it for the first time.

  • Standing inside the mystery of a career shift, an identity untangling, or a spiritual awakening.

At some point, the old map stops working. The roles, the rhythms, the rewards—they just don’t fit anymore.

And something inside you says: There has to be another way.

There is.
But you have to make space for it.
You have to choose it.
You have to create it.

Right now…

  • You’re exhausted from holding it all together.

  • You feel guilty when you rest.

  • You fantasize about quitting—but have no idea what comes after.

  • You’re tired of proving, fixing, managing, and masking.

But on the other side of coaching?

  • You say no, and you don’t explain yourself.

  • You speak your mind.

  • You ask for help before it’s urgent. And people show up.

  • Your laugh, belly-deep, is back.

  • You write and create again… or the joy of it.

  • You feel at home in your own skin, maybe for the first time in years.

  • You stop waiting for permission.

Brooke gave me the permission I needed to jump through the veil of "someone like me could never do that!".

On the other side, I learned that not only am I good enough, but I really do have gifts that are magical, that no one else (or few others) have.

So I'm going to design my life to use and grow them as much as possible. 

~ Maureen

I help mid-life women stop asking, “Who will I disappoint?”

And start wondering, “What parts of me are ready to come back to life?”

Let’s not wait for resentment or illness to speak the truth your spirit already knows.

If something in you is pinging—trust that and reach out. I’d love to talk with you!

Midlife isn’t a crisis.
It’s a wild, holy becoming.

Experience the second half of life as it was meant to be: Sweet. Curious. Delicious.