The Alchemy of Permission

Four weeks to alchemize guilt into spaciousness—and depletion into pleasure.

For midlife women ready to rebirth their sense of self—without guilt.

You're Standing at a Threshold—

You can feel it, can't you?

The old ways don't work anymore. The good woman. The selfless mother. The confident, flawless professional. The one who holds it all together.

These identities kept you safe. They earned you love, belonging, approval. They got you here.

But now? They're too limiting. And your body knows it.

Maybe it's showing up as exhaustion that doesn't lift with a good night's sleep. A rapidly changing body. The voice in your head that says I can't keep going like this anymore.

Or maybe it's the guilt. The constant, gnawing guilt that comes with wanting something for yourself. That makes you feel selfish every time you imagine protecting your creative time or choosing rest.

Or a growing intolerance for bullshit. A sense that time is precious. A hunger for something… else.

You're at the edge of your power now. And midlife is asking you a question:

Will you keep performing the old roles? Or will you finally choose yourself?

Here's What No One Told You About Midlife…

All those years of putting yourself last, managing everyone else's needs, proving you're good enough—they've brought you to this moment where you finally have the clarity (and the exhaustion) to see it's not working anymore.

The old maps aren't getting you where you want to go. The rules that kept you safe have become a trap. And you're ready to trust yourself more than you trust what culture told you.

You need a new normal.

But we live in a culture that has no place for this shift.

Instead of honoring midlife as a transition, we get:

  • To-do lists that keep us managing other people's agendas

  • Busyness and worry as a stand-in for purpose

  • The message that our worth is measured by what we produce

  • The belief that wanting time for ourselves is selfish

  • The assumption that our desires don't matter as much as everyone else's needs

So we wait for our turn. We push through the hot flashes. We manage the teenagers or aging parents or career transitions—and tell ourselves we'll get to it later.

And we wonder why we feel so uncertain. So lost. So ready for something different.

Here's the truth: NONE of these things are character flaws.

It's your soul saying: the second half of your life can't look like the first.

Inside the program…

You're going to learn how to choose yourself—even when it feels selfish, even when people are disappointed, even when you don't have it all figured out.

I'll be there to help you every tenderbrave step of the way.

Over four weeks, you'll practice giving yourself the permissions you were never given, and that weren't modeled for you:

Permission to disappoint people.

To let a ball (or two) drop. To say no with less explaining. To choose your peace of mind, even when it feels selfish, wrong, impossible.

Permission to not have all the answers.

To rest in mystery instead of forcing solutions. To trust the questions more than the answers. To let yourself not know.

Permission to let your old identities dissolve.

The good girl who earned love by being helpful. The achiever who proved her worth through competition. The woman who made herself available to keep everyone else comfortable.

Permission to be changed by this phase of life.

To trust your body's wisdom over culture's expectations. To honor your cyclical nature in a world obsessed with linear progress. To claim midlife as a time of sovereignty and power, not decline.

Here's What I Want for You…

I want you to feel what it's like when permission stops being an idea and becomes a felt sense in your body.

Warmth in your belly when you choose from your gut.

A relaxed, open heart when you realize you don't have to earn rest.

Your breath deepening as you stop anticipating the next crisis (and the one after that).

I want you to know what it feels like to:

  • Say no to something—and feel grounded in your body instead of consumed by guilt

  • Stop mid-task and think I don't want to do this right now—and then not do it

  • Put your phone on silent during your creative hour and actually protect that time

  • Let someone be disappointed in you—and hold onto yourself through it

  • Trust that what your midlife body needs isn't something to override—it's wisdom to follow

I want your body (and spirit) to remember it's safe to dream, create, and rest.

I want your calling to finally get your devotion and attention—not your leftover scraps at 10 PM.

I want you to stop waiting for your turn and realize: This is your turn. Right now. This moment.

What to expect when you join us.

You show up to the live calls—coffee in hand, in your comfiest clothes, exactly as you are.

You light a candle and listen to other women name what you've been feeling but couldn't articulate.

You realize you're not the only one who feels guilty for wanting time to herself. Not the only one whose old ways of being are cracking open. Not the only one navigating perimenopause while everyone expects you to keep going, business as usual.

You learn new tools and practices that help you create slow, long lasting change—from the inside out.

You leave the call feeling seen, held, cherished. Like you're allowed to say how you really are feeling. Like choosing yourself isn't wrong.

Between calls, you practice. One small "no." One boundary. One moment of trusting your instincts over your conditioning.

You notice what opens. What becomes possible when you're not abandoning yourself to manage everyone else's needs.

By week four, permission isn't something you're thinking about. It's something you're experiencing. It's in your body. It's in your choices. It's in the way you move through your days.

And you realize: It IS possible for life to feel different for you.

The Four-Week Journey

Week 1, Permission to Go Against The Grain

You've been living by cultural scripts that told you to put everyone else first. This week, we name (and poke big holes) in those narratives—and begin to activate new ideas about who we want to be and become in midlife. You'll feel the guilt lift and transform into spaciousness.

Week 2, Permission to Be Selfish (At Least Some of the Time)

The old identities are cracking open, revealing a woman with needs and desires of her own. This week, you practice protecting your time like it matters—without explaining yourself. You'll notice the quality of your attention when you're not fractured across everyone else's agendas.

Week 3, Permission to Not Know

Your creative life has been on the back burner while you managed everyone else's needs. This week, you practice exploring without forcing outcomes—opening books mid-day, making messy art, being a beginner. You'll discover the creativity that emerges when you let yourself not know.

Week 4, Permission to Let Your Achiever Rest

Your achiever has been running on overdrive since childhood—but midlife is asking you to show up differently. This week, we honor her, then let her rest (yes, we build her a fort). You'll feel your breath slow, tension release, and discover that rest is the foundation of everything you want to create.

A note from Brooke…

This is where you practice being a beginner at the thing that matters most: coming home to yourself.

You don't need to know exactly what you want yet. You just need to be willing to try on new ways of being for four weeks.

To let yourself be imperfect, messy, human.

Because here's what I know about midlife: Willpower and good-student effort don't add up to fulfillment in the second half of life.

So, what does? Permission. Practice. Presence. And spending quality time with other soulful women.

I know what it feels like to be halfway through life, asking, when will it be my turn? To be reeling from loss, rejection, or stalled dreams. To be managing everyone else's agenda while your own calling gathers dust. To carry guilt every time you imagine choosing yourself.

I also know what happens when you finally give yourself permission to choose yourself.

The warmth that floods your chest. The long exhale. The relief of finally, finally putting yourself down.

The way guilt transforms into spaciousness. The way depletion alchemizes into pleasure. The way your real work emerges when you stop abandoning yourself. The way your body remembers how to rest. The way your life gently reorganizes around what actually matters.

When we work together—

You will not spend your precious, finite life crossing things off a list.

You will spend it feeling. Tasting. Wondering. Resting. Creating. Connecting.

You will do the deep work that only you can do.

I'll meet you there—with unconditional love, creative prompts, and an unshakeable belief in what's possible when you finally give yourself permission to begin.

This Work Is Especially Crucial in Midlife—

Your body is already navigating massive hormonal shifts.

Your identity is already in transition. Time feels more precious than ever.

You can't hustle your way through perimenopause and menopause.

You can't optimize your way through an identity shift.

You can only tend your way through it.

This work is designed to help you move through midlife with more ease and less depletion—and to reorganize your life around what actually matters before another decade passes.

NEXT COHORT STARTS {DATE}

The investment:

 $327

 Or two payments of $164

What’s included:

  • 4 weekly 90-minute live gatherings
    Held on [DAY] from [TIME] to [TIME].

  • Workbook with evocative prompts
    Guidance that meets you exactly where you are. Practices designed to be felt in your body, not just understood in your head.

  • Recordings available if you miss a call
    Because life happens—aging parents, work travel, hormonal exhaustion, teens.

  • Between-session support
    Optional Voxer access for ongoing connection.

If you’re here, I’m guessing you’re at an inflection point.

You can keep waiting. Keep managing. Keep telling yourself you'll focus on yourself once things settle down.

Or you can choose differently. 

In four weeks, you'll have practiced choosing yourself dozens of times. 

You'll have a circle of women by your side who are also navigating this messy, beautiful midlife transition.

And you'll have proof that the alchemy of permission is real. That guilt can transform into spaciousness. That depletion can become pleasure.

The question isn't whether you deserve this. You do.

The question is: Will you give yourself permission?

GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION