Sis, if you’re finding yourself at a crossroads; craving deeper connection with yourself, your purpose, and your next chapter; know this: self-awareness is not just helpful, it’s essential.

In midlife, it’s easy to feel like you’ve checked all the boxes… and yet still feel a little disconnected inside. That’s because your soul is inviting you to stop living on autopilot and start living in alignment.

Self-awareness is your first step back home to yourself. It helps you:

• Recognize when you're out of sync with your deeper truth.

• Manage emotions that have gone unprocessed for years.

• Choose your next moves from wisdom, not survival mode.

Here are 5 powerful self-awareness practices to help you realign with the woman you’re becoming:

1. Keep a Thought + Emotion Journal

Forget "dear diary." This is about decoding your emotional energy system.

Track not just your thoughts, but your emotional reactions throughout the day:

• What triggered a strong emotion today?

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Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt like the woman staring back was a stranger? The same eyes… but something behind them has shifted. Midlife does that. Menopause does that. But what if that shift isn’t a loss—what if it’s an invitation?

Menopause is more than the end of periods or the start of hot flashes. It’s a profound, biological rite of passage—a whole-body, whole-self transformation. And one of the most empowering ways to meet this phase is by looking inward, releasing old patterns, and stepping into the most honest version of yourself yet.

Recognizing What Needs to Be Released

By the time we reach midlife, we’ve worn a hundred roles—daughter, partner, mother, caretaker, employee, peacekeeper. In the process, we pick up emotional patterns. Some helped us survive. But not all are meant to go forward with us.

Maybe you're constantly saying yes when you mean no. Maybe you're carrying resentment or feel invisible in your own life. These are not character flaws. They’re s...