🔥 Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a kiln.

The heat rises. The pressure builds. And everything that’s no longer true begins to burn away.

In Part Three of The Second Firing, Kate Garland, Somatic Coach & Stress Recovery Specialist, guides you through the second half of the vessel’s formation—the fiery transformation of midlife.

This is the moment your old form can no longer hold you.

It’s not failure. It’s firing.

• Why your 30s feel like a slow burn—even if life looks “fine” on the outside
• The emotional chaos and soul clarity of perimenopause
• What menopause really is: not a decline, but a second fire
• Why the post-menopausal years are not a fade-out, but a luminous return
• How to honor the sacred rupture—so it can become refinement

• Bisque Firing (33–44): The long, clarifying pressure of adult life
• Glaze Application (Perimenopause): Colors return. The soul speaks. Identity softens.
• Glaze Firing / Second Fire (Menopause): Intense heat. Identity alchemy. Sacred rupture.
• The Finished Vessel (Post-Menopause): Not the end. A radiant re-emergence.

• You feel like you’re holding it all together—but something inside is shifting
• You’re grieving, evolving, or speaking truths you used to swallow
• You need language, metaphor, and soul-medicine for the fire you’re in
• You want a reframe of midlife that is sacred, embodied, and honest

This episode is fierce and tender. Poetic and precise.

It’s for every woman who has felt the slow crack of change—and wondered what was on the other side.

This is the heart of the series. The most anticipated episode.

Part story. Part spiritual survival guide.

You’ll also receive Kate’s Second Fire Companion Guide—a practical, soulful tool to help you walk your own fire with clarity and grace.

🎧 Get instant access here → radicallykate.kit.com/second-firing

(It's not on the public feed—this one is for our inner circle.)

With fire and reverence,

Kate ✨

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.
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🌀 What if your entire life has been preparing you for this fire?

Before we can talk about midlife transformation, we have to honor the form that came before it.

In Part Two of The Second Firing series, Kate Garland, Somatic Coach & Stress Recovery Specialist, traces the archetypal arc of a woman’s early life—from birth to Saturn Return—through the ancient metaphor of pottery.

This is not a linear checklist of life stages. It’s a soulful, embodied map that reveals how each chapter—no matter how messy—has been shaping you.

• How your nervous system and self-concept are formed in early childhood
• Why adolescence still echoes in your body and emotions
• The performance of adulthood in your 20s—and what’s underneath it
• What Saturn Return really asks of us (and why it matters)
• Why feeling “brittle” in your 30s doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means you’re bone dry (and that’s important)

• Wedging → Childhood (0–9)
• Forming the Clay → Adolescence (9–18)
• Leather Hard → Young Womanhood (18–27)
• Bone Dry → Saturn Return (28–32)

💫 This episode is a reframe, a remembrance, and a reckoning.

• You’re in midlife and asking, “How did I get here?”
• You’re navigating a big transition—like a breakup, burnout, or identity shift
• You’ve outgrown who you were, but aren’t sure who you’re becoming
• You love the intersection of myth, biology, psychology, and soul

We move into the fire itself:

From the slow, clarifying heat of your late 30s…

To the colorful chaos of perimenopause…

To the all-consuming transformation of the second fire.

The pressure rises. The cracks show.

But so does the shine.

Feeling stuck in your body, overwhelmed by change, or caught in a stress loop?

Download Kate’s free nervous system audio tool—designed to bring you home to yourself in minutes.

👉 radicallykate.com/stop-spiraling

With reverence and clarity,

Kate ✨

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.
• Next → Join the Feeling Good VIP Waitlist: My signature 30-day reset for women ready to come home to their body. Waitlisters get early access and special bonuses.
• Looking for more personalized support?
• Explore private coaching, group experiences, and upcoming programs: Work With Me

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work.
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

🔥 Midlife isn’t a breakdown. It’s the fire of becoming.

In this deeply personal kickoff to her 4-part series, Kate Garland, Somatic Coach & Stress Recovery Specialist, shares the forgotten metaphor that redefined her midlife—and could reframe yours.

If you’re moving through grief, identity shifts, perimenopause, or just a sense that life no longer fits… this episode will meet you in the fire—and help you remember who you really are.

• Why the symptoms of midlife aren’t a malfunction—they’re a message
• The sacred metaphor of ceramics—and what the second firing really means
• How reinvention begins in the body, not the brain
• The surprising truth about menopause, stress, and spiritual initiation
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✨ This is the fire that burns off what no longer belongs—so your true form can emerge.

We’ll walk the arc of a woman’s life—from wet clay to bone dry—and explore how each phase prepares us for the second fire. It’s mythic. It’s messy. It’s medicine.

Feeling stuck in your body, overwhelmed by change, or caught in a stress loop?

Download Kate’s free nervous system audio tool—designed to bring you home to yourself in minutes.

👉 radicallykate.com/stop-spiraling

With warmth, wonder, and a matchstick in hand,

Kate ✨

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.
• Next → Join the Feeling Good VIP Waitlist: My signature 30-day reset for women ready to come home to their body. Waitlisters get early access and special bonuses.
• Looking for more personalized support?
• Explore private coaching, group experiences, and upcoming programs: Work With Me

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work.
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛