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Ep 75: Momancholy & College Drop-Off: Support for Midlife Moms

Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

Release Date: 08/25/2025

Ep 100: Listen to the Ache: Understanding Midlife Longing through Human Design show art Ep 100: Listen to the Ache: Understanding Midlife Longing through Human Design

Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Get on the email list for readings access: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Show Summary: In this milestone 100th episode of Midlife by (Human) Design, Lori explores a quiet but powerful midlife experience many women recognize yet rarely name: the ache for lives that were never lived. Inspired in part by the cultural response to Heated Rivalry and similar stories that awaken desire, connection, and intensity, Lori explores why many midlife women...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Access to Human Design readings in my email: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: Shane & Ilya's astro charts by Astro Katya: Show Summary: In this episode, Lori offers a bit of "HRT"—Heated Rivalry Therapy—for the soul. She dives into the cultural phenomenon of the Heated Rivalry series and explores why the love story between hockey rivals Shane and Ilya resonates so deeply with women, particularly those navigating midlife. By examining the Human Design charts of these...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Readings through the email list: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD & Astro Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport   Show Summary: In this episode of Midlife by Design, Lori explores the North Node through both astrology and Human Design as a lens for understanding why midlife often feels disorienting, tender, and quietly energizing. The North Node is a trajectory and a growth edge that invites us toward what we are becoming, even when it feels unfamiliar. Lori shares why...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Readings, Coaching, & more on my email list: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: Show Summary: Inspired by the Eras docuseries, Lori looks at Taylor Swift’s chart and tour through the lens of Human Design—and what it reveals about midlife awakening, reinvention, and embodiment. Lori explores how honoring every era of your life can become a powerful deconditioning practice in midlife. Using Taylor’s publicly available Human Design chart as a case study, this conversation...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Planning by (Human) Design system/planner: 🔗 Intention-setting Workshop with Kim Horton: 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox:   🔗 Get your HD Chart: 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: Show Summary: Do you notice fewer people our age setting New Year's resolutions? Maybe it's because we've failed so many times... In this episode of Midlife by (Human) Design, Lori offers a gentler (and far more effective) alternative to resolutions: heart-centered intentions, grounded in Human Design and the lived reality of midlife women. In this conversation, we explore: ...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Planning by (Human) Design system/planner: https://www.lorilisai.com/planning-by-design 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport   Show Summary: As 2025 comes to a close, this short and intentional episode of Midlife by Human Design invites you to pause before rushing into the next year. Lori shares a curated set of reflective questions—pulled directly from the Planning by Human Design Planner—to...

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🔗 Planning by (Human) Design system: https://www.lorilisai.com/planning-by-design 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: 🔗 Apply for coaching here:    Show Summary: In this episode of Midlife by Human Design, Lori continues the conversation around planning by design by exploring one of the most overlooked elements of the Human Design chart: your Profile. Rather than treating profiles as personality labels, Lori reframes...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Get the Human Design planning system here: https://www.lorilisai.com/planning-by-design 🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Summary: In this preview-style episode of Midlife by Human Design, Lori introduces a brand-new way to plan your life using Human Design gate transits—think astrology forecasts, but far more precise. Focusing on the Sun’s movement through Gates 11, 10, 58, and 38, Lori walks...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox:   🔗 Get the Human Design planning system here: 🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: 🔗 Apply for 1:1 coaching: Local workshops: 🔗 Winter Solstice: 12/21 in Waterbury 🔗 2026 Intention Setting by Design: 1/11 in Burlington: email me 🔗 Self-care by Design: 1/25 Summary:  Learn how to plan your week by design instead of conditioning. Lori shares a gentler midlife-friendly approach using your energy type, authority, centers, and even gate transits to...

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Midlife by (Human) Design: Purpose, Perimenopause, Menopause, Wellness, Mindset & Woo that Works

🔗 Get HD through the midlife lens in your inbox: https://www.lorilisai.com/#newsletter  🔗 Get your HD Chart: https://www.lorilisai.com/hd-chart 🔗 Support the pod with a donation: https://tinyurl.com/MbDpodsupport Show Summary: In this week’s episode of Midlife by (Human) Design, Lori sits down with the luminous and deeply honest Megan Potter — a 3/5 Emotional Manifesting Generator whose 35 years have held enough twists, loss, reinvention, and spiritual unlearning to fill several lifetimes. Megan shares her journey from ministry to movie sets, from small-town Appalachia to a...

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Show Summary:
Sending your child off to college is one of midlife’s biggest transitions—equal parts joy, grief, pride, and heartbreak. Whitney Fleming calls it momancholy—that bittersweet blend of emotions parents feel when the nest starts to empty.

In this episode of Midlife by Design, I share my own reflections on drop-off, why naming your emotions matters, and how Human Design can help both you and your college student navigate this season with more grace. You’ll walk away feeling seen, supported, and with practical strategies for the coming weeks.

Takeaways:

  • What momancholy really means and why it resonates so deeply 

  • A wide range of emotions you may feel (and how to use the Feelings Wheel to name them)

  • Strategies to process the exhaustion and emotional waves of drop-off

  • Practical tips to reconnect with yourself 

  • Human Design-inspired care package ideas 

This season is tender, beautiful, and sometimes disorienting. Remember: your child is beginning a new life, and so are you.