What Life Feels Like Mid-Metamorphosis

About this episode

Cassie Roma explores the complexities of identity and transitions during midlife in a deeply personal episode.

There comes a moment in life when you wake up and realise the version of you that once fit… doesn’t quite anymore. In this deeply personal and quick episode, Cassie Roma explores identity, transitions, and the liminal seasons where we are no longer who we were, but not yet who we are becoming. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and lived experience, she unpacks how identity is shaped by roles, labels, work, relationships, sport, motherhood, perimenopause, marriage, divorce, and career change. She shares the science behind why transitions feel destabilising, why uncertainty registers as stress in the brain, and why midlife is often a period of integration rather than crisis. This is a conversation about shedding, evolving, and rewriting the stories we tell about who we are allowed to be. If you’re navigating change, outgrowing an old version of yourself, or sitting in the beautiful discomfort of becoming, this episode is for you. Because identity isn’t a monument. It’s a living draft.

People in this episode

Host: Cassie Roma

Topics covered

• identity
• transitions
• liminal seasons
• psychology
• neuroscience
• midlife
• change

Keywords

• identity
• transitions
• midlife
• psychology
• neuroscience
• change
• evolution
• self-discovery