Midlife Alchemy
A rite of passage for sober and sober-curious women in midlife
Move beyond simply not drinking and into a deeper, more connected relationship with yourself — your body, your creativity, your desires and the life you want to live next.
September 21st – November 30th 2026
A 12-week journey through the second spring of your life.
Rest. Regulate. Release. Relish. Ritual. Root. Rise.
Midlife isn't the beginning of the end.
It is a threshold.
It’s a season that invites us to pause, to question the stories we've lived by, and to begin listening to ourselves with fresh honesty and compassion. BUT it can feel like walking through the fire, and we were NEVER meant to do it alone.
For many women, these years unfold bumpily alongside changing hormones, shifting identities, children leaving home, ageing parents, career transitions, grief, relationship changes, and perhaps the realisation that the life you've built no longer reflects the woman you are becoming.
You may find yourself asking:
Who am I now?
What matters most?
How do I want to live the next chapter of my life?
We can feel exhausted, confused and full of feelings and emotions.
Midlife Alchemy is a twelve-week journey that offers space to explore those questions and experience with curiosity, courage and support.
Through coaching, women's circles, nervous system practices, ritual, movement and reflection, you'll reconnect with your own wisdom and begin creating a way of living that feels deeply aligned with this season of your life.
This is an invitation to remember yourself, to honour this rite of passage, and to step into the years ahead with greater clarity, vitality and intention.
“Love Sober is the go-to community for women seeking an alcohol free midlife”
This is for you if...
You are sober or sober curious and a woman in your midlife.
You can get sober time under your belt but want to strengthen your sobriety
You feel there’s another layer under the choice to be alcohol free that you want to explore - spiritually, emotionally or creatively.
You long to feel calmer inside your own mind and settled in your body.
You want to understand and support your changing nervous system and hormones rather than fighting against them.
You're ready to stop putting yourself last.
You crave meaningful conversations instead of small talk.
You want to create rituals that nourish rather than routines that exhaust.
You feel drawn to nature, seasons, symbolism, wisdom and slower living.
You know there is another chapter waiting for you that you want to expand into now.
“It’s only once you work with a fantastic coach you understand its true value. I would recommend Kate’s services to anyone”
We are about to go on a journey…
What if you didn't need to have the next chapter figured out before you began?
Using the power of imagination, ritual and reflection, we will set out on a journey together — from where you are now towards the woman you are becoming.
Like the rites of passage women have moved through for millennia, there is a threshold to cross: a liminal space between an old way of being and the new. A place where familiar identities, habits and roles can begin to loosen, and where we can listen for what wants to emerge next.
We begin by arriving — pausing, resting and taking stock of the landscape.
We resource ourselves for the journey, learning to understand and support our nervous systems, gathering our strengths, anchors, practices and allies around us.
We release what has become too heavy to carry — old habits, identities, expectations and ways of coping that may once have served us but no longer belong in the life we're creating.
We root into what matters now: our values, our bodies, our inner wisdom and the foundations that will sustain us.
We relish what makes us feel alive — reconnecting with pleasure, creativity, curiosity, play, joy and the parts of ourselves that may have been waiting quietly in the wings.
And finally, we rise — not as some perfected version of ourselves, but more deeply inhabiting the woman we are becoming.
And we don't make this passage alone.
Through online circles, guided audio journeys, somatic practices, journaling and reflection, we'll explore the changing landscape of midlife together. We'll weave in nervous-system support, hormonal understanding, seasonal wisdom and feminine archetypes — bringing together the practical, psychological, embodied and imaginative.
And perhaps most importantly, we will be witnessed and celebrated by other women as we cross the threshold.
Because transformation doesn't always happen through trying harder.
Sometimes it begins when we pause, put down what we're carrying, listen for what is calling us forward...
and take the next step.
What’s included in Midlife Alchemy
A 12-week guided journey through the rite of passage of midlife — with teaching, reflection, embodied practice and the support of women travelling alongside you.
6 live online Midlife Alchemy circles - alternate Mondays 7.30pm -9pm GMT
We gather every two weeks to explore each stage of the journey together — Rest, Regulate, Release, Root, Relish and Rise. Our circles weave together guided reflection, journaling, coaching, sharing, gentle movement, somatic practices and deep rest.
A final Closing Circle
An additional seventh gathering to mark the completion of our journey — a space to reflect, witness, celebrate and honour the threshold you have crossed.
The Midlife Alchemy Audio Journey
An original audio guide/book created to accompany you through the programme, exploring a midlife and recovery adaptation of the Heroine’s Journey. Listen in your own time as we travel through identity, change, the liminal space, creativity, recovery and becoming.
Your Midlife Alchemy online portal
A beautiful home for the programme, giving you access to your audio journey, teachings, reflective prompts, downloadable resources and practices throughout the 12 weeks.
Menopause guidance & tracking
Evidence-informed menopause education alongside a Menopause Transition Guide and Tracker from The Menopause School, helping you understand and map your own experience of hormonal transition.
Coaching tools & reflective practices
Values work, the GROW model, positive psychology and Science of Happiness practices, journaling prompts and creative exercises to help you turn insight into meaningful change.
Embodied practices
Yoga, Yoga Nidra, nervous-system support and gentle somatic practices to help you resource yourself throughout the journey.
A private WhatsApp community
A supportive space for connection, reflection and encouragement between our live circles.
Designed with different minds and bodies in mind
Midlife Alchemy is trauma-informed and neuro-inclusive, with mixed-media learning and multiple ways to participate. There is no pressure to share, perform or experience the journey in one particular way.
This is more than a course to complete. It is a 12-week rite of passage to experience — a supported journey through the threshold of midlife and into what comes next.
Choose the rate that’s right for you
Accessibility matters to me. I want Midlife Alchemy to be financially sustainable while making this work available to women from a range of circumstances.
For this reason, I offer a tiered pricing model. Whichever rate you choose, you receive exactly the same programme, resources, circles and community support.
Supported Rate — £300
or 3 monthly payments of £100
For those for whom the full cost would create a genuine financial barrier.
Standard Rate — £750
or 3 monthly payments of £250
This reflects the true cost and value of delivering Midlife Alchemy and, where possible, is the rate I ask you to choose.
Pay It Forward Rate — £900
or 3 monthly payments of £300
For those with greater financial capacity who would like their payment to help make supported places possible for others.
When choosing your rate, I invite you to consider not only your current income, but your wider access to resources and proximity to financial and social privilege — including savings, assets, housing security, family support and earning potential.
There is no application or requirement to justify your choice. I simply ask you to choose with honesty and care.
Early Bird: For a limited time, the Standard Rate is available for £600 / 3 payments of £200.
Payment Plans
Midlife Alchemy Supported Rate — £100/month for 3 months A 12-week online programme for sober and sober-curious women navigating the shifts of midlife. Midlife Alchemy brings together sobriety, menopause, nervous-system support, coaching, seasonal practice and connection — creating space to pause, take stock and consciously shape what comes next.
MIDLIFE ALCHEMY | A 12-Week Journey for Sober & Sober-Curious Women A space to pause, take stock and explore who you are now — and what you want the next chapter to hold. Over 12 weeks, we’ll journey through six themes — Rest, Resource, Release, Relish, Ritual and Root & Rise — weaving together coaching, menopause education, nervous-system support, journaling, somatic practices, yoga nidra, creativity and seasonal ritual. Your journey includes six live online women’s circles, guided audio pra
About your Guide
Kate Baily is a holistic coach and mentor specialising in midlife transition and sober positive living. She is a certified menopause doula, circle facilitator and yoga teacher.
Kate as been sober for ten years, is the founder of Love Sober, co-host of Love Sober Podcast and author of Love Yourself Sober and Love Your Sober Year.
She was also finalist in the International Coaching Awards in 2019. Kate is an advocate for women’s empowerment and promotes alcohol free and seasonal living as part of that empowerment to honour the feminine and bring balance to our lives and planet. She has been featured across the national press and radio such as BBC Women’s Hour.
Kate is proud to align her work with SHE Recovers guiding principle and is offering this program as a SHE recovers FUNdraiser to contribute to supporting the work they do for women’s recovery globally.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Every other Monday night at 7.30 - pm GMT
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Yes, the online circles are recorded and will be uploaded to your client portal 24 hours after the call.
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I combine years of training in recovery, sobriety and coaching with somatics, nervous system training and menopause training. In addition to this we weave in the creative and psycho -spiritual elements which often accompany the deeper questioning at this time of life.
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In women’s circles and in life rites of passage, rituals can be supportive, creative and fun.
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We offer flexible pricing based on inclusivity and proximity to power.
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I believe that we are co-creating positive, feminine-affirming models of ageing, menopause and elderhood. Your voice and presence, wisdom and energy would be most welcome if you, like me, are post menopausal.