Midlife Shift
A 6-week guided group for women navigating change, identity shifts, emotional transitions, and the deeper questions midlife often brings. A space for honesty, reflection, and reconnecting with yourself. Future groups forming.
Why this group exists
Something feels different — in how life feels, what you want, or who you're becoming. Midlife can feel disorienting, clarifying, lonely, liberating — sometimes all at once. You do not have to move through it alone.
There is a particular kind of awareness that often arrives in midlife. Not a breakdown — a reckoning. The ways you've been living, relating, and moving through the world begin to feel less like conscious choices and more like patterns you inherited, roles you adapted to, or identities you slipped into without fully choosing.
Questions emerge that are harder to push aside:
What do I actually want now?
Who have I become?
What feels true from this point forward?
This group was created for that moment.
Not to rush toward answers, but to create space for honest reflection, meaningful conversation, and the company of other women moving through a similar season of life — with depth, curiosity, and care.
What this is
This is not traditional group therapy — nor is it simply conversation.
The Midlife Shift is a thoughtfully guided space for women navigating a season of change — internally, relationally, emotionally, or simply in how life feels.
Together, we slow down enough to notice what has been hard to name: the quiet shifts, the growing questions, the parts of yourself asking for more honesty, clarity, or change.
Through honest conversation and connection with other women, participants often find greater clarity — about themselves, and about what this moment may be calling them toward.
Midlife is not only about loss. Sometimes, it becomes a turning point — a time to reconnect with yourself, clarify what matters, and begin living more fully and honestly.
From Dr. Tubero
I created this group not only as a psychologist, but as a woman who found herself unexpectedly changed by midlife.
Like many women, I found myself unexpectedly changed by this season of life — asked to reconsider what mattered, what no longer fit, and who I was becoming. At times, I felt unmoored by the quiet depth of what was shifting — how unexpectedly profound it all felt.
What surprised me most was how little meaningful conversation there was about the emotional realities of midlife and menopause — even within mental health training. That led me to pursue advanced study through Harvard Medical School's Women's Health program and deepen my understanding of the intersection between hormones, emotional wellbeing, identity, and change.
But this is not about assuming everything is hormonal — or that there is one answer for everyone. It is about listening deeply for what is actually happening in your life, and helping you find your way back to what feels most true, steady, and meaningful for you now.
Who this is for
There's a quiet shift happening — in how you see yourself, what you're willing to accept, or what you're beginning to want. You're not sure what to call it yet, but it feels important.
You've spent years caring for others, holding things together, or pushing through — and something in you is asking for more space, honesty, or change.
Not the self you've been performing for others — but the one underneath. The one with opinions, desires, and questions that haven't had much room to breathe.
About meaning, direction, and what actually matters to you now. About the roles you've held and who you are apart from them. These may not be crises — but they are moments asking something of you.
What becomes possible
This work is about finding your way back to yourself — gently, honestly, and in the company of other women.
Over time, many women begin to experience:
No promises — just possibilities that often emerge through honest reflection, emotional depth, and shared experience.
In their words
Woman in Midlife • New YorkI came in not even sure what I needed — only that something felt off and I was tired of pretending otherwise. Adrian created a space where I didn't have to explain myself or perform being okay. The conversations we had in that group stayed with me for days. I left feeling calmer, clearer, and more like myself than I had in years.
Group Participant • OregonI honestly thought I was losing myself. Midlife felt confusing and lonely, and I couldn't tell what was hormones, grief, or just me unraveling. Being in this group — with Adrian and these women — was unexpectedly healing. I stopped feeling crazy. I felt seen for the first time in a long time. And slowly, I began trusting myself again.
Midlife Group Member • OntarioI came in feeling deeply confused about my relationship and second-guessing myself constantly. Somewhere in the process, things became quieter inside. I stopped trying so hard to convince myself of what I should want — and started listening to what was actually true for me. I left feeling clearer, more confident, and more trusting of myself than I had in a long time.
Format & schedule
A thoughtfully guided space designed to foster safety, connection, and honest reflection.
Not sure yet?
You do not need to know exactly what kind of support feels right yet. Sometimes clarity comes slowly.
For some women, joining a future Midlife Shift group feels like the right next step. Others begin simply by staying connected through Periwink — a space for thoughtful reflection, meaningful conversation, and future offerings for women navigating change.
You are welcome here — even if you are still figuring it out.
This season of life may ask more honesty of you — but it can also bring you closer to yourself.
Join the list for future Midlife Shift groups, retreats, and reflections — for women navigating change with honesty and care.