My Story
For ten years, I walked through the chaotic, burning ground of perimenopause.
It was not just a collection of physical symptoms; my changing body acted as an excavation site, pulling up old trauma and heavy, buried emotions I had carried for decades until they became completely impossible to ignore. I reached a point where the old stories keeping me stuck in the past were suffocating me. I had no choice but to descend—to face it all, process it, and heal it from the inside out.
To survive that threshold, I had to completely reinvent how I inhabited my own skin. I learned to track and calm my nervous system, actively breaking the spells that kept me trapped in survival mode, endless worry, and the frantic loops of protective over-working.
I learned to drive my roots deep into the earth, back up my boundaries with a crystal-clear "No," and ruthlessly clear out what no longer fit my life. In doing so, I finally liberated the wild, true part of myself that had been hidden away for decades under the false narrative of not being good enough.
Once the old layers were composted, the chaotic energy of this midlife transition transformed into pure, unadulterated creative power. I entered the most prolific, creative epoch of my life. I found the true resonance of my voice, unlocked my deep intuition, and began painting my evolution.
This transition was never a medical failure or a sad decline—it was my Heroine’s Journey.
Now, I hold the gate for the women standing exactly where I once stood. I guide the ones who hear the urgent call to break free from their old stories, who ache to feel at home in their changing flesh, and who crave a deep, sovereign connection to the Earth.
I have mapped the territory. I know the dark of the woods, and I know the way through. If you hear the call, I am here to walk with you.
With love,
Nathalie

Nathalie Markiefka
Diploma in Transformative Coaching
Msc. Climate Change, Agriculture, Food Security
Training in Intentional Creativity, Spiritual Herbalism, Integrative Nutrition, Trance Postures, Embodiment, Trauma healing
Work with me
I want to help you move far beyond simply managing difficult symptoms. My goal is to guide you into a place where you feel deeply comfortable, vibrant, and alive in your own skin—with total clarity on how to step into your sovereign power.
You can step into this transformative container through The Spellbreaker Journey, a powerful 6-week collective rite of passage where we empower our own midlife transformation through intuitive art making, goddess archetypes and herbal magick. More info coming soon. next start October 2026. Sign up to the newsletter below to get informed when the doors open!
or through the Recalibration Audit - where you will receive a personalised roadmap into how to change your diet and lifestyle to ease your symptoms, regain vitality and prepare the ground for a healthy future.
If this is not fore you maybe you would like to listen to my Podcast - Cassandra's Sisters, where I unpack the midlife heroine's journey through myth, pesonal storytelling and integrative science.
Muse Rebellion
/mjuːz rɪˈbɛl.jən/ noun
1. The modern movement of women reclaiming the perimenopause transition not as a descent or illness, but as a natural phase of physiological recalibration, a peak period of creative power, and an initiation into absolute body sovereignty.
2. The explicit rejection of societal, medicalised narratives of female decline; characterized by a fierce refusal to allow a woman’s worth to be reduced to youth, aesthetic compliance, or reproductive utility.
