🎙️ Little IKIGAI Podcast

A cup of storytelling... blending metaphor, medicine, and midlife meaning.

Welcome to a space for midlife women navigating change, longing, or quiet reawakening.

Each short episode is a gentle story — inspired by the Japanese concept of ikigai, Eastern wisdom, and the everyday beauty that helps us keep going.

I’m Mayumi — a Naturopath and Ikigai Healing Guide — here to offer soulful reflections, seasonal insights, and a soft place to land.

  • Listen to stories that bring clarity and comfort

  • Explore poetic insights from nature and midlife

  • Reconnect with what quietly matters to you

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Episode 1: Sachi – A Story of Joy, Grief, and Ikigai

Episode 1: Sachi – A Story of Joy, Grief, and Ikigai

In this opening episode, I share a deeply personal story about a black puppy named Sachi, a memory that still lives in my body, and the quiet thread of meaning that connects joy and grief.

It’s not a story about achievement or doing more, it’s about Ikigai in its purest form: a reason to live, found in something small, tender, and real.

If you’ve ever carried something unspoken… or longed to feel quietly alive again, this story is for you.

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