Your Ultimate Guide to a Meaningful Second Half of Life

Welcome! I'm Bev Barnes, and this page is your ultimate guide to creating a meaningful second half of life.

This is for you if you’re a soul-led woman or trained life coach in the second half of life who feels the pull to finally create the work you were born to do. You’ve lived fully, you’ve supported others, and now—after loss, change, or the simple realization that life is too short—you know the time is now.

On this page, you’ll learn about The Soul's Calling® Roadmap S.O.U.L. process, a blueprint I’ve developed over more than two decades of working with heart-centered, empathic women worldwide. It’s a step-by-step guide to shift from living a life of roles and expectations to living a life aligned with your soul’s truth.

This isn’t about starting over. It’s about coming home to yourself—reclaiming your brilliance, and creating a second half of life filled with clarity, purpose, and joy.

Get started on the S.O.U.L process by exploring the sections below—or click the button to jump right to our free Master Class!

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The S.O.U.L Process of Transition to Your Meaningful 3rd Act

Click on each step of the S.O.U.L process below to learn more about that step and access key resources.

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Overview - The Soul's Calling Roadmap S.O.U.L. Process of Transition

In this Ultimate Guide, you'll learn the Soul's Calling Roadmap's core S.O.U.L. process to move from living in your programming to living in your purpose, which is the key to transitioning from where you are now to a 3rd act full of joy, meaning and purpose.

Learn more about each stage of the S.O.U.L process and access resources for each stage in the sections below:

S - Stop The Denial
O - Out Your Obstacles
U - Unlock Your Unique Genius
L - Lead With Your Genius

S = Stop the Denial

The erupting volcano signifies that something has erupted in your life. That means that a life chapter is ending. Concretely, this might mean that a relationship has ended, a loved one has passed, your work has changed or become obsolete, you’ve experienced a scary health issue, you've become an empty-nester, or anything else.

This could also mean that you have a gnawing discontent, a yearning that doesn’t go away. You could feel like something is missing in your life and realize that you’ve got to make a change if you want more meaning and purpose in your next life chapter.

On the Soul's Calling Roadmap we call this your Volcano moment. The Volcano signifies the end of life as you’ve known it and your decision to stop ignoring or coping with something you've put up with for years. This is the beginning of your Soul’s Calling journey.

The volcano is a trigger point, and you are being challenged to make a choice: Are you going to ignore the volcano erupting in your life and continue along the way things have been? Or, are you going Stop the Denial and acknowledge that something needs to change, that you are ready to create something meaningful for yourself.

This stage is a time of contemplation, inner exploration, and preparing yourself with the tools you need to move through the rest of the roadmap:

Transitions: Where is a volcano erupting your life? What is ending for you? What is the transition process you'll need to go through?
Soul Connection: What regular practice can you set up to regularly connect to your inner wisdom?
Body Wisdom: What tools will help you determine your truth and make important decisions as you move forward?
Energy Management: How will you stay in your own energy and maintain healthy boundaries – particularly if you are highly empathic?

HOW IT FEELS: You’ll feel overwhelmed with emotions in the Volcano. There will probably be grief and sadness, maybe anger, and sometimes a glimmer of hope. This is a tumultuous time where you’ll need a safe place to lick your wounds. A life coach, a dear friend or a therapist can offer you the support you need…and you’ll need it.

WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN: You need to stop tolerating what you don’t want, stop denying that you are miserable in your current circumstances, and start connecting with your soul’s truth. You’ll need to learn your body’s signals for truth and how to decode the wisdom of your body.

Tools and Insights for the Stop The Denial stage:

How to Stop the Denial and Move Through Transitions:

How to Connect To Your Soul/Heart/Body:

How to Decode Your Body Wisdom:

Tools for Empaths:

O = Out Your Obstacles

Deciding to create your life’s work in your second half of life is powerful—but it means shedding the old stories and roles that kept you small.

Most of us were programmed from childhood to live by others’ expectations: as daughters, wives, mothers, caregivers, or “good girls.” That programming helped us belong, but it often silenced our soul’s truth.

At this stage, you’ll begin outing your obstacles - naming the rules, beliefs, and stories that are no longer true for you, and daring to release them.

How it feels: Liberating and disorienting. You may feel grief for all the years you lived by others’ rules, anger at the weight of expectation, or fear of what will happen when you finally claim your own space.

What you need to learn: How to let go of what no longer fits, feel your emotions, and choose your own truth over others’ expectations.

How to Excavate Your Programming:

How to Work with Fear:

How to Outwit Resistance:

U = Unlock Your Hidden Genius

Unlocking your unique genius is recognizing that there is no one else who is exactly like you in the entire world. When you start unlocking your unique genius, you decide that you matter, that you have something inside that needs to be used, that needs to be given.

Your unique genius is the unique combination of your gifts, your talents, your passions, your values, and the life experiences that have shaped you, and given you your unique perspective. However, much of your genius is invisible to you. You can’t see yourself, but others might, and they will often ask you for help in your area of genius.

Discovering and claiming your unique genius is especially difficult for empathic women, who are used to putting the needs of other people first. That’s because in order to see and claim your genius, you need to re-discover who you are apart from who others need you to be. However, when you do, you’ll discover who you were meant to be, and it’ll lead you directly to what you were meant to do – even in your third act.

Unlocking your unique genius is equivalent to letting your soul out in the world.

How it feels: Inspiring, exciting, sometimes scary because you'll stop hiding and be seen. When you finally own your genius, it feels like coming alive.

What you need to learn: That your gifts are often the very things that feel easy and natural to you. And they hide in your blind spots so you'll need support and help from others to see yourself clearly.

The truth is, your gifts were never yours to keep; they come through you, and their purpose is to be shared.

How to Reconnect With Your Truth:

How to Unlock Your Genius:

L = Lead With Love

This is the stage where you bring it all together. You move from contemplation into creation, choosing a passion project, an offering, or a soul-aligned path that lets you lead with your genius and your truth.

It’s about daring to decide, launching your “boat,” and setting sail...even if you don’t know the exact destination yet.

How it feels: Freeing, energizing, alive. Synchronicities and opportunities start to appear as you follow your soul’s lead.

What you need to learn: How to keep listening inward, trust the unknown, and align your energy with what lights you up - even if you don't have a plan.

How to Define Your Ideal 3rd Act:

How to Create Your Passion Project:

How to Lead With Love

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