The Secret Protocol of Thriving Women Over 50

What if I told you that the most successful women over 50 share a common secret that has nothing to do with their background, education, or circumstances?

In my work with women in their golden years, which I call Prime Time of life at FENOM University, I've observed a consistent pattern among those who create extraordinary second acts. They've all experienced what I call a Power Shift™—a specific internal process that transforms their relationship with the past.

Today, I'm sharing a glimpse into this concept that I typically reserve for the training programs at FENOM University, because I believe every woman deserves to understand the mechanics of her own power.

A Power Shift™ isn't just another positive thinking framework. It's a profound energetic evolution that occurs when you elevate from the lower vibrations of doubt and fear to the incandescent states of certainty and fierce confidence.

This shift represents not just a recognition of your inherent power, but a complete realignment of energy that changes how you move through life. When experiencing a Power Shift™, a profound feeling of certainty precedes confident action, doubt dissolves into a visceral knowing that permeates every cell of your being, and struggle shifts into natural ease.

Understanding Backward Energy

One of the most important elements of a Power Shift™ is recognizing where your energy is flowing. Most women over 50 don't realize how much of their precious life force is flowing backward—into rumination about the past, regret over decisions, or resentment about circumstances that cannot be changed.

This backward flow of energy creates an energy deficit in the present moment. Simply put, you cannot create a powerful future when your energy is tied up in the past.

The first aspect of a Power Shift™ involves becoming aware of this energy direction. When you catch yourself dwelling on the past, the simple awareness that your energy is flowing backward begins the redirection process.

This doesn't mean ignoring or suppressing your history. It means recognizing that your power exists only in the present moment, and consciously choosing where that power flows.

The Illusion of Timelines

Another key element in experiencing a Power Shift™ is recognizing the artificial nature of the timelines that govern many women's lives after 50.

How often have you thought or heard someone say phrases like:

• "It's too late to start..."

• "I missed my window of opportunity..."

• "At my age, I should already have..."

These statements reflect internalized timelines that have no basis in reality. They are cultural constructs that serve only to limit what women believe is possible for themselves.

A Power Shift™ occurs when you consciously reject these artificial timelines and recognize that your capacity for evolution, contribution, and fulfillment is not governed by your age but by your energy allocation.

This recognition often creates an immediate sense of expansiveness—as if the walls of a too-small room have suddenly disappeared, revealing a vast landscape of possibility that was always there, just out of sight.

Separating Insights from Emotions

A critical aspect of the Power Shift™ is learning to separate the valuable insights of your experiences from the emotional residue they may have created.

This distinction is subtle but profound. Many women believe they must remain emotionally attached to painful experiences in order to benefit from the lessons they learned. This creates a situation where insights and emotions become entangled, making it impossible to access one without activating the other.

A Power Shift™ occurs when you recognize that wisdom and emotional pain are not inherently connected. You can extract and retain every valuable insight from your experiences while releasing the emotional charge that keeps you tethered to the past.

This separation process doesn't diminish the significance of your experiences. On the contrary, it enhances your ability to benefit from them by freeing the wisdom from the emotional weight that previously made it difficult to access.

Reauthoring Your Story

Perhaps the most powerful element of a Power Shift™ involves how you think and speak about yourself. Many women over 50 define themselves primarily by their past—roles they've played, titles they've held, relationships they've been in.

While these aspects of your history have undoubtedly shaped who you are, they needn't define who you're evolving into. A Power Shift™ occurs when you begin to think and speak about yourself in present and future terms, rather than past ones.

This isn't about denying your history. It's about recognizing that your identity is not static—it's evolving. You have always and will always BE the same person. You are not transforming who you are you are evolving into the ALLness of who you are. This has even more significance than your past experiences even if it doesn't yet have the same tangible evidence in the physical world.

When you shift your identity narrative from past-tense to present and future orientation, you give your nervous system clear direction about where to allocate energy. Rather than reinforcing neural pathways associated with what you’ve done in the past, you begin to strengthen connections associated with who you're evolving into.

Energetic Evolution

What makes a Power Shift™ particularly effective for women over 50 relates to the natural evolution of our energy systems as we mature.

In our younger years, our energy moves primarily outward—building careers, raising families, establishing identities. After 50, a natural inward shift occurs, creating the perfect conditions for inner evolution.

This shift isn't a diminishment, as our youth-obsessed culture might suggest. Rather, it's an enhancement, a refinement of our energetic capacity that makes internal shifts more powerful and sustainable than at any previous life stage.

This natural energetic evolution is part of why the second half of life can actually be more impactful than the first. With less energy moving outward in constant doing, more energy is available for the internal alignment that creates effortless BEing.

When a woman experiences a Power Shift™, she's not transforming into someone new. She's evolving into the fullness of who she's always been, allowing her authentic self to emerge from beneath the layers of adaptation and accommodation that may have been necessary in earlier life stages.

This evolution connects directly to the principle of being Empowered, which is in the F.I.R.E.™ framework. True empowerment comes not from changing who you are, but from fully embodying who you've always been beneath the conditioning that may have obscured your authentic nature.

The Completeness of Closure

One often overlooked aspect of a Power Shift™ involves the energy we carry around incomplete experiences, relationships, and projects. These "open loops" in our energy field create constant subtle drain, like background apps running on your phone that steadily deplete the battery.

Many women over 50 are carrying hundreds of these open loops—from the unfinished conversation with a parent who's now gone, to the creative project abandoned due to other responsibilities, to the relationship that ended without closure.

A significant aspect of a Power Shift™ involves consciously closing these loops, not by changing the external circumstances, which may be impossible, but by changing your internal relationship to them.

The simple act of acknowledging completion, even when it didn't happen in the way you might have preferred, releases enormous amounts of energy previously tied up in these open situations.

Energetic completion doesn't require the participation of others or changes to past events. It simply requires your conscious decision to mark "The End" on chapters that have remained energetically open.

The Emergence of Authentic Power

The most beautiful aspect of a Power Shift™ is what emerges when energy is no longer tied up in the past, authentic power.

Authentic power differs from positional or circumstantial power in that it doesn't depend on external factors like titles, roles, or relationships. It emerges from within when you're fully aligned with your true nature.

This alignment happens naturally when you release the gravitational pull of the past and allow your energy to flow freely in the present moment. It's not something you achieve through force or struggle, but something you allow through release and recognition.

Many women over 50 are closer to this authentic power than they realize. Often, it's just beneath the surface, waiting for the release of backward-flowing energy to fully emerge.

In my work at FENOM University, I've observed that the women who create the most extraordinary second acts aren't those with the most impressive résumés or the greatest external advantages. They're the women who have experienced a Power Shift™, who have recognized that their most authentic power exists in the present moment, not in the past or future.

This recognition is available to every woman, regardless of her circumstances. It doesn't require special talents, advantages, or even specific techniques. It simply requires the willingness to notice where your power is flowing and the courage to redirect it toward what matters most to you now.

The invitation is clear: Your most extraordinary chapter isn't waiting to be discovered somewhere outside yourself. It's waiting to be released from within—through the Power Shift™ that happens when you free your present energy from the gravitational pull of the past.

A glimpse of this concept is what I've shared here, but the full Power Shift™ experience is something we explore in depth at FENOM University. It's the foundation for every woman's evolution into the fullness of who she's always been, beneath the layers of who she's had to be.

Dare to Be Fierce Ladies! It’s Time to Power Shift™

Diva

About the Author

Dr. Diva Verdun, the Fierce Factor Expert and #1 transformative architect on aging, empowers women over 50 to seize their destiny and Age with Power™. Through her signature F.I.R.E.™ methodology and Fenom University, she ignites women's fierce potential to live life on their terms. Follow her on Facebook or Linkedin.