Today we’d like to introduce you to Mistral Davis.
Mistral, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
In my early 20s a boyfriend asked me the old cliched question – What would you do if you had a million dollars? I said, I would sail away from Australia on a beautiful sailing ship. Two months later, that is exactly what I did. Sailing on to Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, The ship engaged in a variety of projects including an ethnobotanical expedition up the Amazon, set up a sustainable forestry project in Puerto Rico, and a program to re-adapt and release two captive dolphins back into the wild. On a personal level, it was during this time that my eyes were opened to the dazzling array of cultures, religions, mythologies, artistic expressions and psychologies. As a result I became especially interested in theater and the work of psychologist Carl Jung.
Eventually, at age 40, I went to university in Tucson, Arizona and majored in Theater Studies and minored in Spanish. I went on to teach theater and English and Social Studies to middle school students in Tucson and Los Angeles. As I aged through this period, I began to contemplate, how would I like to spend my life once I retired. Over a period of time, I began to reflect upon my life and what really mattered to me. Contemplating the threads of what initially seemed like very disparate life experiences, my path became clear. I retired with the resolve to create a business – something I had never done before – a coaching business for women over 60 as they embarked on their third phase of life. Thrive Third Age Coaching was born.
My coaching approach draws upon blending the work of Jung with somatics and Eastern Philosophies. My business excites me, as it is an arena where I can engage in my own inner and outer work – at my own pace. It challenges me to walk the talk! My business calls me to continue to learn, study and reflect and move through my fears. I have met and collaborated with people who are engaged in other applications of Carl Jung’s work with new modalities. My community has expanded. Finally, working with clients deeply fills my heart. I am moved, honored and inspired by their courage, deep yearning to continue to expand and live meaningful, powerful lives as they engage with the inevitable challenges of aging.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The road has not been smooth. The challenges have been both external and internal.
As a person who is not technologically savvy, it seemed to take forever to figure out how to build my website, create a domain, link a payment system, and make digital flyers and how to post them. I am still flummoxed by SEOs! Marketing is a challenge.
But the biggest challenges have been internal which have fed the external. Having never been an entrepreneur and beyond the IDEA of having a business, is bringing it into reality. Having a successful business requires putting yourself out there. That has been frightening. Questions and thoughts such as – Who am I to do this? What if I am not good at this? What will people think? This is too hard – have been disempowering
Listening to these thoughts and questions has resulted in procrastination. For example, I sit down to work on an online task and suddenly I think the day is so beautiful, I need to be out in the garden and out I go. I have concluded that this is a function of not wanting to be tied down or feeling trapped. This is a feeling I have assiduously avoided all my life. The good thing about this is that in creating this business, I have shone a light on the driver of this behavior and given it a name – The Dodger. Bringing it into consciouness has given it less and less power to sabotage my enterprise.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
I am a certified Jungian life coach and am certified in Applied Somatics and Jungian Psychology.
I work with women over 60 as they move into and more deeply through the physical, emotional and spiritual challenges of old age. Thrive Third Age Coaching offers both individual virtual coaching, as well as in person female archetype workshops. I offer a 3 month Breakthrough Program and a 6 month Elder Emergence Program.
There is a cultural lens in the West that frames aging as a decline rather than an evolution. This devaluation influences how women are viewed in the workplace, families, and communities. Further to this, women ourselves have internalized these ageist attitudes. Thrive Third Age supports and coaches women as they engage with the realities of aging – from retirement, loss of loved ones, becoming “empty-nesters,” loss of physical capacities, perceived diminishment of worth, to asking is there anything more to life.
My approach is rooted in the work of Carl Jung and honors the body as a primary gateway to wisdom in
later life. The unconscious is not only psychological-it lives in the body as sensation, memory, posture,
emotion, and deeply ingrained patterns shaped over a lifetime. Within these embodied layers lies a
profound reservoir of creative potential and earned wisdom.
As we age, the body naturally invites us to slow down, listen more deeply, and turn inward. Through
somatic awareness, unconscious patterns that once quietly shaped our lives can be gently brought into
consciousness and integrated. This integration is experienced not as self-improvement, but as a softening
into wholeness-greater presence, self-trust, and inner authority.
This work supports the transition into elderhood as an embodied initiation rather than a decline. Drawing
also from Eastern spiritual traditions, the coaching invites acceptance, compassion, and attunement to
impermanence, allowing women’s later years to filled with dignity, vitality, and a sense of soul-led purpose.
We love surprises, fun facts and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
I love to watch funny home videos and these can be a distraction.
I follow Australian Rules Football and cricket
My Daughter was born in a Peruvian naval hospital while I was working on an expedition in the Amazon rain forest.
Pricing:
- 3 Month Breakthrough Program $1200.00
- 6 Month Emerging Elder $2,200.00
- Scholarship and Affordability Options Available
- Archetype Workshops $100.00
Contact Info:
- Website: http://www.thrivethirdage.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistraldavis60/
Image Credits
Abigail Alling, Maxim Mamurov
