What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like when you’re in midlife and have a difficult mother. How life coaching and mindfulness strategies helped cope with this difficult relationship. What it’s like to work on a difficult relationship with your mother, from a non-clinical perspective. What it’s like to decide it’s best to tell
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like when your loved one is diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease, like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, dementia, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and PTSD. How the power of music can actually change brain chemistry. How music gives hope to so many families dealing with neurodegenerative diseases. How music can act
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why bringing a dog into your family can be great when you have an empty nest. How your relationship with your dog can help with loneliness and sadness. What some of the powerful research findings are regarding pets and people. How a dog can help bring some welcomed commotion
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why there are many women “in the middle” who drink more than they want. How and why the amount you drink can change over your lifetime. Why shame is associated with drinking more than you want. How stress and anxiety can be challenging when you’re trying to drink less.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why Brooke Castillo is one of the most important mentors in my midlife. Why it’s so important for you to have a midlife mentor. Why it’s critical to evolve and grow in midlife. Why it’s not always important to actually know your mentors personally. How a mentor can really
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to struggle with the decision to keep coloring your gray hair. Why you can feel chained to this expensive and time-consuming routine. What it’s like to let your gray hair grow out naturally. Why it’s important to take this journey together with your hair dresser. Why
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to divorce after a long marriage. Why gray divorce is a current trend with boomers. How online dating is feeding into the trend of gray divorce. How there’s more freedom for women because more are in the workforce and are entrepreneurs. How there is a lot
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like when you just don’t show up like you know you can. Why it’s common to play small and stay small in midlife. Why you might choose to stay small. Why you might act this way out of fear. How what you might be worried about is
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to question your happiness in your career when you have a stable teaching job. What it’s like to be a widow in your 40s. What dating in your 40s is like as a widow. How working with children helped me cope after my husband died. How
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to question your happiness in your career, especially as a physician. How having aging parents helped me realize my career wasn’t a good fit with my life. How lack of flexibility in my job as a pediatrician became the final straw. How approaching a milestone birthday