What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Tips to avoid a disastrous relocation experience. How having an empty nest can open exciting doors to relocate. Why Internet searches can make moving to a new town more complicated. Why it’s important to really understand what you want when you think about moving. How it becomes difficult...
Continue readingEP #64: How I Finally Became a Full-time Artist, Interview with Elaine Hoffman
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Tips to decide to pursue art full-time as a pre-retirement plan. What it’s like to manage your mind when the timing isn’t right in your life. How to be patient with yourself as you learn new skills and try on a new identity. What it’s like to finally...
Continue readingEP #63: Empty Nest after Triplets: How to Find Your Career Path Again, Interview with Carol Molko
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to have a drastic empty nest experience after all your kids leave, including triplets. What it’s like to realize that your childhood dance training gave you teaching skills you never appreciated. How an empty nest can quiet down your life so you finally have the...
Continue readingEP #62: How Midlife Envy can Lead to Moving Abroad, Interview with Leslie Ender
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to envy your kids’ college plans. What it’s like to learn to trust your adult children when they travel. How empty nest can open doors for your own midlife adventure. What lifestyle changes are like when you move to Austria. How noticing that you’ve always...
Continue readingEP #43: Empty Nest from the Inside Out, Interview with a Kid who Flew Away
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s really like to leave home and go away to university. Why living with other students is an awesome intermediary stage of life. How being away at camp is both similar and different to going away to college. How cleanliness is greatly appreciated. How having a lot...
Continue readingEP #34: Expect the Unexpected when You Have an Empty Nest, Lizards and All
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like when kids go in and out of the nest for years How, even with adult children, the unexpected will happen, for sure How difficult it can be when a pet dies when your kid is away at college or university How your thoughts can block...
Continue readingEp #10: How to Adjust to the New “Normal” after Your Kids Leave for University
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: My personal experience with a kid leaving for university. The questions you should ask yourself about how you feel about your empty nest. How the thoughts you are thinking affect your current situation in life. My tips to help satisfy your need to grow and create a life...
Continue readingEp #4: Empty Nest and When It’s Finally Time for Your Baby to Go to College
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Common anxious thoughts that plague empty nesters. My personal “Life Lessons from Mom” list that I run through before a kid leaves for college. The difference between thoughts and circumstance and why you must understand this distinction. How to manage your anxious thoughts about your child while he...
Continue readingRegret-proofing your midlife in Canada, eh?
I didn’t know I would end up as a midlife, American woman living in Canada. Nothing about my childhood would have indicated that this would be my path. In fact, I’m now a proud dual citizen. But as a kid, if someone would have asked me where I thought I would live at this...
Continue readingEmpty Nest: How to stay calm when your kid picks YOUR university
It happened. My kid fell in love with my university and is heading there in the Fall. It’s hard to stay calm. I have to say, it’s wonderfully weird. The whole experience of my three kids figuring out what they wanted to study and where they wanted to go to university has been so...
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