What You’ll Learn in this Episode about Midlife in the Pandemic: One Year Retrospective What it’s like to take a look back at what it was like during the pandemic in midlife. How gratitude has helped during the pandemic. How mindfulness skills played an important role during the pandemic. How having the perspective of...
Continue readingEP #185: Creating a Career on the Road in Midlife: Who We Are Now with Michelle Fishburne
What You’ll Learn in this Episode about Creating a Career on the Road in Midlife: Who We Are Now with Michelle Fishburne. How a lay off can turn into an opportunity in midlife. How to use your past to help you figure out your future. How a crisis can motivate creative problem-solving . Why...
Continue readingEP #180: Covid-19 and Extra Family Stress with Sara Dimerman
What You’ll Learn during this Episode about Covid-19 and Extra Family Stress with Sara Dimerman: Why COVID-19 can cause extra family stress and create division within families. Why family meetings are an excellent strategy to cope with stress at home. Why roommates at college and university are also experiencing a lot of stress. How...
Continue readingHow to Put FIRE into your MIDLIFE FUN this Summer!
Is your Midlife FUN on FIRE? My guess is that it’s not. And you’re not alone! Sometimes, you have to be intentional about living in a way that puts fun into midlife at the best of times. FUN has taken a hit this summer big time. So many are feeling stuck. There are a...
Continue readingThe Summer that Never Was
Where in the world would you have been this week? Are you thinking this type of thought? About this summer? About this year? Do you think of it as “the summer that never was?” Do you lead conversations like this when someone asks, “How’s it going?” Personally…I would have been in Italy. I think...
Continue readingEP #152: Why your Midlife Hair is Happy on Holiday
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why the pandemic is putting your hair on holiday. Why it’s important to know what you think about your commitment to color your hair. How understanding what you think about aging and gray hair can help you figure out what you want to do about hair color on...
Continue readingEP #147: The Beauty and Curse of Midlife Boredom
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about the Beauty and Curse of Midlife Boredom: Why it’s important to understand midlife boredom. Why boredom is common during the pandemic but also common for midlife women. What it can mean for you to understand that your thinking creates your emotions like being bored. How boredom might...
Continue readingEP #146: 4 Things to Consider When You Need More Midlife Space
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When you Need more Midlife Space: Why it’s important to understand your need for physical, personal and emotional space in midlife. Why it’s important to understand the power of your midlife mindset around being stuck at home vs.being safe at home. What it can mean for you...
Continue readingEP #145: 7 Calming Life Hacks for Uncertain Midlife Times
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Calming Life Hacks for Uncertain Midlife Times: Why it’s important to manage your consumption of COVID-19 news. Why uncertainty can be particularly stressful in midlife. Why it’s important to understand the power you have to actually watch your thoughts and supervise them. What it can mean for...
Continue readingThe Call for Calm, Even Now
A lot sure has happened in the world recently that is the opposite of calm. So much intense emotion that’s actually a bit shocking. This public health news story came in with a ROAR. There didn’t seem to be an initiation phase to get “us” fully informed. There wasn’t really a problem that required...
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