What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Worrying about Looking your Age: Why it’s so common to be worried about looking your age; you’re not alone. How looking your age is more than wrinkles, turkey neck and your skin. Why it’s important to understand being worried from the perspective of appearance, perception and reinvention....
Continue readingEP #165: The Urge to Compare and Despair in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about the Urge to Compare & Despair: Why understanding your urge to compare and despair can help you grow. Why comparing yourself to others can create unnecessary negative emotion in midlife. The common feelings and experiences created when you engage in “compare and despair”. Why it’s common for...
Continue readingEP #164: Why You Need to Get to Know your Midlife Sexual Self with Dr. Sonia Wright
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Get to Know your Midlife Sexual Self: Why libido, intimacy and sex can be big issues in midlife. How Sonia found her passion by helping others find theirs. Why it’s important to think about your sexual self in midlife as a separate phase of your...
Continue readingEP #163: Why You Need to Get Over Feeling Stuck in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Feeling Stuck: Why getting unstuck has everything to do with your thoughts. Why being stuck is a choice. How thinking about how you can help others can help you get unstuck. Why certain types of feelings can actually keep you stuck. Why the responsibility to unstuck yourself...
Continue readingEP #162: 5 Amazing Midlife Questions to Live your Best Life
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Live your Best Life: The five best midlife questions to ask about how to life your best life. Why the questions you ask yourself in midlife out of habit are important. Why asking yourself certain questions will get in your way so that you don’t...
Continue readingIs it Possible to Dream in Midlife Right Now?
I bet you’re wondering if a midlife dream is even possible at all right now. What I mean is, you might be asking yourself how you can even entertain the idea of thinking about yourself and what you want in the future when everything is so weird and uncertain, both in midlife and in...
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...
Continue readingEP #139: 5 Ways to Use Envy for Good in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Use Envy for Good in Midlife: Why the feeling of envy can be used for good in midlife. Why envy is an important emotion to be aware of in midlife. Why the emotion of envy can surprise you. How you can use envy to help...
Continue readingEP #120: Angry in Midlife: How Writing Changed My Life with Valerie Runyan
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Being Angry in Midlife: Why it’s so common to be angry in midlife and how writing can change your life. Why it’s also common for a midlife funk to drag on for several years, especially when anger is involved. Why turning 50 can spark a big life...
Continue readingEp #27: How to Worry Less
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why you worry. How the thought model works with worry. The definition of worry. Why you choose to think thoughts that create worry. Why worry feels so necessary. How worry is an indulgent emotion, like doubt, overwhelm and confusion. How worry keeps you stuck. How to supervise your...
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