What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why it’s important to be intentional about your relationships in midlife. Why it’s common to take your most important relationships for granted. How changing your concept of relationships can change your life. Why it’s important to regret-proof your life with your relationships.. Seven steps to be more intentional...
Continue readingEP #39: Why What You Loved as a Kid is Important in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why it’s important to understand what you loved as a kid. How identifying what you always loved growing up can bring you insights in midlife. How to look at your passions and interests from your childhood in a different light. How clues from your past can help you...
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 your Empty Nest “Normal” after Your Kids Leave for University
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about your Empty Nest New Normal: My personal experience with empty nest and 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...
Continue readingThree key steps to regret-proof your holidays
No one wants to regret anything during the holidays, that’s for sure. As we all know, the holiday season is loaded with huge significance and tradition, no matter your background. If you celebrate the holiday yourself, your family probably does things a certain way. And if you don’t celebrate the particular holiday, you may...
Continue readingTop 3 reasons to celebrate when kids go to college
Will you celebrate when your kids leave for college or university? You may or may not have an empty nest yet, but there are still reasons to be joyful when at least one of your chicadees takes flight and is on their way to a post-secondary education. Let’s turn things upside down, shall we?...
Continue readingHow drums saved the day in this midlife mom’s once quiet abode
Hard to imagine that drums could save the day. “I hate piano.” That’s what my middle son said, over and over. It was hard for me to hear. I just imagined all three of my kids would be musical because my husband and I were musical. Music was such a huge part of our lives....
Continue readingUniversity and kids: Is the glass half empty or half full when they leave the nest?
I remember the day I left for university like it was yesterday. I was so excited to start the next phase of my life in university. I wasn’t thinking at all about my mom’s empty nest. I was a fresh 18 years old and was off to West Chester University in Pennsylvania. I couldn’t...
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