What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When you Need More Women in your Life in Midlife: Why you probably need more women in your life in midlife. How your thoughts about taking time out for adventures with your friends may not be serving you. The importance of midlife women and friend-group traditions. The...
Continue readingEp #14: How to Stop Failing Ahead of Time in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Stop Failing Ahead of Time in Midlife: Why we tend to want to fail in advance in midlife. My recent experience with automatically wanting to fail in advance and how I handled it in midlife. The best question to ask yourself when your brain comes...
Continue readingEp #7: Making Big Decisions in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Making Big Decisions in Midlife: Why making big decisions in midlife needs to be a priority. Why making big decisions is so difficult for many of us in midlife. Four easy tips to help you with your decision making process. The importance of getting crystal clear on...
Continue readingEp #4: Midlife Empty Nest and When It’s Finally Time for Your Baby to Go to College
What You’ll Learn from this Podcast Episode about Empty Nest in Midlife: Common anxious thoughts that plague empty nesters in midlife. My personal “Life Lessons from Mom” list that I run through before a kid leaves for college. The difference between thoughts and facts and why you must understand this distinction. How to manage...
Continue readingEp #2: The Model – Your Mindfulness Framework in Midlife and Beyond
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Using a Mindfulness Framework in Midlife: The power of mindfulness in midlife and what it’s all about. The most useful tool for managing your midlife mind. How we get the results we have in our life and make things happen. How The Thought Model works and how...
Continue readingHow to get through your midlife funk
It takes someone older and wiser to get through a midlife funk. Why? Because a midlife funk only happens to someone is actually older and wiser. Hard to believe that it’s even happening to you, right? You probably can’t believe you’re as old as you are. I can’t, that’s for sure. I even forget...
Continue readingWhy my layoff was the best surprise ever!
When I received a layoff notice five years ago this week, it was an unwelcome surprise. I was minding my own business, deep in thought at work when I got the knock at my door. I was told, “I need you for a meeting.” Even though I was caught off guard, I knew instantly...
Continue readingVulva hygiene and other midlife humor
Who knew that vulva hygiene could be a source of midlife humor? Well, on second thought, how could it NOT be? Seriously ladies…life can get pretty funny. Sometimes when you least expect it. Like at the OB-GYN. Let’s face it…the whole experience at these appointments is usually not fun or funny. The stress before....
Continue readingWhy you should do something scary
We spend most of our lives trying to feel better, be more comfortable and avoid scary things. Most of us don’t go out of our way to do something that creates fear. Wouldn’t you agree? The older we get and more control we have over our lives, the more this seems to be so....
Continue readingWhy quitting on yourself sucks
Quitting anything can be hard. It can be stressful and suck big time. But…it can also create a feeling of relief. We usually don’t think of quitting with little things. Quitting usually seems like a “big” thing. Especially in midlife…we’ve seen a lot of quitting by then. Let’s take a closer look. It’s pretty...
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