What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it means to have a “manual” for someone else. The most common expectations we have of other people. The detrimental effects of giving others the power to determine how you feel or act. How you can apply The Model to coach yourself through your issues related to...
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 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 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...
Continue readingHow to be less grouchy about winter
I have a proven track record of being grouchy about winter. It’s not very becoming actually. I’m not the type of person who complains a lot. Yet…when it’s winter and it’s freezing, I’m a different person. Complaining regularly. This is not the kind of midlife mom I want to be. I find myself talking...
Continue readingThree tips to procrastinate less
Most of us are familiar with the fine art of procrastination. It’s a definition we know well; procrastination is all about putting things off or delaying… Until another day… Until another time… Until you finish watching five more YouTube videos about sloths crossing the road or quintuplet babies giggling their adorable little faces off....
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 readingHow tap dancing helped me regret proof my life
I hadn’t thought about tap dancing in years. But then I turned 50 and I started thinking about potential regrets. All kinds of thoughts began swirling in my head when I approached this notable milestone. I decided that my favorite thing to do would be to go on a trip with my best friend,...
Continue readingWhy mindfulness and multitasking don’t mix
Are you a multitasking maven? Do you love the whole concept of mindfulness? Do you also get unusually excited when you can get an abnormal amount of things done simultaneously? Sometimes I feel like a giddy supermom, so proud of myself. There’s a problem though. We think we’re more efficient when we do more...
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