What You’ll Learn from this Podcast Episode about Feeling your Age and Good Mental Hygiene in Midlife: What you need to know about feeling your age and good mental hygiene in midlife. Why we sometimes forget our age in midlife. What makes us feel young or old. The best way to change how you...
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 readingNew! Women in the Middle Podcast for Midlife Women
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Women in the Middle® podcast for midlife women over 50! It’s been a long time in the making and I’m really excited to finally share it with all of you. As your midlife coach, it only makes sense for you to have a midlife podcast that’s upbeat,...
Continue readingDo you scream for ice cream? Yummy mindfulness
I’m sure you remember that little ditty from childhood, “I scream, you scream, we all scream ice cream!” Even in midlife, several decades after you and your friends would “sing it,” it’s pretty much STUCK up there in your mind. STUCK. LIKE. GLUE. It’s like that with lots of songs and tunes actually. More...
Continue readingAre you a woman in the middle? Loving your life after 50
Do you love your life at this point in your life, over 50? I’ve started to think about this age and stage of midlife as being a WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE. Now, we all know that a certain age in midlife isn’t necessarily the “middle” of your life. We have no clue how long...
Continue readingFalling in love again at my age…with a pair of shoes
Ladies, it happened. I fell in love again…with a pair of shoes…at my age. At 53, I thought I was too old. I thought I forgot that special feeling. I thought I was over this sort of thing. I thought I would never experience intense emotion like this again. But then….I saw them across...
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 readingThe #1 reason I’m in love with my tweezers in menopause
Ladies, I’m in menopause and having a midlife love affair…with my tweezers. I can’t imagine going a day without them. Without holding them in my hand. Without being so grateful we know each other so intimately. My tweezers know my deepest, darkest secrets. We’re all quite aware of many of the physical changes that...
Continue readingThe #1 Secret to Conquering Overwhelm
It’s hard to know what to do when you feel overwhelmed. Feeling this way can be such a drag. And drag you down. And hold you back. It feels like a fuzzy cloud to me…but not soft and cuddly. It’s fuzzy and amorphous…unclear…murky. It’s just so…. I don’t know… OVERWHELMING! When do you feel...
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