What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Why What You Loved as a Kid is Important in Midlife: Why it’s important to understand what you loved as a kid, especially in midlife. How identifying what you always loved growing up is important and can bring you insights in midlife. How to look at your...
Continue readingEP #38: How Yoga Pants Help You Hide
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Your relationship with yoga pants. Why it’s important to understand what you make yoga pants mean. How yoga pants can help you disconnect from the truth about your weight. How yoga pants can get in the way of your exercise intentions. How yoga pants may be related to...
Continue readingEP #37: Interview with Jennifer Thornton, Clifton Strengths Coach – The Importance of Knowing Your Strengths
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What “strengths” are. Why it’s important to understand your strengths. How understanding your strengths can help you contribute at the highest level. What the Clifton Strengths assessment and tools are all about. How re-connecting with your strengths can help drive your happiness in midlife. How your strengths can...
Continue readingEP #36: Why Multitasking is Bad for Your Health in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Why Multi-tasking is Bad for Your Health in Midlife: Why it’s common to think multitasking makes you more productive. How multitasking actually slows you down. Why multitasking feels efficient. Why multitasking is really “switchtasking.” Tips to focus on one thing at a time. Welcome to another episode...
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 #33: How to Start Regret-Proofing Your Life – BONUS Minisode
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Regret-Proofing your Life: What “regret-proofing your life is all about. Why you should regret-proof your professional contribution. Why regret-proofing your relationship with yourself is just as important as other kinds of regret-proofing. Why you should regret-proof your relationships with others. How regret-proofing can help you combat the...
Continue readingEP #32: How to be More Accountable
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Be more Accountable in Midlife: How to be more accountable in mildife. What you can do to be more accountable to yourself. What accountability really feels like. What thoughts are useful for you when it comes to accountability. How you can create more accountability in...
Continue readingEmpty Nest & College Acceptance Letters: Here are 3 Great Tips!
Moms, how are you feeling about your kid going to college next year? There is a flurry of college acceptance letters making their way to mailboxes around the country! What are you thinking when you see them in there? Like you, I actually see the letters in the mailbox. I’m the one who gets...
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...
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