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 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 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 readingRegret-proofing your midlife in Canada, eh?
I didn’t know I would end up as a midlife, American woman living in Canada. Nothing about my childhood would have indicated that this would be my path. In fact, I’m now a proud dual citizen. But as a kid, if someone would have asked me where I thought I would live at this...
Continue readingStart here to regret-proof your life
It’s definitely time to regret-proof if you’re somewhere between 40 and 60 years old. Welcome to midlife, the land of time flying by. At record speed. Before you know it. Right before your very eyes. I mean, really, can you believe you’re as old as you are? I don’t feel my age and I...
Continue readingWorking Moms: Do You Need Regret Proofing 101?
Are you starting to have regrets about what you haven’t done yet in your life? Working moms tend to think they can do it all. Does this sound like you? I felt this way for sure. As a group, we are accomplished in so many areas. We do a lot, that’s for sure. I...
Continue readingHow often do you think about what you want?
Did you ever wonder how you spend your “thinking time” on any given day? The first time I was asked to track time and do a time audit was at my first professional job as a tobacco use health educator in a health department. We needed to think about and tally up the time...
Continue readingAre you stuck in the muck of your mind?
Many of us feel stuck from time to time in our lives. Midlife. Mind muck. Stuck. Yuck. Feeling stuck is soooooo common when we roll into our midlife transition years. You know, milestone birthdays, 40s and 50s, perimenopause and menopause. We’ve been told that it’s a time of great opportunity. That doors can be...
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