What You’ll Learn during this Episode about Covid-19 and Extra Family Stress with Sara Dimerman: Why COVID-19 can create division within families. Why family meetings are an excellent strategy to cope with stress at home. Why roommates at college and university are also experiencing a lot of stress. How you can reduce your COVID...
Continue readingEP #93: My Unique Midlife Perspective from Losing my Parents as a Kid
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it was like to grow up after losing parents at a young age. How your life experience creates a unique lens from which to view your world. Why sharing a personal life story is important . How knowing that “life is short” can affect your perspective on...
Continue readingEP #48: Gray Divorce in Midlife, Interview with Eva Sachs
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to divorce after a long marriage. Why gray divorce is a current trend with boomers. How online dating is feeding into the trend of gray divorce. How there’s more freedom for women because more are in the workforce and are entrepreneurs. How there is a...
Continue readingEP #46: Why I Left Teaching & Moved Home after my Husband Died, Interview with Jen Mowrer
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to question your happiness in your career when you have a stable teaching job. What it’s like to be a widow in your 40s. What dating in your 40s is like as a widow. How working with children helped me cope after my husband died....
Continue readingCareer Change: Why I Said Goodbye to my Medical Practice, Interview with Katrina Ubell, MD, Ep 45
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Career Change: The Decision to Leave a Medical Practice with Katrina Ubell, MD: What it’s like to think about a career change and question your happiness in your career, especially as a physician. How having aging parents helped focus my priorities and realize my career wasn’t a...
Continue readingEP #43: Empty Nest from the Inside Out, Interview with a Kid who Flew Away
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s really like to leave home and go away to university. Why living with other students is an awesome intermediary stage of life. How being away at camp is both similar and different to going away to college. How cleanliness is greatly appreciated. How having a lot...
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 #4: Empty Nest and When It’s Finally Time for Your Baby to Go to College
What You’ll Learn from this 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 circumstance and why you must understand this distinction. How to manage your...
Continue readingCelebrating the accidental mom: Raising your sister’s child
This week I watched in awe as two of my closest friends celebrated a major transition with their sisters’ children. Each family situation was similar, but different. One lived in Florida. One lived in Ontario. One was the guardian of her 18 year old niece. The other the guardian of her 13 year old...
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...
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