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...
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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...
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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....
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like to question your happiness in your career, especially as a physician. How having aging parents helped me realize my career wasn’t a good fit with my life. How lack of flexibility in my job as a pediatrician became the final straw. How approaching a milestone...
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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...
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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...
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Common anxious thoughts that plague empty nesters. 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 anxious thoughts about your child while he...
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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...
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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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Outliving your parents isn’t normal for most people my age. It’s one thing if everyone lives to a ripe old age, but quite another with when your parents die young. Sometimes life just doesn’t go the way it’s supposed to go. I got the “life’s not fair” memo long ago. Loud and clear. When it...
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