What’s going on up there in your midlife brain with all these midlife questions? The answer? So many things related to negative spin! And the problem is, these midlife questions are not all in your brain with your permission. Let’s take the questions you ask yourself on a regular basis. Things like: Why am...
Continue readingEP #49: My Decision to let my Hair Go Gray in Midlife, Interview with Perri Bender
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about the Decision to Go Gray in Midlife: What it’s like to struggle with the decision to go gray in midlife. What it’s like to struggle with the decision to keep coloring your gray hair in midlife. Why you can feel chained to this expensive and time-consuming routine...
Continue readingEP #47: Are you playing small in midlife?
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Playing Small in Midlife: What it’s like when you just don’t show up like you know you can in midlife. Why it’s common to play small and stay small in midlife. Why you might choose to stay small. Why you might act this way out of fear....
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 readingHow tap dancing helped me regret proof my life
I hadn’t thought about tap dancing in years. But then I turned 50 and I started thinking about potential regrets. All kinds of thoughts began swirling in my head when I approached this notable milestone. I decided that my favorite thing to do would be to go on a trip with my best friend,...
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 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 readingWill you choose not to have regrets?
Regrets, I’ve had a few But then again, too few to mention I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway And more, much more than this, I did it my way You recognize the lyrics, right? Frank Sinatra...
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