What You’ll Learn from this Episode about 50th Birthday Plans: How to rebound when your extensive 50th birthday plans get cancelled. How to think through what’s really important about important milestones. How you’re likely learning important life lessons in your 40s that set you up for your next chapter. Why being imperfect at weight...
Continue readingEP #135: Weight Loss & Wake Up Calls in Midlife with Cookie Rosenblum, MA.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Weight Loss & Wake Up Calls in Midlife with Cookie Rosenblum: Why there are common weight loss related myths in midlife. How midlife women can connect more with the practice of mindful eating. Why developing a grown-up definition of what a “food treat” should be is important....
Continue readingEP #118: Catching Autopilot Thinking in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why it’s so common to think and act on autopilot in midlife. Why you need to have awareness of your autopilot thinking. Why thinking on autopilot isn’t thoughtful at all. How you can learn to “catch” your autopilot thoughts and decide to think on purpose. How the framework...
Continue readingEP #104: Massive Action after Massive Adversity with Shontelle Dubois
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: How the most creative solutions can be inspired by adversity. Why it’s important to be willing to fail to be successful. What it’s like to launch a business after you get an eviction notice Why it can be important to pivot when you understand your clients most urgent...
Continue readingEP #97: Setting the Stage for Midlife Weight Loss
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Setting the Stage for Midlife Weight Loss: Why mindfulness is critical to weight loss. Why being oblivious to your thoughts may sabotage your diet. How to get more perspective on what you think about your ability to lose weight. Why it’s important to notice what you resist...
Continue reading5 Great Questions to Ask in Midlife
What’s going on up there in your midlife brain with all these questions? The answer? So many things related to negative spin! And the problem is, these 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 I struggling...
Continue readingEP #80: How to Lose Weight & Become Fit in Midlife with Amanda Mueller
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: How it’s possible to lose 140 lbs and become a marathon runner. How finding what is motivational for you is personal. How having goals helps role model important behavior for your family. Why it’s important to notice what you’re thinking. How turning 50 can be relevant with goal...
Continue reading7 Best Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
There will be delicious food everywhere over the holidays and you don’t have to gain weight. This is the bottom line. And…here’s how to have a good time and enjoy yourself without having food regrets. Yes, you read that correctly. The thing is that what you are doing right now actually sets you up...
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 readingHow to get through your midlife funk
It takes someone older and wiser to get through a midlife funk. Why? Because a midlife funk only happens to someone is actually older and wiser. Hard to believe that it’s even happening to you, right? You probably can’t believe you’re as old as you are. I can’t, that’s for sure. I even forget...
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