What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Be more Accountable in Midlife: How to be more accountable in mildife. What you can do to be more accountable to yourself. What accountability really feels like. What thoughts are useful for you when it comes to accountability. How you can create more accountability in...
Continue readingEp #27: How to Worry Less
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why you worry. How the thought model works with worry. The definition of worry. Why you choose to think thoughts that create worry. Why worry feels so necessary. How worry is an indulgent emotion, like doubt, overwhelm and confusion. How worry keeps you stuck. How to supervise your...
Continue readingEp #26: How to have more confidence
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why many of you don’t have enough confidence. Why commitments to yourself can feel different than commitments to other people. Why it’s important to follow through on your word to yourself. How letting yourself down relates to lack of self-confidence. How learning to ride a unicycle is a...
Continue readingEp #25: How to Be Less Grouchy in the Winter
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: Why so many of us are grouchy in the winter. How our thoughts impact our mood. Four steps to be less grouchy this winter. Ideas for alternative thoughts can help you be less grouchy. Listen to the Full Episode: Welcome to another episode of the Women in the Middle podcast!...
Continue readingEp #24: New Year’s Resolutions
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about New Year’s Resolutions: Why you should consider making New Year’s resolutions. What prevents you from making them. What gets in the way of sticking to your resolutions. The detrimental effects of scaling back our goals to make them “more realistic.” The importance of understanding what guides our...
Continue readingEp #20: How to Enjoy the Holidays Without Gaining Weight
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: How you’re deciding, in advance, to gain weight over the holidays. Why you gaining weight after the holidays is not a fact. Why we often overeat. The importance of understating that you need to eat slower How to master the skill of not overeating. Listen to the Full...
Continue readingHow my Midlife Passion Project got me into the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
You never really know what’s going to happen in life, especially midlife when you find time for your passion project. And, you never know what’s going to happen when you do what you love. 2017 was the year I learned these lessons loud and clear. I’ve been to New York City more lately than...
Continue readingEp #19: How to Have the Best Thanksgiving Ever without Stress
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about how to have the best Thanksgiving ever without stress: Why it’s possible to have Thanksgiving without stress. What the concept of regret proofing is all about. The “usual suspects” that tend to stress us out during holidays. The BEST way to avoid any regrets during holidays. The...
Continue readingEp #15: When You Need More Women in Your Life in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When you Need More Women in your Life in Midlife: Why you probably need more women in your life in midlife. How your thoughts about taking time out for adventures with your friends may not be serving you. The importance of midlife women and friend-group traditions. The...
Continue readingEp #14: How to Stop Failing Ahead of Time in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about How to Stop Failing Ahead of Time in Midlife: Why we tend to want to fail in advance in midlife. My recent experience with automatically wanting to fail in advance and how I handled it in midlife. The best question to ask yourself when your brain comes...
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