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Twenty years ago, in my former life as a critical care nurse, I was standing at the nurses' station at 5AM thinking, "Is this it? Is this what my life is going to feel like?"

My life wasn't terrible. I had people I loved, a roof over my head, and a career that mattered. But I wasn't enjoying any of it. I was enduring it.

Looking back, I realized I was in a completely conditional relationship with my own life. And that's what we're talking about today – because I think so many women are doing exactly what I was doing: postponing the enjoyment of their own lives.

Here's what we cover:

• Why so many women are in a conditional relationship with their lives – and what it quietly costs them

• Why challenges aren't proof that life is off track, but part of the texture of a meaningful life

• The shift from chasing "there" to making here the destination • How small daily choices can take you from enduring your life to actively engaging with it

• The self-image shift that helps you become the woman who enjoys her life now, not someday

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