If the kids leaving has left a strange quiet behind, and you're not sure who you are without that role, listen in. Shari explores the identity shift nobody warns you about in midlife, and the simple question that can crack something open for you.

Key Takeaways

* The role of mother gave you a clear answer to who you were. As that role changes, the question “who am I now” can show up uninvited.

* This applies whether you were a stay-at-home mom or building a career alongside motherhood. Both versions can lose the same sense of identity.

* This transition often comes with real grief, not dramatic, but genuine, even when there’s also pride in what you built.

* You can be proud of what you built and grieve the version of yourself who built it.

* This season isn’t a loss. It’s an opening. The woman underneath the role didn’t disappear, she adapted.

* Coming back to yourself in this season is not starting over. It’s coming home.

Resources

🎯 Take the free Midlife Spark Type Quiz: sharibiery.com/quiz

📗 Get the book It’s Your Turn: sharibiery.com/its-your-turn-book

🌐 Website: sharibiery.com

📖 Read on Substack: sharibiery.substack.com

Related Substack Article:

About Your Host, Shari Biery

National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, author of It’s Your Turn, speaker, and creator of the C.A.L.M. Method™.

An avid podcast listener herself, Shari knows what it means to find a voice that gets you through a hard season. Now she’s bringing that same honesty to midlife women everywhere. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one.

It’s Your Turn with Shari Biery is a weekly podcast for midlife women who are ready to take their turn and create space for new passions, purpose, and possibilities.

There’s More Waiting for You on Substack

Subscribe for free and receive written reflections and honest writing about coming back to yourself in midlife. When you're ready to go deeper, the It's Your Turn Circle is a paid community with live conversations, community chat, and a monthly Q&A.

If you've ever left a doctor's appointment feeling more dismissed than helped, this episode is for you. Shari shares the moment that changed how she advocates for her own health, and the simple shifts that can help you do the same.

Key Takeaways

* If a provider dismisses what you’re feeling, that’s not the end of the road, and it’s not a reflection of what’s wrong with you.

* The healthcare system has real gaps. That’s a structural problem, not a personal failure on any one provider’s part.

* Taking care of yourself is advocating for yourself. Asking a different question, seeking a second opinion, and finding the right provider all count as advocacy.

* A small, repeated promise (Shari’s sticky note: “Today is the day I start taking care of me first”) can be the beginning of real change.

* You’re allowed to keep looking until you find support that actually fits, even if it means looking outside your usual systems.

* Being the CEO of your own health means playing an active role rather than waiting for someone else to name what you’re feeling.

Resources

🎯 Take the free Midlife Spark Type Quiz: https://www.sharibiery.com/quiz

📗 Read It’s Your Turn: https://www.sharibiery.com/its-your-turn-book

🌐 Website: https://www.sharibiery.com

📖 Join Me on Substack: https://sharibiery.substack.com/p/start-here

Related Substack Article:

About Your Host, Shari Biery

National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, author of It’s Your Turn, speaker, and creator of the C.A.L.M. Method™.

An avid podcast listener herself, Shari knows what it means to find a voice that gets you through a hard season. Now she’s bringing that same honesty to midlife women everywhere. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one.

It’s Your Turn with Shari Biery is a weekly podcast for midlife women who are ready to take their turn and create space for new passions, purpose, and possibilities.

There’s More Waiting for You on Substack

Subscribe for free and receive written reflections and honest writing about coming back to yourself in midlife. When you're ready to go deeper, the It's Your Turn Circle is a paid community with live conversations, community chat, and a monthly Q&A.

Feel like you're always running on empty? In this episode, Shari names the pattern of constant motion without real rest or return, and explains why it isn't a discipline problem or a time management problem. This episode is for the woman who is tired of pushing through and ready to understand what's actually driving the exhaustion.

Key Takeaways

* The Spin Cycle is the feeling of constant motion without ever feeling like you’re getting anywhere that matters.

* Burnout in midlife is not a discipline problem, a time management problem, or a willpower problem. It’s a disconnection problem.

* The Messy Web (purpose, sacrifice, identity, life transitions, financial pressure, self-worth) is layered, and pulling on one thread tightens the others.

* Midlife changes the equation. Your body has less buffer for overextension, not because you’re weaker, but because you’re wiser.

* Slowing the spin doesn’t mean doing less. It means questioning the patterns running in the background.

* One honest question can start to shift everything

Resources

🎯 Take the free Midlife Spark Type Quiz: https://www.sharibiery.com/quiz

📗 Read It’s Your Turn: https://www.sharibiery.com/its-your-turn-book

🌐 Website: https://www.sharibiery.com

📖 Read on Substack: sharibiery.substack.com

Related Substack Article

About Your Host, Shari Biery

National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, author of It’s Your Turn, speaker, and creator of the C.A.L.M. Method™.

An avid podcast listener herself, Shari knows what it means to find a voice that gets you through a hard season. Now she’s bringing that same honesty to midlife women everywhere. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one.

It’s Your Turn with Shari Biery is a weekly podcast for midlife women who are ready to take their turn and create space for new passions, purpose, and possibilities.

There’s More on Substack

Subscribe for free and receive written reflections and honest writing about coming back to yourself in midlife. When you're ready to go deeper, the It's Your Turn Circle is a paid community with live conversations, community chat, and a monthly Q&A.

It’s Your Turn with Shari Biery is a weekly podcast for midlife women who are ready to take their turn and create space for new passions, purpose, and possibilities.

If you’ve spent years being the steady one, the reliable one, the one everyone counted on, you’re in the right place. Shari shares the moment that cracked something open, a Navy retirement ceremony, a folded flag, and four quiet words that gave her permission to finally take her turn. Learn the story behind It's Your Turn and why midlife might be your homecoming.

Key Takeaways

* Midlife is not a crisis to survive, it’s a homecoming to find your way back to.

* Many women feel off even when life looks fine on the outside, because something quietly went missing along the way.

* The C.A.L.M. Method has four parts: Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Mindset, and each one supports women in coming back to themselves.

* This show isn’t about hustle, pressure, or quick fixes. It’s about honest conversation and grounded support.

* You don’t have to blow up your whole life to come back to yourself.

* You’ve held a lot for a long time. This podcast is a reminder that you count too.

Resources

🎯 Take the free Midlife Spark Type Quiz: https://www.sharibiery.com/quiz

📗 Read It’s Your Turn: https://www.sharibiery.com/its-your-turn-book

🌐 Website: https://www.sharibiery.com

📖 Join Me on Substack: sharibiery.substack.com

* Related Substack Article

About Your Host, Shari Biery

National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, author of It’s Your Turn, speaker, and creator of the C.A.L.M. Method™.

An avid podcast listener herself, Shari knows what it means to find a voice that gets you through a hard season. Now she’s bringing that same honesty to midlife women everywhere. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one.

There’s More Waiting for You on Substack

Subscribe for free and receive written reflections and honest writing about coming back to yourself in midlife. When you're ready to go deeper, the It's Your Turn Circle is a paid community with live conversations, community chat, and a monthly Q&A.

It’s Your Turn with Shari Biery is a weekly podcast for midlife women who are ready to take their turn and create space for new passions, purpose, and possibilities.

In this short trailer, Shari introduces the show, who it’s for, and what you can expect every week. If you’ve spent years showing up for everyone else and quietly lost the thread back to yourself, this is for you.

CONVERSATIONS WE’RE HAVING

Each week, Shari shares honest reflections on the patterns shaping how you live, what your body is trying to tell you, and what becomes possible when you finally choose yourself.

* Why do I feel so exhausted all the time?

* Why does taking care of myself feel so hard?

* Why do I feel guilty when I put myself first?

* Why don’t I recognize myself anymore?

* What is my body trying to tell me?

* Why does rest feel so uncomfortable?

* How do I stop putting myself last?

* What do I actually need right now?

* How do I create a life that includes me?

* What becomes possible when it’s finally my turn?

About Your Host, Shari Biery

National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, author of It’s Your Turn, speaker, and creator of the C.A.L.M. Method™.

An avid podcast listener herself, Shari knows what it means to find a voice that gets you through a hard season. Now she’s bringing that same honesty to midlife women everywhere.

New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe so you never miss one.

This show lives on Substack, but there’s more waiting for you here.

There’s more waiting for you on Substack

Subscribe for free and receive written reflections and honest writing about coming back to yourself in midlife. When you're ready to go deeper, the It's Your Turn Circle is a paid community with live conversations, community chat, and a monthly Q&A.