Do you want less stress & overwhelm? Me too! In this episode, I share a strategy for lowering stress and overwhelm -- not meditation, baths, or exercise, but maybe all of them or something else entirely. Rather than providing a single "right" answer, we're going to experiment together to see what helps. Just the thought "I'm working on this" lowered my stress level and the feelings of dread I was having about returning work after vacation. By running small, personal experiments like adjusting my routine, sketching, and practicing self-compassion, I aim to discover what works best for me to reduce stress and I hope you'll join me with experiments of your own. Take a listen and let me know what you're experimenting with!

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Martha Beck, Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

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What would it mean if we showed up for ourselves with relentless love? What if rather than a relentless self-critical voice, we asked every day, What does love want today?

This may seem like a head-in-the-clouds kind of pondering, but actually, relentless love is how we get things done and how we welcome in real change. In this episode, I explain and also offer four guiding questions that you can use as a daily practice to keep focused on what really matters to you.

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In this New Year's episode, I talk about using storytelling to shape our lives, focusing on how imagining our future—even writing our own “obituary”—can help us see a bigger picture. Rewriting our life story, especially during challenging times, reminds us that our story isn’t finished yet, and allows us to look at life and ourselves with compassion.

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➡️ Understand how storytelling can shift your perspective on difficult times and help you see your life in a more empowering light.

➡️ Learn practical ways to imagine telling the story of your life as an older version of yourself

➡️ Discover the power of reframing “failures” and difficult times to change the power they have in your life's story

➡️ Gain tools for writing multiple versions of your story, looking for your core values as through lines.

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List of core values (James Clear)

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Inspired by the holidays and just in time for the new year, this episode is about hope. I explore the power of holding hope for ourselves, even when our current reality feels far from where we want to be. Hope isn’t about imagining a perfect future, but about recognizing that what we see now is not the only possible reality. By developing a relationship with our future self, we can gain clarity, guidance, and curiosity about how to move forward, even when we don’t have all the answers. I encourage you to be curious about your future self, learn from them, and take small steps toward the future you desire.

This episode shows how to:

➡️ Hold Hope for Yourself: Hope is about believing that your current reality is not the only possibility—both in personal and collective contexts.

➡️ Get Curious About Your Future Self: Instead of self-judgment, approach your future self with curiosity and ask questions to uncover how they figured things out.

➡️ Set Realistic Goals: Develop a healthy relationship with your future self, focusing on small, actionable steps rather than a perfect vision.

➡️ Move Beyond Stagnation: Use hope and curiosity to fuel your next steps, even when things don’t go according to plan or past strategies have failed.

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Are you feeling overwhelmed with the holidays? Do you want to focus on the things that really matter? Me too.

In this episode, I focus on this simple question:

"How can I make my holidays easier?"

While we often focus on what we can do, ease often comes from how we think. Through positive self-talk and focusing on what matters most to us (and letting go of the rest), we can create holiday experiences that feel more like a gift to ourself -- even if we struggle at the holidays. Having your own back and speaking kindly to yourself is truly the greatest gift you can give.

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In this episode, I share a way to look forward to actively creating the coming year -- No resolutions required. Instead of rigid goals, The Year List lets you create a mix of fun, meaningful, and manageable activities you want to do in the new year. By making the goals do-able and reviewing them often, you can stay motivated while avoid the negative self talk that sometimes comes with goal-setting. The Year List lets us look ahead with curiosity and joy, so we can ask the right questions of the new year.

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"I'm Rachel $%&#% Baum and I can do this."

That's the mantra that got me going this week and helped me go from sluggish to motivated. In this episode, I help you create your own personal mantra to keep you grounded and focused during challenging moments. A good mantra is simple, easy to remember, and reminds you who you are. Listen to this episode and create a few powerful mantras that will return you to yourself when you most need it.

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In this Thanksgiving episode, I focus on a kind of gratitude we don't practice often -- self-gratitude. Being grateful for ourselves -- for our inner qualities and the choices we’ve made from those qualities -- transforms our relationship with ourselves. I explore how self-gratitude helps us honor our past, present, and future selves while pushing back against the voices that tell us that we can only be proud or grateful for our accomplishments.

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Are you ready to feel defiantly joyful? Defiantly calm? Defiantly loving? If you are, you may have to first stop feeling certain emotions you've been socialized into (eg, caring about how neat your house is, or never disappointing anyone) in order to start feeling powerful and defiant emotions. By intentionally nurturing emotions like defiant love, care, or hope at a time when the world around us may be discouraging these emotions, we can create powerful shifts in our lives and in the world around us. In this episode, I invite you to choose your own defiant emotions and share your journey so we can build a supportive community together.

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Rebecca Solnit

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In this episode of Making Midlife Magic, I offer a part 2 to episode 73, Take Back Your Joy. Inspired by a recent paper I wrote on joy in the face of trauma, I explore the idea of joy as a shared, communal experience. Joy isn’t just personal; when we share it with others, we expand our collective capacity for joy. Take back your joy -- for yourself and for all of us.

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Ep #73: Take Back Your Joy

Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

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