If you worry, this episode is for you!

In this episode:

✅ Understand Your Worry Cycle: Learn how to identify and break free from repetitive, anxious thoughts by recognizing that worry is driven by uncertainty.

✅ Practical Tool for Managing Worry: Discover the powerful technique of scheduling a "Worry Hour" to give your concerns focused time, helping you feel more in control and reducing constant mental stress.

✅ Effective Journaling: Gain a journaling method that allows you to release anxious thoughts, providing clarity and peace of mind.

✅ Improved Emotional Balance: Learn how to build a better relationship with your emotions by honoring your worries, addressing them with compassion, and giving your brain what it most needs.

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Are you successful? How do you know? 

Often we think about success as something “out there,” something we achieve. Maybe we thought about what success means to us when we were younger, but now it feels too late to reassess. 

In truth, middle age and beyond is the perfect time to rethink our definition of success. At this time, we often have a deeper sense of what is truly important to us and what it takes for us to feel successful and fulfilled. 

In this episode: 

✅ What to do when you feel unsuccessful 

✅ How to be more successful by changing the definition of success

✅ How to use the feeling of success to create more of it 

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In this episode, I share a powerful filter for making decisions:

Do What Feels Good.

In this episode:

✅ The radically delicious power of choosing to move towards feeling good

✅ How Do What Feels Good builds trust and a greater sense of wholeness

✅ The lies we tell ourselves about feeling good (You won't become a stagnant sloth when you do what feels good, although I'd love you even if you did)

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Sometimes you just have to fake it till you make it. You're giving a presentation and you don't feel ready. You have to be nice to your ex at your best friend's wedding.

But also, sometimes being fake feels terrible. We don't want to fake confidence, we want to feel more confident.

So I'm giving "fake it till you make it" a glow up. We'll take the useful parts of it and leave the rest behind.

In this episode:

✅ How to do things you don't want to without pretending you feel confident or enthusiastic.

✅ Why putting on good clothes really helps

✅ How to feel your way into an emotion by remembering that it's already inside you

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"Remember who you are" seems like solid advice for midlife. It's what I talked about in episode #115. But sometimes we need for forget who we are in order to be someone new.

In this episode:

✅ Why it's hard to do something we haven't done before or to be someone we haven't been before

✅ How to use the power of your mind to help you to start a new habit or to feel more confident

✅ What to do when others won't forget who you are, or who you have been

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There's such power in remembering who we are -- because sometimes as we get older, we forget. We leave parts of us behind, we lose connection with the things we love, we forget how brave, adventurous, or creative we are.

This episode will help you remember. I ask three questions to get you started and show how even if you don't want to pick up tap dancing again, you can use your previous experience to help you with the things you do want, right now.

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Caregiving is hard work. Whether you're caring for an elderly parent, an ill spouse, a child with a disability, or someone else you love, it's challenging to stay afloat in the responsibilities of caregiving. This episode is a love note for caregivers, offering new ways to think about self-care and caregiving.

In this episode:

✅ The pain of setting boundaries and what to do about it

✅ Why it's okay that you can't give your loved one all they deserve

✅ Why relax & take a bath isn't always helpful advice and what might help more

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How often do you have fun? Adult life can be long on responsibility and short on fun, can't it? If you want to have more fun, this is the episode for you! In this episode:

✅ Why it's not always easy to find fun and why sometimes we don't even know what fun means anymore

✅ The importance of choosing fun with our bodies and not just our heads

✅ Why we often treat fun as something exceptional rather than every day and how to change that

✅ How to have fun deepening your relationship with fun

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In this episode, I explore four things I've learned as the mother of someone with depression. I hope this episode is useful even if your child has a different mental health issue, or if the person you love with depression is not your child. I focus on ways of thinking about mental health that prioritize the human-to-human relationship with our loved one.

In this episode:

❤️ The importance of being curious about how other people think and experience the world

❤️ Why believing in someone else's future is the best gift -- especially when that person has depression

❤️ How to plan for O.P.O. (other people's opinions -- you know they're coming!)

❤️ Why people with mental health challenges can feel dehumanized and the importance of keeping relationship and humanity at the center of your awareness.

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Are you feeling the stress of the upcoming U.S. election? Many of us are. (If you don't live in the U.S., bookmark this episode for your next election season) In it, I present the idea of a personal election protocol, a way for you to decide in advance how you want to deal with the ups and downs every election brings. How much do you want to keep up with the news? How much do you want to talk to others about politics? Making these decisions in advance goes a long way in helping us to feel less reactive to the stressors of the season.

In this episode:

✅ Understanding protocols and why they're so useful for our mental well-being

✅ Why you probably want more than one protocol for the election season

✅ Questions to help you develop your protocol -- including the most important question to ask yourself

✅ How to invite in feelings such as commitment and hope, even if you feel despair

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