Making Midlife Magic

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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Where will you be in a year? Where do you want to be?

We often use these questions against ourselves. In this episode I talk about a different way of thinking about growth and change, one focused on our feelings.

Do you want to feel different in a year? Do you want to feel more joy, confidence, connection? This episode is for you. I also share information about my new six-week small coaching group, starting next month.

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Do you want to learn how to create the emotions that fuel positive change? My small group coaching program, The Year of You, starts next month.

We'll meet Tuesday nights from 7 - 8 pm CST on Zoom from Aug 20 - Oct 1 (no class Sept 24). It will be a supportive group of the best people! If there's a change you want to create in the next year, this is the place to be.

To sign up or for more information, go to ⁠coachingwithrachel.com/yearofyou⁠

Imagine knowing that there are people out there who are so happy when you succeed, who want only the best for you.

There are.

These are your good ancestors, and the best news is, you don't have to be biologically related to any of them.

And we too can be good ancestors to those who come after us.

This is a very different way of thinking than is usually encouraged in the United States, where I live, and thinking this way is a great way to tap into our power.

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I'm starting my first small group! Magic happens in supportive groups. We'll meet Tuesday nights from 7 - 8 pm CST on Zoom from Aug 20 - Oct 1 (no class Sept 24) for a combination of life-changing teaching and group coaching.

In a group, transformation is magnified and multiplied so even if you are not being coached, you are being coached.

Between sessions, we'll share successes and challenges in a private Facebook group and I'll be there to coach you through it all.

To sign up, go to coachingwithrachel.com/yearofyou

You love a tidy house, but can't seem to stop piling your junk mail on the dining room table. You want to exercise more, but keep hitting the snooze button in the morning.

There are often things that we genuinely want -- and yet, we keep not doing them. In this episode, I share a surprising reason: We don't actually believe we can do it. And we're smart -- Why would we put our energy to something that's impossible?

Believing we can have what we most want is key to making it happen. Take a listen and let me know what resonates!

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Our brains work really hard for us, but most of us ignore them most of the time. We don't take the time to appreciate them, love them, and give them the rest they need.

Respecting our brain, being kind to our brain, and celebrating our brain allows us to perform at a high level in ways that are sustainable. Rather than judging ourselves for not doing more, we focus on all our miraculous brain does for us day after day, which lets our brain show us more magic.

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I promise.

These are such powerful words. Most of us have made promises to other people -- to spouses, partners, children, friends . . . but what about promises to ourselves?

In this episode I explore the power of making promises -- and breaking others. Seeing the promises that shape your current life and deciding what you want to promise yourself moving forward is a powerful way to create a joyful and satisfying life.

If you've ever struggled with setting and achieving goals, take a listen to this episode to see if the language of promises speaks to you. And if goal setting totally works for you, consider adding in a few promises to yourself to take you even further, more joyfully.

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"Someday I'll write a book."

"Someday I'll change careers."

"Someday I'll start dating again."

Do you have someday thoughts like these? If so, how wonderful! Someday thoughts are magical because they're glimmers of our desires. They let us know that we want something different than what we currently have.

The problem with someday thoughts is that too often they stay someday thoughts. What we want is to change someday thinking into now action. We want to move forward on our dreams, so we can give ourselves what we most truly want.

In this episode, I show you how.

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