Midlife Confidence

This visualization was first shared in Episode 69. I’m republishing it here as a stand-alone meditation that you can return to whenever you need a reassuring perspective on your life.

When you’re busy and distracted, you forget how sweet, meaningful, and beautiful your life is. Taking time to step back and watch yourself from a distance helps you see that you really are the star of your story. Take a break with the Movie Meditation to become a compassionate observer of your own legendary life.

Show Notes

• 5 Simple Practices: For A Lifetime Of Joy, Amaya Pryce
• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Vauna’s website – Join my email list here
• Email [email protected]

When you’re busy and distracted, you forget how sweet, meaningful, and beautiful your life is. Taking time to step back and watch yourself from a distance helps you see that you really are the star of your story. Take a break with the Movie Meditation to become a compassionate observer of your own legendary life. The visualization is also published as a bonus stand-alone meditation – The Movie Meditation [Bonus for 69]

Show notes:

• 5 Simple Practices: For A Lifetime Of Joy, Amaya Pryce
• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Vauna’s website – Join my email list here
• Email [email protected]

One of the most basic principles of living a more peaceful life is understanding what is - and what isn’t - in our control. As a teacher, Michael Ann gets opportunities to practice this every day. In part 2 of coaching with Michael Ann, she shares how the coaching experience has already helped her feel more at ease, more herself, and more in charge of how she responds. She’s finding that taking charge of her thoughts and feelings in the classroom allows her actions to come naturally from a place of love. Best of all in a few weeks she went from feeling so overwhelmed and discouraged to feeling lighter and sensing the possibility of things getting better. Join us and see how you can lighten up by letting go of control. You can hear part 1 in episode 65, Redefining What Works with Michael Ann.

Show notes:

Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis

Vauna’s website – Join my email list here

Email [email protected]

Learn 1 practical thing you can do to help your children build an identity that serves them well and builds your relationship at the same time! This is good for children of any age from 0-99 – we never grow out of this need. So listen in to learn more about how you can spend a little time that will reap exponential rewards for a lifetime. 

This is part 2 of 2 episodes with LaMonte Wilcox and McKelle Wilcox – be sure to listen to episode 66, Release Your Adult Children from Painful Patterns. 

In this episode:

• Kids are here to teach us that life can be fun
• Our brain is a success machine
• Our children want to know WHY we love and respect them

Show notes:

• Fulfill Life Yourself Website
• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]

If you have grown-up children - or children of any age - what would you be willing to do to help them live their best, most rewarding life? For sure we would sacrifice immense amounts of time, energy, and resources. Even better, what if it wasn’t that hard? My guests today, Lamonte Wilcox and his daughter McKelle Wilcox, raise the possibility that releasing ourselves from the patterns we picked up when we were young can allow our children (even adult children!) to live free from the limiting patterns we passed down. Join us for part 1 of 2 episodes of this promising conversation about unraveling generational patterns and healing ourselves and our families in the process.

In this episode:

• We all developed patterns passed down in our families
• The way that you release them from it, is you first become released yourself
• It’s not about coaching or teaching our kids but showing them our new self

Show notes:

• Fulfill Life Yourself Website
• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]

Join my friend Michael Ann and I today as we do some coaching on a big challenge she’s facing. She’s a seasoned teacher who is having an unexpected and bewildering teaching experience this year. You’ll hear how Michael Ann slows down and starts coming up with some really great insights as she redefines what it means to connect with her students. We’ve all faced similar feelings of loss and disconnection through a move, getting settled in a new job or having kids leave home – any changes in our life that leave us feeling disoriented for a while. When things that used to work, don’t work so well anymore. It’s a good time to ask ourselves some deep questions about what will work now.

In this episode:

• Giving ourselves some space and compassion in new situations
• Questioning the assumptions our brain offers to us
• Deciding how we want to feel in a situation

Show notes:

• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]

We all have insights that come to us about how we can experience life better, and times when we envision achieving a goal so clearly. We're so excited about it! Then our life and our mind are so busy that we forget and lose touch with it. That radiant light dims, that clarity gets fuzzy. And then your life just doesn't reach the level that seemed so clear and possible in the moment. It doesn’t have to be that way! I’ll walk you through my system for keeping those powerful insights top of mind where they can actually keep me motivated and guide my life. 

In this episode:

• Creating your own Compass
• What’s in my Compass – what do you want in yours?
• You don’t have to do this perfectly to get big results from it 

Show notes:

• The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose by Chris Attwood and Janet Attwood
• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]

Most of us in midlife have experienced trauma at some time in our lives. My guest today, Stephanie Olson, shares her story of childhood trauma. It led to some rough years in young adulthood until she found her way back to herself with God’s help. Now she is living a purposeful life by using her painful experiences to reach out to help others. Midlife is a good time for us to consider if past trauma is holding us back today, and if we’re ready to heal it.

In this episode:

• Making peace with our age
• Stephanie’s work and how it has been evolving over time
• We may not realize we’ve experienced trauma when we compare our experience to others

Links:

• Reach Stephanie: [email protected]
• Stephanieolson.com 
• Set Me Free Project
• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]

How do you know if you received an answer to prayer and did the right thing? If you’ve ever thought that following God’s guidance means that everything should work out smoothly and then felt confused when it didn’t, I’ve got a couple of stories from my own life to share with you. I think about answers to prayer differently now, in a way that gives much more space for our real human experience along the way. And it allows for God to provide something even more meaningful than what we asked for.

In this episode:

• Sometimes in midlife we've had some prayer experiences that leave us a little faith-scarred.
• What I learned from two very different moving experiences
• Not making assumptions about what a prayer means

Show notes:

• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]

Sometimes we need to hear from another woman in midlife the we can relate to - how she has come to feel more confident now than ever by knowing who she is and what she loves, and to find meaning in life. So welcome to my friend and guest Rebecca Welling, who shares what she loves about being in midlife now. Her journey took her through raising 5 children (including triplets), taking 10 years to finish her degree, dealing with the sudden silence of an empty nest, and finding fulfillment in becoming a Medicare expert (yes, all kinds of work can be fulfilling!) Stay with us and you’ll hear some astonishing triplet stories at the end. 

In this episode:

• Empty Nest Syndrome: Losing our identity as a busy mom
• Helping our daughters find themselves earlier than we did
• Work can be a place to find meaning in becoming an expert and mentoring others
• Holding on to God as faith develops through a lifetime

Show notes:

• Vauna’s Instagram   @vaunadavis
• Midlife Confidence Coach website
• Email [email protected]