Midlife Confidence

When your spiritual light is low … rekindle your divine glow. Spiritual confidence is assurance that you and God are working together to co-create your highest self. As we grow into being able to seek inner spiritual radiance we feel more peaceful, clear, warm, light, open, and expansive.

In this episode:

• Faith as an intelligent, powerful force we can plug in to
• A story of God’s grace
• A morning celebration routine that cultivates spiritual energy for the day
• How can we relax into God?

Links:

• When You Have the Spirit vs. When You Don’t Have the Spirit 
• Let's connect on Instagram!
• Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.
• Email [email protected]

When your body is dragging … get motivated to refuel your energy with food, rest, and exercise. Ready for an energy makeover? You already know food, rest, and exercise are the answer to a healthy lifestyle and more energy, but whenever we want to do something better our mind has a habit of getting in our way! Let’s talk about not only what to do, but how to get our most motivating thoughts on board.

In this episode:

• Facts + thoughts = powerful new habits.
• Some facts about exercise, food, and sleep that can inspire us to live a healthy lifestyle.
• Since our bodies have changed, it’s a good time to experiment with the kind of food, sleep, and exercise that will work for us.
• My unexpected results going 100% vegan.
• The 4 things that I know help me sleep better (so far.)

Links:

• Kenneth Soares YouTube Deep Sleep Meditations (also on the Insight Timer meditation app for free)
• Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan

Show notes:

• Let's connect on Instagram!
• Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.
• Email [email protected]

When you’re mentally drained … revive your energy level by understanding how your thoughts create your feelings, getting out of “Have To” energy, and tapping into other people’s energy. Low mental energy isn’t something that just happens to us, it’s a result that we created with our thoughts and feelings. That means we can recharge our energy with some new thoughts if we want to! Here’s a few ideas for how to create a more energizing mindset. 

In this episode:

• The process of how our thoughts create our feelings and results.
• We don’t have to do anything – how to get into “Want To” energy.
• Spend time with higher energy people in real life or online. Try on other people’s thoughts and see how they can energize you.

Links:

• Brooke Castillo, The Life Coach School Podcast 
• Tam Kieves, Thriving Through Uncertainty
• Kenneth Soares YouTube Deep Sleep Meditations (also on the Insight Timer meditation app for free)
• Pres. Russel M. Nelson, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives 

Show notes:

• Let's connect on Instagram!
• Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.
• Email [email protected]

When you get stuck trying to manage everyone’s emotions … let them have the human experience they came for. Do you have the illusion that you can and should control how others feel? Or maybe you hold back your thoughts because others won’t like them? We all do this sometimes. When we’re always trying to make others feel better, we unintentionally don’t allow them to express their true emotions - and we don’t share our authentic selves either. Learn what true unconditional love is and how it can be better for everyone in the relationship.

In this episode

• Holding back the truth to protect others – helpful or harmful?
• The problems of resisting emotions: self-judgment, escaping, emotional outbursts, and blaming.
• Roles in relationships: parent, child, or adult
• Unconditional love is telling the truth, allowing others to feel the way they want about it, and loving them anyway.

Show notes

• I'm on Instagram!
• Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.
• Email [email protected]

When you’re wondering who you are now that the kids are grown up … find joy in finally having time to finish your own growing up!

Are your kids growing up or already in adulthood? When raising young kids, a lot of your identity and value came from caring for your family. When that stage is over, it can be a challenge to reimagine a new purpose for life. In parenting your job was to get them started and then let them take over – now you get to spend more time working on your own growth. It’s time to invest in yourself and finish growing up the way you want to!

In this episode:

• The good and bad of having kids grow up
• Managing regret and mommy guilt
• The power of coaching

Four questions to help you finish your own growing up:

• What have I missed out on?
• What feels unfinished?
• Where do I feel stuck?
• What makes me feel bubbly?

What will try and stop you? Getting past guilt, lack of self-worth, and feeling like it’s too late.

Show notes:

Let's connect on Instagram!

Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.

Email [email protected]

We’re designed to move, and we’re healthier and happier when we do. But sometimes our thoughts get in the way - especially as we notice signs of getting older. You can be aware and change them up so you have the inner motivation to take care of your body. The most important part is to create the right identity and focus more on building a habit than on the immediate results. Then the benefits will definitely come in time.

In this episode:

• Stop the compare and despair trap with your own past self.
• A story of what’s possible  - Joan McDonald, 73 year-old fitness buff.
• Be willing to adapt workouts to where you are now – no judgment.
• The habit is more important than the activity.
• Overcoming your own resistance.
• We’re improving the mind, body, and spirit that we get to live with forever.

Links:

• Syndey Cummings Workouts on YouTube
• Joan MacDonald @trainwithjoan Instagram Youtube
• Atomic Habits by James Clear

Shownotes:

• Let's connect on Instagram!
• Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.
• Email [email protected]

When the world is falling apart … know you have what it takes to keep it all together. We’ve had lots of unexpected chaos in just a few months already. Let's talk about uncertainty, even though you're probably feeling much better now than you were at the beginning of all this. Guess what? We’ll face surprising, unexpected and even threatening conditions again and again. So we might as well get good at it.

In this episode

• Wondering – is this the beginning of the global upheaval and disasters predicted in the scriptures?
• What is uncertain about the future, and what we can choose to be certain about.
• Knowing how to process emotions helps us not be so afraid of the emotions that come with challenging world conditions.
• Surfing as an analogy for managing uncontrollable situations.
• Deciding who we want to be in a crisis.
• Three intentional thoughts to switch for thoughts that create fear.

Show notes

• Let's connect on Instagram!
• Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.
• Email [email protected]

When you think you should be farther along by now … realize you’re almost there! We’re so good at compare and despair – looking around at everyone else and thinking we’re behind. Let’s question that! You’ve already done a lot of valuable living. You aren’t starting from scratch. All the things you’ve done count. You’re so close!

In this episode:

• What do you think you should have figured out by now? 
• The Unexpected Race story
• Getting past limiting thoughts like “I’m so behind” and “I wasted time.”
• 3 powerful thoughts:

1. I’m so close
2. Everything that didn’t work is leading me to what will
3. I’m coming from behind for the big win!

Show notes:

· Let's connect on Instagram!

· Schedule a free discovery call with Vauna.