Millennial Midlife

I hope that you are having an amazing new year so far! It is mid-January, which is the time of the year when a lot of people drop their New Year's resolutions or best intentions for change. So today I want to talk to you about how you might continue with these resolutions if you want to and any support that I can offer you. In the episode, you will learn how thoughts and feelings drive actions, and how understanding this can lead to more sustainable change. I hope you’ll feel encouraged to look at your underlying beliefs and emotions to create lasting habits and change!

Episode Resources:

• 21 Day Kickstart Challenge
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Haley’s DIY podcast launch course

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

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The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

If you’ve ever found yourself saying you’ll go to the gym every single day or creating any other unrealistic plans that no human being can actually stick to, this episode is for you! We all do this to some degree, but why does perfectionism happen? In this conversation, I’m going to dig deep into how trying to be perfect keeps you stuck and how to help your brain start seeing things differently. The truth is, you don’t need to become an entirely new person to make changes in your life. Here’s what to do instead.

Episode Resources:

• The 5-Minute Shift
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

In this episode, we’re going to talk about goal setting and how to do it in a way that works for your brain. You’ve probably set New Year’s resolutions before, and chances are, they failed or didn’t work as well as you wanted them to. The truth is, we set goals because we think reaching them is going to make us feel a certain way - accomplished, worthy, talented, whatever it is for you. But your mindset won’t suddenly shift once you get to your goal. It’s going to shift as you go along if you set the right intentions and create an action plan that truly works for your brain. Here’s how to do that.

Episode Resources:

• The 5-Minute Shift
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Welcome to the New Year! I’m recording this episode just a couple of days after giving birth, and my postpartum experience got me thinking about the topic of creating a life that feels genuinely nourishing and brings you closer to yourself. If you’re a high achiever like me, it can be second nature to dismiss nourishing activities as something that’s not worth doing. Or you might secretly believe that you’re a better person if you do hard things instead of the things that you enjoy. As you’re setting your intentions for 2025, I hope that this episode helps you figure out how to love yourself deeper and take small steps to build a life you don’t want to step away from.

Episode Resources:

• The 5-Minute Shift
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.
• Year-long course about loving yourself

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

You’ve likely heard about your nervous system before, but you’re probably not sure how it works, what it does for your body, and, most importantly, why it matters. So, in this episode, I’m breaking down everything you need to know using simple and practical language. The truth is that your nervous system is constantly sending and receiving signals throughout your body that affect everything from your stress response to pleasure. And when you know how to work with your nervous system, not against it, you can make lasting changes and turn your brain into a calmer place to be.

Episode Resources:

• The 5-Minute Shift
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Today we're gonna talk about dread and how perhaps to feel less of it in your life. You can substitute pretty much any emotion in here for dread. So even if you don't tend to feel a lot of dread in your life, this will be applicable to you. If you're somebody who experiences the Sunday Scaries, or you dread upcoming social events or things like that, then this will be really helpful for you because I'll be talking specifically about dread. When you listen, you will hear practical strategies for understanding the physical sensations associated with dread, allowing oneself to feel it without resistance, and shifting perspectives to create a more positive emotional experience. But again, you can kind of apply this to almost any emotion. So that's where we're gonna go today, let’s dive in!

Episode Resources:

• The 5-Minute Shift
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

If you often tense up when others around you experience big emotions, such as anger or anxiety, tune in. These situations come up a lot during the holiday season when we spend time with family, but you can use the mindset shifts in this episode at any time of the year to center yourself. How we respond to other people's emotions is typically ingrained in our brains as children. But now that you’re an adult, you get to take responsibility for your feelings despite what’s happening around you. You can allow others to have their emotional experience and not rush them through it or feel like it’s something that’s happening to you. Learn how to detangle yourself and co-regulate in a positive and empowering way.

Episode Resources:

• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.
• Calmer Brain Club
• The 5-Minute Shift

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

The holiday season is barreling towards us, and with it come family dinners, work parties, and just the general intensity of this time of the year. It’s easy to feel like you already know what’s coming and brace yourself for impact. But let me ask you a question, what if you could walk into these same situations but have a completely different internal experience? You can’t control your uncle drinking maybe a little bit too much or the gravy being *always* late, but you can change how your brain and body respond to these things. In this episode, I’m sharing regulation techniques that help you feel more neutral and grounded when surrounded by holiday chaos so you can actually enjoy the time you spend with your loved ones. 

Episode Resources:

• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Last week on Calmer Conversations, we talked about how I’m structuring my maternity leave. Go back and listen to that if you haven’t – it’s actionable even if you aren’t pregnant! Today, in this same vein, I want to talk about how you talk to yourself, but in the context of pregnancy. Again, this is something that even if you're not pregnant, it should be applicable to you. I'm at the end of a pregnancy, so that's the framing that I'm going to take today but the whole of the episode is about how you talk to yourself and how we talk to each other and how much this matters. While I've talked about this before, I think this is one of those foundational things that we cannot talk about enough and we cannot be presented with enough examples because it is so crucial to how we feel and how we live our lives.

Episode Resources:

• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

On the newest episode of Calmer Conversations, I'm going to talk about maternity leave, but before you totally shut off if that's not a place you are in your life or will ever be, the framing in which I'm gonna talk about it is figuring out what you like, because I think it's really important and it plays a big part in in my maternity leave and how I'm approaching it. So even if you're not going on maternity leave in the near future or if you will ever go on maternity leave or if you have zero interest in maternity leave, this still might be an applicable episode for you!

Episode Resources:

• The Big Leap by Gay Henricks
• Listen: On Turning 40 and My 10 Year Reflection
• Instagram: @ceceliabmandryk
• Let’s work together! Learn more about my courses here.

Mentioned in this episode:

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course

Learn more about The 5-Minute Shift mini course, a brain-based approach to feeling better now. It’s on sale for $29!

The 5-Minute Shift Mini Course