Simplify Your Midlife

Last episode in season 1.

Season 2 coming soon…..

Let’s change how we view ageing, both for ourselves and society.

This episode is a call to change how we view ageing. We are ageing differently than previous generations and we believe society needs to keep up. We need to own, celebrate and love this time of our lives! Gen X have a unique world view due to the times we grew up in and this is often overlooked.

This is Cathy’s take on positive ageing and please contact a professional if you do need any specific advice or support relevant to your situation.

Dr Becca Levy research mentioned. ‘Longevity increased by Positive Self-perceptions of Ageing’ Levy, Slade, Kunkel and Kasl

(Journal of personality and social Psychology, 2002)

Let us know your thoughts at: [email protected]

In this episode Cathy talks about Midlife friendships and talks about the importance of social connection. There are also some suggestions for how to help if you want to be more socially connected.

References in the episode:

Books- 'The Art and Science of Social Connection'- Kasley Killam

Joyspan- Dr Kerry Burnight.

Dr Kerry is on Instagram at

@the_gerontologist.

Mel Robbins Podcast episode with Kasley Killam is called 'The reality of Adult Friendships'

Dr Vivek Murthy (ex- Surgeon General of US) Lonliness as an epidemic.

[email protected] if you want to get in touch.

Excuse the clunky editing and sometimes sounding like a bot, working to improve! 🙂

Do you need to add some Zing to your life? I believe there is an essential ingredient missing for midlife women that hasn't been highlighted and I think it's zing!

Let me know what you think in the comments or drop me an email on [email protected]

Just to note, I appreciate many midlife women do not have kids and while I used a November evening example, there are many other times zing may help us.

Book mentioned:

Joyspan- Dr Kerry Burnight

A short podcast about Values for Midlife women and why I believe they are very important to know and revisit as we navigate this Midlife season of our lives. Midlife transitions, changes, hormones, menopause, perimenopause etc. can all lead to challenges and this episode talks about the importance of our values and gives some tips to revisit or reflect on them.

Some resources I mentioned in this episode:

Books mentioned:

Flourishing- Dr Maureen Gaffney

Digital Minimalism- Cal Newport

You Tube video 'What are your Values' by Mindtools Kineo has more information on the questions I spoke about which can help to define your values that I referred to.

Milton Rokeach was the Psychologist I referred to.

Lists of values- there are very many out there and

I have compiled my own one and if you would like a copy- send me an email at [email protected] and I will send it on to you.

And as always please like, share, follow, rate, review and subscribe!

This podcast episode is about some simple tools and techniques that have helped me and I think can be useful for midlife women at this stage of life for both Mindset and Attitude.

This podcast is meant for information and education only and the opinions are that of the host and guests based on their own experience and opinions and do not constitute specific professional advice. Please seek professional guidance if you do need anything specific to your situation.

Books and references.

Mindset- Carol Dweck

Age Proof- Professor Rose Anne Kenny

Research- Becca Levy Et al 2002 Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging.

Neil and Sue Thompson- CIA tool

Dr Martin Seligman 3 good things

I have always loved time management but I think it has a bad reputation.

In this podcast, I talk about 5 easy ways that I have found useful to manage time for this stage of life.

Note: Time Matrix is also called Eisenhower Matrix.This podcast is meant for information and education only and the opinions are that of the host and guests based on their own experience and opinions and do not constitute professional advice. Please seek professional guidance if you do need anything specific to your situation.

Simplify your Midlife is a positive podcast for midlife women. This episode talks about some of the demands and pressures of this stage of life and suggests a tool to help.

Book & articles mentioned in this episode:

Infurna, F. et al. (2020) Midlife in the 2020's: Opportunities and challenges.

Covey, Stephen 'The 7 habits of highly effective people'

Erik Erikson Psychosocial stages of development.

Time Matrix- also called Eisenhower Matrix. This podcast is meant for information and education only and the opinions are that of the host and guests based on their own experience and opinions and do not constitute professional advice. Please seek professional guidance if you do need anything specific to your situation.

First episode of Simplify your Midlife, a positive podcast about modern midlife for women, how it has changed and some simple things we can do to help ourselves.

Books mentioned:

Jean Twenge 'Generations'

Greg McKeown 'Essentialism'

Yet- mentioned in Carol Dweck 'Mindset' This podcast is meant for information and education only and the opinions are that of the host and guests based on their own experience and opinions and do not constitute professional advice. Please seek professional guidance if you do need anything specific to your situation.