The Kindness Principles Podcast™

How do you know when you are ready to date? Where do you begin? Today’s special guest is Ed Smarsh, Cindy’s fiancé, and together they discuss some of the do’s and don’t’s of dating after divorce, first steps in getting back “out there,” considerations of safety, sex, dealing with children, finances, and more!

Cindy shares highlights from her interview with transformation coach Jessi Payne (@joyfulljessi) including the one thing you can give yourself and someone else to create a long-lasting healthy relationship.

Cindy speaks with Jessi Payne (@joyfulljessi) about finding healthy relationships in midlife. Learn Jessi’s five step L.U.C.K.Y. approach and the activity she recommends all her clients do to fall in love with themselves first.

Cindy shares highlights from her conversation with Jamie Berris of Results Life Coaching including the confusion we can experience when feeling lonely from self-abandonment, living a life that is “others-focused”.

Learn how to offset this issue by approaching your life with holistic awareness of your needs and creating daily traditions around those.

Listen in as Jamie Berris (jamieberris.com) of Results Life Coaching talks about the opportunity in midlife to reflect on whether or not we are truly being authentic and honoring ourselves, our dreams, and our needs. Self-abandonment, loneliness, and “ghosting” ourselves were all explored, as well as ways we avoid ourselves in the name of pleasing others. Jamie offers the concept of creating “Daily Traditions” with ourselves to holistically address our needs.

In this episode, Cindy shares the wisdom of Dr. Carrie Graham who reminded us that we cannot and do not have to fix everything and that sometimes even things we want to fix, cannot be fixed, just like broken glass. So it’s important to know when to let go of what we cannot control and move forward, keeping the lessons we learned in the process.

Having just turned 50 herself, Dr. Carrie Graham (https://www.drcarriegraham.com), shares the “goodies” she has discovered about being in mid-life, and the importance of letting go. She shares her unique perspectives about being a “quitter" and how to manage body love during “The Pause.”

In the last episode, Cindy shared eight powerful questions you can ask yourself to make your year fantastic. In this episode, she follows up with three additional ways to make it wonderful:  an intentional choice, a fun activity, and the most important question you must answer for yourself and turn into action every single day.

Want to get a great start on your year and stay intentional all year long? Cindy offers eight questions you can ask yourself to direct your year exactly the way you want it to go. Keep yourself focused by exploring your own answers.

In this episode, Cindy shares highlights from her conversation with Steffany Barton who teaches how to use our bodies issues to learn what we need to do to improve our lives and relationships. Learn about the relationship between aging and carrying people’s burdens, how to reframe exercise to joyful movement, and more!