Talking Finding Joy in Midlife on Prevention Magazine Podcast
Midlife and menopause can make for a challenging period in many women's lives. With fluctuating hormones, mood swings, and levels of stress and anxiety rising as we question what we want from life, it's no wonder women are finding themselves stuck in a rut. During...
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Why you’re feeling stuck and how to move forward
Are there parts of your life that you know aren't working? Does the thought of making changes leave you feeling overwhelmed, scared, confused, uncertain or depressed? When these uncomfortable feelings prevent us from taking action and moving forward we become stuck....
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How To Reduce Friction In The Parent-Adolescent Relationship
One of the greatest challenges faced by midlife women is coping with multiple stressors simultaneously. So when we come up against conflict with our adolescent children we can feel pushed to our limit and become highly triggered. Finding positive strategies to manage...
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Using The Mind Body Connection to Overcome Stress
For those who have attended my classes you will know that a message I often share with students is that "we are not just walking heads". Our bodies are not just a servant to our overactive, thinking minds. Our bodies are our true home - where our feelings live. And as...
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How To Create A Happy And Fulfilling Midlife
Whether or not we achieved the dreams we laid out for ourselves in our early adult years, it is likely that we will seek a new dream to guide us into the second half of life. This dream emerges when we finally have the space to ask ourself who we truly are and what we...
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Midlife Crisis or Crossroad? Deciding when you need support.
While each of us makes a unique transition through midlife, the challenges women face during this time often raise the big life questions around meaning and purpose. This can be an intense life passage to navigate, so how do we know when this natural crossroad is...
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Why Midlife Women Are Feeling Anxious.
Anxiety seems to be the theme of current times. We are adjusting, pivoting, living with uncertainty and grief and doing our best to cope.We are experiencing high levels of stress, exhaustion and anxiety, especially for women navigating midlife. And it's no wonder...
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A Mindful Meditation to Prepare for 2021
As we move toward the end of this tumultuous year and before the next has arrived, it’s a potent time of transition. This is a time when we typically take stock. Reassessing and re-evaluating what has gone before. In the same way that this time of year traditionally...
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Finding calm amongst the chaos
I know that when things are in crisis it is easy to stay motivated to do the things that help. But meditation is a form of mind training and, like weight training, it doesn't get stronger with a haphazard practice. If you do it every day, it creates a better quality...
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5 Steps to Help Establish a Daily Meditation Practice
Meditation is a form of mind training and, like weight training, it doesn't improve with a haphazard practice. Practiced every day however, meditation contributes significantly to a better quality of life. It is therefore important to establish strategies that...
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Are you a resilient parent?
The only way I know to fully connect with my children and feel completely fulfilled as a parent is to keep my heart wide open and attuned to whatever is going on for them. I am blessed to be invited to share in the details of their lives: their worries, stresses,...
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Why we need to teach our children how to relax
Childhood has seen a marked change over the past 30 years and so too has our children's mental and physical wellbeing. We as parents all want our children to live in emotional balance and to show resilience and stability in the face of life's challenges. We...
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