Create Your Midlife

Hosted by Dr. Oksana Skidan — Writer, Educator, and Creator of the Create Your Midlife™ Method.

December can feel like a full-time job — family, work, expectations, emotions — all arriving at once.
In this episode, Dr. Oksana Skidan invites midlife women to slow down and choose how they want to feel this season.

She shares her personal D.E.C.E.M.B.E.R. framework — eight reflections to help you move from overwhelm to clarity:
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What if Thanksgiving wasn’t just about the table — but about returning to yourself?

In this heartwarming Thanksgiving episode, Dr. Oksana Skidan — writer, educator, and creator of the Create Your Midlife™ Method — shares a soulful reflection on belonging, gratitude, and redefining holiday traditions as a midlife woman.

From her Ukrainian-American perspective, Oksana explores how Thanksgiving has become a personal ritual of connection...

The holidays are beautiful — and they’re overwhelming.
For most midlife women, this season is when routines fall apart, self-care disappears, and all the progress you’ve built quietly slips into the background.

In this episode, Dr. Oksana Skidan takes you inside The Art of Continuing™ — a grounded, elegant, real-life approach to keeping your routines alive during the busiest season of the year.

You’ll learn why it’s so hard to st...

Are you tired of holidays that drain you more than they delight you?
The pressure, the planning, the overdoing, the performing — and somehow still feeling like it wasn’t enough?

Then this episode is your reset.

Because the truth is simple:
You don’t need a perfect plan to create a meaningful holiday season — you need a clear one.
And there’s one formula that has transformed my holidays (and my midlife):
Keep – Stop ...

What if finishing the year strong had nothing to do with doing more — and everything to do with how you feel while doing it?

In this reflective episode, Dr. Oksana Skidan — writer, educator, and creator of the Create Your Midlife™ Method — invites you to slow down and rediscover the power of the pause. Through her signature blend of story and strategy, she helps you look beyond productivity and into presence, guiding you through the...

Midlife has one of the worst reputations out there — everyone talks about it like it’s the end of something, not the beginning of anything real. But what if midlife isn’t a crisis at all?

In this episode, Dr. Oksana Skidan — writer, educator, and creator of the Create Your Midlife™ Method — unpacks the five biggest midlife myths that keep women stuck in fear. From the idea that “midlife starts at 40” to the outdated label of “empty ...

Midlife isn’t a crisis — it’s a creation.

In this opening episode, Dr. Oksana Skidan — Ukrainian-born, American-built — shares the personal story behind Create Your Midlife™ and the framework she calls The Midlife Method™.

You’ll hear how a former concert pianist, educator, wife, and mother reached her 50s, paused for the first time, and asked one powerful question: What’s next?

Instead of reinventing, she began creating — and turned ...