100 | Why Overthinking Is Draining Midlife Moms More Than Life Itself (A Guided Meditation for Instant Relief)

Are you trapped in a mental loop of “why?” and “how?”—and too exhausted to even begin finding answers?

When life’s challenges spiral into relentless questions, it’s not your circumstance that drains you—it’s your mind’s insistence on solving the unsolvable. This episode offers a different kind of relief: not solutions, but space—a moment to pause, breathe, and restore mental calm.

• Experience a guided affirmation meditation set to 432 Hz sound designed to soothe your nervous system and quiet cortisol-fueled stress.
• Give yourself permission to set aside the endless “why?” and “how?”—even if just for a few minutes.
• Reclaim mental peace, clarity, and emotional energy so you can return to life with renewed resilience.

🎧 Press play and take a mindful break—a gift of inner space you can revisit anytime your mind feels overwhelmed.

You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change Podcast. We’ve made some pivots through the years, but we’ve finally landed on the right path: producing content for moms seeking calm within the chaos of midlife changes.

New episodes drop on:

• Sundays: 20-minute episodes addressing common midlife challenges with practical strategies plus a featured mindfulness practice (affirmations, mantras, or meditations)
• Wednesdays: Short guided practice sessions to reinforce Sunday's mindfulness technique and reset your week

More from The Mindful Midlife Mom:

Discover Valerie's articles on ohhellomidlife.com or watch her videos on Youtube @ohhellomidlife

This podcast explores patience, meditation, confidence, presence, and overcoming resentment while cultivating calm, peace, mindfulness, clarity, mantras, and addressing loneliness and burn out; it covers boundaries, caregiving, guilt, affirmations, working moms, self-care, midlife crisis, empty nesters, empowerment, people pleasing, compassion fatigue, family caregiving, stress relief, self-worth, stress management, and how to shift from reactive to centered when feeling short tempered, offering tools for self acceptance, easing mental exhaustion, building emotional resilience, harnessing inner strength, and preventing caregiver fatigue for those in the sandwich generation through expert advice on boundaries setting.

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