Love Your Life: Love Your Life: Midlife Reinvention, Emotional Regulation, & Parenting

This week's episode brings you two great things!

First , an awesome conversation with an Aussie! I figure you might want to just chill out this week and this is the perfect convo to pop in your ears as you go for a walk. Enjoy!

Second, the things we talk about and the honesty we share with each other will help you feel less st...

For the woman who feels responsible for everyone and everything: This episode will help so much!!! ⁣
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Do you ever look at other women relaxing on a porch, laughing with their family, or their posts on social media… and wonder why things feel so much heavier for you?⁣
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When doing all the right things still feels hard 😵‍💫

Have you ever thought, I've done so much work on myself. Why does this still get to me?

On this walk-and-talk episode, I'm opening up about marriage, growth, and the ongoing practice of letting go of control. 

I share how these pa...

Does anyone else sometimes feel like the only way they fee...

Do you ever find yourself replaying conversations, second-guessing your decisions, or lying awake worrying about your teen's future?

That mental loop has a name. It's called rumination. And it's quietly draining your energy, increasing anxiety, and affecting how you show up in your life and your relationships.

If you catch yourself overanalyzing everything you said, everything they said, and w...

What if this summer didn't leav...

Do you feel like your mind automatically g...

Do you ever feel responsible for solving e...

Your college kid is coming home… and you want it to go well.
You're excited to see them. You've missed them. You can't wait to hug them, cook for them, and have them back in your house again.

But here's the thing most parents don't realize.

The child who left for college is not exactly the same kid coming home. And your home is not the same place they left either.

This ...

What if the reason you feel exhausted, inflamed, anxious, or just not like yourself in midlife isn't a lack of willpower… but a handful of small habits quietly working against you?

In this episode, I'm sharing the 5 things I started and the 5 things I stopped in perimenopause that completely changed my energy, sleep, mood, and overall health.

If you are navigating perimenopause symptoms...

If you've ever noticed yourself feeling more stiff, less coordinated, or just not as strong and capable in your body as you used to, this episode is for you.

I'm joined by Megan Dahlman, a strength and mobility coach who specializes in helping women move better, feel stronger, and protect their bodies as they age. Megan has such a calming, empowering way of cutting through the noise and confusion and helpi...

What if the problem was never you?

For so many years, I believed that if I could just fix myself enough, improve enough, and be better enough, I would finally feel calm, confident, and at peace. Yet, no matter how much I worked on myself, there was always something else to fix.

In this deeply personal episode, I share one of the most life changing truths I've learned in over 20 years of coaching and doing my own emotional healing w...

Last week, I shared a more personal reflection on why this podcast exists. Today, I want to bring it back to coaching and answer a powe...

My eldest son just got married, and for the first time in over a decade, I was in the same room as my estranged sister, my father, my ex-husband, and his entire family. In this personal life update, I'm sharing exactly how it went, including what my own tools looked like in the hardest moments and what surprised me most. I talk about clean pain versus dirty pain, what it feels like when the nervous system finally start...

This episode is different, and I wanted to speak to you more personally than usual.

I'm sharing the real reasons this podcast was born, the moments that almost broke me, and what has kept me showing up here for 400 episodes. This isn't a how-to or a lecture, it's a heart-to-heart conversation about being human, especially when life feels heavy. If this podcast has ever kept you company during a hard season...

I am sitting down with my new friend, Dr. Danielle Dowling, for a conversation I believe every mom needs to hear. 

In this episode, we talk about why motherhood can feel so overwhelming even when you are doing everything "right." We explore how invisible labor keeps women exhausted, how the 'good girl conditioning' gets activated in motherhood, and why so many moms blame themselves instead of questioning the system they are in...