It’s now, in midlife, that the last thought on your mind is to be “resilient and courageous”. Ever feel like you're teetering on a high wire, blindfolded, with the world watching below? One minute, you're conquering life's great balancing act, and the next - whoosh - you're in free fall. I get it. The midlife rollercoaster is not for the faint of heart. Fear, uncertainty, and change are the nasty gremlins that come along for the ride, uninvited. Yeah, you've been shoved in...

Midlife is a time when you start to ask, "Who am I now? What's next?" Change is, for women, inevitable. It's easy to lose your courage and stop believing in yourself. Challenges are everywhere and you wonder if you have what it takes to actually make it through in one piece. The answer is YES YOU CAN! Enter the "Beautiful Warrior". Who is she? A beautiful warrior is a woman. A woman just like you and me, who turns her midlife experiences into powerful tools for transformation...

Are you wondering what the secret is to finding your passion - it seems that everyone expects you to know but maybe you're confused about the whole idea and wondering if it's something that is really going to matter? Discovering your personal mission, your life's purpose is like finding your compass in the forest. It doesn't eliminate the trees, but it does show you the direction. It illuminates your path, adds meaning to each step you take, and brings a sense of fulfillment and joy. T...

Many of us by midlife are afraid to make decisions because we’re afraid the past equals the future. The amazing news about life is this: the past does NOT equal the future. Every phase is a new canvas. And you hold the paintbrush in your hand. THIS is when decide: Beautiful Warrior of Shrinking Violet? Your Beautiful Warrior is YOU taking charge. YOU becoming the boss of your brain and not listening to all the stories it tells you. Truth is, your brain is just trying ...

Someone calls you 'fat'. Someone says your work isn't up the standards of the company and to do it again. Someone says your work is wonderful and to be sure that same level of quality shows up on the next project. Someone tells you that your son may have cancer. Someone tells you that your mom is going to need extra care and you're the only sibling near her. Challenges. Something new and difficult that is going to require great effort and determination to get to the other side. LIFE IS ...

Have you ever downplayed your own work because it wasn't as good as someone else's? Or changed your mind about submitting something, cooking something, doing something because you believed what you could give wasn't very good? These are symptoms of the "I am not enough" way of life. And it's this thinking that will cause you to become smaller and smaller as you get older. Midlife is the time to take a good hard look at this because you don't want to spend the rest of your life withdrawing,...

WHAT IF Midlife were actually a Call To Adventure? The only way you hear that Call is to connect to that very quiet place deep inside of you. That's where you'll find your heart. This is a powerful place. A place from which you can learn to be yourself...shut out the noise of what everyone else thinks you should be, tells you to be. The Call challenges us to look deeper into how life has been molding us, preparing us for this time just ahead. A new phase. Midlife. Find the answers to that...

Ever walk into a crowded room and feel all alone? There is nothing like feeling as if you are in the wrong place. Don't belong. Are not wanted somewhere. WE ALL FEEL IT. And, for women, midlife can magnify this because so many places where they felt at home and needed are shifting. Changing. So how do we handle this? How do we make that vital decision to stay engaged with our lives by building up the crucial connections that our hearts need so badly? That's what we're talking about ...

Your heart is the most beautiful thing about you. And in that beautiful heart, you'll find every need that shows you how to find your passion and purpose. The 2nd need of your heart is SIGNIFICANCE. To know and value who I am. In this podcast I'm talking about YOU, a potential Woman on a Mission. And, because of that, you are a potential Beautiful Warrior. YOU who have walked through life with all of its hills and valleys, challenges and disasters. It's not the bombs that go off in...

"I'm good with life as long as it never changes and doesn't give me any surprises." Don't you wish you could have this level of control? Sometimes we think that, if we did, we would feel safe and certain. Wait a minute! Is that really how we want to live our lives? We're talking about that question in this podcast. Is safe and careful over-rated? Even boring? You're going to find out the secret to feeling ALIVE here. The secret that is the basis for growing a Warrior Heart. And all Midli...

CARTOON: A midlife woman was telling her doctor - “I need a big belly. You can’t fit this much charm and personality into a small package.” There you go - the positive spin on it. However, it also kind of makes me want to crawl under my blankets and never come out because I don’t want a big belly and I don’t want to rationalize it away. Do you think maybe God made midlife - all these big changes - so that you would realize that you need to pay attention to something? Like a big red flag...

Two choices when you come to the crossroads called "Midlife". We all go through it. No one escapes it because, well, Midlife is simply the 'middle' of your life. I totally feel your desire to escape it. And we all get two choices: 1. Sit down. Stare at the closed door behind us for the rest of your life. Imagine all the things you had back there and wish that your kids had stayed young forever, your face wasn't wrinkled and your job was as exciting as you felt on your firs...

From a post on Pinterest talking about midlife women: "You know you're getting old when you get butt jiggle, bingo wing flap and boob wobble when you brush your teeth"... It made me laugh right out loud because I had just been noticing my bingo wing flaps in the mirror when I was brushing my teeth. It's just like, "Oh my goodness, that skin just looks like crepe paper under my arms". Midlife! You gotta laugh or you'll just sit down and stop trying. What's the antidote to this kind of...

There you stand. On the edge of a chasm. You're somewhere in your 40's and there's not much left for you here on this side. Below you see a whole river of loss running between two rocky walls. You feel that loss. Loss of a house filled with noisy kids and schedules to keep running. Loss of your energy and muscle tone because midlife changes are catching up with your body. Loss of love from so many directions. Uncertainty. Fear. "Who am I now?" you ask. "Who am I going to be?"...

The BOMBS are the big things that happen that absolutely blow up your life. They happened in the past and they will keep happening... it's impossible to predict. Literally, it's as if you were walking down a sidewalk and a bomb went off just a few feet away from you. The shock wave leaves you reeling - "Wait a minute, this is not what I was expecting. My life was not supposed to turn out like this. This was never supposed to happen." Bombs can be things like Prince Charming saying he doesn'...

The woman you "were" - the one in the past - comes with you everywhere all the time. You hear her voice, you feel her touch, you regret a lot of how she was. And wish she would have made different decisions. But what about the strength she brings you? YES! She brings you strength. This aging gracefully thing has to include making peace with the woman you have been all along your Path. Want to know why she is vitally valuable to you right here, right now where you are today? A...

How Do I Love Myself?? We get to this place a lot of times in our life where we are focusing so much on how to live a good life. How do we do this? How do we get love? How do we get the body we want? How do I become a person who is happy? How do I be a good mom? How do I be a good wife? How? How? How? "How" is not the question - "Who" is the question. Who am I? Because that answers everything about how I should be in the world. I think this is the most amazing thing that I've ...

Remember the giggling? As a little girl, remember breathing in the fun in life in whatever moment you were living? Life was an adventure every minute, right? Princesses, Knights... imagining doing whatever came into yours and your friend's heads. Then something happened. As we grew, older, life took place, right? Bombs went off scaring you to death. Shock boulders landed on you creating stories that weren't so fun. They told you why you shouldn't be happy. Why you should be cautious. Fe...

Bombs drop on you. Boulders flatten you, dropping out of nowhere. Someone throws a rock at you - fast! Ouch! It stings. It leaves a mark. LIFE HAPPENS. What you do next is the MOST IMPORTANT DECISION YOU WILL EVER MAKE IN THIS LIFE. Who will you be? Will you crumble, give up, shrink away because it's all just too hard? Or will you stand up again. Refuse to be defeated. And become a woman who looks fear in the face and declares, "I will not run. I will become stronger." S.O.F.T. & ...

You laugh. You cry. You shout. You encourage. You love. You hate. You are a woman and you feel. That's natural. And beautiful! Mastering your emotions means you start to understand them. Is that even possible? THE KEY to Aging Beautifully is to master these things we call "emotions". Yes - it's all part discovering how to love yourself. And everything about who you are. In this episode, we talk about: 1. Your 'Emotional Home' and why you live there. 2. How to step back and see ...