You Are Worth Your Time burnout emotional well-being feelings menopause mental health middle age midlife midlife crisis older women peace self-care self-love stress

Are you living… or just getting through the day?

Have you ever stopped mid-scroll or mid-sentence and thought, “I don’t even recognize myself anymore”?

That feeling—that dull ache of disconnection—isn’t just in your head.
It’s the result of living in survival mode. And far too many people are.

We’...

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Your “Self” Is Sacred mental health midlife mind and body older women overwhelm peace self-care self-love self-sacrifice

Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to forget something essential, something holy:

Your "Self" is sacred.

Not because of what you do for others.
Not because of how much you achieve or how well you hold everything together.
But simply because you are.

However, I learned something differe...

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Being Good and Other Ways We Abandon Ourselves healing menopause mental health middle age midlife midlife crisis self-care self-love wellness

From girlhood, we were shaped like clay.

Told to be “good,” to be pretty, to be helpful, be skinny, be perfect, be happy, and be nice with whomever you're with.

We became masters of morphing—softening our edges, shrinking our voices, smoothing out our brilliance to make others comfortable.
Don’t ma...

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Having Needs or Being Needy Is Bad and Other Lies I’ve Been Told emotional well-being emotions mental health midlife needs self-awareness self-care self-love stress

Somewhere along the way, you may have been taught that needing anything made you “too much.”

Too emotional.
Too demanding.
Too sensitive.
Too needy.

(I can’t tell you how many times I have heard in my practice… “I don’t want to be needy!”)

The fact is that we all have needs—sometimes more than other...

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