Starting Over After 40: Changing Your Life

Energy Management Part 3. This episode looks at little changes you can make to increase your energy which will give you cumulative improvements throughout the day. 

Part 2 of the series How To Manage Your Energy provides tips on how to stop energy drains.

This episode introduces a series of short podcasts on energy management and how micro mind-shifts can change the way you perceive the problem of time and fulfillment.

One of the challenges of changing your life is knowing where to focus your attention. This episode reveals the essential steps to ensure satisfactory and lasting results.

So many people get frustrated when they want to change their life and kind of get stalled along the way. Most people don't understand the transformation process because not many people talk about it. This podcast reveals the 3 essential steps when you are transforming your life.

Discover how mindfulness meditation is used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to manage anxiety and panic attacks. A short meditation is included.

Have you been curious about starting a meditation practice but don't really know where to begin? Or maybe you're worried it will take up more of your precious time that you already feel is limited. This podcast provides you with a guide for creating a simple meditation practice.

This episode gives you a sneak peek inside the program Discover The Real You. I share two stories that illustrate how inaccurate we are at defining ourselves and how we can change that.

In this episode, I discuss using movement as an awareness practice that is exploratory rather than fixed and how the Feldenkrais Method is a practice that can not only increase our awareness but our resilience. Gisele St. Hilare is my guest. She has more than 30 years experience in the wellness industry.

You may not realize that the level of care you give yourself may be regarded as neglect.  Before you can make a conscious effort to improve the level of care you give to yourself, you need to pinpoint the ways you are ignoring self-care.  In this episode we examine some common ways we ignore our self-care so that you can know where to place your focus.

Discover the two roads on the acceptance path and how to stop the vicious cycle of discontent to achieve inner peace. Listen to a short guided meditation on acceptance and download some techniques, and strategies that will help enhance your sense of acceptance. Learn how to retrain your brain to silence that voice of resistance and learn to be okay with the way things are.

In this episode, I interview Cynthia Orange about her latest book, Take Good Care: Finding Your Joy in Compassionate Caregiving. Cynthia is an award-winning author, who sheds some light on the issue of caregiving and how to ensure the experience is both loving and mutually beneficial. We also discuss some of the ways people can lose themselves when caring of others and how to correct that habit.

In this episode, I look at one of the challenges of change…self-care and how sometimes the best of intentions can be a threat to self-care. Learn the distinction between caretaking and caregiving and how it affects your well-being and happiness.

In this episode, I provide 3 helpful tips for managing frustration and a short guided meditation to help shift your perspective and bring some relief.

Discover one aspect of resilience that is often overlooked and why we need to broaden our perspective if we are to understand and develop resilience.

Self-reliance is a tool everybody has to overcome the fears you attach to being alone. In this episode, you get a few quick tips to sharpen this tool and eliminate your fears.

When we start over in life it's usually because of some kind of conflict. We become judgmental about the motivations and actions of others but we confuse terms.  Discover why it's important to differentiate your values from your morals and how clarifying terms about values will eliminate conflict because of assumptions.     

We often become judgmental about people's motivations when we are in conflict, however, we are often confusing terms in our judgments. In this episode, we're going to look at two of history's most famous figures, and discover the truth about good versus evil and why values don't require judgment.

When we start over in life we question what is important to us. We might not use the word values, but when changing your lifestyle- values are exactly what is being considered. Many people don't know their values and most people have not prioritized them. In this episode, I want to shed some light on why prioritizing personal values is important and give you some tips on how to accomplish it.  

One of the most difficult challenges when starting over in life is caring less what other people think. This podcast examines the issue of caring too much. Five signs indicating a problem, 5 motivations for changing now, and 5 tips for caring less with greater compassion.