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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
Release Date: 09/03/2025
Three Gen X Blind Spots That Hurt Our Relationships and How to Heal Them
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
Do you consider yourself GenX? Do you know someone who was born between 1965-1980? Don’t miss this episode inspired by a TikTok on “The Top GenX Blindspots”. Whoa! For me, and many midlife women, these are things we learned to do to survive in a system where our emotional and mental needs weren’t met. We were pretty ingenious actually, one might even say, warrior like! Yet, as adults, these adaptive, protective strategies become maladaptive and hurt us and our relationships. Join me as I explain how the way we were raised might be quietly sabotaging our emotional wellbeing...
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Avoid these Conversation Traps: Your Communication Fresh Start
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
Anyone else out there tired? Emotionally exhausted? Ready to try something new for 2026? This is the episode for you. 💗 I sat down with Dr. Shonda Allen Hill to talk about the subtle “conversation traps” so many midlife women fall into without realizing it. If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation feeling drained, irritated, or like you just lost thirty minutes of your life you’ll never get back, click play. 🤓 These traps steal our time, amp up our stress, and keep us stuck in cycles of over-explaining, defending, and managing everyone else’s emotions. Dr. Hill breaks...
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EFT Tapping for Anxiety
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
This is the episode you’ve been asking for! When you next feel overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or over. it. all….Before booking a one-way ticket to anywhere but here, press play and tap along with me. In this episode of the Love Your Life Show, I walk you through a full guided EFT tapping session. This is the exact practice I use when my emotions feel too big, when my anxiety hits a ten out of ten, or when life feels heavier than I want it to. EFT tapping blends Chinese acupressure with modern psychology and is known for helping with anxiety, stress, fear, sleep...
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How to Stop Feeling Resentful in Marriage and Motherhood with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
If you’ve ever found yourself feeling resentful, irritated, or annoyed as a mom, wife, or friend, you don’t want to miss this episode. Learning from Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife has helped me so much as a mom, through my divorce and into my now healthy, more mature marriage, my friendships, and my relationship with myself. I can not recommend her work highly enough. Please gift yourself a listen to today’s episode. Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and I talk about why resentment shows up in marriage and motherhood and how to use it as a path toward self-understanding and...
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The Year You Let It Be Easy
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
The Year You Let It Be Easy What if your best year yet didn’t require more effort but less struggle? In this episode, I invite you to imagine a year that feels light, free, and full of possibility. Together we’ll look at how to stop overworking, overthinking, and over-caring so you can start creating a life that actually feels like yours. ✨ In this episode, you’ll learn: - how to think intentionally about your future without pressure or hustle - why your thoughts, not your to-do list, shape your next year - a simple three-step process to create momentum and ease - how to reconnect with...
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A Walk, a Wake-Up Call, and How to Choose Your Word of the Year
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
Whoa warriors, this episode wasn’t planned. It started on a walk. One small moment after another, until something landed so clearly that I stopped short, pulled out my phone, and hit record. In this short bonus episode, I share a more personal side of my own life and what that walk stirred up for me in real time. It’s reflective, honest, and a little different than my usual episodes. Then, I bring you the heart of a listener-favorite teaching and walk you through how to choose your word of the year in a way that actually feels supportive instead of...
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How to Break Free from the Habit of Solving Other People’s Problems
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
Are you tired of being the one who holds everything and everyone together? If you’re the go-to problem solver, the one who jumps in to “help” before anyone even asks, this episode will feel like a deep exhale. 💛 This week, I’m joined by psychotherapist and author Leah Marone, whose new book Serial Fixer explores why so many of us over-function, over-accommodate, and lose ourselves in relationships. Together, we unpack what drives our urge to fix and how to finally stop. 💬 Join us as we talk about: The difference between helping and fixing (and why...
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3 Gifts for Your Loved Ones They'll Remember Far Beyond the New Year
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
This holiday season, skip the stress of finding the “perfect” gift. Time and time again, I’ve found that these three gifts last far longer than any new xbox game, fancy watch, or clothing item my teen or spouse wants. I made this week’s Love Your Life Show episode to quickly share three things you can give your loved ones that will mean far more than anything you can buy. I think you’ll like my ideas, especially when you listen in to hear how they work in real life! Click play to learn simple ways to: ✨ Shift your focus to what’s good in your spouse and...
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The One-Minute Holiday Reset: Feel Better, Not Behind
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
The holidays can bring joy AND… stress. Between the parties, the pressure, and the people-pleasing, it’s easy to slip into that “F it” mindset with our wellness and mental health habits. Which is why many of us, myself included, get to January feeling down on ourselves and/or like our wellness is broken and we need massive change. Now. Dammit. And yet, we know that mindset doesn’t work. Did you know that more than 90% of people quit their new years resolutions before 20 days have passed?! By January 17th! This year and in this episode of the Love Your Life Show, I’m...
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Feeling Drained by Relationships? 3 Tools That Work!
Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms
Do you ever feel drained or tired after your interactions with others in your life? Like maybe your spouse or teen but also with a parent, sibling, coworker or friend? Please know, this is totally normal. We weren’t taught skillful relationship tools and so it makes sense that we’ll feel more reactive, resentful, or heavy after certain interactions. The great news is that we can learn these skills! In fact, I’ve found that there are some very simple things I’ve learned that make all the difference for me in how I feel in my relationships. Even better news? I share three simple ones...
info_outlineDo you ever feel like people tune out when you're trying to help? You’re listening, offering advice, maybe even sharing your own story…but somehow, they shut down?
In this episode, I break down the powerful communication skill of active listening. It’s a simple, often overlooked tool that deepens connection and builds trust in your relationships.
Whether you’re a parent, a partner, or a leader, learning how to listen without fixing can transform how others respond to you. I will walk you through the four essential steps of active listening in relationships, how to recognize the type of conversation you're in (thanks Charles Duhigg!), and why your good intentions might be missing the mark.
If you want to improve communication, connect more deeply with your kids, or stop feeling like you’re doing all the talking and none of the bonding, this episode is for you.
You’ll leave with tools you can use today to feel more confident, calm, and connected in the moments that matter most.
If you liked this show, you’ll like this one:
Communication Tool: Less Drama, More Connection on Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/communication-tool-less-drama-more-connection/id1434429161?i=1000658725819
Communication Tool: Less Drama, More Connection on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/4t8QgA2UAiFkB9a9XrZszU?si=7877a605f3f34350
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