Transitioning at Midlife—replay
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What does it mean to finally live as your true self—after decades of hiding? In this powerful episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Wendy Cole, a transgender woman who transitioned at the age of 67. Wendy shares her deeply personal journey, from knowing she was a girl at a young age to navigating a lifetime of societal expectations and denial. Together, they explore the emotional and spiritual impact of living inauthentically, the inner strength required to claim your truth later in life, and the healing that comes from being seen and accepted as you are. The...
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Coming Out and Making Major Changes at Midlife
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What does it take to walk away from the life you’ve known in order to live more authentically? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush (licensed therapist and soul support for highly sensitive women) talks with Suzette Mullen, author of The Only Way Through Is Out. After decades of marriage and raising two sons, Suzette came out in midlife—a shift sparked through the process of writing her memoir. Together, they explore what it means to find your voice, take agency over your life, and follow a path that aligns with your truth, even when it feels scary or uncertain....
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Building a Highly Sensitive Community
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If you crave authentic connections with other highly sensitive women, listen to this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast as host Elizabeth Cush talks about building and sustaining a supportive community. “It's amazing to me that the space can hold women who have never met before, and they come away from it feeling as if deep connections were made.” — Biz Cush Few things in life feel as wonderful as connecting with someone who really gets you. It can feel comforting, validating and exhilarating all at once. But for highly sensitive women, it can be difficult to...
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Holistic Women’s Sensitive Wisdom
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Have you fallen out of touch with the Earth? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Corinna Wood, a visionary teacher of women’s wisdom and a trailblazer in the holistic healing community, for a talk about sensitive, women-centered tools for inner growth and healing. “Grounding into our needs is such a rooted way of being, and I think it is really important, especially today, and especially with highly sensitive women.” — Corinna Wood We live inside. We work inside. We spend our time on computers, phones and other devices. All that may...
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Managing Toxic Relationships
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What can you do if your family relationships are toxic? Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes psychotherapist Sharon Martin for a discussion on sensitive women cutting family ties so you can heal. “Being angry is very both natural and helpful in a situation. When you have been mistreated, you should feel angry about that.” — Sharon Martin Highly sensitive persons can have a hard time letting go of harmful relationships. When those toxic relationships involve parents or other family members, cutting ties can be especially painful. Between...
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How to Drive Social Justice in Your Community
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If you’re starting to feel discouraged, take heart! Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes former Congresswoman Marie Newman for a talk about community activism and making an impact. “We need to mend and heal this country, and the way we do that is by telling our stories.” — Marie Newman. From bullying to racial discrimination to threatening LGBTQ rights, it seems like we have so much to be concerned about these days. With so many issues, it can feel overwhelming to think about trying to make a difference. Faced with all this,...
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Highly Sensitive Women: Healing Childhood Wounds
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Highly sensitive women may feel childhood wounds deeply. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush talks about how your parts help protect you and how you can heal. “We're learning to build a compassionate, kind loving relationship with ourself. Through that process, all parts of us learn to trust us.” — Biz Cush Not all childhood wounds are physical. If we didn’t get our emotional needs met when we were young, we can carry those hurts with us well into adulthood. We can feel the impact of those childhood traumas on both our physical and mental...
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Featured guest on the Autoimmune Campfire podcast
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In this bonus episode, Elizabeth Cush joins Nona Jordan, and Helen Mullen to talk about autoimmune disease, stress, inflammation, and our parts that get activated aropund illness and healing. You can find more episode of the , or wherever you listen to podcasts. .
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Functional Medicine for Sensitive Women
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If you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women. “Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.” — Andrea Nakayama Listen and learn: Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them The three...
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Reclaim Your Femininity and Find Satisfaction
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Lately it seems like women’s equality is farther away than ever? Don’t despair! Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes author Alanna Kaivalya for an inspiring discussion about finding your feminine power. “For feminine women, we want inclusion, we want community, we want collaboration.” — Alanna Kaivalya You’ve probably heard the saying, “It’s a man’s world.” It’s true that our culture is still dominated by traditional masculine values, which can shape our views of what success is and how to achieve it. But what if we want...
info_outlineHow do you find the courage to walk away from the life you’ve known for decades to follow your heart? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman that’s the question host Elizabeth Cush asks author Suzette Mullen, who came out in midlife.
“Can I trust the voice? What is the voice saying to me? And do I have the courage to act on what I’m hearing?”
— Suzette Mullen
Writing a memoir can provide a way to look back and better understand your life. But what happens when the process opens the door to life-changing insights? Would you be open to changing your path? What would it take to do that? Is it even possible? For some, it’s not only possible, but positively freeing. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Suzette Mullen, memoir and nonfiction book coach, retreat leader and author of The Only Way Through Is Out, which chronicles her coming out in midlife after decades of marriage. They talk about women’s struggles around identity, courage and agency. They also discuss some of things that can keep us from making major life changes, especially as we get older, what we can do to support us in living more authentically—and why it’s all so worthwhile.
Find the full show notes and links for this and every episode here- https://www.elizabethcushcoaching.com/awaken-your-wise-woman-podcast
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Suzette Mullen’s Your Story Finder website
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Suzette Mullen on LinkedIn
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Your Story Finder community on Facebook
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Suzette Mullen, Author page on Facebook
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The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen