
Midyear Wake-Up Call | Part 1
You can hit every goal you set in January and still be running on empty in the parts of your life the list never thought to measure. That's not a failure story. That's a design flaw in the instrument ...
13 Jul 51min

Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say.
Between 10 and 15 percent of mothers and 1 in 4 fathers are currently estranged from a child. If those numbers feel shocking, the harder truth might be this: most of the moves parents instinctively ma...
9 Jul 1h

The Caregiving Conversation Everyone Postpones Until It's Too Late.
Here is something most people never see coming: the hardest part of caring for an aging parent is not the logistics. It is the grief. The grief for who your parent used to be, for the life you thought...
6 Jul 47min

When You Can't Stop Thinking About Something, Here's What To Do. | Donna Jackson Nakazawa
There is something your brain is spinning right now, that you may never have been given a name for or a way out of. The thought you keep replaying. The conversation you keep recasting. The reel that l...
2 Jul 54min

Why More Choices Make You Less Happy | David Epstein
Most of us believe more options equals better outcomes. Research says no. In much of life, the opposite is true, and the gap between what we believe and what the data shows is one of the more quietly ...
29 Jun 1h

The Toll of Generalized Resentment (and What to Do About It)
There is a feeling many people in midlife carry that does not have a name, a clear cause, or anyone to blame. It shows up when you have been the dependable one long enough that dependable starts to fe...
25 Jun 47min

You Spent Years Acting Normal Inside a Life That Never Fit | Sari Botton
Gotta love a good midlife reinvention story, and today we’ve got a great one!Sari Botton built her career editing some of the most celebrated voices in American literary nonfiction. Then, in her mid-5...
22 Jun 54min

The Midlife Muscle Loss Lie: How to Stay Strong at Any Age | Dr. Vonda Wright
According to Dr. Vonda Wright, almost everything we believe about aging and muscle loss is wrong. The research that told you to expect decline was built on populations where 70 percent of participants...
18 Jun 54min




















