Why Accepting Reality Brings More Peace (Even When It’s Hard)
In this episode of Midlife with Brooke, we talk about a simple idea that can feel surprisingly hard to live: accepting reality.So often, we don’t realize we’re resisting what’s actually happening. We ...
13 Apr 22min
Why Your Kids Don’t Text You Back (And What to Do About It)
Episode SummaryYou send a text… and then you wait.Maybe it’s been a few hours. Maybe a few days. And before long, your mind starts filling in the gaps.In this episode, I talk about why it feels so per...
6 Apr 22min
All or Nothing Thinking and How to Come Back to Center
So much of our stress and disconnection comes from one pattern: all-or-nothing thinking.This is when your brain offers you two extreme options—always or never, success or failure, all in or checked ou...
30 Mar 10min
Conversations with My Kids: Women and Leadership in the Church with Ben Austin
In this episode, I continue my conversation with my son Ben about women, leadership, and feeling heard in the Church.This conversation is an invitation to better understand how our kids experience the...
23 Mar 41min
The Love Story I Almost Missed: How Our 30-Year Marriage Began
In this special anniversary episode, Tom and I sit down with our daughter Kaitlyn to share the story of how we met, became friends, and eventually fell in love.What began as a fun friendship slowly gr...
18 Mar 41min
All things Menopause with NP Angela Jones
In this episode, I’m joined by Angela Jones, a nurse practitioner who specializes in women’s health and menopause care. We talk about perimenopause, menopause, hormones, sleep, bone health, weight cha...
9 Mar 58min
Am I Safe? Three Steps to Calm Your Nervous System (with Leah Davidson)
In today’s episode, Brooke sits down with Leah Davidson (Toronto-based speech language pathologist and nervous system educator) for a practical, hope-filled conversation about nervous system regulatio...
2 Mar 55min
They Don't Have a Frame of Reference Yet
Episode Highlights (Quick Notes)Why your young adult may not “get it” yet — and why that’s normalWhat a frame of reference actually means (and how it shapes every reaction)The college airport goodbye ...
23 Feb 18min
