It’s natural to assume that the term “thought work” means just that. It’s easy to fall into the trap of approaching thought work literally and reductively to mean solely working with your thoughts, essentially treating it as a forced thought swap without taking into consideration other factors that are part and parcel of the framework.
To declare that your life is over in midlife is just a mindset that’s going to negatively contribute to you feeling old or out of the loop. There are incredible things we can look forward to and celebrate about aging, and to discuss the myths of women in midlife and how we can begin unwinding the stereotypes, I’m sitting down with three of my ACFC students, Karen Anderson, Elizabeth Sherman, and Jill Angie.
’m sitting down with Lindsay Poelman, my student who has just gone through ACFC, and her husband Danny Poelman, my potential future student who may be joining ACFC in our next cohort. We’re talking about patriarchy in two ways: what it’s like for a man to recognize their own patriarchal socialization, and the negative impacts of patriarchy on men.
This week, I’m going to be answering questions I’ve gotten on social media lately. These questions were mostly from other coaches, but whether you’re a life coach yourself or not, I guarantee you’ll find some gems here that you’ll be able to apply to your life.
If you’re someone who has accomplished many things in your life up to this point, like having gone to college, graduate school, landing your dream job, or a promotion, but in the back of your mind think, “Yeah but those things don’t count,” and often find yourself consulting experts to be the authority in your life, this episode is for you.
Today’s topic is one that any human with a body has experienced. Whether it’s a daily occurrence or a more occasional one for you, we all go through this complex paradox of wanting our bodies to follow a manual we have for it. In other words, we freak out when our bodies behave in a way we wish they didn’t.