Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife Women

By July, many women look back at their January goals and see unfinished plans, forgotten vision boards, and dreams that seem farther away than ever. But what if the middle of the year isn't a report card? What if it's halftime? In this episode of Getting to After, confidence coach Chatone Morrison and co-host Morganne Bustos explore why the best coaches don't spend halftime criticizing...

Summer has a way of making even the most accomplished women question themselves. As the sleeves disappear, the swimsuits come out, and the cameras start clicking, old stories about our bodies can suddenly feel louder than they've been in months. But what if this summer could be different? In the final episode of our 2026 Body Confidence Series, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos invite you t...

What if some of the things you believe about your body aren't actually true anymore? Many women carry stories about themselves for years. Stories formed from comments, comparisons, criticism, difficult experiences, or seasons of life that have long since passed. The problem is that after a while, those stories can start to sound like facts. In Week 3 of our Body Confidence Month series, Chaton...

What has body criticism cost you? For many women, it isn't just confidence. **It's the picture you didn't take. **The trip you didn't fully enjoy. **The outfit that stayed in the closet. **The invitation you declined. **It's the moments you sat out while waiting to feel better about your body. In this second episode of the Getting to After Body Confidence series for 2026, Chato...

Nobody is born hating their body. Nobody is born believing they aren't enough. So where did those beliefs come from? This week on Getting to After, we're beginning our June Body Confidence Series with a question that changed the entire conversation: How did we learn to distrust our bodies? In this episode, Chatone and Morganne explore the early experiences that shape the way women see them...

In this heartfelt conversation, Chatone and Morganne explore what it means to allow good things into your life after difficult experiences. They discuss healing, healthy boundaries, self-trust, and the challenge of receiving joy when survival mode has been familiar for far too long. Together they explore: • Allowing good things after hard seasons • Moving forward without guilt • Trusting yourself...

Ever wonder about the seasons in life where difficult things arrive at your doorstep in bunches and accumulate in quiet whispers? Work stress. Family tension. Financial pressure. Changes in the body. Relationship shifts. Watching people we love make painful decisions while trying to keep functioning through our own emotions. In this solo episode of Getting to After, Chatone Morrison explores what...

In this episode of Getting to After, Chatone and Morganne explore what happens when midlife women make decisions that bring them peace… even when the people around them don’t understand. From career changes and relationship shifts to personal boundaries, family dynamics, and major life resets, this conversation centers on the emotional weight of choosing yourself while navigating opinions, guilt,...

This week on Getting to After, we’re talking about something that can be easy to forget unless we truly pay attention: What we carry from our mothers. (Trust us...we forget too!) It's not just who they are now, but who they were when we were growing up…and how their choices, their beliefs, and even their attempts to help us shaped the way we care for ourselves today. In this episode, we share...

What if reset didn’t mean fixing everything… or starting over all at once? In this episode of Getting to After, we’re introducing our Spring 2026 magazine and the theme we chose: Reset. We’re talking about reset in a way that fits midlife. Thoughtful, paced, and connected to what you actually need. Inside this conversation, we explore: - Why “reset” can feel heavy and discouraging - A different wa...

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, mentally exhausted, or just not like yourself lately… this episode is for you. In this week’s Getting to After, we’re continuing the conversation from last week’s episode, “When You Feel Fried by 4PM,” and going a step deeper. We’re naming three of the most common stressors midlife women are carrying right now and how they quietly build throughout the day withou...

Before you pick up your phone again… ask yourself: 👉 “Why am I picking this up?” That one question can change everything. If you feel completely drained by 4PM… this might not be about your hormones. In this solo episode of Getting to After, Chatone Morrison discusses something many midlife women are quietly experiencing: mental overload from constant input—phones, tabs, conversations, responsibi...

What happens when your children still need you… just not in the same way? In this episode of Getting to After, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos explore the quiet shift of midlife motherhood. The one that doesn’t come with an announcement. The one where you’re still Mom… but everything feels different. We talk about: – What support looks like when your kids become young adults – The emotional s...

If the beginning of the year didn’t go the way you planned… this episode is for you. In this week’s Getting to After, we’re talking about something many midlife women quietly carry: the weight of what didn’t happen. The goals you didn’t complete. The promises you made to yourself. The pressure that followed you into April. And instead of pushing harder or pretending it doesn’t matter…we’re doing s...

What does it actually feel like to become the woman you are now? Not the version you planned. Not the version you thought you’d be. But the woman you actually are today. In this final episode of Women’s History Month, Morganne and I just… talked. About what’s changing. What we didn’t expect. What we miss. And what feels more free than we thought it would. This isn’t a lesson. It’s a conversation....

In this episode of Getting to After, we explore what it really means for midlife women to change history—not through big public moments, but through everyday decisions, quiet courage, and learning to use your voice. Because the truth is, the moments that shift a family don’t always happen on a stage… they happen in kitchens, in conversations, and in the choices women make when they decide they can...

What happens when the apology never comes… and you’re the one who still has to find peace? Most of us can remember a moment when something important happened in a relationship… and the repair we expected never came. In this solo episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison reflects on the quiet emotional weight of waiting for an apology that never arrives. For many midlife women, unresolved mom...

Many women quietly carry the same question:  Am I enough? In this special  tap-along episode for Women’s History Month , Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos guide you through a gentle EFT tapping session designed to release the quiet thoughts that question our  capability, capacity, and confidence . Together we explore three common places where self-doubt shows up for midlife women: • wondering i...

Has your dominant love language shifted in midlife? In this episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos revisit the Five Love Languages framework and explore an important question: What if the way you feel loved has evolved? Because what felt nourishing at 30 may not feel the same at 45. In this conversation, we explore: • How life stages can shift emotional needs • Why mid...

Why do so many midlife women feel responsible for everything? In this episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos explore over-responsibility in midlife — the emotional pressure to manage, anticipate, fix, and hold things together for everyone else. For many women over 40, being the capable one became a survival strategy. But over time, that pattern can quietly turn into mi...

Midlife identity shifts are real. In this episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos explore what it means to grow, change, and redefine yourself in midlife. This is a conversational, unscripted episode where we answer questions about: • Midlife identity and becoming • Boundaries and personal growth • What midlife women are tired of carrying alone • Why we focus on women 4...

If affirmations worked the way we were told they would, most midlife women wouldn’t still feel stuck. In this episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos explore why traditional affirmations often stop working in midlife and how the nervous system responds when language feels forced, premature, or unsafe. You’ll learn why repeating phrases like “I am confident” or “I trust...

In this episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos talk about one of the most common midlife experiences that’s hard to explain — and even harder to say out loud. When you don’t feel like yourself. Not sick. Not in crisis. Not falling apart. Just… off. This episode is a gentle space for the woman who’s been carrying on quietly, while something in her body keeps whispering,...

This episode is for the woman who feels everything — the mood in the room, the tension behind a smile, the weight people don’t say out loud. In this solo episode of  Getting to After , Chatone Morrison explores what it means to have thin energetic boundaries, especially in midlife, when your nervous system has already carried decades of responsibility, caregiving, leadership, and emotional labor....

This week’s episode of  Getting to After  is intentionally slower. If you’ve been holding a lot — emotionally, mentally, quietly — this episode offers a place to soften that grip without needing to fix anything. For many midlife women, the pressure to keep going doesn’t come from urgency, but from habit. And over time, that pressure adds up. In this episode, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos in...