Love Your Life: Love Your Life: Midlife Reinvention, Emotional Regulation, & Parenting

The anxiety sisters are on the show today! Whether you experience anxiety or you know someone who does, this show and conversation will be helpful for you.  Maggie Sarachek and Abbe Greenberg have spent the last 30 years figuring out how to outsmart their anxiety-ridden brains and the last five year sharing what they've learned with listeners like you.   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned i...

I'll bet you've heard the studies about how having less physical clutter around creates feelings of calm, peace, and focus.  Did you know the same can also be said regarding what I call, mental clutter. While we may not think of the thoughts we are thinking in our heads as being clutter, studies show they create mental drain and fatigue. Great news! This week's episode I look at four areas of our...

Let's clear the clutter!  The more clutter we have in our house, the more stress we feel.  Join me for tactical tips to feel better! *Get the FREE DECLUTTER WORKSHEET https://smbwell.com/declutter Studies show when we track our progress we have more progress. Imagine that. Get the sheet to track your progress.   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/...

I have the author of "The Codependent Perfectionist's Guide to Parenting" on the show today! Have you heard of perfectionism? Duh, yes, right? How about codependency? If you haven't heard of it, trust me, you've been involved in it.  Listen in to today's show to see how these two things show up in our lives as women and our lives as a parent. I'm so excited to share our conversation with you!    ...

Overfunctioning leads to burn out, resentment, and stress for the overfunctioner.  For the underfunctioner, it leads to anxiety, low confidence and stress. lose lose. How to shift out? Today I'm sharing two of my best tools and thoughts to help us STOP TODAY!    ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/188 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for...

Hey there!  Yes you! The smart, dedicated woman. The one who knows that over functioning, over parenting, over helping or whatever we want to call it, is  unhelpful in our relationships. We are smart. We have the facts about how over functioning in our relationships is harmful to us and to the people we are trying to help. We know the current paradigm of doing it all is outdated and unhelpful.  We...

Emotional Intelligence: What is it? How can you bring it into your house and your relationships in a way that really helps you? Listen in to this episode with EI expert Kerstin Kirchsteiger. She taught emotional intelligence to corporations and now helps women use it to bring ease to their everyday lives!   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/186...

Codependency is modeled in our movies, taught in our educational systems, and passed down like fine china in family lines.  Codependency is harmful, hurtful, and destructive.  Children raised in codependent houses have more anxiety and lower confidence. Adults and parents practicing codependency (my hand is raised here) feel more stress, frustration, and overwhelm. It is a big lose lose for everyo...

Here it is!  Part two of how not to be annoyed by the people you love. Sound impossible? It's not!  I used to be annoyed by so many people and these things helped me 100%. Listen in and then share with me which one you'll try this week.   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/184 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http:/...

Hot Tips Today!  How to not be annoyed by the man you love!  TRUTH!  These are my favorite relationship tools and they work!  Just in time for Valentine's Day!   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/183 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http://theLoveYourLifeSchool.com ⭐️Did you love this episode? Make sure you've lis...

Have you heard Einstein's quote: "We can not solve our problems with the same thinking that created them"? Along the same lines is his definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result" Truth time: We do this all the time!  Our brain is wired to look to the past as evidence of what our future can hold. We use our past to help us give up and play small.   List...

Raise your hand if you've ever thought one of these thoughts about other people's opinions: -What will people think? -How will they react? -I wonder what people will say? -What will people think about me?  I know I raised my hand!!  Frustration and regret is born from paying too much attention to the wrong people's opinions of us.  Listen in because today I detail the three biggest groups of dream...

Ever wondered if you were an emotional eater?  Or, lol, is there no wondering about it....you're quite sure? Tune in to this week's episode with Tricia Nelson. She is an expert on emotional eating and shares tips and tools with us today on how to stop.  Some of the things I learned today: -What people pleasing has to do with emotional eaters -Why Over-feelers are often over-eaters -How to use her...

Think back over your life:  How much time do you think you've spent thinking about your weight, what you're going to eat, or how you look? Can you imagine what we could've created or accomplished if our brain had been directed differently? It's time for a shift.   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/179 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open f...

Have you ever wondered if something was wrong with you that you couldn't keep your resolutions? Or have you found yourself criticizing yourself and your failed goals? Telling yourself you didn't try hard enough or weren't motivated enough? Please listen in because that's flat out not the truth.  I see you.  It's not about trying harder. You're trying.  It's just we weren't taught the first step in...

What's holding you back from having your best year yet? Often it's our pesky primitive brain.  Excuses.  Limiting beliefs.  Looking to our past to prevent our best future. Luckily Coach Susie believes in you (and knows how to override that pesky primitive brain) Listen in and let's go get it! 🔹   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/177 ⭐️See if t...

Ever since I stopped setting resolutions and started choosing a word of the year, my life has felt a sh*t ton better. Coincidence? Nope. I know enough about human behavior, neuroplasticity, positive psychology, and having a growth mindset to know otherwise.  Grab your free worksheet (https://www.smbwell.com/word ) choose your word and prepare yourself to feel better in 2022 also!!      ⭐️Find all...

Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is passionate about helping us navigate what gets in our way of us living our best life. Perfect for this show, ey? She is the best selling author of the book How To Raise an Adult and in today's conversation we dive into it all! Why we overparent (and when we started), what overparenting does to our kids, how we can equip our kids and ourselves to be th...

Parenting is never easy. In fact, I sometimes refer to it as the biggest self development class on steroids. Right now, it's really not easy. We parents can find a lot to worry about and our kids are feeling a lot of discomfort. Join me on the show today as I revisit the five pillars of parenting. These five pillars of parenting provide a supportive framework as we consciously and mindfully parent...

Want to build your CONFIDENCE? Listen in to today's episode as I share a tool that helps me take tactical action to build my confidence (and to make sure I'm not inadvertently depleting my confidence) As my listeners have told me, they love lists! There's a list here! Top 10 ways we deplete our confidence and our confidence bucket. Listen in and choose to change one way today! (BONUS STARS if you...

Have you heard of the Law of Attraction but are not quite sure how it can help you in your life? Or, maybe you watched the movie the SECRET, tried a couple of things to no avail and have written it off as woowoo garbage and are back to living in the same old way...  Or maybe you're like, Law of What?  No matter where you are, today's a great episode to listen in to as I have Tara Chatzakis on the...

One of the simplest ways to feel less resentment and pissy in relationships is to learn about the love languages.  It's also hugely helpful to know as we move into the HOLIDAY SEASON! Listen in because I give you a quick and potent overview today so, after you've listened, you are primed to feel better in your relationships AND SAVE ENERGY! (once I learned what my kids and my spouses love language...

Have you heard of drift? Defined as the continuous slow motion from one place to another? Also defines as being carried slowly by current of wind or water? Guess what? When it comes to life we can drift and live as if carried by others' currents and move from one place to another without much thought. As I'm sure you can imagine, this does not equate to life satisfaction or feeling like a life wel...

When I feel overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious, I just want to feel more in control.  Well guess what? These last two years have really been a test as there's been a lot out of our control. Duh that we feel more anxious, stressed, or flat out exhausted.  Listen in, dear one. I made this episode just for you. These are the three things I do to help me feel more in control and I want to talk about th...

How aware are you of what the other people in your life like, enjoy, or want?  How aware are you of what you like, enjoy or want? Gulp! I know I'm a life coach and all but true confession time: Up until recently, not only was I much more aware of what others liked and preferred, they had no clue what I liked or preferred.  For two very big reasons: 1) I didn't tell them 2) I didn't know! Huh....no...