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

If I could give you a magic wand to change one area of your life, what would you change? Great news warrior! I am giving you that magic wand at the end of this post. I kid you not. Change in any area of your life is possible. Even better news? It's simple. Two steps. Listen in to hear more and go to the show notes for your magic wand!      ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show note...

Think of your brain like that car radio. How aware are you of the station you're tuned in to? How often do you stop to pay attention to which songs are playing? Most of us can agree music affects our mood - you can play calming music to feel calmer, you can play upbeat music to feel more upbeat etc…  Take that a step further to understand and accept that the thoughts we have running in our head ar...

It seems easier to blame. Blaming others feels justified. Blaming someone or something for what's happening in your life seems easier. Yet... It doesn't feel better. Blaming others for why we feel how we feel or why our life is as it is leads us to feeling out of control and anxious. It leads us to trying to control things outside of our influence: other people and their actions.. Two simple thing...

I bring back a favorite podcast guest this week to tackle fear, worry, and life. Yes warriors, we dig into it all. We dig into how fear and anxiety affect our wellness and mental health. We look at how our desire to control what we can't adds stress to our systems. impacts our days and influences our family life. Don't worry though. As two women who have dedicated our lives to helping women, we do...

What do you do to help your mental health? What sort of routine do you have in place to strengthen your mental fitness? Do you know what sort of things you're doing that harms your mental health?     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/88 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http://theLoveYourLifeSchool.com ⭐️Did you lo...

The universe has put us into a sort of forced reflection period. It has peeled back the layers of fluff in our life to expose certain things. This presents an opportunity. Will you take it?     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/87 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http://theLoveYourLifeSchool.com ⭐️Did you love thi...

For those of us who have experienced anxiety, we know it can be crippling, cause insomnia, lead to scary medical diagnoses, tear apart relationships, and much more.  When we let anxiety lead, it certainly does not lend itself to living a life we love! Stephanie Dalfonzo has spent the last 20 years of her life researching and studying anxiety and joins me on the show today.   In today's episode, an...

Each and every moment of every day we have a choice. A choice to go high or go low. A choice to rise up of sink down. Some moments, I've gone high. In other moments I've gone low. This is a special episode addressing our ability to be our best self while layering in the current situation with the coronavirus. Let's go humans. I believe in us! Psst: You matter to me. We've got this     ⭐️Find all...

You've heard me say, time and time again, life is not always full of rainbows and daisies.  Yet, there are rainbows and daisies right?  When you come across a garden full of daisies, do you see the bright colors of the flowers, reaching up for the sun?  Or do you see the patches of dirt or weeds between the flowers? Life is full of contrast.  It all comes down to what we choose to focus on. Join m...

Why don't we do what we want to do? Finish what we start? Keep our word to ourself? Listen in to learn why putting in the effort to form daily habits will have long term benefits. Bonus is I share my two favorite habit forming tools!     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here:  https://smbwell.com/83 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http://...

Whenever I'm on vacation, I find myself reflecting on where I am, where I've been and where I'm going. This visit was no different and one day found myself openly sobbing on the beach while lifting my arms in the air in gratitude and praise. I got out my phone and recorded this podcast.  Please pop this quick episode in your ears and join me in reflecting on the beach. We are given this one, preci...

Here they are! This week I share my favorite relationship tools that help me and my clients move towards satisfying and soul-filling connection. Relationships are complex and multilayered.  They go through seasons and they require different skills at different times.  Here is a sampling of the best tools to keep your love fresh and growing.    ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show...

Four years ago, a man halfway around the world wrote a simple comment on an online review that changed both of our lives. Today we tell the story. Please note, it is a story that involves big issues: alcoholism, sexual abuse, physical abuse, parental neglect, financial hardship, and childhood trauma. It is also a story that involves hope, resiliency, new beginnings, and is a testament to our abili...

There is no other relationship that affects your wellness more than the relationship you have with yourself. If you don't like yourself, you're less likely to feed yourself food that nourishes and brings joy to your body. If you don't speak kindly to yourself, you allow others to speak unkindly to you. If you don't think your needs are important (or at least as important as those around you), you'...

The difference between people who achieve their goals and those that quit lies in something called massive action.  This concept has changed how I view most aspects of my life: my work, my relationship with my kids, my relationship with my spouse, my health, my finances...you name it.  Listen in as I explain what massive action is and how understanding it will help you.     ⭐️Find all links and r...

Interested in Aging in REVERSE? How about having less brain fog, fatigue, or weight gain? LISTEN IN! Natalie Jill has been recognized by Forbes and Greatest as one of the top health and wellness influencers in the world! Her latest book and research is what I'm so excited to bring to you warriors this week.   Listen in as we discuss: -How to age in reverse (the title of her book that I'm giving aw...

If you're anything like me, you've spent enough of your life judging and criticizing yourself.  Life is difficult.  We make mistakes.  As I've aged, I have come to discover a more accepting and peaceful way to live life.  I dive into it on this week's podcast.      ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/76 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open f...

Warriors, there is so much more to life than our weight. Yet, if you're anything like the average woman, you've spent years of your life thinking about your weight and your body. I don't have many regrets in life yet boy do I regret the amount of time I've spent thinking negatively about my body. I deeply regret the years that I linked my worth to my physical appearance. It's time to change. The f...

Where are you going warrior? It's a new month; a new year; a new decade. Life is all about living and learning.  About looking back before moving forward.  If we skip the "look back and reflect" step, we keep recreating the same reality over and over again.  Join me as I lead you through some questions that will set you up for your best month, year, and decade.  We have this one life warriors. Let...

Are you a resolution maker? This post is for you. I used to take resolution making very seriously. Do you know the problem with that? Resolutions focus on what you're doing wrong and what you need to do better. They are very black and white. You either do them or you don't. Four years ago something in me said "ENOUGH". I chose a word of the year instead. My life has never been better.  Listen in,...

How about this gift for you? The gift of permission to take care of yourself. Yep. You heard me right! And I have another wellness coach on the show this week to back me up! Karen Salinas is a national board certified health and wellness coach and founder of Rebalance Wellbeing. Before starting her coaching practice, Karen was a work-life professional in the Johns Hopkins Office of Work, Life, and...

This is a post for all the optimists out there. All of us who think people will do what we would do. All of us who think people will behave as we would behave. All of us who feel disappointment when they don't. All of us who think "this time it will be different".... And then it isn't. Listen in.     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here:  https://smbwell.com/71 ⭐️See i...

Pause to think back to the reality of what your past holidays have been like. Merry and bright? Or not quite. How have you felt December 26th?  Reality is a tough teacher. What I have found is that I felt disappointed, exhausted, strung out, and frankly, thrilled the whole damn thing was over. Not quite merry and bright.  I have three simple steps for you that can help you start to shift out of yo...

How many classes did you take on communication? How much do you know about how stress and blame affect our relationships? How about those three foundations of Effective Communication? Lol right? We were never taught this in school YET...the ability to communicate with those we care about is the foundation of deep and connected relationships.  Why does that matter? Our relationships form the base f...

Relationships are a necessary piece of our human existence.  From the moment we are born, we strive to connect and attach with the other beings in our lives. In order to have deep connected relationships we get to have deep connected conversations with those we're in relationship with. In thriving relationships, you'll have plenty of opportunities for deep or difficult conversations and this is a...