The Habit Thrive Podcast ~ Self Care Habits, Mindfulness & Wellness Routines for Women 50 & Beyond

What have you done for your heart❤️ lately? Many of you may answer with things like: Changed my diet🥙 Started walking/running/skiing regularly🏃‍♀️ Went to or scheduled an appointment with my doctor for a workup👩‍⚕️ And bravo🥳 for that! These are all wonderful, healthy, physical 💪 heart-health actions. But today, on Episode #87 of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are going to focus on those often-...

Last week on the Habit Thrive Podcast, we kicked off the month of February - and our focus on a month of love❤️ - by talking about self love and one of my favourite strategies: Embracing my Me Now Years.🤗 This is a time in our lives when we prioritize our personal well-being and focus on what makes us happy, content, and fulfilled.🥰 This week on Episode #86, we are going to explore examples of e...

I’ve been coming to you every Saturday for the past 85 weeks to explore the possibilities💬, opportunities🙌 and challenges✋ of navigating your Me Now Years. But have you found yourself asking questions like: “What ARE the Me Now Years?” 🤔 Or “Am I even in my Me Now Years?” 🤷‍♀️ On episode #85 of the Habit Thrive Podcast (and in a few episodes to come), we are going to dive into three aspects o...

What makes you happy?😄 On today’s mini episode of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are wrapping up our January of resting and resetting by reflecting🤔 on the simple things in our day-to-day lives that make us happy. I’m talking about the almost mundane, easy-to-overlook moments. Sipping your coffee on the patio at sunrise☕ Playing with your dog after a long day🐶 Taking a moment each morning to med...

As Habit Thrivers, many of us have spent weeks, months - or even years - on what we think of as “perfecting”👌 our habits and routines. And while it’s true that I believe in finding what works and sticking to it👍, sometimes we just have to step out of our comfort zone a little bit.😬 On vacation During holidays Weekend getaways Work trips Even things like bad weather❄️, power outages💡 and illnes...

Hey there, Lorrie. I am writing this letter to you first thing in the morning, setting our intention and tone for the day. So as you read this at 8pm tonight, you can be proud of yourself for setting an intention and a plan for an awesome day, and you did it! You gave your students great classes today, put together a yummy stew for a couple of days of leftovers. You enjoyed some outdoor time. Some...

Welcome to 2024, Habit Thrivers!🥂 It’s a new year, a new week and a new opportunity to make the most of your habits and routines.🙌 Our theme here on the Habit Thrive Podcast for the month of January is: Rest and Reset.😮‍💨 With the holiday season behind us, the decorations put away (for some, anyway🫣) and a fresh slate ahead👌, now is the time to take a deep breath and bring into focus the goa...

This weekend on the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are waving goodbye👋 to 2023 and opening ourselves up to the possibilities of 2024!🙌 Today, on Episode #80, we will explore the concept of recommitting.💪 Recommitting to our goals, our habits, our routines and - most importantly - ourselves.🥰 Think of it as a way to reach our goals (or resolutions, if you like) by taking small🤏 daily steps. So think...

Happy Holidays, Habit Thrivers!🎄 ‘Tis the season of “Go, Go, Go…”🏃‍♀️ The time where we are shopping, baking, wrapping, decorating, hosting, socializing, etc. Hopefully, as December 25th approaches, you are getting an opportunity to actually slow down😮‍💨 and enjoy this time with friends and family. But if you find yourself zooming from place to place and item to item on your to-do list and per...

Picture this 🤔: It’s Christmas Morning. 🎄 You wake up (without the alarm), slip on your comfiest robe and slide into your fuzzy slippers. Pour yourself a cup of coffee ☕ and ease into your favorite chair. A few hours later, you’ve showered, gone through your skincare routine and dressed. Your family starts arriving at the door, and you greet them with a smile. 😊 Everyone spends the day laughin...

Please enjoy my very first "Mini Habit Practice"✨.  These are short self care practices that can be done anytime, anywhere.  This Loving Kindness Meditation ❤ is beautiful and powerful at anytime but particularly special, helpful and hopeful this time of the year.  I have shared the words of the meditation below so that you can practice with or without the audio.  You will fin...

Admit it, you feel your best after a good nights’ sleep. Me, too!😊 In fact☝️, I am absolutely obsessed with sleep. Now, that doesn’t mean that I’m lazy by any means. (So don’t worry if you, too, enjoy a good sleep.😉) It just means that I appreciate the benefits that a restful sleep brings to my mind, body and spirit!🤗 This time of year - and, honestly, any time that we feel a bit more stress th...

Welcome to the month of December, and welcome to another amazing month on the Habit Thrive Podcast of living Fit, Fearless & Fabulous.💪 Today, on Episode #75, and all the month of December, we are going to be focusing on cultivating ease and flow in our lives. Truly, this is something that we can do any time of year.👍 Because whether you are a mom, a wife, a professional (or all three, whew!...

November is coming to an end, and the ushering in of December means incoming holidays, cooking, cleaning, shopping, to-do lists … whew.😖 Before we dive into all that, here on Episode #74 of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are taking a moment to honour🤗 the end of November. In the hustle and bustle that naturally comes with this time of the year, we have a tendency to rush through😬 from month to mo...

When was the last time you treated yourself to some self care?🤔 Maybe it was a pedicure or a spa day.💅 Maybe it was a cup of coffee☕ on the front porch with the sunrise and sounds of nature. Maybe it was a massage or facial.💆‍♀️ Or maybe you can’t even remember!😟 Today, on Episode #73 of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are talking about three ways to make this month a month of self care.🤗 After...

This month on the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are exploring how the principles of Ayurveda can help us navigate this month and the entire fall season.🍁 Today, on Episode #72, we are going to examine our relationship with our fall food🍽️ choices. As the fall season brings in cooler temperatures🥶, dry air and less sunlight🌥️, we can often be left feeling fatigued, unbalanced or just “off.”🥴 That is...

This weekend marks a new month, with fall in full swing, and a time change when we turn our clocks back tonight.⏰ On episode #71 today - and for the entire month of November - we are focusing on Ayurveda and the self-care habits and routines that can help us navigate this time change as well as the more challenging month of November. Along with the drop in light and dreary, cold weather that Nove...

Why ?🤔 It’s a question we have all been asking since we first learned to talk.👄 Our naturally inquisitive minds🧠 want to know why things are the way they are, why we feel the way we feel and why people do the things they do. This week on Episode #70 of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are using that question to ask why we are grateful.🙏 All this month, we have focused on our gratitude practice, ho...

How many times have you ever been reading a magazine, watching a TV show or movie or even hanging out with a friend and thought🤔 something like: “ Gee, I wish I could be that fit/rich/smart…” Or “I would give anything to have her sense of style…” Or “I sure would like it if my garden could be that big and bountiful…” Me, too.🙋‍♀️ This habit of social comparison is a fairly common one. And today,...

On the Habit Thrive Podcast this month, we are focusing on gratitude and began last week by talking about the habit of our gratitude practice and why it may not be working. Today, on Episode #68, we will explore the profound connection between mindfulness and gratitude and delve into how practicing mindfulness can enhance our ability to experience - and express - gratitude in our daily lives. I ju...

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Canadians!🍁 As we move into this holiday weekend (and a new month), we are going to start focusing on embracing gratitude.🙏 And today, on episode #67 of the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are kicking things off by talking about Three Reasons Why Your Gratitude Practice May Not Be Working.🤔 Sometimes - like around Thanksgiving, when we are around family and frien...

Habit Thriver, I have a question for you ☝️: What do you envision for yourself over the next year? Five years? Ten years? Have you ever really thought about it?🤔 For me, I really started to think about and plan for this in 2009, when I crafted my first vision statement for my life. I knew even then that I wanted to live my life teaching and helping others to be their best selves.💪 And as the yea...

Last week on the Habit Thrive Podcast, we talked about how exercise has a direct link to our happiness.😃 Haven’t you ever noticed🤔 after a walk, hike or bike ride that you feel a rush of endorphins and a spike in your feeling of happiness? Makes sense that we would crave that feeling and be exercising all the time, right? But we don’t!😬 We often find ourselves saying ❌we’re too busy, ❌somethi...

On the Habit Thrive Podcast this month, we are talking about Planning Happiness😁, and today on Episode #63, I want to tell you about a major “aha”☝️ moment I had this past week while on a trip to Utah. Our group went on a water hike🥾 in Zion National Park (A first for me and a check mark✅ off my bucket list!), and at the moment we rounded the bend on the last leg of our hike out, I found myself...

Here on the Habit Thrive Podcast, we are all about making the most out of our habits in order to lead more Fit, Fearless & Fabulous lives.🙌 And today on Episode #63, we’re continuing our month of Planning Happiness by talking about Managing the Mundane to Manifest the Marvelous.💅 Think of some of your daily, automatic habits: Having a cup of coffee in the morning☕️ Taking a bath before bed...