How do you know whether what's holding you back is fear, or an invitation to grow? What survival patterns are running your life without you realizing it? Who might you become if you could tell the difference between your patterns and your true self?

In this episode, I sat down with Nicole Lohse to explore a question so many of us wrestle with: Is this fear holding me back, or is this an invitation to grow?

One of the biggest themes we discussed is that getting to know ourselves is a slow process. We aren't born with self-awareness. It unfolds over time, through living, through relationships, and through paying attention.

Nicole talks about how much of her work centers on helping people recognize their survival patterns — the ways we learned to stay safe, manage control, avoid pain, or keep ourselves distracted. These patterns often developed for very good reasons, but over time they can begin to limit us.

Ultimately, this conversation is about listening deeply to ourselves. It's about asking: Is this fear, or is this growth? Is this my history driving the bus, or is this the genuine expression of who I am? And it's about having the grace and patience to let that understanding unfold over time.

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How can you reinvent yourself without starting from zero? Is the work that you are currently doing in sync with your energy and your new goals? Why in our 40s, 50s, and 60s do we often look at our careers and ask, "Is this still aligned?"

In this podcast episode, I talk about career reinvention in midlife not as a crisis, but as a developmental shift. In our 40s, 50s, and 60s, many women begin to feel a deep misalignment between who they are becoming and the work they're doing. After decades of caregiving, providing, multitasking, and overfunctioning for others, something changes. Our values shift. Our energy shifts. And we start asking whether our careers still reflect who we are now.

Midlife isn't about starting over from zero — it's about recalibration. One of the biggest myths holding women back is the belief that they're too old to begin again, that they'd have to start at the bottom, or that leaving would waste their experience. None of that is true. Nothing you've done is wasted. Your experience comes with you. Reinvention isn't about erasing the past — it's about repurposing it.

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What happens when something you once loved no longer fits your life? How often does fear keep you holding on instead of moving forward? Why does uniting your body and mind holistically help you to move through fear with more ease?

In this episode, I sit down with Chris McDonald to talk about fear, transition, and what it really means to keep moving forward when something you once loved no longer fits your life.

Chris shares her decision to step away from producing new episodes of her long-running podcast, Yoga in the Therapy Room. We talk honestly about the mix of grief, relief, and fear that can come with closing a chapter—especially when that project once felt central to your identity.

We also explore how fear often shows up when something starts holding us back rather than helping us grow, and how trusting that something new exists on the other side of letting go can make transitions feel less overwhelming.

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