When was the last time you gave yourself permission to let go of urgency and stop trying to fix yourself?

So many women move through midlife carrying the exhausting belief that they should already have it all figured out. That they should be more healed, more disciplined, more confident, or further along than they are.

That constant pressure steals our freedom, joy, and peace.

In this episode, I'm sharing one of the most important messages at the heart of my work: there is no finish line. You are not behind, and you don't need to become someone else before you can fully live your life.

I'll share honestly about my own journey with anxiety, depression, perfectionism, grief, and fear, and why learning to question my thoughts, let go of shame, and practice self-compassion has changed my life.

You'll also learn the simple framework I return to again and again:

Look Back. Look Forward. Live Present.

When we learn to mine our past for wisdom, hold a hopeful vision for the future, and come back to the choices available today, we build deep self-trust and create lives rooted in freedom instead of fear.

✨ Why the belief that you need to fix yourself keeps you trapped in shame and urgency

✨ The difference between managing your struggles and believing they define you

✨ How to question the thoughts that quietly shape your life

✨ Why self-trust is built through thousands of small, everyday choices

✨ How looking back helps you uncover your wisdom, strengths, and resilience

✨ Why looking forward creates hope without comparing yourself to an imaginary future version of you

✨ A simple daily practice that helps you live with more freedom, health, joy, and self-compassion

You don't have to wait until you're more healed, more confident, or more certain to begin living fully.

There is no race.

There is no finish line.

There is only today's commitment to the messy practice of becoming... and you don't have to walk it alone.

Resources

Join me inside the Brave + Beautiful Community (for growth-minded midlife women): https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/community/

Watch the replay of the Get to Know Yourself Workshop: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/get-to-know-yourself/

You get to keep writing your story. You have the privilege and the responsibility to take ownership for who you are being and what you truly want for your life.

I want to keep growing in freedom and I want to help you do the same.

This includes making the conscious choice to "live forward" and "thrive forward" in each new season.

In this episode I'm sharing a short clip from my Get to Know Yourself Workshop.

A few key takeaways from this clip:

1. Your past does not define you. You're still becoming. Your life is still unfolding. You get to keep choosing for yourself.
2. You can't grow forward while living one foot in the past, or while holding tightly to a past season of your life or to who you used to be.
3. You have blind spots and defense mechanisms that make it hard for you to see through the story you're living. This is why having support is so important. An outside observer, someone to witness, gently challenge, and reflect truth back to you.
4. Just because a thought/judgment/expectation is offered to you, or someone hands you something, doesn't mean you to have receive it, believe it, or reinforce it. And I share a recent personal example that was very interesting to experience.

If you are a growth-minded woman who wants to live fully in every season, who wants to grow into your True Self and not live limited by an old story, who wants to live with joy amid the messiness of life - I invite you to join me inside the Brave + Beautiful Community.

Resources

You can listen and learn from the full workshop replay: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/get-to-know-yourself/

Join the Brave + Beautiful Community (today is the final day to save an extra $200 off your registration): https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/community/

Around the age of 33-34 I went through a significant life shift. Maybe you can look back and witness a big shift around the same time of your life.

I started waking up to my old unconscious patterns and seeing that I had power of choice in ways that did not occur to me before that.

In my Old Self - New Self - True Self Framework, I was in my Old Self Identity but around 34/35 shifted into the growth phase that prepared me to transition into New Self Identity.

In this episode, I share 5 things I learned about myself that radically changed my life for the better. And I invite you to look back and see if you can recall a handful of your own experiences or things you learned that changed your relationship with yourself and how you viewed life.

Resources

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