The Becoming Years podcast explores the challenges of ending friendships with grace and navigating betrayal in friendships. The conversation delves into the pain of ending friendships, recognizing signs of a friendship running its course, graceful endings, and allowing space in friendships. It also covers ending friendships with clarity and compassion, navigating betrayal, and rebuilding community and capacity for friendships.

Takeaways

• Ending friendships with grace
• Navigating betrayal in friendships
• Creating a new community

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to The Becoming Years
• 06:30 Graceful Endings and Allowing Space in Friendships
• 13:04 Navigating Betrayal in Friendships
• 19:13 Rebuilding Community and Capacity for Friendships

References:

• Mental Health Network: https://www.pvcnr.com/archives/59573
• Sarah Baldwin / @sarahbcoaching / https://www.sarahbaldwincoaching.com/

Resources:
- Get My Free Thoughtful Aging Assessment: https://thoughtfulagingbook.com/
- Get My Book! Thoughtful Aging - Restoring Honor to the Aging Process: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7D92HZ5/
- Get your free Thoughtful Aging Guide: https://www.bpwcenter.com/

Follow me and my work here:
- Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: / @becomingyears
- Subscribe to my Substack: https://thoughtfulaging.substack.com/
- Instagram - @bridgeportlaserandwellness: https://www.instagram.com/bridgeportlasera...
- Facebook - @bridgeportwellness: https://www.facebook.com/bridgeportwellness/

Have A Question?
- Have a Question For Alina That You’d Like To Hear Answered on the Podcast? Leave her a Voice Note Here: https://www.speakpipe.com/thebecomingyears

Today I want to talk about beauty—not the kind we’re sold,
but the kind we feel. Most of us struggle with the belief that beauty conditional - that we must look a certain way to be accepted or feel worthy.

So here are ten gentle, human things you can do to feel more beautiful—not because they change how you look,
but because they change how you relate to yourself.

Resources:

—Get My Free Thoughtful Aging Assessment: https://thoughtfulagingbook.com/

Get My Book! Thoughtful Aging - Restoring Honor to the Aging Process: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7D92HZ5/

—Get you free Thoughtful Aging Guide: https://www.bpwcenter.com/

Follow me and my work here:

—Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BecomingYears

—Subscribe to my Substack: https://thoughtfulaging.substack.com/

—Instagram - @bridgeportlaserandwellness: https://www.instagram.com/bridgeportlaserandwellness/

—Facebook - @bridgeportwellness: https://www.facebook.com/bridgeportwellness/

What if aging isn’t something to resist, but something to meet with intention? In this opening solo episode of The Becoming Years, author and host Alina Wilson reflects on aging, choice, and the wisdom shaped through experience. Drawing from her life as a mother, grandmother, and listener to thousands of women across generations, Alina introduces a new kind of conversation—one that explores how we live over time, and why becoming never ends.