Midlife

Learn to Love Midlife and its Many Transitions

 

You have so much to give. It is time to give back to yourself.

You’ve made important family, career, and personal decisions in your life.  Now, you realize it is time to move on.  This decision may be forced upon you with a divorce, job termination, or your family not needing you like they use to.  This decision may be a choice you’ve made because what use to work doesn’t ‘feel right’ anymore.  Maybe you realize you care about different things.  You don’t want to waste any more time because the runway in front of you is shorter than the one behind you. 

This messy process of life transitions include three components:

1.     Letting Go. This includes grief over what you thought life would look like.  Grief over painful events that have left emotional wounds.  It may be grief that something so wonderful is over.   You can learn to listen to the internal messages that tell you “It is time to move on”.   Emotional bravery is a beautiful thing.

2.     The Messy Middle.   It is uncomfortable not knowing what to do next.  You may feel like you are wasting time.  You may feel restless or depressed without a plan.  You have ideas and strong emotions swirling around in your head and making sense of them feels impossible. You don’t want to make a mistake.  Curiosity and Self-Compassion helps you make the best next decision and enable you to move forward with purpose.

3.     The New Chapter.  Moving in a new direction enables you to curate the life you want to live.  It will feel precious and exciting. I can help you heal from the past and believe you are worthy of this new wonderful life. You will feel confident in your ability to make a difference and be empowered.  You will feel energized and excited by both your accomplishments and your future.

 

THERAPY IN MIDLIFE CAN HELP

Utilizing evidence-based therapeutic tools, I can help you navigate the unhelpful beliefs holding you back.  You will be able to let go of what isn’t working, make sense of what you really want and confidently claim the fulfilling life you choose.  

YOU ARE A CAPABLE HUMAN WHO HAS WEATHERED MANY STORMS AND YOU WILL WEATHER THIS ONE AS WELL.

Adding new skills will bring beautiful order and balance to your life. You can evolve, embrace your wisdom and pivot in a new direction.

We will focus on controlling what you can and letting go of the rest. You can do all of this with love. We will focus on effective communication and emotion regulation. People in your life will respect you while you learn to respect yourself…still giving AND receiving love.

Therapy in Midlife can help you:

  • Learn how to recognize appropriate responsibility. 

  • Learn to be responsible for yourself by nurturing your spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial well-being.

  • Identify and meet your needs.

  • Be responsible for your choices, for what you give and receive, for your goals, and for how much pleasure you get from the life you choose.

  • Learn to live with intention.

You have incredible gifts, strengths, & potential.

FAQS

Midlife Therapy Questions

  • Life can be very hard and traumatic. Difficult events deplete our physical energy and emotional strength. It is common to ‘play small’ or neglect ourselves while we raise a family. Switching gears from caretaking to creating a new version of our self seems impossible. Sometimes toxic relationships need to end. Midlife almost always mean that the roles we play in our relationships change. Therapy helps build inner strength. It helps heal unhelpful wounds from our past so that the new belief of being worthy of new, wonderful things takes hold.

  • One of the benefits of therapy is to get an outside objective view of your life. I provide a safe, compassionate, judge-free space. You will feel support and validation. You can verbalize, explore and discover alternate paths that may or may not work for you. Ultimately, you are the expert of your life.