162 | When Midlife Doesn’t Go As Planned: Your Resilience Is Your Anchor
About this episode
This episode discusses how to navigate unexpected challenges in midlife and emphasizes the importance of resilience.
Your phone rings at an unexpected time. Before you even answer, something shifts. And in that split second, everything you thought today was going to be — disappears. Whether it's a parent's fall, a layoff, or a crisis with your kid that you can't fix — the rug-pull moments of midlife don't arrive when life is quiet. They arrive when you're already carrying everything. And the questions flood in fast: Why me? Why now? How will I get through this? This episode is for those moments. And for the...
People in this episode
Host: Valerie Mekki
Topics covered
- resilience
- midlife challenges
- mental health
- crisis management
- parenting
- life transitions
Keywords
- midlife
- resilience
- crisis
- parenting
- mental exhaustion
- life changes
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