Stop Replaying The Moments In Your Mind—Interrupt the Guilt Spiral For Midlife Moms

About this episode

This episode addresses the guilt spiral experienced by midlife moms and offers mindfulness practices to interrupt negative thought patterns.

Something happened this week. Maybe it was a moment you handled badly. Maybe it’s been replaying in your head ever since, the guilt quietly building back up. That’s the sandwich generation guilt spiral. And this episode is here to interrupt it. This midweek practice pairs with Episode 151, where we talked about why ruminating doesn’t fix what happened — and how to move through hard moments like a wave instead of drowning in them. Today we skip straight to the practice: a condensed ref...

People in this episode

Host: Valerie Mekki

Topics covered

• guilt
• mindfulness
• self-improvement
• mental health
• midlife moms

Keywords

• guilt spiral
• mindfulness practices
• midlife moms
• mental exhaustion
• rumination

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