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
More episodes of The Mindful Midlife Mom - Mindfulness Practices and Techniques for Mentally Exhausted Moms in the Sandwich Generation
- 153 | Watching a Parent Decline: Letting Go of the Need to Fix It (Sandwich Generation Stress)
- Acknowledging the Invisible Work You Do — An Affirmation Practice for Sandwich Generation Moms
- 152 | Double the Work: The Extra Burden on Midlife Moms in the Sandwich Generation
- 151 | Am I Failing Everyone? How to Interrupt the Sandwich Generation Guilt Spiral
- This is Hard—Sandwich Generation Stress (And the Affirmation To Help You Through It)
- 150 | Nobody Warned Me About the Sandwich Generation — And Nobody Will Warn You Either
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