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S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission

Bernice McDonald

S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission

A weekly Health, Fitness and Mental Health podcast
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S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission

Bernice McDonald

S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission

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S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission

Bernice McDonald

S.O.F.T. and Strong: Midlife Women On A Mission

A weekly Health, Fitness and Mental Health podcast
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It’s now, in midlife, that the last thought on your mind is to be “resilient and courageous”.Ever feel like you're teetering on a high wire, blindfolded, with the world watching below? One minute, you're conquering life's great balancing act, a
Midlife is a time when you start to ask, "Who am I now? What's next?"Change is, for women, inevitable. It's easy to lose your courage and stop believing in yourself.Challenges are everywhere and you wonder if you have what it takes to actually
Are you wondering what the secret is to finding your passion - it seems that everyone expects you to know but maybe you're confused about the whole idea and wondering if it's something that is really going to matter?Discovering your personal mi
Many of us by midlife are afraid to make decisions because we’re afraid the past equals the future.The amazing news about life is this: the past does NOT equal the future. Every phase is a new canvas. And you hold the paintbrush in your hand.TH
Someone calls you 'fat'.Someone says your work isn't up the standards of the company and to do it again.Someone says your work is wonderful and to be sure that same level of quality shows up on the next project.Someone tells you that your son m
Have you ever downplayed your own work because it wasn't as good as someone else's?Or changed your mind about submitting something, cooking something, doing something because you believed what you could give wasn't very good?These are symptoms
WHAT IF Midlife were actually a Call To Adventure?The only way you hear that Call is to connect to that very quiet place deep inside of you. That's where you'll find your heart. This is a powerful place. A place from which you can learn to be y
Ever walk into a crowded room and feel all alone?There is nothing like feeling as if you are in the wrong place. Don't belong. Are not wanted somewhere.WE ALL FEEL IT. And, for women, midlife can magnify this because so many places where they f
Your heart is the most beautiful thing about you. And in that beautiful heart, you'll find every need that shows you how to find your passion and purpose.The 2nd need of your heart is SIGNIFICANCE. To know and value who I am.In this podcast I'm
"I'm good with life as long as it never changes and doesn't give me any surprises."Don't you wish you could have this level of control? Sometimes we think that, if we did, we would feel safe and certain.Wait a minute! Is that really how we want
CARTOON: A midlife woman was telling her doctor - “I need a big belly. You can’t fit this much charm and personality into a small package.” There you go - the positive spin on it. However, it also kind of makes me want to crawl under my blanket
Two choices when you come to the crossroads called "Midlife".We all go through it. No one escapes it because, well, Midlife is simply the 'middle' of your life. I totally feel your desire to escape it. And we all get two choices:1. Sit down. St
From a post on Pinterest talking about midlife women:  "You know you're getting old when you get butt jiggle, bingo wing flap and boob wobble when you brush your teeth"... It made me laugh right out loud because I had just been noticing my bing
There you stand. On the edge of a chasm. You're somewhere in your 40's and there's not much left for you here on this side.Below you see a whole river of loss running between two rocky walls. You feel that loss. Loss of a house filled with nois
The BOMBS are the big things that happen that absolutely blow up your life. They happened in the past and they will keep happening... it's impossible to predict.Literally, it's as if you were walking down a sidewalk and a bomb went off just a f
The woman you "were" - the one in the past - comes with you everywhere all the time.You hear her voice, you feel her touch, you regret a lot of how she was. And wish she would have made different decisions.But what about the strength she brings
How Do I Love Myself??We get to this place a lot of times in our life where we are focusing so much on how to live a good life. How do we do this? How do we get love? How do we get the body we want? How do I become a person who is happy? How do
Remember the giggling? As a little girl, remember breathing in the fun in life in whatever moment you were living? Life was an adventure every minute, right? Princesses, Knights... imagining doing whatever came into yours and your friend's head
Bombs drop on you.Boulders flatten you, dropping out of nowhere.Someone throws a rock at you - fast! Ouch! It stings. It leaves a mark.LIFE HAPPENS. What you do next is the MOST IMPORTANT DECISION YOU WILL EVER MAKE IN THIS LIFE.Who will you be
You laugh. You cry. You shout. You encourage. You love. You hate.You are a woman and you feel. That's natural. And beautiful!Mastering your emotions means you start to understand them. Is that even possible?THE KEY to Aging Beautifully is to ma
Are you struggling with who see when you look in the mirror right now?Are you disappointed at how your life is turning out? 50 plus already and you feel this pressure to hurry up or you're going to miss out on making your life what you want it
"Should she go for her dream of being a doctor even when her 50th birthday party had come and gone?"She decided, "Yes".  She was going to go for it. And so she did.Dreams are not always "just dreams" - they are also callings. Answering their ca
This is about the day my boob went rouge. Yes. Seriously. One of those humiliating moments in life that you either transform into a traumatic event or make into a funny story.Sometimes one of the many 'parts' of us end up being something we don
 I've seen it happen way too many times in way too many women's lives as they get older. They become defensive. They become very strong on the outside thinking that that is going to defend them on the inside. And the result is that they just co
 I want you to imagine a bridge, a beautiful bridge, the best in your imagination that you can come up with. Is it in a park? Is it in a garden? And you're standing there at the beginning of this beautiful bridge.Your bridge, your design. This
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