Real Talk: Midlife By Design

Midlife:

Is it a place of struggle, or a place of ease?

Is it a place of nothingness, or a place of bountiful, new beginnings?

Is it a moment of staying stuck in being lost, or an opportunity to reveal one’s true self?

No matter your answers to these questions, it brings you back to the same point ... do you have a real choice in designing your midlife outcomes?

Our guest today responded with YES, to all of those questions and he has been living his designed midlife with his wife, Liz, for the past several years.
Sid McNairy is a relationship guru who has transformed himself to help others find the relationship to connect to their highest and best self.
He is a coach of coaches, teachers of teachers, healer of healers,
and guide to shamans inspirational speaker and a connector of connection to your highest.
Sid's work is widely known internationally, and he is a best selling author of six books.
His next book, the search for the perfect wave releases November 11, of 2021.
Stay connected with Sid and find out more about her work with the quick, access links below:
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We're inspired to become the #1 Resource for Midlife Women. Go get access to articles, expert insights and more at The Zestful Movement

Tamara Payne is a certified success coach. She has created the life of her dreams and she loves helping others create their own dream life too.
Nutrition, it seems to have many avenues from what we should be eating, to how we should be moving, to what's important to reduce our day to day stress.
The one thing that seems to remain in common with all of these topics is they change on the how's and the whys often. So what are we to do?
It's vital that we embrace the notion of change as we evolve in our personal lifetime in personal circumstances.
Today, our guest was faced with the ultimate challenge of cancer, and she won by tuning in on how she needed to evolve in her personal choices for her best health outcomes.
She's going to inspire us today on what we need to know and how we can become empowered in our own personal wellness journey too.
Tamara Payne, is the founder of the Everyday Human. Full details will be launching soon on program and offerings! You can find out more and connect with Tamara below:
W: www.esuperhuman.com
E: [email protected]We're inspired to become the #1 Resource for Midlife Women and get access to articles, expert insights and more at The Zestful Movement

I'm grateful to have my friend Courtney as our guest today, as she loves cheering other people on to overcome their challenges and feel success.
I believe sometimes the biggest lights in life, find it difficult to be there for their own selves in challenging life moments.
I appreciate Courtney coming on today to share with us her personal journey of
health that she's had recently and how she had to learn to put herself first in the process of healing.
I believe her message will be powerful for those people who are always championing everyone else to take a pause to listen into their own needs, especially when managing health needs.
Courtney Pesek is a coach, wellness coordinator, mother and a bright light.
She enjoys coaching, because it's her passion and her calling. The action of coaching and cheering others on to their greatness lights up her soul.
Stay connected with Courtney and find out more about her work with the quick, access links below:
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We're inspired to become the #1 Resource for Midlife Women. Go get access to articles, expert insights and more at The Zestful Movement

After personal working with Michael due to a nagging neck pain that was continuing to have a real impact on how I was showing up in my own life. What he introduced to me, genuinely rocked my world both figuratively and literally.

He made a real clear impression on me of why you need to be willing to experience different modalities and become an advocate for your own well-being.

Learning how your nervous systems can impact your pain response when dealing and learning to minimize, or resolve your chronic pain.

Michael Blubaugh is an educator, physical and massage therapist, a life coach, and personal and performance-based trainer.
The author of two books, From Broken to Bringing It, Evidence-based Biohacking: Expert Secrets To Help You Heal Faster, Perform Better And Cultivate A Champion's Mindset.
He is a nationally-known seminar present, and he's currently developing online courses and coaching programs.
Michael believes that it's important to help people to improve their mindset and skill sets so they can improve their biology, heal faster, perform better, and elevate their mindset.
We're inspired to become the #1 Resource for Midlife Women. Go get access to articles, expert insights and more at The Zestful Movement

How often do you pay attention to the patterns that are happening around you without question? For example, when you take a shower do you have the exact same pattern of how you go through your shower routine? For me, it’s always hair first, then body, then face, topped off with a final rinse and completed with asking our dog to move to the side, so I may safely step out of the shower. This happens every shower no matter the day of the week, or the time of the day... clear, specific, I don’t even think about it shower pattern that has become a part of my personalized shower experience.

What if, I took a different approach and mixed things up a bit? Something as simple as saving the hair washing for last would actually have a subtle impact on my brain. This subtle moment would awaken my senses and put me more in tune with my experience versus riding the autopilot wave that most of my life exist within day in and day out.

Okay, so why is it important to discover the patterns in our lives and question them in the process? One word awareness!! Having a heightened sense of awareness will pull you into the present moment with engagement of what’s taking place no matter how basic the task. It will let you know that you’re alive and part of the world. Questioning the process will give you space to notice how you’re engaging, and if it’s worth your while too!

As you enter into midlife, which can happen as early as 35, it’s important to access what you have been doing, so you can determine if the current patterns in your life are serving your greatest outcomes for this phase of living. Questioning the patterns will help you access and act where needed.

For example, when my children where toddlers some mornings they’d sleep in, and I’d gladly stay in bed doing nothing a bit longer enjoying the silence before the crazy of being a Stay-at-Home Mom life began. There’s no pause with little ones until hopefully, naptime... then definitely thank goodness for bedtime until day breaks again!

Now that my kids are young-adults, I’m not certain that hanging out under the sheets most mornings waiting for a reason outside of me to get up is the best course of action for the things that I want to accomplish in my second journey.

After recognizing this pattern and questioning it, I’ve come to realize that creating a morning routine of self-care has more value for the me, of today. Without taking the time to seek critical awareness I’m not certain I would have strived to change this pattern anytime soon. How unfortunate would that have been?

Now it’s your turn! This week tune in to what you do and how you do it. Your current patterns have been created by choices and circumstances that may no longer be present in your life today. It’s your duty to access these patterns while seeking a better way of approaching a given moment, especially if your current process is no longer serving your best outcomes!

During the process of recognizing and questioning the currents patterns in your life, take notice of how your new awareness makes you feel in your daily actions. It’s okay to be uncomfortable in process, simple keep looking for new, helpful insights for change.

Next Wednesday, we will explore the final two steps of The Beginner’s Mindset, make sure you follow and hit the reminder button, so you don’t miss a thing! You can go back to catch up too!

This week, think about journaling your explorations of patterns in your life to help make the experience more tangible and take pride in having the courage to begin showing up in your life in ways that are more serving of yourself now.

I’m Ericka, the Curator of Zest wishing you a zest-filled week!