Love From the Inside Out: Self-Love, Confidence and Mindset Tools for Women in Midlife

Susan Kricun, Midlife Confidence and Self-Love Guide

Welcome to Love From the Inside Out, a podcast about healing, mindset, and confidence for women navigating anxiety, burnout, and midlife reinvention. Hosted by Susan Kricun — former sports and entertainment PR executive turned storyteller, writer, and wellness advocate — the show blends heart, humor, and neuroscience to help women calm their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are. Each Thursday, Susan shares honest reflections and science-backed tools to help you move from survival mode to self-awareness. You’ll learn how to release stress, reframe your mindset, and rebuild inner confidence so you can live and love from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt anxious, stuck, or ready for your next chapter, this show will remind you that peace, purpose, and clarity are already within reach — and it’s never too late to feel at home in yourself. ✨ New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe now and start your journey toward healing, confidence, and calm.

  1. 20H AGO

    Grief Anniversaries: When Certain Dates Bring Memories Back

    Some dates stay with us. Grief anniversaries, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, and the moments our bodies seem to remember before we do. In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m reflecting on the emotional memory certain dates can hold, especially as I move through the month of May, which marks the anniversaries of both of my parents’ passing. My father passed away seven years ago on May 9th, and my mother passed away ten years ago on May 30th. With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day also falling around this season, May has become one of those times of year that feels layered before I even fully realize why. This is not a heavy episode about grief. It’s more of a quiet reflection on how love, loss, memory, and the body can all meet on the calendar. Sometimes a date is just a date. And sometimes, inside of us, it carries a whole history. I talk about how grief has softened over time, why I don’t always feel called to visit my parents at the cemetery, and how I still feel them most in ordinary moments — in the way I think, tell stories, make decisions, host people, choose words, and continue becoming myself. This episode is for anyone who has ever felt a certain date, holiday, season, or anniversary bring something back to the surface. Not because you’re stuck in the past, but because something in you remembers. In this episode, I explore: How the body can remember certain dates before the mind catches up Why grief doesn’t always get easier, but can soften over time The complicated emotions around Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and grief anniversaries How loved ones can continue to feel present in ordinary, everyday moments Why remembrance doesn’t have to look a certain way How to move through meaningful dates with less pressure and more honesty If this episode brings someone to mind, or if you know someone moving through a date or season that carries a lot for them, feel free to share it with them. Sometimes it helps to hear someone else put words to something you’ve felt but maybe haven’t said out loud yet. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    26 min
  2. APR 30

    When Both Choices Cost You Something: How to Make Peace with No-Clean-Answer Decisions

    Have you ever been in one of those no-clean-answer moments where both choices make sense and both choices cost you something? In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m talking about the love-hate relationship we can have with choices that are good for us, choices that feel good in the moment, and choices that come with consequences later. This conversation came up for me after a full weekend of events for my husband Elliot’s 40th high school reunion and his baseball team’s Hall of Fame induction. I wanted to be fully present, enjoy the celebration, go with the flow, and not make the entire weekend about managing my food sensitivities. And at the same time, I knew my body was still more sensitive after a recent stomach bug and that some of those choices might have a cost. That’s the tension I explore in this episode: how do we choose between joy and self-care when both matter? How do we make peace with the fact that sometimes the loving choice still has a downside? And how do we care for ourselves afterward without turning every consequence into proof that we made the wrong decision? I also share how this connected to my ongoing nervous system regulation work after my Dr. Joe Dispenza retreat, why feeling regulated doesn’t mean life never throws us off again, and what it means to come back to ourselves with honesty and care. This episode is for anyone navigating food sensitivities, body trust, self-care, midlife choices, emotional regulation, social energy, or those frustrating moments when you want to enjoy your life without constantly calculating how it might affect you later. Maybe the point isn’t to find the perfect answer every time. Maybe it’s to be honest about the choice we’re making, honest about what it may cost, and gentle with ourselves on the other side. In this episode, I talk about: What happens when both choices feel loving, but both come with consequencesThe tension between enjoying your life and taking care of your bodyFood sensitivities, social events, and wanting to be fully presentWhy a consequence does not always mean you made the wrong choiceNervous system regulation, body awareness, and coming back to yourselfWhy self-care can sometimes feel like restrictionHow to stop judging yourself for imperfect, real-life choicesListen if you’ve ever thought: “I want to enjoy my life, but I also want to feel good in my body.” “I don’t want every choi Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    17 min
  3. APR 23

    What We Keep: Family Keepsakes, Old Photos, Memory, and Legacy

    I went into our storage unit looking for my mother’s mahjong set and a few things I wanted to give to my brother. Instead, I found old family photos, childhood keepsakes, handwritten notes, and pieces of my life I hadn’t seen in years. What started as a search for one meaningful thing turned into a reflection on memory, grief, legacy, and the strange emotional weight of the things we keep. In this episode, I talk about family keepsakes, old photos, finding pieces of my younger self in old boxes, keeping loved ones alive in memory, and the very human reality of what we’d love for someone to find one day… and what we really hope they don’t. If you’ve ever opened an old box and been surprised by what came rushing back, this episode is for you. In this episode: my mother’s mahjong set and why I wanted so badly to find itold family photos, keepsakes, and the memories they still holdgrief, legacy, and keeping loved ones alive in memoryfinding pieces of my younger self in old boxeswhat we keep, what we leave behind, and what we hope no one findsSupport the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    14 min
  4. APR 16

    When Your Body Forces a Pause: Signs You Need to Slow Down

    If your body, your energy, or your life has ever stopped cooperating with the pace you were trying to keep, this episode is for you. A rough stomach bug forced me to slow down in a way I never would have chosen for myself, and once the worst of it passed, I started to realize this week was about more than just being sick. It showed me how much I had been pushing through stress, pressure, overdoing it, and the quieter signs my body had already been giving me before life got louder. In this episode, I’m talking about what a forced pause can reveal about burnout, body signals, urgency, and the difference between momentum and alignment. I’m also sharing how this experience made me look at the pressure I was putting on myself, the ways I had started slipping back into some familiar patterns, and why slowing down is not the same thing as falling behind. We get into: what a forced pause can revealthe whispers we override before life gets louderhow stress, pressure, and overdoing it can pull us out of balancethe difference between momentum and alignmentwhy slower still countshow a pause can bring you back to yourselfIf you’ve ever felt like you should be able to keep going, even when something in you was already asking you to slow down, I think this conversation will resonate. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    12 min
  5. APR 9

    Why Getting Dressed Feels Harder Than It Should

    If getting dressed has been feeling more emotional, frustrating, or loaded than it should, this episode is for you. After listening to Mel Robbins’ recent conversation with celebrity stylist Erin Walsh, I thought I was about to feel inspired to clean out my closet, get intentional, and finally connect a few dots around style, confidence, and embodiment. That is not what happened. Instead, I opened my closet, felt immediate resistance, shut the door, and walked away. Then I went shopping with birthday gift cards, good intentions, and every plan to freshen up my wardrobe and I left without trying anything on. In this episode, I’m talking about why getting dressed can feel so much harder than it should, especially when your body has changed, your closet no longer feels like you, and old stories about confidence, visibility, comfort, and self-worth are still hanging around. I’m also sharing the deeper realization this brought up for me: sometimes what we call comfort is actually hiding. We get into: why shopping and getting dressed can feel so emotionalthe difference between comfort and camouflagebody image, postmenopausal weight, and the disconnect between how you want to feel and what you keep reaching forwhy this experience is more universal than it may seema gentler way to start closing the gap between your inner life and what you wearIf you’ve ever stood in front of your closet feeling discouraged, left a store empty-handed, or reached for something “easy” when what you really wanted was to feel more like yourself, I think this conversation will resonate. Referenced in this episode: The Art of Intentional Dressing by Erin Walsh Mel Robbins’ episode with Erin Walsh: “6 Words to Tell Yourself Every Morning”Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    23 min
  6. APR 2

    Choose Joy First: How to Feel Good Without Earning It

    How do you feel good without earning it first? In this episode, I’m talking about why so many of us wait to relax, enjoy life, or feel better until everything is done — and how choosing joy first can help break negative thought loops, shift your focus, and bring you back to what matters most. This week, I’m sharing a personal story about getting ready to host Passover and noticing how quickly I can slip into pressure, overthinking, and the familiar habit of making everything just right. A simple reminder about joy as a daily practice brought me back to myself and reminded me that feeling good does not have to be something we earn at the very end. In this episode, I talk about: why so many of us postpone joy until the work is donehow negative thought loops shape the way we experience our liveswhat it means to choose joy first instead of waiting for proofwhy what you focus on expandshow to shift your attention toward what matters mostand how small delights can help you feel more grounded, present, and connectedIf you’ve been stuck in overthinking, pressure, or the feeling that you have to do more before you’re allowed to exhale, this episode is a reminder that you may not need to earn feeling good first. Looking for more support? If this episode spoke to something in you, Return is my private podcast feed for the moments when you need a little extra support coming back to yourself. You’ll receive at least two private audio drops each month, including resets for overwhelm, scripts for hard conversations and boundaries, and some months, audio-letter-style reflections to help you feel grounded and supported. Join Return here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2369290/subscribe Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    17 min
  7. MAR 26

    When Your Life Looks Fine on Paper But Doesn’t Feel Right Anymore: Midlife Transition Signs

    What if nothing is exactly wrong, but something still feels off? In this episode, I’m talking about 7 signs you may have outgrown your life and are at a midlife turning point. If you’ve been feeling more irritated, more disconnected, more exhausted, or less like yourself lately, this conversation is for you. I’m talking about the quiet ways self-abandonment can show up, why your life can look fine on paper but not feel right in your body, and how to recognize when something in you is asking for a more honest relationship with your life. I also talk about why rest may not be fixing the deeper exhaustion, what fantasies of escape or reinvention may really be pointing to, and why your body often knows something before your mind has fully caught up. If this episode resonates, send it to a friend who may look like she’s holding it all together but quietly feels disconnected inside her own life. Looking for more support? If this episode spoke to something in you, Return is my private podcast feed for the moments when you need a little extra support coming back to yourself. You’ll receive at least two private audio drops each month, including resets for overwhelm, scripts for hard conversations and boundaries, and, some months, audio-letter style reflections to help you feel grounded and supported. Join Return here. Note: This podcast is educational and supportive and is not medical, mental health, or therapy advice. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    17 min
  8. MAR 19

    How to Create Abundance Without Abandoning Yourself

    What if abundance isn’t about getting more — but about caring for what you already have? In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan reflects on an unexpected lesson about abundance after repotting a money tree plant. What started as a simple moment turned into a deeper realization about care, attention, self-loyalty, and why things in life rarely fall apart overnight. Through this personal story, Susan explores what an abundance mindset really means beyond money, how inconsistent care can quietly affect our relationships, health, creativity, and peace, and why true personal growth often begins by tending what is already present in our lives. In this episode, we explore: • abundance beyond money • why things don’t fall apart overnight • self-loyalty vs self-abandonment • creating the conditions for growth • tending what already exists in your life Looking for more support? If this episode spoke to something in you, Return is my private podcast feed for those moments when you need help coming back to yourself. You’ll receive at least two private audio drops each month, including resets for overwhelm, scripts for hard conversations and boundaries, and, some months, audio-letter style reflections to help you feel grounded and supported. Join Return here. Note: This podcast is educational and supportive and is not medical, mental health, or therapy advice. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    11 min

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Welcome to Love From the Inside Out, a podcast about healing, mindset, and confidence for women navigating anxiety, burnout, and midlife reinvention. Hosted by Susan Kricun — former sports and entertainment PR executive turned storyteller, writer, and wellness advocate — the show blends heart, humor, and neuroscience to help women calm their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are. Each Thursday, Susan shares honest reflections and science-backed tools to help you move from survival mode to self-awareness. You’ll learn how to release stress, reframe your mindset, and rebuild inner confidence so you can live and love from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt anxious, stuck, or ready for your next chapter, this show will remind you that peace, purpose, and clarity are already within reach — and it’s never too late to feel at home in yourself. ✨ New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe now and start your journey toward healing, confidence, and calm.

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