A Life in Progress™ : Rebranding Middle Age

Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui
A Life in Progress™ : Rebranding Middle Age

When we make peace with messiness, we make space for joy! The Rebranding Middle Age Podcast offers a mix of story, evidence-based education, and practical application to help midlife women befriend their True Selves, (re)claim freedom, health, and joy, and show up fully to life in every season - even the hardest of them. Welcome! I'm Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui, founder of A Life in Progress™. I'm a writer, grief and trauma-informed mind-body coach, joyful living educator, and brave, curious, 'messy human' in progress. I'm also a highly sensitive person, life partner of 31 years, and a proud mama of 3 wise and creative humans, including my son who died by suicide in 2019. I know what it takes to make space for joy amid the messiness of life. My work is for: freedom-seekers, truth-tellers, and stubborn questioners, highly sensitive souls, slow-movers, and non-hustlers, the anxious, grieving, messy, and healing, reforming people-pleasers, perfectionists, performers, and peace-keepers, brave, weary, and curious women in the middle season of life ready to quiet the conditioning and noise to (re)claim freedom, health, and joy. Krista xo

  1. 10월 17일

    Letting Go of The Life You Wanted and Embracing the Life You Have With Guests Mikala Albertson and Jennifer Arnspiger

    Midlife is a great unraveling and re-envisioning/reconstructing. It’s a time of hard and brave work and this work (if we are able to say yes to it) takes us deeper and deeper into freedom and joy (though this does not mean joy feels accessible in every moment). We are invited repeatedly to come face to face with reality, grapple with all our expectations and illusions about how life should be and how it will be if we follow the right rules and jump through all the right hoops…. when it turns out that life is not quite so controllable. I have been brought to my knees over and over. I’m happy today to welcome two guests to join me for a conversation around Letting go of the life you wanted and embracing the one you have.” We talk about addiction, grief, perimenopause/autumn seasons, and more. Dr. Mikala Albertson is a board-certified family practice doctor, author, and well-being advocate who is passionate about women’s health and healing in the imperfect bodies we actually have. She’s the author of the books Ordinary on Purpose and her new release Everything I Wish I Could Tell You About Midlife. Mikala inspires readers every day to stop striving for “perfect” lives or some unattainable cultural ideal of “beauty and wellness” and instead aim for wholehearted living through a gentle, achievable, sustainable approach. Connect with Mikala: https://www.mikalaalbertsonmd.com/ Jennifer Arnspiger is a Certified Somatic Trauma Integration Coach, INFJ Empath and Somatic Writing Coach for deeply sensitive women. She is highly sensitive, emotionally intense and passionate about honoring what our bodies have been through and the stories and emotions they hold. Jennifer has been a trauma-informed writing coach for 7 years and helps deeply sensitive womxn resolve somatic trauma and come home to their bodies through writing - with private coaching, self-paced writing courses and intimate writing circles. Connect with Jennifer: https://www.jenniferarnspiger.com Come connect with me over at https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/ or on Instagram. We talk about my Hope Map Graphic and the seasons we're in. You can find my graphic on my home page: Befriend Your True Self and (Re)Claim Freedom, Wholeness + JOY (alifeinprogress.ca)

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  2. 9월 19일

    The Messiness of Middle Age With Guests Anno Bell and Chantal Gauthier-Vaillancourt

    *Heads up: there's swearing in this episode. In today's conversation, I'm joined by two guests: Anno Bell and Chantal Gauthier-Vaillancourt. We talk about the messiness of middle age and how our thinking has shifted or how we've grown and healed so far in midlife. And we chat about joyful aging (and Chantal bravely shares about her current experience). Anno Bell is an exuberant lover of all things wild, and a sensitive soul that creates beautiful things out of scraps of glass, vintage trailers and old pieces of fence board. She is mama to four humans and works as a both a birth and postpartum doula and a breath facilitator. She hopes through her work and play in the world to bring folks a deep sense of being seen and heard, and a safe space where they can be compassionately witnessed and supported in their journeys. Anno turned 50 in March of this year and is so far equally enthralled and challenged by this season. Her new website is in development but you can connect with her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cedartreecoaching With two decades of dedicated service in the holistic health field, Chantal Gauthier-Vaillancourt worked 8 years as massage therapist, nearly 6 as a certified doula, and then 12 years as a Registered Midwife. She has attended over 500 births, witnessing the beautiful miracle of new life with its strength and fragility firsthand. Being a primary care provider has granted her the privilege of accompanying women during this vulnerable and transformative time in their lives. Chantal has recently released a podcast and a new website in order to offer an online program she is co-created for expectant families called A Peaceful Gestation with the hopes of reaching more people who may not have the Prenatal care they want or need. On a personal level, she has grown and learned major life lessons while thriving through cancer twice. She is a devoted wife and a mother to two sweet children who (mostly) bring her joy. Connect with her here: https://apeacefulgestation.com RESOURCES The Brave + Beautiful Community: Join the Brave + Beautiful Community For Midlife Women | A Life In Progress How I honestly used to think and what changed for the better: How I Honestly Used To Think And What Changed For The Better | A Life In Progress

    1시간 10분
  3. 9월 5일

    Rebranding Middle Age and Joyful Living: What This Means, Why It Matters.,

    I’m firmly in my messy middle season of life and it’s been a season of stretching, stripping away, meeting and befriending my True Self (or finally growing into my True Self). The past 13 years have also invited me deeper and deeper into freedom and joy. Greater freedom is one of the most important gifts of middle age. I care about Joyful living in every season – even the hardest of them. Choosing to allow joy into our lives amid heartache, struggle, uncertainty, and general life messiness is hard and brave work. I’ve done my share of hard and brave work. This is, of course, why I focus so much on the practice of making peace with messiness to make space for joy in our body and life. I emphasize the practice part. It’s an ongoing commitment and some days are way harder than others. In this episode I discuss: What Rebranding Middle Age MeansHow I define middle ageWhat I mean when I talk about joyJoyful aging is simply part of joyful living in every seasonI believe joyful aging begins in our 40s, 50s, and 60s2 key things that support joyful aging and joyful living and these are things that we an work on or have a measure of control aroundLetting go of attachment to the past or to our old dreams is essential if we want to thrive forward or live joyfully Resources: Why You Need to Rebrand Middle Age to Live Joyfully: Why You Need To Rebrand Middle Age To Live Joyfully | A Life In ProgressJoin the Brave + Beautiful Community Autumn Session: Join the Brave + Beautiful Community For Midlife Women | A Life In ProgressSign up for the Monday morning Hope Map: Sign Up For The Monday Morning Hope Map | A Life In ProgressBook by Dr. Gladys McGarey: The Well-Lived Life: A 103-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age.You'll find my Hope Map Graphic on this page: Befriend Your True Self and (Re)Claim Freedom, Wholeness + JOY (alifeinprogress.ca)"There's some evidence to suggest that specialized cognitive behavioral therapy can improve a sense of purpose in life, as well as meaning in life" (I didn't look for studies): Will a purpose-driven life help you live longer? - Harvard Health

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  4. 7월 4일

    It's Important to Trust Yourself (And Your Creative Process)

    If we shift our focus from creative product or outcome to creative process, then it’s easier to understand that we are all inherently creative. We can stop comparing, judging, or fighting our unique creative process and instead hone it. Or at least trust it, so that we’re able to use it to bring our vision or dreams to life. Furthermore, I’d love us to release the idea that creativity is only about problem solving or attaining a precise end-goal (attachment to outcome). I see living creatively – or handcrafting a brave and beautiful life – as a process. A choice to honour the beauty and wisdom of every season. A process of learning to trust ourselves and become our most honest and healed/integrated selves. A journey that is above all about experiencing the world and life more than about producing or consuming. In this episode I share: A four stage process of creative breakthroughs and moments of insight.An example of how this operates in my life and why this was soooo affirming for me.Who might have a harder time trusting this process.How focusing on process over product or attachment to specific outcome lowers anxiety, increases joy, and helps us develop self-trust.Life visioning and taking the longer view - and thinking of our whole lives as a creative process.And I refer to 12 lies that keep us from a creative life. In the episode blog post I link to a scientifically validated assessment that measures four types of skills that help people express their creativity - and share more nerdy science. :) Thanks for being here with me - enjoy your summer! krista xo

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When we make peace with messiness, we make space for joy! The Rebranding Middle Age Podcast offers a mix of story, evidence-based education, and practical application to help midlife women befriend their True Selves, (re)claim freedom, health, and joy, and show up fully to life in every season - even the hardest of them. Welcome! I'm Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui, founder of A Life in Progress™. I'm a writer, grief and trauma-informed mind-body coach, joyful living educator, and brave, curious, 'messy human' in progress. I'm also a highly sensitive person, life partner of 31 years, and a proud mama of 3 wise and creative humans, including my son who died by suicide in 2019. I know what it takes to make space for joy amid the messiness of life. My work is for: freedom-seekers, truth-tellers, and stubborn questioners, highly sensitive souls, slow-movers, and non-hustlers, the anxious, grieving, messy, and healing, reforming people-pleasers, perfectionists, performers, and peace-keepers, brave, weary, and curious women in the middle season of life ready to quiet the conditioning and noise to (re)claim freedom, health, and joy. Krista xo

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