Topics · Connection · 31 episodes, 23 guests
Research I shared found that adults in their late 40s and 50s reported the highest levels of loneliness of any age group studied. Life gets so full and so fast that friendships quietly drift before we even notice. Try this: send a text, make an invitation, take a walk, or sit at a table you love with people who see you.
Here are a few of them, with the episode where we talked about it.
This solo episode explores why friendship in midlife is not a luxury but essential to your health and longevity, and gives you five practical ways to build the connections that will carry you into the next chapter of your life.
Play episode 95At the heart of this conversation is a truth so many midlife women are quietly sitting with: we are all longing to be truly seen. But real love only becomes possible when we believe we are worthy of receiving it.
Play episode 98Women going through menopause are two and a half times more likely to initiate divorce. A quarter of them say menopause played a part in why the marriage ended.
Play episode 74Feeling alone in midlife is common, and it is usually not about being unloved. Here is why connection changes shape and what actually helps rebuild it.
Read the articleFeeling alone in midlife is common, and it usually has nothing to do with being unloved. It happens because the structures that once created closeness change at once: children leave, a marriage's rhythm shifts, people you love die, and old routines stop running on their own. Connection stops being automatic. It has to be rebuilt on purpose. Read the article
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