Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Midlife Ripening Podcast
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| The Five Dances of Anxiety—and How to Step Into Something More Alive | 30 Jul 2025 | 00:16:04 | |
What if your anxiety isn’t a problem to fix—but a pattern you’ve been dancing for years? In this episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, Brooke explores how anxiety often shows up as over-responsibility, perfectionism, or disappearing into busyness. Especially for women who lead, care, and carry it all. You’ll learn five common “dances” of anxiety—like overfunctioning, distancing, and blaming—and how each one began as a strategy for safety and belonging. The invitation isn’t to shame yourself out of them, but to recognize the muscle memory—and choose a new move. This episode is a compassionate guide to recognizing what’s alive beneath the spin… and how to begin dancing toward something more grounded, honest, and free.
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Seed to carry with you May you meet your anxiety with more love. May you notice the old choreography as it stirs— And may you pause. 💌 Want to Go Deeper? Explore 1:1 coaching, small group programs, and my weekly email series The Second Bite here. Original theme music by Dustin Hofsess. | |||
| Why Relaxed Women Are So Rare (and So Revolutionary) | 21 Jul 2025 | 00:20:53 | |
| Bonus episode! 3 Soulful Steps to Go from Overdoing to a Life That Breathes | 14 Jul 2025 | 01:05:33 | |
If you’ve been carrying it all—while quietly emptying your own cup—this conversation is for you. | |||
| Initiated by Life: A Conversation with Lianne Raymond on Midlife, Mentoring, and the Maturation of Women | 08 Jul 2025 | 00:38:20 | |
From Self-Help to Rhythm, Agency & Confidence in Midlife In this soul-nourishing episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, I’m joined by my longtime coach and mentor, Lianne Raymond—a life poet and a deeply wise guide for what it means to grow into our fullest potential. Lianne invites us to rethink midlife as a sacred initiation offered by life itself. We talk about menopause, matriarchy, mentorship, and the cultural hunger for mature presence. We explore how women can move from self-help toward rhythm, agency, and confidence. Whether you’re navigating perimenopause, questioning your next era, or longing to reclaim your own authority, this conversation offers a balm. If you’re curious what ripening into elderhood might make possible… This episode is for you. In this episode, we explore:
Bookmarks 🍒 “Women are lucky. Nature provides us with initiation, even when culture doesn’t.” — LR 🍒 “That kind of presence—where everyone around you feels more possible—is our birthright.” — LR 🍒 “I think women have been midwifing each other’s souls forever. We just call it coaching now.” — LR Seed to carry with you: "A Summer's Singing" by Lorna Crozier, from Everything Arrives at the Light (McClelland & Stewart, 1995). Where does that singing start, you know, that thin sound—almost pure light? Not the birds at false dawn or their song when morning comes, feathered throats warm with meaning. A different kind of music. Listen, it is somewhere near you. In the heart, emptied of fear, stubbornly in love with itself at last, the old desires a ruined chorus, a radiant bloody choir. Where does the singing start? Here, where you are, there’s room between your heartbeats, as if everything you have ever been begins, inside, to sing. ~ Lorna Crozier 💌 Connect with Lianne Raymond: Follow Lianne’s work at https://www.lianneraymond.com/, or on Instagram, @lianneraymond. 🫖 Ready to book a next step conversation with Brooke? | |||
| From Proving to Inhabiting All of Who You Are: A conversation with Joanna Lindenbaum on True Self-Acceptance. | 03 Jul 2025 | 00:32:55 | |
In this powerful, intimate episode of The Midlife Ripening Podcast, I’m joined by my longtime mentor and renowned coach-trainer, Joanna Lindenbaum, for a soul-deep conversation about what it means to stop worrying—and start inhabiting the truth of who you are.
Follow Joanna on Instagram: @joanna.lindenbaum 🫖 Ready to book a next step conversation with Brooke? | |||
| How to Name—and Nourish—What You Really Want | 20 Jun 2025 | 00:17:17 | |
Desire can feel slippery in midlife. In this episode, I share the deeper reasons why wanting can feel so fraught for midlife women—and offer a new, gentle way to begin listening again. I introduce you to the WANT Framework, a soulful tool to help you tell yourself the truth about your desires without shame or pressure. Whether your longings are whispering or roaring right now, this episode will help you start walking toward them with more clarity and compassion. What You’ll Learn
Bookmarks 🍒 “We’ve been trained to ask, ‘What’s realistic?’ before ‘What lights me up?’” 🍒 “Lingering in limbo—half wanting, half dismissing, half judging yourself—wears you out.” 🍒 “Sometimes we inherit dreams like heirlooms. They look precious—but they don’t quite fit.” Seed to carry with you: What’s one desire you’ve been whispering to yourself… but haven’t dared say out loud? Want to Go Deeper? You can join my weekly email series The Second Bite here. Or, fill out a coaching application. Original theme music by Dustin Hofsess. 🫖 Ready to book a next step conversation with Brooke? | |||
| Why I Stopped Measuring My Worth by Being Useful | 20 Jun 2025 | 00:10:34 | |
In this deeply personal episode, I share the story of how I unraveled my good-girl identity, said yes to midlife truth-telling, and began building a life that feels more like mine. I talk about burnout, overfunctioning, embracing a late-in-life neurodivergent identity, and the subtle reckoning that midlife brought into every corner of my life. What began as exhaustion became a soul invitation. This episode is for anyone who’s built a beautiful life on paper—but is waking up inside it thinking: This isn’t quite it. What You’ll Learn
If you’ve ever felt like you’re holding it all together for everyone else—but losing touch with your own aliveness—this episode is here to meet you where you are. Bookmarks 🍒 “Midlife came in like a wry, knowing elder and said: Love, are you ready to stop pretending?” 🍒 “I built a life to prove I was worthy—but not one that made me feel alive.” 🍒 “You don’t have to earn a new life. You only have to return to the truth of who you are.” Seed to carry with you: Where are you being invited to choose soul over strategy? Want to Go Deeper? You can join my weekly email series The Second Bite here. Or, fill out a coaching application. Original theme music by Dustin Hofsess. 🫖 Ready to book a next step conversation with Brooke? | |||
| The Midlife Ripening: Begin Again from the Inside Out | 19 Jun 2025 | 00:08:28 | |
In this inaugural episode, I share why I created The Midlife Ripening Podcast and the deeper longing that fuels it: the need for conversations that go beyond hot flashes and hormone shifts—and into the quiet ache, the inner questions, and the tender longings so many of us carry but rarely name. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, underfed, or like you’re living at the edges of your own life, this episode offers relief. We’ll talk about what it means to stand in the sacred fog between the first and second halves of life—between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. This podcast is here to make space for all of it: the grief, the creativity, the unbecoming, the joy. Because midlife is not about having your shit together. It’s about finally letting yourself be fully here. What You’ll Learn
If you’ve ever felt like you’re holding it all together but quietly unraveling on the inside—this episode was created for you. Bookmarks 🍒 “The second bite of life is not about getting your shit together. It's about letting yourself be fully here: imperfect, radiant, unfolding.” 🍒 “So much of this conversation still focuses on the outside—the physical body, the symptoms, the supplements, our skin, the shape of our lives on paper. What I’ve been longing for is a space to talk about the inside—our unspoken hungers, our grief, our longings.” 🍒 “If this podcast were a love letter—and in many ways, it is—it’s for midlife women who are no longer willing to squeeze themselves into the margins of their life.” Seed to carry with you: What’s one word that describes your relationship to midlife right now? Want to Go Deeper? You can join my weekly email series The Second Bite here. Or, fill out a coaching application. Original theme music by Dustin Hofsess. | |||