New Year's resolutions feel like setting yourself up for failure when you're juggling aging parents, kids, work, and constant disruptions. One health crisis, one facility transition, one unexpected family emergency—and suddenly your carefully planned goals are impossible to achieve.
But what if there was a better way? What if instead of rigid goals with pass-fail outcomes, you chose flexible themes that guide your decisions no matter what life throws at you?
In this episode, Valerie introduces a powerful reframe: choosing 3 yearly themes instead of traditional goals. Themes act as your North Star—providing direction without demanding a specific destination.
You'll discover:
This isn't about abandoning intention—it's about setting intentions that can weather life's storms. Because you deserve guidance that adapts to your reality, not goals that break under the weight of sandwich generation chaos.
Press play now to discover your North Star themes for the year ahead—or for any time you're ready to create meaningful direction in your life. (Because themes aren't tied to January 1st—they're for whenever you need them.)
You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change. We’ve pivoted through the years, but finally landed on the right path: content for moms in the ‘Sandwich Generation’, because midlife disruption doesn't have to break you.
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This podcast explores patience, meditation, confidence, presence, and overcoming resentment while cultivating calm, peace, mindfulness, clarity, mantras, and addressing loneliness and burn out; it covers boundaries, caregiving, guilt, affirmations, working moms, self-care, midlife crisis, empty nesters, empowerment, people pleasing, compassion fatigue, family caregiving, stress relief, self-worth, stress management, and how to shift from reactive to centered when feeling short tempered, offering tools for self acceptance, easing mental exhaustion, building emotional resilience, harnessing inner strength, and preventing caregiver fatigue for those in the sandwich generation through expert advice on boundaries setting.
