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Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenWhen You Feel Off (And Nothing Is “Wrong”)In this episode of Getting to After, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos talk about one of the most common midlife experiences that’s hard to explain — and even harder to say out loud.When you don’t feel like yourself.Not sick.Not in crisis.Not falling apart.Just… off.This episode is a gentle space for the woman who’s been carrying on quietly, while something in her body keeps whispering, pay attention.Together, we explore why phrases like “Welcome to your 40s” often miss the mark, and how dismissi...
2026-02-0345 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenDo You Feel Everything? Understanding Thin Energetic Boundaries in MidlifeThis episode is for the woman who feels everything — the mood in the room, the tension behind a smile, the weight people don’t say out loud.In this solo episode of Getting to After, Chatone Morrison explores what it means to have thin energetic boundaries, especially in midlife, when your nervous system has already carried decades of responsibility, caregiving, leadership, and emotional labor.This conversation gently unpacks why feeling deeply is not a flaw or weakness, how thin energetic boundaries show up as exhaustion, overwhelm, or emotional “stickiness,” and why t...
2026-01-2737 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenCarrying Too Much? | Nervous System Support for Midlife WomenThis week’s episode of Getting to After is intentionally slower.If you’ve been holding a lot — emotionally, mentally, quietly — this episode offers a place to soften that grip without needing to fix anything. For many midlife women, the pressure to keep going doesn’t come from urgency, but from habit. And over time, that pressure adds up.In this episode, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos introduce F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Tuesday, a once-a-month rhythm on the podcast devoted to extended EFT tapping, nervous system support, and gentle emotional release. This session focuses on le...
2026-01-2038 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenArriving Without Urgency: New Year, New You Is NOT Needed!This week, we're easing into 2026 with a grounded conversation about retreat, integration, and emotional capacity. No “new year, new you” pressure — just a gentle reset for midlife women who want to begin softly.Includes a full EFT tapping session for releasing urgency and reconnecting to steadiness.Listen in and breathe with us.
2026-01-1337 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenThe Year We Found Our RhythmThis last episode of 2025 is a mosaic — a year made of moments, challenges, breakthroughs, and the steady rhythm we found even when life was life-ing.In this conversation, we look back at the episodes that shaped us, the women who walked with us, and the lessons midlife kept placing in our hands. We talk about what it means to push through when everything feels loud, how resilience grows in the quiet spaces, and why showing up week after week became an anchor for us and our community.This episode is pa...
2025-12-3053 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenA Nervous System Retreat for Midlife WomenThis episode is a nervous system retreat — a soft, grounding space for midlife women who feel overstimulated, stretched thin, or emotionally unsafe.Inside, we guide you through gentle breathwork, somatic calming, sensory resets, essential oil support, boundary wisdom, and a full EFT tapping sequence. Think of it as a quiet room where your body can settle and your mind can breathe.This is your soft place to land before the new year.Inside this episode:• Grounding + breath• Somatic tools for overstimulation• Essential oil support for stress• Boundaries for unsafe or drainin...
2025-12-2339 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife Women8 Ways to End Well Series: Making Peace with Money & GenerosityMoney carries stories — deep, inherited, and often unspoken.In this final episode of our 8 Ways to End Well series, we explore the real emotional weight midlife women carry when it comes to money, generosity, safety, and survival mode.Inside the episode:• A grounded conversation about scarcity, responsibility, and the pressure to hold everything• How money fear lives in the body — tight chest, braced shoulders, shallow breath• Why generosity feels impossible when your nervous system is on alert• Journal prompts to help you understand your patterns• A grounding moment led by Morganne
2025-12-1645 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenBoundaries That Protect Your Peace: What Shifts When You Pay AttentionBoundaries aren’t punishment — they’re protection with purpose.In Way 6 of our 8 Ways to End Well series, Chatone and Morganne explore why midlife women struggle with emotional limits, what the body reveals before the mind notices, and how to reclaim your peace with clarity and compassion.This episode includes a full EFT tapping sequence to help release guilt, honor your truth, and create boundaries that feel steady, familiar, and safe.Reflection prompts included.Your peace is not up for negotiation.Explore more at: gettingtoafter.com
2025-12-0931 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenReconnecting With Someone You Miss: How to Do It Gently in MidlifeIn this episode of Getting to After, we explore Way 5 of the 8 Ways to End Well — reconnecting with someone who once mattered. Midlife brings distance, transitions, and seasons that quietly reshape our relationships. Today we talk about how to reconnect gently, safely, and without pressure, especially when the year has felt long and heavy.We share why reconnection is so powerful for the midlife nervous system, what happens in your body when you see someone you’ve missed, and why certain people still hold pieces of your story. You’ll hear personal examples, reasons women drift apart, and simple ways t...
2025-12-0237 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenA–Z Self-Care Without Guilt: 26 Ways to Nurture Yourself Before 2025 EndsToday’s episode is a loving, practical walk through A–Z self-care — 26 splurge-worthy ideas that help you nurture yourself before the year ends. Some take a whole day. Most take 30 minutes. All of them remind you that caring for yourself is not selfish or indulgent. It’s necessary.Inside this episode, we explore:• Why guilt shows up when women try to rest• The power of intentional self-care (not just candles + creams)• How crying, quiet mornings, journaling, and intuitive eating re-regulate your energy• Why nurturing yourself matters before 2025 ends• A gentle EFT tapping sequence to re...
2025-11-2534 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenIntentional Rest: Rest Like You Mean It | 8 Ways to End Well SeriesFeeling tired but still pushing through? In this week’s Getting to After episode, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos explore what intentional rest really means for midlife women — no guilt, no shame, no burnout.💡 You’ll learn:• The difference between resting and shutting down• How to listen when your body whispers “I’m tired”• Why overachievement and exhaustion often travel together• Simple journaling prompts to discover your real rest needs• A gentle tapping sequence to help you give yourself permission to pauseThis episode reminds you: rest isn’t a luxury — it’s how you...
2025-11-1835 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenFinally, Nourishment Without Guilt: What Midlife Women Need Most Right NowWhat if nourishment had nothing to do with diets — and everything to do with listening?This week on Getting to After, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos explore what it really means to feed your body and your peace in midlife.For so many women, “nourishment” has become tangled with control, comparison, and guilt. But in this conversation, we’re rewriting that story. You’ll learn how to tune back in to your body’s natural signals, slow down at the table, and let food become a source of presence — not pressure.💚 In this e...
2025-11-1135 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenEight Ways to End Well: A Gentle Guide for the Last Weeks of 2025As 2025 winds down, this isn’t about rushing to finish strong — it’s about finishing steady. In this episode, Chatone and Morganne walk through eight ways midlife women can close the year with calm, clarity, and compassion. From nourishment and rest to reconnection, boundaries, generosity, and money peace, this episode invites you to breathe, reflect, and release what no longer fits.💜 No resolutions. No hustle. Just presence.🌿 Visit the new website: www.gettingtoafter.com🕊️ Get the Getting to After Fall 2025 Magazine: bit.ly/G2A-FALL25💫 S...
2025-11-0452 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife Women“Fine” Is Not the Truth | Reframing Language & Speaking Up After Domestic Violence"This week’s Getting to After episode might be our most powerful yet. It’s a micro masterclass in learning how to reframe your words, regulate your body, and reclaim your calm.And yes, since it’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we’re closing our Overcoming Silence 2025: Breaking Through Silence series with truth and tenderness. In this episode, Morganne and I walk you through four real-life role-plays: conversations at work, with family, with educators, and with medical professionals. We help you practice how to move from “I’m fine” to honest, safe expression.You’ll learn how to:• Prepare your...
2025-10-2845 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenRebuilding After Financial Chaos: EFT & Real Conversations on Money, Safety, and Self-WorthWith October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this week on Getting to After, we’re having a deeply honest talk about what it takes to rebuild—financially, emotionally, and energetically—after survival.Whether you’ve walked away from an abusive relationship or you’re simply facing a tough financial season, this episode offers comfort and clarity for every woman learning to trust herself again.Join Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos for a powerful, hope-filled conversation about:💜 The fear, guilt, and shame that surface when money feels uncertain💜 How EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can...
2025-10-2148 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenBreaking Through Silence, Part 3: When Healing After Abuse Feels HardSometimes healing hurts before it helps. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustosexplore what it feels like to rebuild after invisible abuse — when shame lingers and the “new normal” feels foreign.This episode blends truth-telling with EFT tapping for releasing shame, rebuilding self-trust, and creating safety in your own body again.💜 Recorded in real life — background dogs and all — because healing rarely happens in perfect silence.If your situation feels unsafe, please pause and come back when it’s safe to listen. You are not alone.📩 tapping@gettingtoafter.com💜 Private sessi
2025-10-1446 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenBreaking Through Silence, Season 2: Invisible Violence + EFT for Self-TrustWhat does violence look like when you can’t see it? This week, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos open a new chapter of Overcoming Silence — Breaking Through Silence. They explore the unseen toll of emotional and psychological control, and guide you through grounding and EFT tapping for self-trust.✨ Breaking Through Silence: Invisible Violence + EFT for Self-Trust premieres Tuesday, October 7th at 8:00 a.m. Eastern. Join us—and invite a friend who might need to hear she’s not alone. 💜📩 tapping@gettingtoafter.com
2025-10-0740 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenOvercoming Silence (Part 1 Recap): Finding Your Voice AgainWe’re starting Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a full-circle moment.This episode revisits the original Overcoming Silence series—where Morganne Bustos first shared her story—and honors the courage it takes to speak out and heal.Join Chatone Morrison and Morganne for grounding, gentle reflection, and an EFT tapping sequence to release shame and reclaim your voice.💜 Now streaming — “Overcoming Silence (Part 1 Recap)”
2025-10-0742 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenReleasing the Shame of Starting Over: Midlife Fitness & Wellness with Guest Expert Jessica WeinertStarting over isn’t failure — but in midlife, it can carry the heavy weight of shame. Whether it’s restarting a fitness journey, navigating menopause or perimenopause, or feeling like you’re “not where you thought you’d be,” those emotions are real.In this special guest episode of Getting to After, Chatone and Morganne sit down with Jessica Weinert — Midlife Fitness & Wellness Expert and the voice behind Fit & Well Fed. Jessica brings over 20 years of experience and truth-telling, unpacking myths about fitness, nutrition, and pelvic floor health while reminding us that women deserve strength, rest, and renewal at every s...
2025-09-2358 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenBack-to-School Stress & Hidden Midlife Overload: EFT for Moms and Women Feeling Fall OverwhelmThe school year brings traffic, car loops, and endless schedules — but for midlife women, those daily stressors are just the entry point. Beneath the surface is something bigger: the hidden overload of responsibilities, the invisible work no one acknowledges, and the way seasonal change stirs up overwhelm in both body and mind.In this episode of Getting to After, Chatone and Morganne keep it real about the frustrations of back-to-school chaos, but also peel back the layers to reveal what’s really weighing on women in midlife. Whether you’re juggling kids, adjusting to empty nest life, or simpl...
2025-09-1643 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenPut That Down! EFT for Emotional Decluttering | Season 2 KickoffWelcome to Season 2 of Getting to After! This first episode, “Put That Down!”, is all about emotional decluttering.Join hosts Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos as they explore:– What they had to release this summer (from downsizing to perfectionism)– Why midlife is the perfect time to stop carrying what doesn’t belong to you– Journal prompts to help you reflect– A guided tapping transformation to help you breathe lighter today✨ Don’t miss your last chance to grab the Midsummer Edition of our magazine: bit.ly/G2A-SUMMER✨ Get on the waiting l...
2025-09-0942 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife Women👉 Is Multi-Tasking Really Best? Finding Calm in MidlifeWe pride ourselves on multitasking — juggling meals, work, family, and endless to-dos. But in midlife, is multitasking actually helping us… or quietly exhausting us?In this week’s F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Tuesday Transformation, we tap through the pressure to “do it all” and reclaim presence.⚠️ Note: Part of our video feed was corrupted this week, so most of this episode is audio only, but the tapping guidance is still full and powerful.✨ What you’ll experience:A grounding breath + body practiceEFT tapping for multitasking overwhelmJournal-style...
2025-09-0921 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenIs Self-Acceptance in Midlife Possible? EFT Tapping for Women | Summer Series + Getting to After Podcast Season 1 Finale💜 Season 1 Finale 💜The last F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Transformation Tuesday is here — and it’s also the finale of Season 1 of Getting to After.This guided EFT session asks: Is self-acceptance in midlife really possible? Together we’ll tap to soften self-criticism, release comparison, and choose compassion.🙏 Thank you for supporting the summer series and our first full season. Every episode remains available on Spotify and YouTube for you to revisit anytime.🌟 Season 2 begins September 9 at 8 AM ET.
2025-08-2622 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenMoving Into Midlife Confidence: From Comparison to Authenticity with EFT/Tapping | FATT & Happy Tuesdays!Midlife brings wisdom — but it also brings a lifetime of comparisons that can make us shrink to fit someone else’s frame.In this episode of F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Tuesday, we’re tapping through the moments that make us question our belonging and replacing them with grounded, authentic confidence.✨ Tap along to:Release comparisonClear the fear of judgmentRoot into your own presenceAffirm your worth in any space📍 Book a personal EFT session: https://bit.ly/chat-tap📖 Free Getting to After Magaz...
2025-08-1219 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife Women“I Hate to Ask for Help!” | EFT Tapping for Midlife Women Who Struggle to Say What They NeedDo you feel uncomfortable asking for help—even when you really need it?This week’s F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Transformation Tuesday is for every midlife woman who’s navigating the messy middle:🔹 Changing needs🔹 Shifting energy🔹 And a world that still expects you to hold it all down like you’re 25In this gentle EFT session, we’ll tap through:– The shame of needing more than you used to– The pressure to stay “low maintenance”– The discomfort of asking for support—even with something as simple as a break, a boundary, or a br...
2025-08-0523 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenFrom Decision Overload to Inner Calm: From Swirl to Next Step | EFT Tapping for Midlife WomenEver feel stuck in a swirl of too many ideas… and no clear next move?In this episode of F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Tuesday, we’re releasing the pressure to “figure it all out” and practicing something gentler—presence over perfection. This guided EFT tapping transformation will help you move from mental overload to grounded action, one step at a time.✨ Inside this session:– Calming breathwork– Full EFT tapping rounds– Affirmations to soften perfectionism– 5 self-reflective questions to unlock clarity🌿 Why this episode matters:This week’s topic was inspired by a b...
2025-07-2925 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenTapping for Moms of Young Adult Children | EFT for Letting Go Without Losing Your Mind🎙️ New Episode Alert – FATT & Happy Tapping TuesdayThis week’s episode is for midlife women navigating one of the most tender transitions:💔 When your children are “almost grown” but you’re still carrying them in your heart.Inside this episode:✨ EFT tapping to release guilt, worry, and comparison✨ Emotional permission to let go—without letting them go✨ Reminders that you still deserve space, softness, and self-careIf you're a mother (or auntie, mentor, or bonus mom) to a young adult, this gentle tapping session will bring you grounding, grace, and real relief.💻 Also watch on YouTu...
2025-07-2217 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenIn Desperate Need of Rest & Still Can't Stop! | F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Tuesdays for Midlife WomenIn this special F.A.T.T. and Happy Tapping Tuesday episode, we’re focusing on the woman who’s tired — but scared to rest. Maybe that’s you.This is your Permission to Pause.No topic, no talk — just EFT tapping to help you breathe, release guilt, and reset without losing yourself.Whether you’re navigating chronic illness, menopause, caregiving, or burnout, this is your sacred slowdown space. You are not falling behind. You’re coming back to yourself.💫 New EFT tapping drops every Tuesday.
2025-07-1514 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenDoing It Anyway: Tapping for Change Without Support | F.A.T.T. & Happy TuesdaysWelcome to our summer-only series — FATT (Focus Attention & Take Time) & Happy Tapping Tuesdays — where we serve up short, powerful EFT sessions to help you reset your week with confidence, clarity, and calm.✨ In this very first episode, we’re talking about CHANGE — the kind you’re ready for, excited about, and maybe even scared of… because no one else seems to get it. Whether you’re switching careers, setting boundaries, or just deciding to do something different, lack of support can feel heavy.This tapping session is here to help you:Release the discouragement that c...
2025-07-0809 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenTapping to Calm the Clutter: Releasing What You No Longer NeedFeeling stuck in your space… and in your soul?This guided EFT Tapping Transformation designed by Chatone Morrison will help you release the emotional weight behind the physical clutter. Whether you're holding onto items because of grief, guilt, identity, or fear of letting go—this practice gently helps you begin again.💬 Inspired by our conversation with Professional Organizer Janelle Williams in Episode [Episode 45], this tapping sequence is a powerful tool to help calm your nervous system and reconnect with clarity, spaciousness, and self-compassion.🪞 Key themes:– Why letting go is more than just tidying up
2025-07-0712 minGetting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenThe Real Reason It’s Hard to Let Go: A Soulful Decluttering Chat with Professional Organizer, Janelle WilliamsWhy is it so hard to let go of things—even when they’re in the way?This week on Getting to After, Professional Organizer Janelle Williams joins us to unpack the emotional layers of clutter. From grief to guilt to identity, this powerful conversation explores why we hold on and how to begin releasing—starting with your pocketbook.✨ Full of insights, practical tips, and compassionate truths.🎧 Listen in and take the first step toward clearing space for the life you want.BONUS!! Be sure to l...
2025-07-071h 06Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenSecrets to Seeing Your Midlife Body with Less Judgement & More Confidence: Reflections of Confidence Series - Part 2What if the body you judge… is the body that’s been protecting you all along?In this follow-up episode, we explore midlife self-image, mirror work, and how to stop seeing your body as a problem to solve.🎧 No tapping this week, just truth and transformation.
2025-06-3038 minGetting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenReflections of Confidence: Changing How You See Yourself, Pt. 1What if the mirror was never the enemy? This week on Getting to After, we explore mirror work, midlife self-image, and the power of reclaiming confidence with compassion. Includes grounding + EFT tapping for healing body shame, especially for women in the throes of midlife madness! Video also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jpPTveZxcNQTo have your own personal session with us, visit: bitly/tap-chat
2025-06-2352 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenMidlife Wake-Up Call: You Can’t Keep Saying Yes to Everything | Getting To After PodcastWhen you’ve ignored your needs for too long, it’s easy to forget what you actually require. In this episode, Chatone and Morganne help midlife women rediscover the forgotten art of defining non-negotiables—and why they’re not optional if you want to thrive.This is your permission slip to:– Stop feeling guilty for having limits– Rebuild your boundaries from a place of self-worth– Identify the things you actually need (not just what’s expected)– Reclaim your “yes” and your sacred “no”Includes a powerful EFT tapp...
2025-06-1656 min
Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenHealing, Caregiving, Starting Over at 60: A Conversation with Janet Brown | Getting to After PodcastThis week on Getting to After, we welcome our very first guest—Janet Brown—a vibrant, truth-telling, plant-powered woman over 60 who's redefining what “after” looks like.A caregiver. A wife of 40+ years. A chronic illness survivor. A vegan food content creator. Janet is living proof that transformation doesn’t end at midlife—it begins again.In this deeply inspiring conversation, Janet shares how food became her medicine, how she maintains joy while managing her health, and how she’s learned to listen to her body without guilt.🎤 Hosted by Chatone Morrison & Morganne Bustos, this episode brings wisdom, la...
2025-06-111h 12Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife Women"I Just Felt Like Running" | EFT Tapping for Emotionally Tired Midlife WomenEver feel like you’re always “on the move” but not really going anywhere?This episode of the Getting to After episode unpacks the iconic line from Forrest Gump — “I just felt like running” — and how it mirrors the emotional exhaustion many midlife women carry every day.Join me, Chatone Morrison and my cohost, Morganne Bustos as we explore what it means to run emotionally — from grief, perfectionism, expectations, burnout, and even from ourselves. This isn’t just talk — it’s a space to be seen, understood, and gently supported through grounding, storytelling, and a powerful EFT tapping transformation...
2025-06-1142 minGetting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenFrom Fog to Focus: EFT Tapping Transformation for Midlife ClarityFeeling foggy lately? Struggling to finish thoughts—or sentences?You’re not alone. Midlife brain fog is real, and it’s more than just forgetting why you walked into a room.In this episode of Getting to After, Chatone and Morganne dive deep into the emotional and physical causes of brain fog in midlife—and how EFT tapping, grounding, and a few simple lifestyle shifts can bring your focus back online.This isn’t about pushing through.It’s about resetting your nervous system, reclaiming your calm, and letting go of the guilt.🌿 What You’ll Learn: - Why stress, hormone s...
2025-06-1148 min
Cooking with positivityWednesday: host chat & interviewIt is host chat Wednesdays Lisa and I will be chatting about family and then close during this time. We also have a riveting interview with entrepreneur, mom, content creator Chatone Morrison.
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Cooking with positivityWednesday: host chat & interviewIt is host chat Wednesdays Lisa and I will be chatting about family and then close during this time. We also have a riveting interview with entrepreneur, mom, content creator Chatone Morrison.
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Getting To After: A Safe and Empowering Space for Midlife WomenNervous System Support for Midlife Women | EFT Tapping to Release Pressure & Carry LessThis week’s episode of Getting to After is intentionally slower.If you’ve been holding a lot — emotionally, mentally, quietly — this episode offers a place to soften that grip without needing to fix anything. For many midlife women, the pressure to keep going doesn’t come from urgency, but from habit. And over time, that pressure adds up.In this episode, Chatone Morrison and Morganne Bustos introduce F.A.T.T. & Happy Tapping Tuesday, a once-a-month rhythm on the podcast devoted to extended EFT tapping, nervous system support, and gentle emotional release. This session focuses on le...
1970-01-0138 min