258. Myths About Women in Midlife: A Conversation with Karen Anderson, Elizabeth Sherman and Jill Angie
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week on the podcast I’m joined by three of my Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching students, Elizabeth Sherman, Jill Angie, and Karen C.L. Anderson, as we begin to unravel how socialization affects the way women feel in their midlife years.
Tune in as we talk about why midlife is a great time to re-evaluate the relationship you have with yourself and the boundaries you hold with the people in your life, how to not allow your stage in life define your identity, and a better, more empowering alternative to the anti-aging tools society tells midlife women are a necessity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.1 | All right, y'all, my chickens, today we are getting into a whole period of life, a whole mood of several decades. |
| 0:37.6 | And I'm really excited about this episode and this conversation because one of my pet peeve isn't the right word because I'm not |
| 0:46.0 | upset with people about this. I'm upset with society which is always the case but |
| 0:51.2 | one of the things that just breaks my fucking heart is how often often women who are in midlife or middle age or honestly like 30 |
| 1:00.0 | or 35 which is really has not been middle age since like the 1800s, start having this thought |
| 1:07.1 | pattern that their life is over, like that it's too late to change things, that there a lot in life is chosen, they are who they are, |
| 1:16.4 | and I find that that just gets worse and worse over time. |
| 1:19.6 | Now obviously this is a thought pattern, so some people don't have it it which is awesome because I think there are amazing incredible women of every age who are like starting new careers or learning new hobbies or creating new art projects or learning new sports or like starting to lift weights |
| 1:36.2 | at 90, just doing incredible kick-ass things, which is amazing and inspiring, I think. |
| 1:41.9 | But I see so many women whose thought process is that it's sort of, they're over the hump, it's all downhill. |
| 1:49.0 | And that is just so tragic to me. I was having a conversation with a woman I know the other day who is in her early 60s and divorced and she was talking about dating in this way that was sort of like it's already too late for me to meet |
| 2:03.9 | someone my life is almost over I was like you even if you live to just be 80 that's |
| 2:10.6 | like 18 to 20 years of your life left. |
| 2:14.0 | That's a huge amount of time. |
| 2:16.0 | Think about all the shit that happened to you between when you were zero and 20, |
| 2:19.0 | or between when you were 20 to 40, or between when you were 40 to 40 or when you were 40 to 60. |
| 2:23.8 | So much can happen in that time. |
| 2:26.0 | And so to kind of declare that like it's already over for you |
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