295: Juggling Doubt and Uncertainty with the Midlife Crisis Doctor Dr. Julie Hannan

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dr Julie Hannan is a Psychologist in private practice in the UK helping ‘midlifers’ aged 35-60 find their value, meaning and purpose in life as they traverse the tricky terrain of their middle years.

When both her children left home within 4 months of each other, she found that her sense of purpose reduced, her love for her clinical work diminished and she experienced a midlife crisis with an overriding sense of feeling lost. A midlife crisis is a crisis of identity and research suggests that 1 in 10 midlifers experience it.

Searching for information to support and understand what she was going through was thin on the ground either too highbrow without practical tips to help or too lightweight and full of cliches, again without a clear path to recovery.

Julie has spent years working with midlifers helping them to live the second half of their life in a more authentic, connected way and regaining a new sense of purpose. She has taken her experience to TikTok where her posts help and guide other people through their midlife crisis towards a fulfilling second half of life. Julie is proud to be publishing her book later this year which is full of information and practical tips and advice to overcome a midlife crisis. She says, ‘This is the book I needed when my crisis hit!’.

Grab Her New Book HERE.

In this episode, you will learn:

Why you need to find your values and align with them
How to strive for mental wellness
Why midlife is the perfect time to redefine yourself

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Natalie Jill and I help women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand, and laugh
0:07.8	with aging. Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated
0:14.7	information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down simply with
0:20.2	actionable steps you can implement
0:21.9	to level up your life. I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living
0:27.4	their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover topics about our shifting hormones,
0:32.7	weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more.
0:40.0	If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen from episode one when this podcast was
0:44.5	previously called Listen Up for the full transformative experience.
0:52.0	Today I'm here with the Midlife crisis doctor who I found on TikTok.
0:57.5	I love her videos.
0:58.8	They're so informative.
1:00.0	What I love about her is she was already in the psychology space.
1:04.7	Like she was already helping people.
1:06.7	And then she herself walked through what we're going to talk about today, a midlife crisis.
1:11.5	And she had to figure out sort of what that was and how to navigate it. And now she serves
1:15.6	others doing this, not just patients, clients, but she really does a great job online,
1:20.6	getting other women to feel seen, heard, and understood in this topic and helping them there.
1:25.0	So thank you so much for being here today. Oh, I'm delighted to be here. Thank you for asking. Yeah. So I guess take us back.
1:30.9	What type, what were you doing before the midlife crisis? Like what, who were you helping?
1:36.2	What were you, what were you doing? Okay. So, so I'm a counseling psychologist. So psychology is a
1:42.3	second career for me. So the first part of my career
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