Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today we're

going to be talking about how to deal with the anxiety of dating when you feel like your

biological clock is ticking and

you really want kids. Before we get into that, I want to share with you a free guide called

copy and paste texts for when he's pulling away or acting flaky. The link for that guide is in

the show notes of this episode. So today's episode and topic is inspired by

one of my group coaching clients, and she came to a session and shared that she felt really

overwhelmed with dating and how that played into her life decisions in general. She wasn't

even sure if she wanted to stay in the current city that she's living in.

She felt anxious about the time that she had left to meet somebody that she could have

kids with and she really did want to have kids and was the town where she lived even a good

place to meet somebody like that, or maybe it doesn't

really matter because she doesn't have time anyways. And so just in general, a big part of that

was the pressure around the timing of meeting somebody and having kids. And so I want to share with

you what I shared with her that ended up being really helpful for her.

Rather than thinking about all of these different options and hypothetical timelines and vague ideas about time running out and different options available to you,

the exercise is to take a sheet of paper

and write out your life vision. And this is something that I do about once annually,

maybe more if I need to reassess my priorities and where I'm headed and what I'm doing.

And what I do is I make different

categories for what feels important right now or what are areas of my life that I really want to

see enhanced. So for example, that might be community, career, health, love, hobbies, creativity, friendships. It can be as specific

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