Dealing with Aging Parents

Heal, Survive & Thrive!

Stephanie Lyn

Education:self-improvement, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Maybe you’re the responsible one, the one running their finances, dealing with illness, or trying to figure out what their future will look like. It’s no wonder you’re exhausted. You’ve added yet another thing to manage, handle, and worry about. The things we’re dealing with when it comes to our parents are completely new territory. The roles have reversed. They need us more than we need them in many ways. A lot of you worry about your parents and feel responsible for helping or being there more than you realistically can or even want to. Then the guilt sets in. Maybe you don’t see your parents as often as you’d like. Maybe you’re always the one handling everything while your siblings are a no-show. Or maybe you don’t have much of a relationship with them at all and you’ve realized that the next time you see them, it might not be under good circumstances. So today, let’s unpack all of it, because this is something so many of us are dealing with and one that we need help navigating, whether it’s the guilt, worry, stress, fear, or resentment. For more information visit: www.StephanieLynLifeCoaching.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StephanieLynCoaching LTK: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/StephanieLynStyle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielyncoach/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeg1m9pu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephanielyncoaching Thank you for your love and support! Stephanie

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to He'll Survive and Thrive. Today is kind of a weird episode. I had this
0:08.3	on my list of things to talk about because first off, I think it's something that I've gone through,
0:14.6	am going through, when you hit midlife and the roles kind of change in your life. I just, I feel like in your 40s,
0:23.7	it's, there's so much more on your plate than there ever was before. And your energy levels
0:30.7	change because your hormones are, of course, all over the place and you feel absolutely
0:34.3	exhausted and you almost like don't even know. You don't feel like yourself and you don't have the same not necessarily even drive but like you just don't have
0:42.8	the same energy that used to have but more is being added onto your plate in terms of responsibility
0:48.3	and you know you're still in the midst of your career or you're still in the middle ground of raising kids.
0:59.6	Maybe not.
1:00.2	Maybe kids are starting to leave and you're sitting figuring out what do I do next.
1:05.4	I feel like your 40s can be so all over the place very much more so than in my opinion your 30s of course
1:16.1	you can still have a woman who's getting married and a woman who's single until 37 and another you
1:21.1	know a friend was married at 30 and then she started having kids at 33 but and those were different
1:26.0	phases of life for sure but I feel like your 40s because
1:29.5	of the hormones and everything shifting and going through periometopause and how that's just
1:34.6	affecting your physical health, your emotional health, your mental health. And then the added
1:39.1	stressors that I think are put on us at this age and the expectations and just the world we live in
1:47.8	general. I mean, we live in a very fast-paced world that it's so overwhelming. And when you add
1:54.6	aging parents on top of that, it just, it's so much more stress. And this is really like a big thing for a lot of
2:03.9	women in their 40s and in their 50s. And it's the stage that we hit where we're juggling everything,
2:10.2	kids or teens, our careers. Our health is starting to shift because of perimenopause and everything.
2:17.4	And then suddenly
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