Finding Yourself in Midlife

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with guest Dr. Ellen Albertson on:

The Seven Steps to Rock Your Midlife
Dr. Ellen shares a transformative framework from her book Rock Your Midlife, including: know yourself, love yourself, energize yourself, reprogram your brain, empower yourself, rehab your relationships, and enlighten yourself. Each step is designed to guide women toward deeper self-understanding, vibrant health, and personal empowerment.
Redefining Midlife Through Resilience and Joy
From blindness to breast cancer, divorce to career pivots, Dr. Ellen opens up about how these challenges catalyzed her growth. She reframes adversity as an invitation to reinvent yourself and emphasizes that midlife can be the richest, most joyful chapter yet.
Breaking Up with the Hustle Culture
A former workaholic, Dr. Ellen describes how she stepped away from burnout by embracing her Human Design, discovering hand pan music, and becoming a yoga teacher. She encourages women to create space for new passions and reject the belief that worth is tied to productivity.
Tranquility Through Ritual and Self-Compassion
From walking barefoot on her Vermont property to tapping, journaling, strength training, and HeartMath breathing, Dr. Ellen's daily rituals are rooted in self-love and embodiment. Her biggest advice? Make self-compassion your superpower—and let joy lead the way.

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Our Guest: Dr. Ellen Albertson

Today's guest is Dr. Ellen Albertson, The Midlife Whisperer®—a psychologist, nutritionist, and founder of Dragonflying™, a method that helps women 40+ rise, reinvent, and reclaim their power. She's a bestselling author, menopause expert, and wellness coach who blends science with soul to help women feel confident, energized, and lit up from the inside out.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello there and welcome back to Tranqually DeJure, your cozy corner for Midlife Musings and Mindful Living.
0:11.2	I'm Kimberly Wilson. I'm a psychotherapist, author, and tea-sipping guide on this journey
0:15.9	toward finding more beauty and balance in midlife. as we wrap up this season, we have one more
0:22.8	episode after this one, and it's going to be a doozy because it's me on my birthday, my 52nd,
0:29.7	which is June 30th, and that's going to be a tiny bow around season two and tying a bow around 20
0:36.2	years of podcasting. So you definitely want to tune in for that.
0:41.1	I think you're going to love this week's episode on Finding Yourself in Midlife. Before we dive in, I want to
0:48.2	share a few things that are upcoming really like right around the corner in addition to the
0:53.3	season finale that I'm really
0:55.3	excited to share with you. So first of all, coterie wait list. So those of you who are interested,
1:02.6	the doors open to my signature program, the coterie twice a year in December and then also in
1:10.3	mid-year, which is now July. And I have a really fun
1:14.8	bonus for those of you interested in joining the wait list and then actually coming on board
1:19.8	as a member, you're going to get a Parisian-inspired care package. So that's pretty fun,
1:25.2	along with a T-shirt and then a group tea gathering virtual.
1:30.0	So there's a link to this in the show notes. And there's also a free event that I'm hosting
1:34.4	when I am back from my ballet festival and I'm back from my birthday. And I would love to have
1:43.3	you. And it's the weekend of 4th of July, but it's Sunday night.
1:47.3	So mark your calendars, and it's Sunday night at 7 p.m. And it's my, a tranquil midyear. So I love to do
1:53.5	this, a tranquil midyear and a tranquil new year. I do these, of course, every year. And it's just a fun
1:58.6	way to come together, do some reflection, a little hopefully
2:01.7	jolt of inspiration that the year is definitely not over yet, honey. Okay? So we still have tons of time
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