The new midlife crisis: are you having one?
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
From fear of failure and emotional stress to social pressures and financial strains, Trish and Lorraine explore the symptoms of the new midlife crisis for generation X women with American author Ada Calhoun, whose latest book explores why you’re waking up in the 4am worry zone and what to do about it.
Plus: how to react when you catch your teen lying, the ultimate hi-tech face mask, reviving roller skates and remembering our first filthy books…
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| 0:00.0 | Trish asked me where I've been. |
| 0:01.2 | Where have you been in the car with my 17 year old? |
| 0:04.7 | Is that safe? |
| 0:06.7 | Is that an eagle? |
| 0:07.7 | Imagine that. |
| 0:08.7 | Her driving L plates, everything, me crying because she's still six in my head. In your heart. |
| 0:16.8 | Want to hug her and love her, her saying stop it, I'm trying to do a hill start, |
| 0:21.1 | me being a terrible driver. offer no advice it's all |
| 0:24.8 | coming your way Tresch you got to get ready I know I know I know I want you to put my |
| 0:28.9 | bike helmet on just in case which we said that was ridiculous. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello in case which we said that was ridiculous. Hello! Welcome to Postcars from Midlife. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Trish Helpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and we're on a mission to tackle all the big and small issues that affect women in this stage of our life. |
| 0:51.0 | From insomnia to mind and body wellness, |
| 0:53.2 | HRT to sex drive, careers and relationships. |
| 0:56.3 | And as always, the challenges and joys of parenting teams. |
| 0:59.6 | In this episode, we're going to be talking to American writer Ada Calhoun whose book |
| 1:04.5 | Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Mid Life Crisis takes an eye-opening look at the |
| 1:08.8 | unique challenges we Gen X women are facing in our midlife, including all that really annoying stuff that pings into our |
| 1:15.2 | minds when we wake up in the 4 a.m. worry zone. And if one of your worries happens to be your |
| 1:20.0 | teenagers being less than truthful, we'll be discussing why it is that teenagers lie and what you can do about it without starting World War 3 in the house. |
| 1:29.4 | And Lorraine and I have also been trying out some beauty products and wellness therapies and I'm afraid to |
| 1:35.0 | say Lorraine that mine involves singing. God awful. |
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