Blog and Resources
To guide you in finding your own path to the summit.
3 Key Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation for Gen X'ers Facing Physical Changes
Navigating physical changes as a Gen X'er can be tough, from health challenges to hormonal shifts. So let’s delve into three key benefits of mindfulness meditation to support you through these transitions. Transform your stress, activity, and pain with mindfulness practices.
5 Tips for Internal Spring Cleaning (the Gen X Way)
Spring is finally upon us! And with it comes renewed hope for making changes this year.
While many folks use spring to focus on external spring cleaning, it’s also a great time to do some internal spring cleaning that can support you in making a shift.
Here are five tips tailor-made for Gen X’ers to do some internal spring cleaning.
7 Tips for Sustainable Physical Well-Being in Our 40s and Beyond
It's time for Gen X'ers to embrace a more holistic approach. One that focuses on overall physical well-being, rather than external notions of "fitness."
So, if you're a Gen X'er who's struggling with your "fitness" through your 40s and 50s, here are 7 tips to help you develop a more holistic approach to physical well-being that may help you find motivation, joy, and ease in your journey . . . and maybe help you reach those tangible results too!
Is GenX Comfortably Numb? A Simple Practice to Get Comfortable with Feelings
There’s a general stereotype that GenX’ers are aloof, gruff, snarky, sarcastic, and champions of “tough love.”
Whether that stereotype is justified or not, and whether you identify with that stereotype or not, there’s one thing that I feel was true for me and other GenX’ers I know who grew up in the 70s and 80s:
We weren’t raised to understand or value our feelings and emotions.
Learn why it’s important to connect to our feelings and a quick practice to help you do just that!
When It Ain’t Workin’, Try the Costanza Approach: Do the Opposite
If you’re like most GenX’ers, then you’ll remember this classic Jerry/George exchange from a Seinfeld episode in 1994:
Jerry Seinfeld: “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”
George Costanza: “Yes, I will do the opposite. I used to sit here and do nothing, and regret it for the rest of the day, so now I will do the opposite, and I will do something!”
How many of you are banging your head against the wall doing the same thing over and over again, wondering why it’s not working? And then, weeks, months, or years later, you end up regretting that you’re still in the same place, banging your head against the wall?
Read more to learn how the Costanza approach could help you stop banging your head against the wall.
7 Quotes to Guide GenX Through Transitions in Our 40s and Beyond
If there’s one word that summarizes this stage of life for GenX’ers, it’s “transitions.”
Whether you call this stage “midlife,” “middle life,” “middle age,” “prime of my life,” or “who cares what it’s called,” something about the transitions we’re experiencing right now hits differently than transitions from other stages of our lives.
So to guide us through this chart-topping list of transitions in your 40s and beyond, I’ve curated a list of nostalgic quotes from other GenX’ers or our formative childhood years.
The GenX Midlife Career Crisis Survival Guide: 4 Steps
There’s something in the air that I’ve noticed…
both because I experienced it personally in my mid-40’s, and now I see many other GenX’ers in their 40’s and 50’s experiencing it.
There’s a feeling…a stirring…a restlessness.
And the place that so many GenX’ers seem to be experiencing this feeling most intensely is in their careers. It’s called a midlife career crisis…
and here’s your Survival Guide for navigating it.
Navigating Childlessness in Your 40s and 50s: A GenX Perspective
GenX is often viewed as the generation that reinvented adulthood. And along the way, many GenXers now find themselves Childless Not By Choice. This article explores what it means to be CNBC and how GenXers can use our unique generational traits to navigate being childless in our 40s and beyond.
16 Bullshit-Free Tips to Connect to Your Purpose in Your 40s/50s
A lot of GenX’ers I know — myself included — hit their 40s or 50s and start to wonder:
Who am I? What am I doing with my life? Is this all there is?
This post gives you 16 tips—that aren’t BS—that you can start using TODAY to find your purpose in your 40s and 50s.
4 Reasons for GenX’ers to Get Support in Their 40’s and 50’s
As a GenX’er in your 40’s and 50’s, you may have noticed some things lately. Feeling like every day is a roller coaster. Wondering how you got here. Questioning whether this is all there is. Feeling like there’s something “more” but you don’t know what. All of that is normal. And now, more than ever, is the time to recognize our tendencies to resist getting support for what we’re going through. This post talks about 4 benefits of receiving support in our 40’s and 50’s, and how we can lean into asking for and receiving more support.
Why It’s Important for GenX to Find Desire and Joy Right Now!
Generally speaking, GenX’ers we were raised to be independent, self-sufficient, and creative.
Yet, these amazing qualities have some shadowy aspects that have left many of us feeling trapped in mid-life by the lives we’ve so fastidiously built.
The reason is because we were never raised to give ourselves permission to ask what we deeply desire.
Why ask “what do I deeply desire?”
Why are “wants,” “wishes,” and “hopes” less powerful?
And how can a simple practice, show us that joy is a portal to what we deeply desire?
This is your invitation to go from “getting through” mid-life, to “transforming through” mid-life.