59 Managing anxiety with Trish Beauchamp

Trish Beauchamp is a coach who helps women navigate change in relationships due to divorce, death or disconnection. She spent 35 years as a teacher and then experienced her own midlife unravelling facing personal challenges with health, relationships and her change in career. She joins me today to particularly talk about anxiety, cos I thought we could all do with some help in that particular area. • Why anxiety can be such an issue in midlife for many women • How midlife can be less of a crisis and more of an unravelling • Allowing ourselves to feel the feelings not fighting against them • The vagus nerve and how it can decrease our heighted levels of stress • Taking the time to create what we need to bring ourselves back into balance • Depression being about the past and anxiety about the future • Recognising the impact of sensory overload on our wellbeing • Recognising when overwhelm is getting to dangerous levels • Adding in self-care options to ensure we can live well • Identifying the triggers for anxiety • Reframing thoughts and changing neural pathways • Staying curious about what’s going on and ditching any sense of shame • Not feeling guilty about how we’re responding to Covid • Controlling what we can and not worrying about the rest • Looking for the elements that can bring us hope for the future • Understanding what good pain can hopefully bring us • Not allowing fear to compromise our immune system • Being gentle and compassionate towards ourselves • The three coping Cs – curiosity, compassion, connection • Remembering we have a choice in how we respond • Instant ways to shift your mind and emotions to another state when you’re totally overwhelmed by anxiety And more! Find out more about Trish: Trish’s website Facebook and Linkedin If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it and leave a review on iTunes or wherever you’re listening. Find out how to leave a review here: bit.ly/leavepodcastreview You can find out more information and get the show notes to every episode at magnificentmidlife.com. That’s also where you’ll find strategies, support and resources to help make your midlife magnificent. There’s a midlife wellness program, courses, midlife mentoring to help make the most of your next chapter and our online Members Club. If not now, when?

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Midlife isn’t the end of meaningful life, just the end of the first half rehearsal. Listen, laugh and be inspired as Rachel Lankester, author, mentor and founder of Magnificent Midlife, interviews women in midlife and beyond living authentic, empowered lives, not disappearing into obscurity. From round the world yachtswomen to 60 year old pole dancers, from palliative care doctors to sustainable food evangelists, this podcast explores the myriad things older women get up to and the issues we face. We challenge the status quo and bash those negative stereotypes about being an older woman. Need some inspiration about what’s possible for you when you're over 40, over 50 or beyond? These women will show you anything is. Need help overcoming your own limiting beliefs about getting older or struggles with menopause? Learn from women who’ve experienced the same but found ways to thrive and become who they were always meant to be. Learn their life-hacks and how they do what they do. This podcast is all about celebrating women in midlife and beyond. We’re not over the hill or on a downward slope. We get better with age not worse. We talk all things midlife, about issues that matter, and share fabulous stories of magnificent women doing very cool stuff. Now's our time! Find out more at magnificentmidlife.com.