Midlife Moms Podcast
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsFriends and fellow authors Brenda Yoder and Amelia Rhodes offer encouragement, resources, and practical advice to help moms thrive in midlife. From raising and releasing children, tweens and teens, parenting young adults, caring for aging parents, to caring for your own health, moms in midlife feel the pressure to do and be it all for everyone. Join us as we talk about caring for yourself, keeping healthy relationships, and growing your faith in the middle of it all. You're not alone!
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
S2E1 Embrace the Fullness
September 13, 2021 05:00 - 23 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this conversation Brenda and Amelia chat about all the life changes since their last episode, and how they’re navigating life and family through those changes. Learn how to: ✅ Shift expectations of family time. ✅ Be intentional with time together. ✅ Give your kids more personal responsibility. ✅ Give yourself grace as you let go of any guilt, control, or expectations about family life. ✅ Nurture your teen and young adults by being fully present. ✅ Embrace the fullness. 💯 Share wit...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 12: Learning to Have Fun
June 21, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about the importance of learning to have fun and play during the midlife season, especially since life can be heavy. In this episode you’ll find encouragement to: ✅Be intentional about having fun and play. ✅Get input and find things the entire family can enjoy. ✅Try new things. Spelunking anyone? ✅Shift your expectations and don’t put so much pressure on the adventure. ✅ Learn to not take yourself too seriously and laugh. 💯 Share with us wha...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 11: Parenting Gen Z
June 14, 2021 04:00 - 19 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this conversation Brenda and Amelia talk about the unique joys and challenges of raising Generation Z teens and young adults. In this episode you’ll find encouragement to: ✅ Support and understand this generation that has the potential to shape the world for good. ✅Recognize how they are coming of age during a pandemic. ✅Understand some of the differences between the generations and how growing up in the “wake” of the Millennial generation influences Generation Z. ✅See how their inher...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 10: Denial of Midlife
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about our tendency to deny being in midlife and the pressure to look and stay “young.” In this episode you’ll find encouragement to: ✅ Laugh about the “midlife brain.” ✅ Fight the “Golden Girls” mentality of being old. ✅ Not steal youth from those in their 20s and 30s. ✅ Respect your body for the gift it is. ✅ Fight culture’s expectation and pressure to stay “young.” ✅ Adapt and own your role in these decades. ✅ Discover the value of interg...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 9: Insecurity as a Mom
May 31, 2021 04:00 - 22 minutes - 34 MBIn this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about our various insecurities as moms raising teens and young adults. Discover how to: ✅ Deal with your changes in midlife while your teens and young adults also face big changes and insecurities. ✅ Understand your teen’s rudeness and their desire for autonomy. ✅ Stand firm in the storm of all the changes happening in your family. ✅ How your kids still need you even when they’re pushing you away. ✅ Know you’re not alone in these insecuritie...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 8: Health
May 24, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 44.1 MBIn this conversation, Brenda and Amelia talk about our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in midlife. In this episode, we discuss thriving in the midst of: ✅ Physical roadblocks of aches, pains, loss of energy and slowed metabolism, and the insecurity that comes with these changes. ✅ Potential mental health struggles of depression, anxiety, panic attacks or feeling melancholy. ✅ Changing and new emotions (including irritability!) and learning to be gentle with yourself. ✅ ...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 7: Insecurity
May 17, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this conversation Brenda and Amelia chat about insecurities that surface during midlife and how to say “So long, insecurity” and move forward. ✅ Take confidence from one area of your life and apply it to another. ✅ Face the feeling of being unseen. ✅ Learn to see yourself as more than your roles as wife and mom. ✅ Realize there is freedom in not having to do certain things anymore. 💯 Share with us what’s making you laugh and your laughing matter could be featured on the podcast! Emai...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 6: Vulnerability
May 10, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 56.2 MBJoin this conversation as Brenda and Amelia chat about vulnerability and overcoming the fear and risk of being real with others. ✅ Journey through anxiety, panic and anger ✅ Find safe places to be vulnerable both in person and online ✅ Learn how to get over the fear of being vulnerable ✅ Discover the power of being vulnerable with God first before going to people ✅ Understand the importance of modeling for your kids how to accept or request help from others ✅ Know when to start with pr...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 5: Friendship
May 03, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 49.9 MBBrenda and Amelia chat about friendship in midlife. In this episode you’ll discover: ✅ The necessity of reciprocal relationships ✅ Facing and overcoming loneliness ✅ How friendships change in midlife ✅ Building strong friendships through H.E.L.P. ✅ Tips for building relationships during this busy season ✅ The value of multi-generational friendships Join the conversation on Instagram at @midlifemomspodcast or in our private Facebook group Midlife Moms Community. 💯 Share with us wha...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 4: Grief
April 26, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 47.7 MBBrenda and Amelia chat about the various types of grief we experience as midlife moms and moving through our grief into a new reality. In this episode you’ll discover: ✅ We all have “big feelings” in midlife! ✅ Various types of mom grief ✅ The need to chase the “why” for your grief ✅ How to move forward and make meaning from your grief ✅ Your grief matters to God 💯 Share with us what’s making you laugh and your laughing matter could be featured on the podcast! Email us at midlifemomspo...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 3: Aging
April 19, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 42.2 MBBrenda and Amelia encourage midlife moms to embrace and maybe even enjoy aging! In this episode Brenda and Amelia help you: ✅ Recognize and celebrate milestone years ✅ Accept your body and its changing needs ✅ Not be ashamed about where you are in life ✅ Find sources of inspiration from those ahead of you in years ✅ Know that God redeems the years locust have eaten and find hope when you can’t see it ✅ Own your story ✅ Find the power of daily gratitude ✅ Shift your focus from the pro...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 2: Laughter
April 12, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 48.8 MBJoin Amelia and Brenda as they share the importance of laughter during this midlife season. ✅ Why it’s important to not take yourself too seriously. ✅ The health benefits of laughter. ✅ The need for laughter that heals and helps not hurts and harms. ✅ The dangers of sarcasm. ✅ Realizing how our words impact our kids, including our joking. ✅ Finding ways to foster healthy, non-shaming laughter with our families. 💯 Share with us what’s making you laugh and your laughing matter could ...
Midlife Moms Podcast Episode 1: Introduction
April 12, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 52.9 MBFriends and fellow authors Brenda Yoder and Amelia Rhodes offer encouragement, resources, and practical advice to help moms thrive in midlife. Join the conversation on Instagram at @midlifemomspodcast. In this episode, Brenda and Amelia share a bit of their journey through motherhood and midlife with encouragement to: ✅ Know you’re not going through midlife alone ✅ See the gifts in this season of parenting and life ✅ Parent teens and young adults through the pandemic ✅ Understand the im...
Midlife Moms Podcast: Get Ready!
March 19, 2021 18:36 - 52 seconds - 3.96 MBComing April 12! Join friends and fellow authors Amelia Rhodes and Brenda Yoder as they launch this new podcast for moms in midlife. You'll find resources and encouragement to not just survive but thrive in this season of life. Subscribe now and join us here April 12! Join us on Instagram @midlifemomspodcast and join our Facebook Group for extra content and community. Visit our website at midlifemomspodcast.com