Reframe Your Life
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsReframe Your Life is a podcast for women who want to explore topics that will support change and transformation in their lives.
From inspiring author interviews to lively conversations between friends, this podcast is for women over 50 looking for a voice that feels like home. From leadership to spirituality and lots in between - you'll find it here. Subscribe and browse through 7 years of episodes.
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125 | Navigating the Messy Middle with Ann Douglas
February 23, 2023 20:15 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBAfter a two year hiatus, Reframe Your Life is back. It took a special guest to get me to record another episode. Ann Douglas was Canada's go-to expert on all things parenting for decades. Now that her kids have grown up and left home, she's turning her attention to the glorious messiness that is midlife. And she hasn't just been researching it; she's been living it: trying to find her way through all that messiness-career curveballs, mental and physical health challenges, a house fire, rela...
124 | Adventures in Opting Out with Cait Flanders
January 01, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBWe had a great time talking to Cait Flanders author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Year of Less. It may seem like an odd time to publish a book about opting out and yet, as we discovered, this is the perfect time to get serious about leading an intentional life. Find out more about Cait here. Follow on IG @caitflanders Find out more about Sandy here. Follow on IG @sandyareynolds Find out more about Patti here. Follow IG @pattimhall
123 | The Age of Creativity with Emily Urquhart
December 11, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBAbout the book: It has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace had slowed, he was continuing his daily art practice of drawing, painting, and constructing large-scale sculptures, and was even innovating his style. Was he defying the odds, or is it possible that some assumptions about the elderly are fla...
122 | Teaching Hamlet as My Father Died with Erica Cantley
November 27, 2020 12:37 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBArt crashes into life for author Erica Cantley when she finds herself behind a podium in front of a class of high school seniors, teaching HAMLET as her father died, thousands of miles to the south in Costa Rica. Interspersing interactions with her teenage students and memories of her father, desperately sick and difficult to reach in his adopted jungle home, Cantley guides her students through HAMLET -- written four centuries ago -- while reflecting upon the impending loss of a parent in t...
121 | Alone with Michelle Parise
November 13, 2020 11:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBThis week on Reframe Your Life we interview award-winning producer Michelle Parise about her book Alone: A Love Story. This memoir is about falling in love, the fallout of infidelity, and everything messy in between — and the inspiration behind the hit CBC podcast. Parise has worked for CBC Radio and Television for over two decades. She was born and raised in Toronto in a gigantic Italian immigrant family.
120 | My Year of Living Spiritually with Anne Bokma
October 30, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBOur guest this week is Anne Bokma . She is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of My Year of Living Spiritually: From Woo-Woo to Wonderful—One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life published by Douglas & McIntyre in October 2019. A leading expert on North America's 80-million strong "spiritual-but-not-religious" demographic, Anne was the award-winning "Spiritual But Secular" columnist for the United Church Observer (now Broadview) for four years before writing her ...
119 | Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder with Julia Zarankin
October 16, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBAn unexpected and belated mid-life love affair with birds and nature and finally discovering one’s place in the world – Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder illuminates the joyful experience of a new discovery and the surprising pleasure to be found while standing still on the edge of a lake at six a.m. When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stre...
E118 | Foxfire, Wolfskin and other stories of shapeshifting women with Dr. Sharon Blackie
October 02, 2020 12:36 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBWe all have books that have greatly influenced us. Dr. Sharon Blackie's bestselling book, If Women Rose Rooted is on Sandy's list of books that came along at just the right time in her life. Having the opportunity to interview Dr. Blackie was a gift! If you aren't familiar with her, it is our privilege to introduce you! Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer and internationally recognised teacher whose work sits at the interface of psychology, mythology and ecology. Her highly acc...
118 | Foxfire, Wolfskin and other stories of shapeshifting women with Dr. Sharon Blackie
October 02, 2020 12:36 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBWe all have books that have greatly influenced us. Dr. Sharon Blackie's bestselling book, If Women Rose Rooted is on Sandy's list of books that came along at just the right time in her life. Having the opportunity to interview Dr. Blackie was a gift! If you aren't familiar with her, it is our privilege to introduce you! Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer and internationally recognised teacher whose work sits at the interface of psychology, mythology and ecology. Her highly acclai...
117 | How to Lose Everything with Christa Couture
September 18, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 66.1 MBChrista Couture reframes the experience of loss for us in her beautiful memoir, How to Lose Everything. In this interview we talk about the questions she gets asked most frequently, her story of loss and the writing process. Synopsis of her book: From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened...
116 | Beth Wyatt and The Calm & Cozy Book of Sleep
September 04, 2020 12:00 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBIt's been said that 'life is a search for a good night's sleep.' If you have ever been sleep deprived you might relate. Sleep disruptions are more common than we realize. Sleep Coach Beth returns to Reframe Your Life to discuss her beautiful new book. It's not just a pretty book though, it is a practical resource to help you get the rest you need. You'll want to hear her publishing story as well. You never know what can happen on social media! For more on Beth check out this previous episode:...
115 | Moment of Glad Grace with Alison Wearing
August 21, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBYou are going to love this author and her latest book! Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer and performer. In addition to award-winning articles, short stories, essays and solo plays, she is the author of three critically-acclaimed memoirs. Honeymoon in Purdah became a national bestseller and was published in seven countries. Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter was both a bestselling memoir and a multiple award-winning solo play. Her new book, Moments of Glad Grace, has been heralded as "a w...
115 | Moments of Glad Grace with Alison Wearing
August 21, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBYou are going to love this author and her latest book! Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer and performer. In addition to award-winning articles, short stories, essays and solo plays, she is the author of three critically-acclaimed memoirs. Honeymoon in Purdah became a national bestseller and was published in seven countries. Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter was both a bestselling memoir and a multiple award-winning solo play. Her new book, Moments of Glad Grace, has been heralded as "a wise,...
114 | Blissfully Blended Bullshit with Rebecca Eckler
August 07, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBThis week we sit down with Rebecca Eckler and talk about her latest book and how she manages to be so bold in her work. Anyone in a blended family or thinking about attempting to bring two families together will benefit from this book. Rebecca Eckler’s newest book chronicles the hard truth of what it’s really like to make a blended family. Blissfully Blended Bullshit is a witty, engaging, refreshingly candid chronicle of a modern family’s journey as they blend households. We follow Eckler...
113 | Samra Zafar on A Good Wife
July 24, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBOn this episode we interview Samra Zafar about her book A Good Wife. From her website, " This ia a modern-day fairy tale where the heroine saves her own life." Samra faced years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, her determination and desire to forge a better life for herself never left her as she made slow progress towards her dreams. Find out more about Samra at her website. Find out more about Patti M Hall at her website. Find out more...
Episode 113 | Samra Zafar on A Good Wife
July 24, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBOn this episode we interview Samra Zafar about her book A Good Wife. From her website, " This ia a modern-day fairy tale where the heroine saves her own life." Samra faced years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, her determination and desire to forge a better life for herself never left her as she made slow progress towards her dreams. Find out more about Samra at her website. Find out more about Patti M Hall at her website. Find out...
112 | Kate Armstrong, author of The Stone Frigate
July 09, 2020 15:07 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBKate Armstrong inspired us with her truth-telling memoir about what it meant to be part of the first class of women attending Royal Military College. This book touches on many of the issues that women with natural leadership gifts encounter in their lives. You can find out more about Kate at her website. For more on writing your story contact Patti here. For more on reframing your life and learning to chart your own course connect with Sandy here.
Episode 112 | Kate Armstrong, author of The Stone Frigate
July 09, 2020 15:07 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBKate Armstrong inspired us with her truth-telling memoir about what it meant to be part of the first class of women attending Royal Military College. This book touches on many of the issues that women with natural leadership gifts encounter in their lives. You can find out more about Kate at her website. For more on writing your story contact Patti here. For more on reframing your life and learning to chart your own course connect with Sandy here.
Episode 111 | Author Jane Christmas discusses her new book, Open House
June 26, 2020 09:58 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBJane Christmas has written several memoirs. You will want to read them all! Find out more of Jane at her website. Inspired to write your own story? Patti M. Hall can help. Find out more about her work here. Are you afraid you will disappoint someone if you move forward or share your story? Talk to Sandy!
111 | Author Jane Christmas discusses her new book, Open House
June 26, 2020 09:58 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBJane Christmas has written several memoirs. You will want to read them all! Find out more of Jane at her website. Inspired to write your own story? Patti M. Hall can help. Find out more about her work here. Are you afraid you will disappoint someone if you move forward or share your story? Talk to Sandy!
Episode 110 | Deborah Bakti on supporting long term care workers and creating stronger communities
June 12, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBWhile working as an executive in the seniors' care industry, Deborah Bakti's professional and personal lives collided when her husband Ty, was diagnosed with a rare disease. When her husband was admitted to a long-term care home, Deborah was forced to adopt a new role; that of a residents' wife. On this episode we talk about her book RECIPE for Empathy and the strategies she teaches for transforming the long term care experience for families. Find out more about Deborah at her website. ...
110 | Deborah Bakti on supporting long term care workers and creating stronger communities
June 12, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBWhile working as an executive in the seniors' care industry, Deborah Bakti's professional and personal lives collided when her husband Ty, was diagnosed with a rare disease. When her husband was admitted to a long-term care home, Deborah was forced to adopt a new role; that of a residents' wife. On this episode we talk about her book RECIPE for Empathy and the strategies she teaches for transforming the long term care experience for families. Find out more about Deborah at her website. Fin...
Episode 108 | Louisa Deasey - A Letter from Paris
May 28, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB"When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a French woman about a stack of letters written about Louisa's father, neither woman can imagine the events it will set in motion." Tell me you don't want to find out more! My co-host Patti M Hall and I talk with Louisa Deasey about writing and a story that is proof truth is stranger than fiction. Enjoy! For more on Louisa Deasey find her here. For more on Patti M Hall click here. For more on Sandy Reynolds click here.
109 | Louisa Deasey - A Letter from Paris
May 28, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB"When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a French woman about a stack of letters written about Louisa's father, neither woman can imagine the events it will set in motion." Tell me you don't want to find out more! My co-host Patti M Hall and I talk with Louisa Deasey about writing and a story that is proof truth is stranger than fiction. Enjoy! For more on Louisa Deasey find her here. For more on Patti M Hall click here. For more on Sandy Reynolds click here.
Episode 109 | Louisa Deasey - A Letter from Paris
May 28, 2020 23:01 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB"When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a French woman about a stack of letters written about Louisa's father, neither woman can imagine the events it will set in motion." Tell me you don't want to find out more! My co-host Patti M Hall and I talk with Louisa Deasey about writing and a story that is proof truth is stranger than fiction. Enjoy! For more on Louisa Deasey find her here. For more on Patti M Hall click here. For more on Sandy Reynolds click here.
Episode 108 | Soulbbatical with Shelley Paxton
May 21, 2020 21:38 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBOn this episode, memoir coach and RYL regular Patti Hall and I sit down with Shelley Paxton to talk about her book Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life. You don't have to be a corporate exec to benefit from Soulbbatical. There are lessons for everyone. The energy and synergy in this episode was a beautiful thing. Stop reading and start listening!
108 | Soulbbatical with Shelley Paxton
May 21, 2020 21:38 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBOn this episode, memoir coach and RYL regular Patti Hall and I sit down with Shelley Paxton to talk about her book Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life. You don't have to be a corporate exec to benefit from Soulbbatical. There are lessons for everyone. The energy and synergy in this episode was a beautiful thing. Stop reading and start listening!
Episode 107 | Loving Large with Patti M Hall
May 15, 2020 13:56 - 41 minutes - 57 MBThis episode kicks off a series featuring women who have written memoirs, hybrids and creative non-fiction. It's fitting to start with the newly released memoir beautifully written by the co-host of the series, Patti M Hall. Over 30 million-plus children in North America suffer from rare, chronic, or incurable diseases. Every person who loves and cares for one of these children may have a unique tale of the diagnostic treatment odyssey. Still, Patti's commonalities and the experiences of m...
107 | Loving Large with Patti M Hall
May 15, 2020 13:56 - 41 minutes - 57 MBThis episode kicks off a series featuring women who have written memoirs, hybrids and creative non-fiction. It's fitting to start with the newly released memoir beautifully written by the co-host of the series, Patti M Hall. Over 30 million-plus children in North America suffer from rare, chronic, or incurable diseases. Every person who loves and cares for one of these children may have a unique tale of the diagnostic treatment odyssey. Still, Patti's commonalities and the experiences of man...
Episode 106 | Life during Covid-19 with Jo-Anne Gibson
April 23, 2020 17:37 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBJo-Anne Gibson and I launched the first episode of Reframe Your Life on April 16, 2016. Four years later life looks a lot different. On this episode we reconnect to talk about how we are coping during this time of social-distancing.
Episode 105 | Uncertainty with Jennifer Hayden
March 28, 2020 19:01 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MBIn the midst of these uncertain times we can find help in getting through them by looking at how we have made it through challenges in the past. Jennifer Hayden is a breast cancer survivor who shared her story in the graphic memoir, The Story of My Tits. It's the first graphic novel I have read and I totally get the appeal. In this episode Jennifer talks about what she learned about uncertainty.
Episode 104 | Disappoint More People
January 29, 2020 17:34 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBIn this episode you will discover five ways to disappoint more people. If you want to live the life you want to live sooner or later you will run into the expectations other people have for you. If you are tired of feeling overwhelmed and resentful get comfortable disappointing people. Get the free download to accompany the podcast.
Episode 103 | Soul-Centered Living
September 23, 2019 21:55 - 19 minutes - 21.9 MBStarting on the inside with your values, believes and awareness of who you are and then aligning your life to reflect what is most important to you may sound simple but it isn't easy. On this episode I discuss a program I have developed to support you in becoming aligned with what what is most important to you.
Episode 102 | Rebel Crone Rising with Tracie Nichols
June 06, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 49.6 MBWomen today are looking for alternative ways to embrace ageing. This move towards conscious aging allows us to embrace ageing and at the same time continue to be seen for the work we do in the world. Tracie Nichols has started Rebel Crone Rising to support us in this process.
Episode 101 | Is it time for a reality check?
April 09, 2019 10:37 - 16 minutes - 18.5 MBThe Reframe Your Life Model is based on Reality/Realign/Relationships/Reflection/Results. In this episode I revisit reality. What are the facts in your life? The actual situation or circumstances that you find yourself in? It can be very different from the narrative you have about your reality. Take some time to think about the facts. Get clear on your actual reality. Then you can start to Reframe.
Episode 100 | Reframing Self-Doubt - Interview with Sas Petherick
March 25, 2019 11:21 - 57 minutes - 66.1 MBIt's the 100th episode of Reframe Your Life. Thank you for being here for this journey. If you have ever wanted to start something, change something, try something new or quit something - you know how quickly you can begin to experience self-doubt. Sas Petherick's work on self-doubt is insightful and inspiring. Self-Doubt is the natural response we have when we are taking risks or doing anything outside our comfort zone. It is universal. It is not a limitation though. Reframe your self-dou...
Episode 99 | Why you might not want to give your heart what it wants
March 11, 2019 16:49 - 25 minutes - 28.7 MBThe heart wants what is wants - but that doesn't mean you should just follow your heart. Decision making and discernment are two practices that every woman who wants to live a soul-centered life needs to develop. Stop ignore the red flags in your life and learn how to make better decisions.
Episode 98 | Interview with Sarah Leyenaar - How to live from love not fear
March 01, 2019 01:21 - 40 minutes - 46.8 MBAfter a two month break Reframe Your Life is back with more ideas and interviews to help you live a soul-centered life. This week Sarah Leyenaar joins the podcast to discuss how we can make better decisions, specifically decisions made out of love and not out of fear.
Episode 97 | Reclaiming Advent #4 - Peace
December 21, 2018 16:51 - 20 minutes - 23.9 MBFeeling the holiday anxiety on top of your regular anxiety? Here's how I am finding inner peace
Episode 96 | Reclaiming Advent Week #3 - Joy
December 14, 2018 19:04 - 41 minutes - 47.3 MBThis episode owes a great debt to The Book of Joy by Douglas Abrams based on his interviews with His Holiness that Dalai Lama and Arcibishop Desmond Tutu. It was such a helpful resource in understanding Joy.
Episode 95 | Reclaiming Advent Week #2 - Love
December 07, 2018 13:07 - 18 minutes - 21 MBThis week we are lighting a candle of love. Whether you choose to take that literally or metaphorically please emember at you have been created in the image of love. And healing in our world will come through love. We need to level up the love.
Episode 94 | Reclaiming Advent Week #1 - Hope
November 30, 2018 16:32 - 18 minutes - 21.6 MBNo matter what you believe, and if you aren't sure what you believe, cultivating hope is a way to develop resilience. I'm reclaiming this season of advent. This episode gives you some insight into why we need hope and a simple practice to bring in more hope in your life.
Episode 93 | Reframing Christmas
November 19, 2018 11:00 - 17 minutes - 19.6 MBIt's already started and it would be very difficult to avoid it. The Holiday Season is here. How about reframing Christmas? Somewhere between the religious baggage you may have inherited with Christmas and the secularized version there is space to discover the sacred. To find meaning and to connect to what is most important to you. Are you longing for a more authentic and soulful Christmas? Are you ready to move beyond the religious cliches "There's a Reason for the Season"? How about reclaim...
Episode 92 | Reframing Ageing featuring Karen Petersen
November 07, 2018 20:51 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MBOn this episode, featuring Karen Petersen, we talk about what we are learning at this stage of my life. It's my 60th birthday episode. A milestone I am celebrating wholeheartedly.
Episode 91 | Reframing Death 2.0 featuring Tammy Faulds
October 29, 2018 19:15 - 56 minutes - 64.2 MBAre you comfortable talking about death? Did you know that many people think just talking about death or going to get their will done is a harbinger of their own death? Death frightens us and we can get very superstitious around fears. I get it. I feel the same way. However, as my guest this week says on her website: "Spoiler alert - You're going to die." It seems like the right time of year to talk about death. There are several cultural days in the next week that recognize death, darknes...
Episode 90 | Why women can't tell the truth
October 22, 2018 11:00 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBIt's hard to be honest. Become aware of what keeps you from speaking your truth.
Episode 89 | How to reframe your faith
October 15, 2018 11:45 - 16 minutes - 19.3 MBRead more about this weeks episode here.
Episode 88 | Why you need to have margin in your life
October 09, 2018 11:00 - 19 minutes - 21.8 MBAfter a month that included three significant losses, the impact of not having any margin in my life hit home. In this episode I help you consider how to increase the space between ourselves and our limits so that you can avoid burnout, overwhelm and anxiety.
Episode 87 | A Guide to Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment with Nancy Bieber
September 10, 2018 11:09 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBHaving a process for making good decisions that are aligned with your deepest self is part of having a healthy and vibrant spirituality. In this episode we discuss what that looks like.
Episode 86 | What are the desires of your heart?
August 27, 2018 14:11 - 25 minutes - 29.2 MBWhat are your heart's desires? And how do the choices that you are making support the desires and dreams you have in becoming a reality? I explore the topic of desires in this week's episode of Reframe Your Life. A very basic definition of desire is a strong feeling to want or have something. We have lots of desires. I desire to be healthy. I desire to have good friends. I desire a good night’s sleep - especially after a restless night of sleep. You may have some beliefs about desires that ...