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Love Your Life: Love Your Life: Midlife Reinvention, Emotional Regulation, & Parenting

Love Your Life: Love Your Life: Midlife Reinvention, Emotional Regulation, & Parenting

Susie Pettit 424 Episodes Aug 23, 2026

This podcast is for people who have spent years caring for others and are ready to reconnect with themselves, especially in midlife. Host Susie Pettit, a certified parent coach and life coach, shares practical tools and compassionate advice on parenting, setting boundaries, managing emotions, and building confidence. Episodes cover topics like people-pleasing, empty nest transitions, relationships, and creating a life you love. Drawing from her own experiences with divorce, bankruptcy, and family estrangement, Susie offers support for small, meaningful changes. The show is especially helpful for empty nesters, adult children of emotionally immature parents, and women with ADHD or CPTSD.

Episodes

How to Stop Letting Everyone Else Ruin Your Mood, FREE Workshop
How to Stop Letting Everyone Else Ruin Your Mood, FREE Workshop Aug 23, 2026 02:34 Do you ever notice that you can be having a perfectly fine day… and then someone else's mood changes everything? Your teenager is grumpy, and suddenly you're walking on eggshells. Your husband is frustrated, and you can't seem to relax. Someone is disappointed in you, and you spend the rest of the day wondering what you did wrong. You might not think of yourself as someone who gets angry or has a
Stop Overexplaining
Stop Overexplaining Aug 19, 2026 18:43 Do you ever find yourself talking, talking, talking…trying to explain your decision, your actions, your boundary? Hoping that if you talk enough, the other person will understand? Uh…me!!! And in this episode, I'll be talking about why so many of us women overexplain, how confidence is involved, how what happened in our childhood could be involved, how relationships with narcissists are involved,
Stop People Pleasing + Pretending: The Freedom to be YOU!
Stop People Pleasing + Pretending: The Freedom to be YOU! Aug 12, 2026 23:36 How often do you say "It's fine" when it really isn't?  Or agreeing to something you don't want to do just to keep the peace? So many of us have become experts at pretending.  Pretending we're okay.  Pretending we don't have needs.  Pretending someone else's behavior doesn't bother us.  While those habits may have helped us as kids (or in our emotionally immature relationships), they hold us back
Making Friends as an Adult: The Skills We Were Never Taught
Making Friends as an Adult: The Skills We Were Never Taught Aug 5, 2026 48:07 In this week's episode, I'm joined by friendship expert, ADHD coach, and author Caroline Maguire to talk about the friendship skills most of us were never taught. We explore how past relational wounds, people-pleasing, fear of rejection, and even being easily distracted can impact our ability to build and maintain meaningful friendships. Caroline shares practical tools to help us stop performing f
What Do You Want? The Shift from Raising Kids to Rediscovering Yourself
What Do You Want? The Shift from Raising Kids to Rediscovering Yourself Jul 29, 2026 28:02 Warrior, when was the last time you asked yourself what you want? Not what your kids need. Not what your partner wants. Not what needs fixing. Not what everyone else expects of you. What do you want? For many of us, especially moms, focusing on everyone else starts as healthy and necessary. When our kids are little, they need us to prioritize their needs. And, as they grow, many of us never make t
How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids: Especially When They Have Big Feelings
How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids: Especially When They Have Big Feelings Jul 22, 2026 25:46 How do we raise emotionally intelligent kids? It's not what our instinct tells us! It's not by preventing them from having big feelings or to try to get them to think positively or see "the bright side". It's also not to expect them to not have emotions or to think that our big feeling kid is doing something wrong that needs to be fixed. Nope! And yet, that's what most of us were taught (for sure
Emotional Maturity: The Skill Most Were Never Taught
Emotional Maturity: The Skill Most Were Never Taught Jul 15, 2026 22:54 What if one of the number one skills for feeling calmer, more confident, and more in control of your life was something you were never taught? If you're a genX, boomer, or early millennial, chances are…you weren't! Which is why, for this episode of the Love Your Life Show, I'm doing a masterclass on emotional maturity. Many of us grew up believing we were responsible for other people's feelings. W
Empty Nest: How To Prepare Yourself and Your Kids (Best of the Podcast)
Empty Nest: How To Prepare Yourself and Your Kids (Best of the Podcast) Jul 8, 2026 23:36 Re-airing this one because your messages told me you needed it. Here's the part of parenting nobody prepares you for. If you do your job well, you raise humans who don't need you anymore. That's the goal. And it can feel brutal. What I've learned, and what I teach, is that we don't actually want them to need us. We want them to want us. And that shift changes everything. This episode covers the 3
Women, Money, and How I Lightened My Money Mindset
Women, Money, and How I Lightened My Money Mindset Jul 1, 2026 42:48 This week's episode brings you two great things! First , an awesome conversation with an Aussie! I figure you might want to just chill out this week and this is the perfect convo to pop in your ears as you go for a walk. Enjoy! Second, the things we talk about and the honesty we share with each other will help you feel less stress, avoidance, or discomfort around money.  How do I know? Because thi
Why Fun Feels Hard for Women and How to Start Feeling Lighter
Why Fun Feels Hard for Women and How to Start Feeling Lighter Jun 24, 2026 24:01 For the woman who feels responsible for everyone and everything: This episode will help so much!!! ⁣ ⁣ Do you ever look at other women relaxing on a porch, laughing with their family, or their posts on social media… and wonder why things feel so much heavier for you?⁣ ⁣ You're not alone! I felt this way too! Everything felt so heavy and serious. Many of us GenX women were raised to be good girls a
Walk With Me: Marriage, Codependency, and Letting Go of Control
Walk With Me: Marriage, Codependency, and Letting Go of Control Jun 17, 2026 24:15 When doing all the right things still feels hard 😵‍💫 Have you ever thought, I've done so much work on myself. Why does this still get to me? On this walk-and-talk episode, I'm opening up about marriage, growth, and the ongoing practice of letting go of control.  I share how these patterns still surface in my own life and why that doesn't mean you're failing.  If you're navigating tension with a pa
How to Stop Overfunctioning and Feel Lighter
How to Stop Overfunctioning and Feel Lighter Jun 10, 2026 29:29 Does anyone else sometimes feel like the only way they feel calm is if they know everything and have a say in all the things? Or that if you don't stay on top of things, those things will fall apart! And if you don't remind, manage, anticipate, and fix… things won't get done? Great news warrior - you are not alone! Even better news? You don't have to feel this way. In this episode, I'

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