HeyJaredGirl Catch Fire
The weekly newsletter delivering hope, tools & permission to women building meaning at midlife.
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Embracing Ordinary (opens the original)
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Somewhere in my 40’s I began to suspect I wasn’t all that special.Beloved, yes. Special, no.That awareness wasn’t exactly welcome and it made me wonder if I was entering a depressive phase. Surely, doubt in my specialness must signal a shift in my sunny, expectant mental state.While reading <a href="https://email.kjbm.girlcatchfire.com/c/eJx0k19vnDgUxT8N87JihP8w4AceJiFEaZJqt03bpC_I2Bcw8R9im0xnP_2KyaTdlbo84d891z66uofPc2u5geqZT7xTaYjOQ--djSGdvZOLiMrZjaxySlHGN1ChgmUIEUKKDRiudCtBq1fwx1bJim5pWTK2y1nJ
How to Dance in a Burning Room (opens the original)
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How many times have you read the word “crisis” this week?Between 9/11 remembrance, <a href="https://email.kjbm.girlcatchfire.com/c/eJx0kcGu2ywQhZ_G3vwigjEYe8Hir1pL3XTTB4jGME6IbXABX-v26avkJlUX7Q595zBndAa37RxwJTPjDUfPcomJphRDyWxL0e22-BhqZ5SUgmNNRuiuV1xyrWta0S9nR4t_o_R-9s5IqYXSnQD5Ur0zIFSnmq4R_MlWyhkvdC7vG5kPNKaIzmIuT0uiHPdk6a__M_3YKXyIL7SPj2nf6MgLlULpKTzol_vz0--Iq5lU207OkhO9lnq0k-qtmKyATredwLH2Bji0vBcKOGjVnGRrZSMnQDspBFCV5PNtXE8XnxaLxV4nn-hk41ov5lrKlqvm_wqGCobjOE643PAnUcK7o4Ih0JErGO4ZFQx9BYOQFQx5d
When Mental Noise Gets Loud (opens the original)
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After living in the wild silence of New Mexico for nearly a year, it follows that I’m now pretty sensitive to noise.But it’s not just the noise of my little city, it’s the mental noise I’m installing by listening to a thousand different voices every day.While the world certainly needs my attention, the news, Substack, social media, my email, taken together is paralyzing. So it’s time to narrow the focus down to what’s most important.Subscribe nowThough I think
Time To Get About It. (opens the original)
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One of the most important things we can do in life is become people who do what we say we will.Beyonce famously put it like this:“Don’t talk about what you’re gonna do. Don’t just dream about what you’re gonna do. Don’t criticize somebody else for what they’re not doing. You, be it. Be about it. Be about that action and go do it.”Bey and I are not talking about optimizing, performing for praise or other outside validation – although that’s inevitably in the mix — what we’re saying is: Can you tr
Love, Nebraska & Midlife Freedom (opens the original)
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Last week a client asked me to explain what I mean about life’s second mountain and how it’s practically different from the first.“We optimize for different things,” I told her. “Mostly freedom.”I realized later, even though that’s right, it feels vague. So I’ve been drilling down some examples of what “optimizing for freedom” looks like in life’s second half.Here are five.Subscribe now</p
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