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81 | Why Ignoring Your Wins Is Fueling Burnout for Midlife Moms (Mindfulness Helps You Celebrate Instead)

Valerie Mekki Episode 81

When was the last time you celebrated you? In a season full of doing for others, it’s easy to overlook your own wins. But your growth, resilience, and quiet victories deserve recognition—and not just from others, but from yourself. This empowering episode invites you to pause for a personal victory lap and honor the incredible progress you’ve made in midlife.

Valerie guides you through uplifting “I Am” statements designed to affirm your strength, persistence, and worth, helping you build a ritual of self-celebration that lasts well beyond today.

In this episode, you’ll receive:

  • A feel-good, empowering affirmation session to celebrate your wins
  • Three lasting ways to recognize and reinforce your accomplishments
  • A self-love reminder that your progress is valid—even if no one else sees it

🏆 Press play now and take a moment to honor everything you’ve done—and everything you’re becoming.

You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change Podcast. We’ve made some pivots through the years, but we’ve finally landed on the right path: producing content for moms seeking calm within the chaos of midlife changes.

New episodes drop on:

  • Sundays: 20-minute episodes addressing common midlife challenges with practical strategies plus a featured mindfulness practice (affirmations, mantras, or meditations)
  • Wednesdays: Short guided practice sessions to reinforce Sunday's mindfulness technique and reset your week

More from The Mindful Midlife Mom:

Discover Valerie's articles on ohhellomidlife.com or watch her videos on Youtube @ohhellomidlife

This podcast explores patience, meditation, confidence, presence, and overcoming resentment while cultivating calm, peace, mindfulness, clarity, mantras, and addressing loneliness and burn out; it covers boundaries, caregiving, guilt, affirmations, working moms, self-care, midlife crisis, empty nesters, empowerment, people pleasing, compassion fatigue, family caregiving, stress relief, self-worth, stress management, and how to shift from reactive to centered when feeling short tempered, offering tools for self acceptance, easing mental exhaustion, building emotional resilience, harnessing inner strength, and preventing caregiver fatigue for those in the sandwich generation through expert advice on boundaries setting.

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