The Mindful Midlife Mom - Mindfulness Practices and Techniques for Mentally Exhausted Moms in the Sandwich Generation

93 | How Midlife Moms Can Turn Past Struggles Into Present Strength With Mindfulness (Burnout Recovery in the Sandwich Generation)

Valerie Mekki Episode 93

Feeling shaken by change—or uncertain about what's next in your career or life?

If you're navigating layoffs, life transitions, or personal storms, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But what if your strength isn’t something you need to find… but something you’ve already earned? You’ve survived before. You’ve rebuilt before. And you’re more resilient than you realize.

This episode is a powerful reminder that yesterday’s challenges have prepared you for today. Through storytelling, guided reflection, and a soul-anchoring affirmation, you'll reconnect with the strength already within you—and walk away feeling more grounded, confident, and ready.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

  • A vulnerable reflection on surviving layoffs and how to use your past struggles as fuel for present strength
  • A guided affirmation to shift your mindset from fear to empowerment
  • A visualization practice to activate your inner resilience in real time


Press play now to reconnect with your inner power and let your past remind you: you’re ready, capable, and resilient.

You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change. We’ve pivoted through the years, but finally landed on the right path: content for moms in the ‘Sandwich Generation’, because midlife disruption doesn't have to break you.

New episodes drop on:

  • Sundays: 20-min episodes addressing common midlife challenges with practical strategies plus a mindfulness practice (affirmations, mantras, or meditations)
  • Wednesdays: Bite-sized episodes to reinforce Sunday's mindfulness technique & reset your week

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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.