The Mindful Midlife Mom - Mindfulness Practices and Techniques for Mentally Exhausted Moms Juggling Kids & Aging Parents
Are you an overstretched midlife mom juggling teenagers and aging parents while feeling mentally exhausted and losing yourself in the process?
You're not alone in this overwhelming season. As someone currently living in the sandwich generation with my dad in assisted living while my kids are in school, I understand the unique burnout that comes from caring for everyone except yourself.
This show offers practical mindfulness tools specifically designed for moms navigating caregiving responsibilities while raising kids.
Tune in twice a week for:
- 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
These bite-sized practices fit into your chaotic schedule and help you show up as the calm, present mom you want to be.
Start with our fan-favorite Episode 97: "Midlife Slump? You Deserve Better— 'I Am' Affirmations for Self Worth" to begin transforming how you see yourself today.
The Mindful Midlife Mom - Mindfulness Practices and Techniques for Mentally Exhausted Moms Juggling Kids & Aging Parents
123 | Compassion Fatigue for Sandwich Generation Caregivers: Signs, Mindfulness Solutions, and Self-Care
Feeling pulled so thin by caregiving, parenting, and daily demands that there’s no emotional bandwidth left? You aren’t just “tired”—you may be experiencing compassion fatigue, a deeper kind of exhaustion many caregivers don’t see coming.
In this episode, Valerie helps you recognize what compassion fatigue really is, how the sandwich generation is especially vulnerable to it, and offers concrete ways to refill your emotional cup. Because you deserve to care deeply and care well—for yourself too.
What you'll discover in this episode:
- The critical difference between regular burnout and compassion fatigue
- Why caring for aging parents emotionally depletes you faster than you realize
- How to identify the leaks in your emotional cup and mindfully patch them
You’ll walk away from this episode with both clarity and compassion: clarity on what’s actually draining you, and compassion for the emotional labor you’ve been silently carrying. You’ll learn small but powerful shifts to protect your well-being without stepping away from those you love. This isn’t just about surviving—it’s about reclaiming the emotional space to feel like yourself again.
We highlighted episode #121 to help release stress, anger, and sadness with 4 quick methods that aren’t so pretty, but get the job done instantly. Listen to this episode to help supplement this episode to help combat compassion fatigue.
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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