Love From the Inside Out: Self-Love, Confidence and Mindset Tools for Women in Midlife
Welcome to Love From the Inside Out, a podcast about healing, mindset, and confidence for women navigating anxiety, burnout, and midlife reinvention.
Hosted by Susan Kricun — former sports and entertainment PR executive turned storyteller, writer, and wellness advocate — the show blends heart, humor, and neuroscience to help women calm their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are.
Each Thursday, Susan shares honest reflections and science-backed tools to help you move from survival mode to self-awareness. You’ll learn how to release stress, reframe your mindset, and rebuild inner confidence so you can live and love from the inside out.
If you’ve ever felt anxious, stuck, or ready for your next chapter, this show will remind you that peace, purpose, and clarity are already within reach — and it’s never too late to feel at home in yourself.
✨ New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe now and start your journey toward healing, confidence, and calm.
Episodes
52 episodes
Being Seen, Body Image, and Self-Doubt in Midlife
What is it about having your picture taken that can bring up so much?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m talking about a recent headshot experience that brought up more than I expected around being seen, body image,...
Grief Anniversaries: When Certain Dates Bring Memories Back
Some dates stay with us. Grief anniversaries, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, and the moments our bodies seem to remember before we do.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m reflecting on the emotional memory ce...
When Both Choices Cost You Something: How to Make Peace with No-Clean-Answer Decisions
Have you ever been in one of those no-clean-answer moments where both choices make sense and both choices cost you something?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m talking about the love-hate relationship we can have w...
What We Keep: Family Keepsakes, Old Photos, Memory, and Legacy
I went into our storage unit looking for my mother’s mahjong set and a few things I wanted to give to my brother. Instead, I found old family photos, childhood keepsakes, handwritten notes, and pieces of my life I hadn’t seen in years.Wh...
When Your Body Forces a Pause: Signs You Need to Slow Down
If your body, your energy, or your life has ever stopped cooperating with the pace you were trying to keep, this episode is for you.A rough stomach bug forced me to slow down in a way I never would have chosen for myself, and once the wo...
Why Getting Dressed Feels Harder Than It Should
If getting dressed has been feeling more emotional, frustrating, or loaded than it should, this episode is for you.After listening to Mel Robbins’ recent conversation with celebrity stylist Erin Walsh, I thought I was about to feel inspi...
Choose Joy First: How to Feel Good Without Earning It
How do you feel good without earning it first? In this episode, I’m talking about why so many of us wait to relax, enjoy life, or feel better until everything is done — and how choosing joy first can help break negative thought loops, shift you...
When Your Life Looks Fine on Paper But Doesn’t Feel Right Anymore: Midlife Transition Signs
What if nothing is exactly wrong, but something still feels off?In this episode, I’m talking about 7 signs you may have outgrown your life and are at a midlife turning point. If you’ve been feeling more irritated, more disconnected, more...
How to Create Abundance Without Abandoning Yourself
What if abundance isn’t about getting more — but about caring for what you already have?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan reflects on an unexpected lesson about abundance after repotting a money tree plan...
Getting Older, Getting Clearer: A Birthday Reflection on Midlife
A few days before her birthday, Susan shares a personal reflection on what it means to get older, get clearer, and choose how she wants to meet this season of life.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, she opens up about ...
How to Stop Losing Yourself and Find Yourself Again
Want support you can press play on?Return is my private podcast feed for the moments you can feel yourself slipping into urgency, overthinking, over-functioning, or self-abandonment. Inside, you’ll receive at least two private...
When Anger Is the Signal: Irritability, Resentment, and Self-Abandonment
Join Return (private podcast feed) here.If you’ve been feeling more irritated or resentful lately, this episode will help. Even if anger isn’t your main signal, keep liste...
Scripts: No Over-Explaining
Borrow these clear, kind scripts for work, family, and relationships—especially when you feel the urge to explain yourself to death.Hi. It’s Susan.This is a Boundary Script Pack you can come back to anytime you want to sa...
Reset: Stop the Spiral
Use this when everything feels “right now”—a short reset to slow your system and get clear.Hi. It’s Susan.This is a Reset you can use in real time when you feel rushed, tight, buzzy, or like you’re about to over-function....
Awareness Over Shame
When you catch yourself doing it again, this is your permission to get curious, not cruel—and come back.Hi. It’s Susan.This is the episode I want you to come back to the moment you notice you’re self-abandoning and your b...
Welcome to Return: Start Here
A quick orientation to what Return is, what you’ll find here, and how to use this feed when real life hits.Welcome. I’m so glad you’re here.Return is the private feed inside Love From the Inside Out—created for t...
Stop Self-Abandonment: Nervous System Healing and Learning to Stay With Yourself
Return is live 🎧 Join here. 💛Stop Self-Abandonment: Nervous System Healing and Learning to Stay With YourselfWhat does it actually mean to stop aband...
Bonus Episode: Year of the Fire Horse 2026 — Momentum Without Self-Abandonment (Lunar New Year Reset)
As the Lunar New Year begins and we enter the Year of the Fire Horse, I’m sharing a grounded reset you can use anytime you feel that “new chapter” energy building.This isn’t a predictions episode. It’s a practical, nervous-system-friendl...
Learning to Trust Yourself Without Certainty
Learning to Trust Yourself Without CertaintyLiving Without the Old MapAfter an internal threshold is crossed, there’s often an expectation that certainty will follow — that clarity will arrive and confidence will l...
Bonus Episode: For My Mom — Her 80th Birthday Tribute | Love, Grief & Legacy
In this special bonus episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan shares a heartfelt tribute to her mom, Margie, on what would have been her 80th birthday.Ten years after her mother’s passing, Susan reflects on love, grief, resil...
Bonus Mini-Sode: Phoenix “Return to Center” Retreat (Feb 22) — Early Bird Ends Feb 6
Hey friends—quick bonus mini-sode, especially for anyone listening here in the Metro Phoenix area.I’m popping in with an invitation to join me in person for Return to Center, a half-day retreat in Central Phoenix on Sund...
When Your Body Sets the Boundary
When Your Body Sets the BoundaryNon-NegotiableAfter an internal threshold is crossed, something subtle begins to take shape.Certain things stop being optional — not because of discipline or willpower, but be...
When Urgency Is the Problem (Not the Solution)
When Urgency Is the Problem (Not the Solution)The Anger That Arrives AfterAfter an internal threshold is crossed, the most unexpected thing isn’t relief or clarity — it’s resistance.In this episode of Lo...
Life After a Quiet Shift
Life After a Quiet Shift: Learning to Live From the Other SideAfter an internal shift, the hardest part isn’t the moment of change — it’s learning how to live from the place you’ve crossed into.In this episode of Love F...
Throwing Away the Bra: Letting Go of Survival Mode & Coming Back to Yourself
Throwing Away the Bra: Letting Go of Survival Mode & Coming Back to YourselfThere are moments in life when something inside you shifts quietly — not with a dramatic decision or a clear plan, but with a simple knowing that the ...