Love From the Inside Out: Healing, Mindset and Confidence Tools for Women Navigating Anxiety and 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.

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Love From the Inside Out: Healing, Mindset and Confidence Tools for Women Navigating Anxiety and Midlife

Awareness Over Shame

Subscriber Episode • February 20, 2026 • Susan Kricun

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Return (Private)

Private drops: grounding practices + boundary scripts to stop self-abandonment.

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 brain wants to pile on judgment.

Self-abandonment isn’t a personal failure — it’s a human pattern, and a lot of it is learned.

In this episode, we’ll focus on:

Noticing your signs (jaw tension, rushing, over-explaining, resentment, going into “handle it” mode)
Dropping the shame spiral and becoming a nonjudgmental observer of what’s happening
Coming back to yourself by one notch — one honest, self-loyal choice
Why we return: because when we don’t, we start making decisions from urgency instead of truth.

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Note: This content is educational and supportive and is not medical or therapy advice.

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