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
Getting Older, Getting Clearer: A Birthday Reflection on Midlife
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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 why birthdays have always meant so much to her, what feels different this year, and how midlife has brought both deeper perspective and a greater sense of possibility. She also reflects on the thoughts that can surface around aging, appearance, and change — and the power we have to notice those thoughts without letting them define us.
This is a conversation about celebrating the gift of being alive, honoring your growth, and remembering that getting older is not only about what changes. It is also about what becomes clearer, wiser, and more true.
In this episode, Susan reflects on:
• why birthdays have always mattered to her
• what feels different about this birthday
• the emotional complexity and beauty of midlife
• how to notice thoughts about aging without automatically believing them
• what launching Love From the Inside Out has taught her
• why she feels like she is just getting started
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