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.
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Love From the Inside Out: Self-Love, Confidence and Mindset Tools for Women in Midlife
When Your Body Forces a Pause: Signs You Need to Slow Down
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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 worst of it passed, I started to realize this week was about more than just being sick.
It showed me how much I had been pushing through stress, pressure, overdoing it, and the quieter signs my body had already been giving me before life got louder.
In this episode, I’m talking about what a forced pause can reveal about burnout, body signals, urgency, and the difference between momentum and alignment. I’m also sharing how this experience made me look at the pressure I was putting on myself, the ways I had started slipping back into some familiar patterns, and why slowing down is not the same thing as falling behind.
We get into:
- what a forced pause can reveal
- the whispers we override before life gets louder
- how stress, pressure, and overdoing it can pull us out of balance
- the difference between momentum and alignment
- why slower still counts
- how a pause can bring you back to yourself
If you’ve ever felt like you should be able to keep going, even when something in you was already asking you to slow down, I think this conversation will resonate.
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