Life Coaches Unfiltered
Life Coaches Unfiltered is a bi-weekly podcast for the midlife woman who feels stressed, burned out, and stuck.
Hosted by three life coaches with very different specialties: Desiree, Michelle, and Doree. Each episode blends coaching tools, real stories, and unfiltered conversation so you feel seen, not judged.
If you’re a woman in midlife dealing with chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, people-pleasing, “numbing out,” anxiety spirals, toxic positivity, gaslighting, or narcissism in relationships, this show helps you understand what’s really going on and what to do next: one small, doable step at a time.
You’ll hear episodes on:
- Burnout, boundaries, people-pleasing, and over-apologizing (“The Apology Epidemic”).
- Anxiety spirals, hypervigilance, and finding calm in chaos.
- Numbing out with food, scrolling, and busyness. And healthier ways to cope.
- Narcissism, gaslighting, and reclaiming your reality in confusing relationships.
- Growth mindset vs. staying in survival mode, midlife career shifts, and redefining success.
Whether you’re juggling work, caregiving, and everyone else’s needs or quietly wondering “Is this really it?,” Life Coaches Unfiltered gives you practical coaching strategies, uncomfortable-but-important questions, and compassionate truth-telling to help you move from overwhelmed and burned out to clearer, calmer, and more in charge of your own lif
Life Coaches Unfiltered
Living on High Alert: Hypervigilance & Anxiety in Mildlife
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When life finally calms down, does your brain immediately ask, “Okay, but what’s about to go wrong?”
In this episode of Life Coaches Unfiltered, Desiree and Michelle dive into hypervigilance and what it feels like.
Living on constant high alert, always waiting for the other shoe to drop and how it shows up for stressed, burned-out women in midlife.
From obsessing over germs after COVID to mentally rehearsing every worst‑case scenario in your business, relationships, and health, they talk about how hypervigilance is often a learned survival response from grief, illness, trauma, caregiving, and years of chronic stress, not a personal flaw.
You’ll hear real stories about how COVID impacted Desiree and her fear of germs, backseat driving with a fear of car accidents, and always choosing the restaurant seat that faces the door.
The coaches unpack the difference between healthy intuition and hypervigilance, why your nervous system may still act as if the emergency is happening long after the crisis is over, and how mirror neurons mean your dysregulated state can spread. The good news? Calm is also contagious.
They also share practical tools to gently work with hypervigilance instead of shaming yourself for it.
In this episode, we talk about:
- What hypervigilance actually is (and why it’s more than “just anxiety”)
- How hypervigilance develops after grief, illness, caregiving, chaotic childhoods, or repeated life disruptions
- Signs you’re living on high alert: can’t relax when it’s quiet, always scanning for danger, exhausted but unable to shut your brain off
- The difference between intuition (calm, grounded, clear) and hypervigilance (urgent, loud, repetitive)
- How hypervigilance strains sleep, health, and relationships—and why partners can feel criticized or micromanaged
- Small, nervous‑system‑friendly practices to start feeling safer in your own body
If you're a midlife woman, who's tired of being "on all the time", sleeping with one eye open (figuratively & literally), this episode is for you.
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