Life Of Joy & Purpose With Vicki Gardiner, LPC
Life of Joy & Purpose is the go-to podcast for women in life transitions ready to rediscover their passion, purpose, and confidence. Hosted by Licensed Professional Counselor and Life Coach Vicki Gardiner, each episode offers mindset tools and intentional strategies to help you move forward with clarity and joy. You’re not starting over — you’re stepping into who you were always meant to be.
Life Of Joy & Purpose With Vicki Gardiner, LPC
When Everyone Needs You - and You're Running on Empty
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What happens when everyone needs you, but you are running on empty?
In this episode of Life of Joy & Purpose, Vicki Gardiner, LPC talks honestly about chronic depletion, midlife responsibility, menopause symptoms, gratitude, and the quiet emotional weight many women carry every day.
If you are the woman who keeps showing up for everyone else while ignoring your own exhaustion, this conversation will help you slow down and listen to what your body, nervous system, and heart have been trying to say. Vicki discusses common menopause and perimenopause experiences like hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disruption, mood changes, brain fog, and the frustration of navigating real physical changes while responsibility keeps demanding more.
This episode also explores gratitude in a grounded way, not as toxic positivity or a reason to silence yourself, but as a gentle practice that can help you notice goodness without denying what is hard. With a little body-awareness and emotional-energy language, Vicki invites you to ask, "Is this mine to carry?" and "What do I need today?"
You will learn the simple G.R.A.C.E. Check-In ritual:
Ground. Recognize. Ask. Choose. Express gratitude.
This two-minute daily practice is designed to help depleted women reconnect with themselves before they pour themselves out again.
You can be grateful and exhausted. Responsible and supported. Needed and nourished. You do not have to carry everything alone.
This episode is educational and supportive and is not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider for menopause symptoms, disruptive sleep, mood changes, or any bleeding after menopause.
#hormones #menopause #perimenopause #GRACE #stuck #tired #exhaustion
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Until next time—take a deep breath, stay true to yourself, and remember: joy and purpose are already within you. You’re just uncovering it—one step at a time.
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