Loving that Midlife
Are you a woman navigating the sometimes beautiful - sometimes challenging - season of midlife? If so, this podcast is for you!
Together, we'll explore how to take control of your thoughts to take control of your life, how to parent teens and young adults, how to reconnect with your husband, how to discover the new you as you enter the next chapter of life, and much more.
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Loving that Midlife
Christmas Eve Reflection: How to Look Back on Your Year with Kindness Instead of Criticism
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If the idea of “reflecting on the year” immediately turns into self-criticism, pressure, or a mental scorecard — this episode is for you.
In this Christmas Eve episode of Loving That Midlife, Lori Buck invites you to pause and look back on the year you actually lived — not with judgment or shame, but with honesty, kindness, and compassion.
This is not an episode about doing more, fixing yourself, or becoming a “new you.”
It’s about learning how to quiet the inner critic, notice growth that didn’t come with a gold star, and honor the ways you’ve changed...even if the year didn’t turn out the way you hoped.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why year-end reflection is so hard for so many women in midlife
- How the inner critic turns reflection into a verdict — and how to interrupt that pattern
- Why celebrating progress (even without hitting the goal) matters emotionally
- How emotional maturity allows you to be honest without being cruel
- Gentle reflection questions to help you look back without overwhelm
This episode is especially for women navigating midlife transitions — parenting older kids, shifting identities, changing marriages, grief, growth, and the quiet awareness that something in you is waking up.
And if as you’re listening, you realize you don’t want to keep living your life on autopilot in the year ahead — this is the work Lori does with her coaching clients.
Through private coaching, Lori helps women slow down, process the year they’ve lived, reset emotionally, and make intentional choices for what’s next — not from pressure or shame, but from clarity, self-trust, and steadiness.
Over the next 12 weeks, Lori will be working with a small number of women using a simple 90-day rhythm to help them:
- process the past year with clarity
- reset emotionally
- and step into the new year grounded and on purpose
If you want to learn more, email Lori at lori@loribuckcoaching.com, or find her on social media at Lori Buck Coaching. There’s no rush — just an invitation.
Next week, we’ll talk about how to carry what you’ve learned into the year ahead — gently, intentionally, and without pretending you need to become a completely different person.
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