Midlife Moxie with Nicole Hate

Episode 23: Soul Food, Practices That Nourish Your Inner Being

• Nicole Hate • Season 1 • Episode 23

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Feeling a deep hunger that has nothing to do with what's on your plate? After decades of feeding everyone else - children, partners, careers, aging parents - many midlife women have forgotten how to truly nourish themselves.

This isn't about bubble baths and pedicures. This is about the practices that make you feel like you're coming home to yourself after years of living in roles that felt necessary but constraining.

In this episode, we explore:

  • What soul food really means (and why it's different than self-care)
  • How our inner needs evolve through midlife
  • Seven practical categories of soul nourishment with actionable practices
  • How to tell the difference between surface-level care and deep inner work
  • The myths that keep us starving (and how to bust them)
  • How to actually start - without adding another "should" to your overwhelmed life


I also share my own messy, imperfect journey with these practices - from meditation struggles to workout evolution - because none of us have this figured out perfectly.

If you're standing in your kitchen at 2 PM feeling empty despite accomplishing everything on your to-do list, if you've caught yourself wondering when you stopped feeling truly alive and started just surviving, this episode is for you.


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