The Vibrant Mom Podcast

The Vibrant Mom Podcast

Hosted by: Cara Maiolo, LPC

The Vibrant Mom Podcast is for midlife moms who are ready to stop pushing through and start feeling truly vibrant in their emotions, their body, and their life. Hosted by Cara Maiolo, Licensed Professional...

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Building Strength Emotionally and Physically: A New Way to Think About Movement

You already know movement helps you feel better. Clearer, more settled, more like yourself. But there's a layer of that benefit you’ve likely never learned to use on purpose: bringing your emotional world into your...
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Is Stress Increasing? Take This on Your Lunch Break

You've trained yourself to believe rest comes after everything is done, but in real life, nothing is ever fully done. The to-do list regenerates. The inbox refills. The finish line you've been waiting for doesn't...
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The One Place You Forget to Look When You're Running on Empty

When you're depleted or unsettled, where do you actually go? For most of us, it's outward. The scroll. The audiobook the second the car door shuts. More Netflix than we meant to watch. Waiting until Friday's lunch...
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The Midlife Mom's Stress Source Nobody Names (And the Skill That Changes Everything)

Most midlife moms are managing stress by looking outward — at the schedule, the relationships, the never-ending list of demands. And that makes sense, because many situational stressors ARE out there. But there's a...
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The Midlife Mom’s Summer Review: How to Find Your New Windows and Schedule Yourself In

When the excitement of SUMMER starts to fade and things start to feel “off”. The rhythm that held everything together is gone, the predictable pockets of time have vanished, and the mental load of managing a new...
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From Smaller to Stronger: A Different Kind of Summer Body Goal

Summer arrives and something in your mindset might amplify. Maybe you're still getting used to this year's body in a bathing suit. Maybe it's the beach vacation where you spend more time in your head than in the...
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The Midlife Mind: Why Your Brain Won't Quiet (And the Skill That Changes Everything)

You finally carved out a few minutes for yourself. Or you’re trying to be more present in a meaningful moment? Or after a minute of trying a mindfulness practice, your brain hands you a grocery list. A reminder to...
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From Soul Starved to Soul Fed: Building a Spiritual Practice That Actually Sticks

You've been tending to everyone and everything. Your kids, your work, your relationships, the hundred things that need you every single day. And you're good at it. But somewhere in all of that outward focus, a quieter...
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Connection, Capacity, Creativity: The Framework for Feeling Better for Moms in Midlife

Emotional well-being was never about feeling good all the time. It's about feeling everything better, the grief and the joy, the frustration and the delight, the longing and the love, with more of yourself available...
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Is This Me, Or Is This Perimenopause?

There's a question a lot of midlife moms are carrying around in the background, usually somewhere between pickup and bedtime, when the evening hasn't gone the way they hoped and they find themselves distant and down,...
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The Inward Turn: You Haven't Disappeared (You've Been Looking Outward.)

Most of us know what it feels like to be fully present for everyone around us, and quietly unfamiliar with ourselves. Not because something is wrong with us. Because the outward pull is constant, rigorous, and real....
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You're Not Behind. You're in "May-cember." Here's What Actually Helps.

May has a way of filling up with things you actually wanted. And somehow that makes it harder to admit that it's a lot.In this episode, I'm naming what's really happening for moms right now, offering a reframe that...
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