The Mindful Midlife Mom - Mindfulness Practices and Techniques for Mentally Exhausted Moms in the Sandwich Generation

106 | 3 Mindful Ways Midlife Moms Can Stop Comparing Themselves & Recover From Limiting Thoughts

Valerie Mekki Episode 106

Are you comparing your Chapter 5 to someone else’s Chapter 20—and feeling like you’ve fallen behind?


If you're stuck measuring your worth against others' highlight reels, this episode will help you reframe the winding, messy beauty of your own path. It’s time to stop chasing straight lines and start honoring the journey that’s uniquely yours.

  • Unpack the myth of the linear life path and why comparison steals your joy and confidence.
  • Learn how to extract “wisdom equity” from your own detours, setbacks, and unexpected pivots.
  • Practice a grounding affirmation that will help you value your lived experiences over others’ milestones.

🎧 Press play to let go of comparison, embrace your real story, and see the power in the path you’ve actually walked.

You’re listening to the right show, formerly known as the Mindful Life Changes or Mindful Career Change. We’ve pivoted through the years, but finally landed on the right path: content for moms in the ‘Sandwich Generation’, because midlife disruption doesn't have to break you.

New episodes drop on:

  • Sundays: 20-min episodes addressing common midlife challenges with practical strategies plus a mindfulness practice (affirmations, mantras, or meditations)
  • Wednesdays: Bite-sized episodes to reinforce Sunday's mindfulness technique & reset your week

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This podcast explores patience, meditation, confidence, presence, and overcoming resentment while cultivating calm, peace, mindfulness, clarity, mantras, and addressing loneliness and burn out; it covers boundaries, caregiving, guilt, affirmations, working moms, self-care, midlife crisis, empty nesters, empowerment, people pleasing, compassion fatigue, family caregiving, stress relief, self-worth, stress management, and how to shift from reactive to centered when feeling short tempered, offering tools for self acceptance, easing mental exhaustion, building emotional resilience, harnessing inner strength, and preventing caregiver fatigue for those in the sandwich generation through expert advice on boundaries setting.