You can have the best sex of your life in midlife.

Angie Byrd, my guest on this week’s podcast, stands behind that statement, and I would like to agree.‌

This podcast is all about helping you do midlife and beyond well. And in order to thrive and be our best selves, we need sex, connection, love and pleasure. Plus, when we are nourished through meaningful relationships, pleasure, passion and purpose, we can have a more relaxed relationship with food and body.

Angie Byrd turns life's big questions into quests for wellness, peace, true wisdom, and living with unbridled passion. A natural leader, the insights learned from decades of living, intense experiences and working with world-class teachers led her to coaching women in the areas of health and wellness, relationships and sex, spirituality and leadership.

She is the host of the Midlife Magic and Mayhem Podcast, a weekly show for women who are ready to enter unconventional conversations about what it means to be a modern woman in midlife. This show offers the perspective of midlife as a window of opportunity to evolve and blossom into the unique, well, radiant woman that is at the core of her being.

A curious curator and mentor, Angie Byrd walks with her listeners and clients, side by side, on the path of feeding the well, wise, wild woman in us all…creating a delicious marriage of magic and mayhem along the way.

Some of my takeaways and aha moments from this episode were:

💜 How to identify and break through the most common barrier to experiencing pleasure and intimacy

💜 How to start a simple self-pleasure practice to connect to your body and feminine energy in less than 30 seconds a day

💜 The most important mindset shifts we need to make room for pleasure and intimacy in our life

I’m glad you’re here.

To get in touch with Angie, you can visit her on her website: 
www.angiebyrd.com or Instagram (@angie.byrd)

Angie also has runs a couples retreat: www.theplayground.love.

-Tanja x

“I fell off the wagon”
“I went totally off the rails”
I hear that all of the time.

Then comes the guilt and shame spiral, or making the failure epic. After all, if we’ve already fallen off the wagon, we may as well play in the mud puddles while we’re there (aka chips, chocolate, extra wine, leftover cold pizza, skipped workouts, etc.)

Feeling like we're broken, or 'what's the point' it can take weeks, months, or even years to recommit.

My friend, even if you've identified as a serial starter or 'all or nothing' thinker for decades, you can start a new practice right now.

A practice where if you go off plan, you have the skills to regroup and carry on right away (but not let the fact that you can get back on track right away be your permission slip for going off plan in the first place).  

Today on the podcast I share the mindset shifts and strategies I use to regroup and keep going when I am drifting off plan or losing focus on my goals.

Take a listen.
I'm glad you're here.

-Tanja x

P.S. If you like this podcast you're going to LOVE Empowered Weight Loss, where I get to work side by side with you for 6 weeks to help you take control over food, lose weight that fits with your LIFE and LIFESTYLE without the restrictive diets.

Aging is not synonymous with decline.

Read that again and let it sink in.

It is possible for this decade of your life to be better than the last.
It is possible to experience vibrant health and energy in your second half of life.
It is possible that your best years are still to come.

If that sounds like a ‘yes please!’ to you, you’re going to love my interview with Karen Viesta.

Karen Viesta is a Certified Health and Lifestyle Coach who works with women over 40 who want to transform their bodies and their lives. She is the founder of Wellegant Woman Coaching and host of the podcast, Wellegant Woman: Redefining Midlife (currently ranked #9 in Apple’s List of the Top 50 Midlife Podcasts). After going through her own midlife reinvention, Karen is passionate about helping women in midlife to age powerfully, create extraordinary health and vitality, and make each new decade even better than the last.

Listen in to my conversation with Karen to discover:

• How to ditch the attachment to the number on the scale and instead focus on the metrics that REALLY matter in midlife and beyond
• Why we fizzle after the newness of a program wears off, and how to stick with it
• How to deal with judgement from others when you say no to the glass of wine or fries when going out with friends
• Why ‘everything in moderation’ may not to be working for you, and what to do instead

I’m really glad you’re here.

As you listen, consider ‘What is the ONE THING I’m going to take away from this episode?’ Better yet, message me (instagram is best: www.instagram.com/tanja_shaw or email tanja@tanjashaw.com is best) and let me know!

-Tanja x

Get in touch with Karen:

Website: https://wellegantwoman.com/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellegant-woman-redefining-midlife/id1666093399
Midlife Glow Up Guide: 7 Days to Your Healthiest and Most Radiant Self: https://wellegantwoman.com/glowup/

Do you ever feel like there's just not enough to go around? Maybe you feel restricted around food. Maybe you feel like success is a limited resource?

I certainly feel like that. I wish I could write that last sentence that in past tense, but truthfully its a feeling that comes up a lot. 

I don't feel like there's enough.

Wayne Dyer wrote "abundance is not something we acquire. It's something we tune into". 

And on this last week's hiking adventure I was given the opportunity to tune in. 

While this topic may seem like a bit of a jump from a typical health and wellness topic, I promise you that I tie it altogether in the episode.

I'm so glad you're here.

Tanja x