Live Well and Fully Podcast

“It’s very much a parallel process, the disease, for the loved ones and for the person who loves them

— Margaret Swift Thompson

How to Tame The Monkey Chatter

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Learn how to tame your Monkey Chatter so you don’t make the biggest mistake families make when dealing with addiction.
• Discover how to create a more useful connection with your loved one.
• Understand why grace and gentility matter and how they can be yours.

Margaret Swift Thompson, M.S., LADC, CTA Certified Coach, began her 20-plus year counseling career at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in 1998. She is passionate about helping loved ones recover from this family disease. In 2021 she launched her own business, Embrace Family Recovery, and hosts the Embrace Family Recovery podcast. Margaret is also a certified She Recovers Coach. Learn more.

“I think the biggest mistake we make is we make them feel shameful. We make them feel like failures. We make them feel like something’s terribly wrong with them

— Laine Lawson Craft

Wondering how to have hope for your prodigal?

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• The biggest mistake Laine sees parents making in her work with them.
• What the word “prayer” means to Laine and how she has found prayer to be enormously helpful with her own life with her grown children.
• Laine’s thoughts on the connection between our actions and our children’s.

Laine Lawson Craft is a best-selling and an award-winning author, popular media host, and in-demand speaker. The founder and publisher of WHOAwomen magazine (2010-2018), she regularly hosts online challenges and masterclasses as well as Facebook Live events that reach thousands. Her Warfare Parenting podcast encourages parents of adult children. Laine and her husband, Steve, have three children and live in Florida.

Every bit of the problem I solve is helping people find their voice. But what I mean by that specifically is what matters to them, not what they think that is supposed to matter to them

— Tony Overbay

You’re doing better at life than you think you are

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Learn how what you “think” you want to do in your life may be based on what you experienced in childhood.
• Discover what a socially compliant goal is and the impact this may (or may not) have on your decisions.
• Find out why checking in with others in our lives as we contemplate change may not be the best approach.

Tony Overbay is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified mindful habit coach, host of the award-winning podcast The Virtual Couch

“The typical symptom is resignation. They are resigned to the job they’re in. They’re resigned to the role that they’re in. They’re quietly unhappy

— Sarah E. Brown, Ph.D

What is your real priority?

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Discover Sarah’s spot-on analysis of the typical symptom of women who are not currently living their best life.
• Find out about the biggest mistake you may make when trying to solve this problem.
• Learn a simple process for how you can start today to solve this problem in your life.

Sarah E. Brown, Ph.D., empowers women to live their best lives possible, at work and at home, by discovering what it is they really want and who they really are.

“Insomnia is really a 24-hour problem. It’s not a nighttime thing, and it’s not even really a sleep problem. It really is a stress management problem for a lot of us

— Janet Whalen

How to sleep better, even when everything you’ve tried hasn’t worked

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Learn why sleep is the absolute foundation of our well-being and comes before diet and exercise.
• Discover the three most common mistakes we make when trying to solve our sleep problem.
• Find out the most common sleep myths and how to bust them.

Janet Whalen is a very engaging sleep and stress management coach for A-type, midlife women.

“I don’t think that the reason that grief is a problem is that we don’t talk about it enough. I think that there isn’t enough education. I think that there’s a great misunderstanding, that there’s a checklist or a timeline that people have to follow, and none of that is true. Everyone goes through grief in their own way and in their own time, and you learn how to live with it

— Maryann Udel

How to Make Peace with the Past and Embrace Your Future

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Discover how the past may be impacting you in ways you aren’t even aware of.
• Join in the free monthly coffee break Maryann hosts.
• Learn about the one thing we need to do when we are wrestling with our grief.

Maryann Udel faced grief at the age of 24 when her husband was killed in an automobile accident. Now as a coach she guides people to a life beyond their grief.

“There’s a lack of understanding of the power of compounding

— Julie Knight

How to plan your financial future in midlife and beyond

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• What are the most common mistakes people make with their financial planning?
• Discover how an individual becomes “wise” about their financial future.
• Find out what many people are worried about financially and how to move forward.

Julie works at Janney Montgomery Scott and focuses on comprehensive financial planning. Julie has been instrumental in helping Barbara put a sound strategy in place. And Julie identified a revenue stream Barbara would not have known about if we had not worked together.

“I think that the act of listening is really important because I think everybody really needs and wants to be heard, and many of us tend to be formulating a response in our minds instead of really truly listening and understanding

— Cathie Fischer

How to go from “hurting” to “heard” in difficult relationship conversations

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Learn what makes her approach special and effective for the most challenging conversations.
• Discover which relationships her approach works with.
• Use the one strategy she recommends we all start with, now.

Cathie Fischer is a Transformative Communications™ coach for women in the second half of their lives. She is passionate about all things related to communication. She has developed ninja-like skill in this area because she has had to navigate communications both during her daughter’s years in addiction and to navigate a variety of mental health challenges with other family members.

“I don’t think it’s helpful or useful at all to spend a lot of time debating if you really have a problem with alcohol or if you’re that bad or if you’re an alcoholic

— Casey McGuire Davidson

How To Get Through Your First Month Alcohol-Free

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Discover the greatest mistake family members make when someone they love indicates a desire to modify their drinking.
• Understand how alcohol affects your health and well-being.
• Learn how this approach meets people where they are and is more palatable to many.

Casey is a Life & Sobriety Coach and the host of the Top 100 Mental Health Podcast The Hello Someday Podcast for sober curious women and gray area drinkers.

“By adding space to their life and eliminating all the crowdedness, they’re able to actually move forward into doing what they really want to do

— Kathi Burns

How to Master Your Muck and Get Organized

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Learn how letting go of muck allows you to find your own pockets of joy in your life.
• Discover the easiest place to start getting organized in your home (and your life).
• Find out how our old friends, guilt and overwhelm, get in our way.

Kathi Burns,CPO® is a Board Certified Professional Organizer, Image Consultant, author and speaker. As the founder of OrganizedandEnergized.com, her mission is to end overwhelm, energize & transform lives by creating systems people can stick to. Kathi’s advice has been featured in national media outlets, including Martha Stewart Living, Entrepreneur Magazine, Oprah & more.

“The thing about women in midlife is that we have so many competing responsibilities and we’re giving to so many other people that we don’t take the time to really figure out what we want

— Dr. Carol Parker Walsh

How to Reinvent Your Career in Midlife

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Find out why women often struggle to design a career and life they love.
• Understand what keeps you stuck in an unsatisfying career/life.
• Discover how you too can unapologetically change things up in your life.

Dr. Carol Parker Walsh, is an award-winning executive coach and personal brand strategist helping high-achieving professional women at midlife unapologetically design a career and life they love.

“Recovery is not only possible, it is likely and probable, given the right circumstances. And if the individual wants to get better, they likely will. And we don’t need to do anything other than get out of their way

— Betsy Martellucci

How to bring lasting change when addiction strikes a loved one

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Discover how to bring about lasting change.
• Understand how combating this disease goes against your natural instincts.
• Learn the one thing you can do now to start the healing process.

Betsy is more than just the Clinical Director at MARS. She’s also Barbara’s lifeline. Without her guidance, Barbara never would have survived this journey into the world of addiction.

“One of the main mistakes is believing that you can’t get unstuck

— Suzy Rosenstein

How to Love your Life Again in Midlife

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Discover how just thinking about being stuck keeps you stuck.
• Learn a simple technique to regret-proof your life.
• Find out how something 100% within your control (mindset) can make such a big difference.

Suzy Rosenstein has an upbeat fun approach to help you thrive and learn to love your life again in midlife! Host of Women in the Middle® Podcast.

“When you can hold the space for yourself and take care of yourself, you show up in a better way for not only yourself, but everyone else, including your kid

— Christine Oakfield

How To Adjust to Transitions in the Empty Nest Years

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Find out what might be behind a reluctance to really “let go” of your son or daughter’s challenges.
• Discover how to become the Conscious Effective Olympian (CEO) of your own life.
• Learn the most common mistake Christine sees parents make when dealing with a loved one in addiction.

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode: Find out what might be behind a reluctance to really “let go” of your son or daughter’s challenges. Discover how to become the Conscious Effective Olympian (CEO) of your own life. Learn the most common mistake Christine sees parents make when dealing with a loved one in addiction. “

“ Communication is the foundation of every relationship

— Carlee Krichmar

How To Rebuild Trust and Connection With Family After Treatment

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• What is gamification? Find out how it can help your family heal.
• Discover why family involvement is so important.
• Find out how this approach can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with therapy.

Carlee is a licensed educational counselor who specializes in helping clients and their families use conscious communication and gamification to heal together and sustain recovery.

“Unrealistic expectations are here, and reality is there, and the space in between is discontentment

— Jill Savage

How to Stay Steady in the Midst of Hard

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Learn how to “flip the script” to change the relationship’s dynamics.
• Discover the most common mistake Jill sees parents making when dealing with a son or daughter with a mind disease.
• Try out her “love audit” and see what changes for you.

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode: Learn how to “flip the script” to change the relationship’s dynamics. Discover the most common mistake Jill sees parents making when dealing with a son or daughter with a mind disease. Try out her “love audit” and see what changes for you. “

“Letting go and letting in, it’s a two part mechanism, and they are only complete as a pair always

— Uwe Dockhorn

How to enjoy unshakeable two-getherness, more free time, & better results at work (without divorce)

Uwe Dockhorn is known as the Lifestyle Liberator for high achievers and their families. He has delivered more than 17,000 successful sessions for power couples all over the world. His approach is founded on principles of time freedom, autonomy, equality, and inner certainty that yield results in your business financially and in your relationships emotionally.

“Be prepared to get some nasty remarks in response, but it’s for the best in the long run as much as it sucks in the moment

— Eric Decker

How to Maintain Recovery

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode:

• Meet Barbara’s son, Eric. He is the man who inspired this work.
• Discover what Eric considers the most important tip for parents facing this disease.
• Find out what Eric thinks the most common mistake we parents make is.

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode: Meet Barbara’s son, Eric. He is the man who inspired this work. Discover what Eric considers the most important tip for parents facing this disease. Find out what Eric thinks the most common mistake we parents make is. “