Scenic Route through Midlife — Society, Self & Shifting Gears
We think deeply, feel a lot, and we're done pretending mental load, exhaustion and burnout are personal failures. This is Scenic Route through Midlife, a mental health and personal growth podcast for women navigating burnout, rage, and perimenopause while still making space for wonder and whimsy.
Hosted by sociologist and mental health advocate Jennifer Walter — a half-rebel, half-marshmallow perimenopausal millennial with ADHD — we explore where society meets the self: perfectionism, overthinking, and the pursuit of well-being collide with power, gender, capitalism, and social change.
Here we believe healing isn't just personal, it's collective.
New episodes every Tuesday.
New affirmations every Friday.
The longest way round is the shortest way home. That’s why we’re taking the Scenic Route.
Scenic Route through Midlife — Society, Self & Shifting Gears
Weekly Affirmation — Like Attracts Like
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This is your Friday affirmation. Take a breath you didn't know you were holding. Exhale.
This week's affirmation is for the woman who has been asking for something — quietly, persistently, longer than she'd like to admit — and is starting to wonder why it hasn't arrived yet.
Today's affirmation: "What I've been calling in recognises me because I recognise myself."
This week's episode with Bronx Witch Aly Kravetz cracked something open for me. Spellwork, she says, isn't primarily about what you do externally. It's about whether your internal energy matches what you're calling in. Like attracts like. If the energy isn't aligned, what you're asking for has nowhere to land.
The question worth sitting with this weekend: do you recognise yourself as someone who belongs in the life you've been asking for?
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