Vanessa Ooms

Perfect timing for this message. Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️✨

This is an excellent talk on how to navigate what is sometimes called the messy middle, when we are no longer who we were, and we’re not yet the person were becoming. I don’t think this liminal place is discussed enough, especially during one’s later years. Another way to think about it is as an identity crisis. We don’t only have those during our teenage years or middle age. They can occur at any time, after a divorce, a health challenge, or going into any unknown territory, like older age. (I would have preferred listening to your talk without the music.)

Absolutely brilliant! In 10 minutes, you wrote a dissertation on over-giving. As a holistic psychotherapist for over 50 years, I applaud you. You covered every important aspect of over-giving and presented a beautiful blueprint for how to move forward.

Excellent & thank you! The ebbs and flows of life resonates; make sense, I'm sharing this track with my loved ones ❤️ 🙏

Wow! This showed up in my feed just as I decided not to step in to fix something I anticipate will lead to chaos...and it felt so UNCOMFORTABLE! Every word of what you say landed - front and center! It explains what I do all the time. And how I feel all the time! And now I feel depleted...emotionally and physically... Your wisdom is like a missing key I didn't know I needed...thank you! I need tissues and a soft spot to process this...

I am living with grief. I have learned to make friends with my grief and to treat it with tenderness -- to listen to it when it needs to be heard. I do appreciated this talk. I will return to it often.

Very beautiful and profound. Thank you for this. ✨️🙏🏻✨️

Did it resonates? Heck, YES! Every single word of this. You described who I was and now who I am. I loved "It's not a breakdown - it's an upgrade." Damn right it is! Thank you so much for putting my feelings into beautiful words. I will be listening often. - Carol the Crone. ♥️