In this week’s episode of Fit for Midlife: Where Mindfulness Meets Movement, Karin and Debi explore the art and science of goal setting — and how to create goals that truly align with your values, energy, and season of life. Learn a mindful twist on the SMART framework, discover how movement reinforces motivation, and try a short reflection practice to bring clarity and purpose to your next goal.

Join Karin and Debi as they chat with registered dietitian and certified intuitive-eating counselor Elizabeth Harris, founder of Elizabeth Harris Nutrition & Wellness. Elizabeth shares how to finally stop dieting, ditch restrictive rules, and begin trusting your body’s innate hunger, fullness, and satisfaction signals. We explore how intuitive eating can lead to body-image healing, more energy, less stress around food, and a kinder, more sustainable relationship with nourishment and self-care. If you’re ready to break up with diet culture — and start truly living — this episode may light the way.

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Podcast: Wellness Rebranded

They call it the second puberty — that rollercoaster of hormones, emotions, and body changes that hits in midlife. In this episode of Fit for Midlife: Where Mindfulness Meets Movement, Karin and Debi unpack the physical and emotional shifts of perimenopause and menopause with a mix of honesty, science, and humor. From hot flashes to identity shifts, they explore how to support your changing body through movement, mindfulness, and compassion — and why laughter might just be the best midlife medicine.

In today's episode, we have an indepth conversation with Martha McAlpine. She is a homeschool mama, yoga teacher, and practitioner dedicated to enabling our inner light. Raised in southern Africa and schooled at Princeton University in Comparative Literature and Harvard Graduate School of Education her contribution is enabling the lessons of ancient texts to become experiences our modern western minds can use to thrive and expand. She worked in Silicone Valley through the .com boom, training Fortune 500 teams to integrate the new terrain of the emerging internet. Now she runs her own online community as well as teaching and training teachers at TRIBE studio in downtown Baltimore. Her passion is the intersection of the body and the world, the way we are bodies of consciousness made of everything we can see and know. Kundalini and Hatha yoga are here primary vehicles for teaching and learning.

What if meditation didn’t always mean sitting still?

In this episode, Karin and Debi explore how movement itself can become a powerful form of mindfulness — a way to calm the mind, connect to the body, and return to presence. Whether it’s walking, yoga, swimming, or even folding laundry with awareness, movement invites us to anchor in the here and now.

Discover the science behind mindful movement, how it reduces stress and boosts mental clarity, and simple ways to turn everyday actions into moments of peace. You’ll also be guided through a short “moving meditation” practice to help you experience focus, flow, and ease in your own body.

Tune in to learn how stillness isn’t something we find — it’s something we move toward.

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi

Midlife often feels like standing in the fog — waiting for clarity before making your next move. But what if clarity doesn’t come from thinking, planning, or waiting… but from doing?

In this episode, Karin and Debi explore how action creates insight, why overthinking keeps us stuck, and how movement — both physical and emotional — helps the path ahead unfold. You’ll hear real-life examples, learn mindfulness tools to move through uncertainty, and be guided through a short “movement moment” to help you reconnect with your own next step.

Why does midlife feel like one long game of catch-up — with your energy, your workouts, and your sleep? In this episode, we unpack the powerful connection between stress, cortisol, and recovery. You’ll learn why “doing more” might be keeping you stuck, how sleep becomes your ultimate recovery tool, and practical ways to calm your nervous system so your body can finally heal, rest, and thrive again.

In this episode we explore how the stories we tell ourselves—about who we are, what we’re capable of, and how our bodies work—shape our emotional and physical well-being. We discuss how outdated narratives can keep us stuck in stress, fatigue, or self-doubt, and how rewriting those stories can create greater freedom, energy, and health. Through real-life examples and a guided mind-body practice, you’ll learn how to recognize limiting beliefs and begin crafting a story that supports your strongest, most vibrant self.