Living Midlife In Color
by Shar'da Brooks, FNP-C
Living Midlife in Color is about navigating the midlife identity crisis, and making sure women who have felt overlooked finally feel seen and heard. Hosted by Family Nurse Practitioner Shar’da Brooks, we’re having real-life, no-BS conversations about health changes, relationships, code-switching, identity shifts, and all the things that seem to rear their ugly heads when we enter this stage of life. We’ll share the thoughts, fears, questions, and experiences we don't always say out loud, hear different perspectives, and figure out what still fits and what we're finally ready to leave behind. Some of those millennial habits can stay right back in the 2000s. Because this isn't simply about getting through midlife. It's about gaining new perspectives, reinventing ourselves when we need to, and figuring out how we actually want to live this next chapter. Same woman. New chapter.
Episodes
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Your Hotflashes Started During Childhood
🔥 WHAT IF YOUR HOT FLASHES STARTED DECADES AGO? What if I told you that your hot flashes might be connected to more than just changing estrogen levels? What if the stress you've carried, the environment you grew up in, or even experiences from your childhood could play a role in how you…
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TOO INDEPENDENT TO BE LOVED?
TOO INDEPENDENT TO BE LOVED? When did being a strong, successful, independent woman become a red flag in dating? 🤔 Since when did independence become the opposite of femininity? In this episode of Living Midlife in Color, we're getting into the complicated expectations placed on independent…
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I Spent Years Deciding Which Version of Me Belonged in the Room
Have you ever changed pieces of yourself depending on who was in the room? For years, I did exactly that. I became so good at deciding which version of myself belonged in the room that eventually I had to ask myself a much harder question: Who am I when I'm not performing for anyone else? In this...
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What It Means to Live Midlife in Color: Maybe This IS Your Prime
What if midlife isn't the beginning of becoming less relevant? What if this is actually the point where experience, confidence, purpose, and freedom finally start meeting each other? In this episode of Living Midlife in Color, I'm talking about the identity shift nobody warned me about…
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What Your Mammogram Doesn’t Tell You About Risk, Race & Survival
My first mammogram changed the way I think about breast cancer. In this episode of Living Midlife in Color, I’m sharing what it felt like to go from being the provider telling women to get screened to becoming the patient waiting on my own results. We’re talking about breast cancer beyond the…
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About this show
Living Midlife in Color is about navigating the midlife identity crisis, and making sure women who have felt overlooked finally feel seen and heard.
Hosted by Family Nurse Practitioner Shar’da Brooks, we’re having real-life, no-BS conversations about health changes, relationships, code-switching, identity shifts, and all the things that seem to rear their ugly heads when we enter this stage of life.
We’ll share the thoughts, fears, questions, and experiences we don't always say out loud, hear different perspectives, and figure out what still fits and what we're finally ready to leave behind. Some of those millennial habits can stay right back in the 2000s.
Because this isn't simply about getting through midlife. It's about gaining new perspectives, reinventing ourselves when we need to, and figuring out how we actually want to live this next chapter.
Same woman. New chapter.
Hosted by
Shar'da Brooks, FNP-C